Culture at War – The XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture will take place between June 24 and 29, 2024, in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Templo da Poesia (Parque da Poesia, Oeiras).
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The Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is hosted by the Lisbon Consortium – a Lisbon-based collaborative network between the Master’s and Doctoral Program in Culture Studies at UCP (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), the Lisbon City Hall, the Portuguese Film Museum, the National Museum of Theater and Dance, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Culturgest, the National Center for Culture, the Orient Foundation, the EDP Foundation, the Lisbon Oceanarium, Parks of Sintra, and Brotéria (www.lisbonconsortium.com). The 2024 edition will be the first Transform4Europe Summer School and is organized in collaboration with the Critical Theory Network.
The Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is an innovative collaborative program between the academia and the art world that brings together young researchers, artists, cultural agents and academics studying literature and culture coming from all over the world.
The Summer School is organized into several types of sessions: keynote lectures by invited speakers and faculty members; master classes with invited specialists; poster presentations by master students; and paper presentations where doctoral students and early career researchers can discuss their ongoing work with faculty and invited speakers.
In 2024, the keynote lecturers are Alexis Tadié (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Antonio Monegal (Pompeu Fabra University), Christiane Solte-Gresser (Saarland University), Kathrin Sartingen (University of Vienna), Maria José Lobo Antunes (University of Lisbon), Nelson Ribeiro (UCP), Rosângela Rennó and Tonya Lewis Lee. Master Classes will be held by Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick), Mónica Dias (UCP), and Diana Gonçalves (UCP).
Since 2011, the Summer School has gathered every year about 100 participants from all continents. Previous speakers were, among others, Robert Wilson (the Watermill Centre), Andreas Huyssen, (Columbia U.), filmmaker Peter Greenaway, Marc Augé (EHESS), Nina Berman (Columbia U.), Edward Soja (UCLA), Tony Bennett (Western Sydney U.), Catherine Perret (U. Paris 8), Barbie Zelizer (U. Pennsylvania), George Yúdice (U. Miami), Elena Esposito (U. Bologna), Martha Rosler (photographer, N.York), Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford U.), Samuel Weber (Northwestern U.), Carles Guerra (Barcelona), Mieke Bal (U. Amsterdam), Marita Sturken (NYU), writer Hanif Kureishi, Sandra Bermann (Princeton U.), Amit Pinchevsky (Hebrew U.), Maurizio Lazzarato (Matisse/CNRS, University Paris 1), Marie-Laure Ryan, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Semir Zeki (U. College London), Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve U.), Lawrence Buell (Harvard U.), John Durham Peters (Yale U.), Ariel Salleh (U. Sydney/Nelson Mandela U.), Ariella Azoulay (Brown U.), Liedeke Plate (Radboud U.), Lilianne Weissberg (U. Pennsylvania), visual artist Marcelo Brodsky, and Richard Grusin (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
The Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is a member of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies.
