For the third year in a row, the Lisbon Consortium MA in Culture Studies was ranked #3 by Eduniversal Worldwide Best Masters Ranking in Arts and Cultural Management.
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Reading circle open to students and professors: ‘The politics of Trump’s politics, A Politics of Surroundings Special’
The PhD students in Culture Studies at the Lisbon Consortium that organize the reading circle are preparing a special session, date to be announced.
The politics of Trump’s politics, A Politics of Surroundings Special
In his recent book Scatter 1. The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida, 2016, Geoffrey Bennington poses the following question: “What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself?”
We would like to invite the corpus of The Lisbon Consortium, students and professors, to join us in a close reading of Bennington’s book and to participate in the discussion of the main ideas presented in it. Our intention is to see how the author responds to his question, and to use his conceptual framework to critically engage with the state of contemporary politics.
More HERE
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VII Lisbon Summer School now online
The VII Lisbon Summer School on Global Translations (26 June-July 1, 2017) will gather doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from all around the world. In the morning there will be lectures by invited keynote speakers, except on Tuesday, June 27, when there will be parallel master classes.
All the updates will be posted at http://globaltranslationssummerschool.weebly.com/
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“Risk and Crisis Communication in the Digital Age”: Call for papers
“Risk and Crisis Communication in the Digital Age”
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 19 – 21 October 2017
Crisis Communication research emerged as a response to the need of conceiving emergency plans to deal with events that have a negative effect on stakeholders’ perception of organizations. However, researchers soon demonstrated that crisis communication is more than a reaction, and it should be perceived as a strategic tool to plan organizational life. The absence of a strategic crisis management thinking and discourse, besides posing a risk to organizations also limits response to societal challenges such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars. In addition to this, the Digital Age poses new risks to the typical planning methods, while making available new sorts of tools that can be used to plan, implement and evaluate crisis management.
Departing from this context, the 5th International Crisis Communication Conference aims to discuss how crisis communication can be used by business and the public sector in a strategic fashion. Which theories and case studies can help better plan and implement crisis communication plans? How do organizations learn from the past, i.e. how do they evaluate previous crisis and order to be better prepared for the future? How did the digital challenge traditional strategies of crisis communication? Which sorts of new risks are brought by digital media and how can one learn from previous online crisis? Are corporate and non-corporate organizations ready to face online crisis communication?
While seeking answer for these questions, the conference will deepen and extend the exchange of ideas and approaches across disciplines and between Crisis Communication theories and researches.
Objectives:- To examine the role and practices of communication professionals in relation to internal and external aspects of crisis communication,
- To reflect about and to expose new roles and practices of strategic approaches to internal and external crisis communication,
- To contribute to knowledge development about crisis communication cases of public and nongovernmental organizations,
- To discuss and reflect about crisis communication theories and research,
- To present case studies based on empirical material,
- To clarify the importance of a strategic crisis communication plan.
The conference includes a panel for corporate discussion and cases presentation, which will contribute to the industry crisis management debate. The conference will also include Young Scholars activities – YECREA.
Submissions should deal with one of the following sub-themes:
- Corporate Crisis Communication;
- External Crisis Communication;
- Internal Crisis Communication;
- Non-Corporate Crisis Communication;
- Public and Nongovernmental Organizations Crisis Communication;
- Integrated Communication;
- Crisis Communication Management;
- New Media Crisis Communication;
- Strategic Crisis Communication Management;
- Media/Journalism (crisis reporting).
Presentation proposals in English language are to be submitted as meaningful extended abstracts (max. 500 words, references excluded). Abstracts should state the title of the presentation, purpose, theoretical approach, methodology, (expected) findings, implications, relevance, and originality of the study. Include contact information for all authors (name, organization, address, email address and phone). Abstracts must be presented in Word format, in 1.5 line spacing and 12 point Times New Roman font size.
Deadline for submissions
The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2017. Please send the abstract to: crisis5@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by June 9, 2017.The Registration Fees are:
- 70€ lunch and coffee-breaks included;
- 95€ Conference dinner included;
- 35€ non-presenting.
Keynote speakers
Professor W. Timothy Coombs – Texas A&M University (confirmed)
More to be announced soon
Organizing Committee
Professor Carla Ganito
Professor Nelson Ribeiro
Professor Maria Inês RombaThe 5th International Crisis Communication Conference will take place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon (Portugal), on October 19 – 21. The conference is organized by the ECREA Crisis Communication Section, and hosted by the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP).
Submissions: crisis5@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt
MORE INFO: http://crisis5-ecrea.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS. Mnemonics 2017: The Social Life of Memory
The sixth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will be hosted by the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform from September 7-9, 2017 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Confirmed keynote speakers are Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz), Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University, New York) and Anna Reading (King’s College London).
This year’s Mnemonics summer school addresses the ‘social life of memory’. Memory studies is based on the premise that memories emerge (as Maurice Halbwachs argued) within ‘social frameworks’. But this is just the first stage of memory’s social dynamics. Those memories which have an impact in culture don’t just stand still, but lead a vibrant ‘social life’: They are mediated and remediated, emphatically welcomed and harshly criticized, handed on across generations, they travel across space, become connected with other memories or turn into a paradigm for further experience. Conversely, books about the past that are not sold and read, oral stories that are not passed on to grandchildren, history films that are not screened and reviewed, monuments that nobody visits, public apologies that do not engender heated debates – all these will fail to have an effect in memory culture. Memory ‘lives’ only insofar as it is continually shared among people, moves from minds and bodies to media and back again, is performed, remediated, translated, received, discussed and negotiated.
Once we conceive of objects and media as part of memory culture, we realize that these are not stable entities, containing unalterable meanings, but that they unfold their mnemonic significance only within dynamic and transitory social processes. This insight entails methodological consequences. It creates the need to use more complex theory/methodology-designs in order to do justice to the moving constellations we study. This may also mean connecting humanities- and social sciences-approaches. Reception theories, reader response theories, audience studies, performance studies, sociological and political science-methods, museum visitor studies, social history, social psychology, ethnography, or actor-network theory – these all belong to the long list of approaches that we may want to draw on in order to study what our research group here in Frankfurt calls ‘socio-medial constellations’ of memory.
The metaphor of the ‘social life of memory’ is not yet a clear-cut concept. However, it resonates with existing ideas, from Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘social life of discourse’ to Arjun Appadurai’s ‘social life of things’ or Alondra Nelson’s ‘the social life of DNA’. It also brings to mind the ‘afterlife’ of artworks as it was addressed by Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin. More recently, and within the new memory studies, Astrid Erll and Stephanie Wodianka have addressed the life of ‘memory-making films’ by studying their embeddedness in social contexts and in ‘plurimedial constellations’. In her study of Walter Scott, Ann Rigney has theorized the social (after-)lives of texts and authors in cultural memory.
The summer school welcomes paper proposals that display a keen interest in the dynamic interplay of medial and social aspects of memory culture and that suggest ways to explore ‘the social life of memory’ – from the perspectives of contemporary memory cultures across the globe as well as from historical viewpoints. Possible topics include, but are emphatically not restricted to, the following:
- What social practices and networks bring (and have historically brought) memory to life (or fail to do so)?
- How are media of memory socially framed and reframed?
- How can we study the social reception of media of memory (e.g. via discursive remembering, in interpretive communities, by historical audiences etc.) ?
- What are the social dynamics of memory-translation (the ‘cultural translation’ of memories, but also ‘literal translations’ of memory texts)?
- Which performances express and foster the social life of memory, or inhibit it?
- How do memory objects ‘travel’, what are their trajectories (or mnemonic ‘object biographies’)?
- What are the economics and politics of mnemonic objects (in the sense of Appadurai’s ‘social life of things’)?
- How do space and movement influence the social life of memory?
- How does time factor in the social life of memory (when do memories emerge, circulate or become inert)?
- How does politics enable or interfere with the social life of memory?
- What types of ‘social life’ can we distinguish (lives as ‘monumental memory’, as ‘countermemory’, ‘agonistic lives’ etc.)?
- How can we critically assess the logic of the metaphor of ‘social life’ (and its possible religious, biologistic etc. overtones) and find concepts that fine-tune, substitute or complement it?
MORE INFORMATION HERE
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LXC Film Sessions, March 15
The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke from 2009, introduced by Prof. Dr. Adriana Martinsis the second movie that will be screened, in the context of a student led activity of cinema and debate.
Until the end of May, there will be two more sessions, with movies that somehow are related to the MA and PhD seminars.
We hope you can join us!
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Ana do Carmo: PhD Defense
The Lisbon Consortium congratulates Ana do Carmo for successfully defending,on March 10 2017, her doctoral thesis on “ Literary representations of forced migrations – Cross-cultural Portuguese and German memoryscapes.” with the final result of Magna Cum Laude by unanimous decision. Congratulations!
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Gaspare Trapani: PhD defense
The Lisbon Consortium congratulates Gaspare Antonino Trapani for successfully defending,on March 7 2017, his doctoral thesis on “Silvio Berlusconi e o Berlusconismo. Uma proposta de leitura” with the final result of Magna Cum Laude by unanimous decision. Congratulations!
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Roundtable 5/5
TOMORROW, March 7, it will take place the Roundtable in the context of 5 Artists/5 Project Rooms, with Lourenço Egreja (Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa); Gregor Taul (The Lisbon Consortium); Chloé Nicolas (La Box), Delfim Sardo (Culturgest e Laboratório de Curadoria), Susana Gomes da Silva e Rita Fabiana (Museus Gulbenkian); Cláudia Camacho (Antiframe).
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Public defenses: PhD thesis and PhD project
PhD Thesis Defense
Gaspare Trapani | March 7 – 10h30 | Room Expansão Missionária
PhD Thesis: Silvio Berlusconi e o Berlusconismo. Uma proposta de leitura.
Ana do Carmo | March 10 – 15h00 | Room Expansão Missionária
PhD Thesis: Literary representations of forced migrations – Cross-cultural Portuguese and German memoryscapes.
PhD Project Defense (PT)
Alexandra Balona | March 7 – 14h30 | Room Timor
PhD Project: Choreographing Openness. Speculations Beyond the Self in Contemporary Choreography
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Congratulations!
Today, at the Diplomas and Award Ceremony of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Leonor Sá was distinguished with the BPI/Lisbon Consortium award for the Best Doctoral Thesis of the Program; Matilde Caldas was awarded with the scholarship “Tendinha Cidade de Lisboa” for the best PhD project in Culture Studies about Lisbon; Verena Lindemann was distingueshed with the prize «Associação São Bartolomeu dos Alemães» for the best reserach project in the context of portuguese and german subjects,and Gisela Canelhas was of one of the FCH’s students congratulated for the best master dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS!
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LxC Film Sessions: March 1
Rite of Sping, from Manoel de Oliveira, is the first movie that will be screened, after an introduction and followed by debate – an activity organized by the students for the students.
Until May, there will be three more sessions, with movies that somehow are related to the MA and PhD seminars.
We hope you can join us!
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Barbie Zelizer at FCH
This friday, February 24, we celebrate FCH Day. Barbie Zelizer will give the lecture “Why a University Degree Matters Today”, at 16h30, in Auditório Cardeal Medeiros.
Come celebrate with us!
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Visit to Miguel Palma’s studio
A group of MA and PhD students visited Miguel Palma‘s studio, a portuguese visual artist, born in 1964, who lives and works in Lisbon. On February 15, the students had the opportunity to talk with the artist, get to know his work place and some of his works, along with Luísa Santos, the Gulbenkian Professor of The Lisbon Consortium.
Photos: Helena Correia
Photos: Luísa Santos
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Study trip to Porto and Guimarães
Last weekend, February 11- 12 2017, some students and teachers of The Lisbon Consortium went on a study trip to Porto and Guimarães. The program included a Talk at Porto City Hall by Guilherme Blanc about the cultural politics of the city, a visit to Serralves Foundation to see Philippe Parreno’s exhibition “A Time Coloured Space”, Joan Miró’s “Materiality and Metamorphosis”, Novo Banco Revelation 2016- Andreia Santana, a choreography at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, in the context of GUIdance Festival – Speak Low if you Speak Love (Wim Vandekeybus) and a visit to José de Guimarães International Arts Centre.
Check some photos of the weekend!
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The University Day on public television
On February 4, Universidade Católica Portuguesa celebrated its day. In that context, the Rector Isabel Capeloa Gil and the Phd student Ilios Willemars gave interviews to the tv show “70×7”, at the public television RTP. You can watch it here:
http://www.rtp.pt/play/p59/e272180/70×7
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5/5: 5 artists, 5 project rooms: students, artists and curatorship
The project ‘5/5: 5 artists, 5 project rooms places together the students’ final projects for the Curatorship Lab’s first edition, inline with the international MA and PhD frameworks in Cultural Studies, under the signature of The Lisbon Consortium programme.
The project will exhibit Portuguese artists such as Miguel Palma, Luísa Jacinto, Teresa Braula Reis, João Biscainho and Paula Prates from the 3rd to the 18th of March. The exhibitions will take place at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa and at Faculdade de Ciências Humanas – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon.
For more information, please check the following links:
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PhD project defense: January 27
Nataliya Hovorkova
PhD Project: A autocaricatura de Teixeira Cabral – identidade dinâmica, linguagem gráfica e funções de marca
January 27, 15h30
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‘Routes of Difference’: VIDEO
The 6th Graduate Conference, one student led activity, took place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa 24-25th of November, 2016, with national and international speakers. Now you can check out the highlights.
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Public Defense: MA dissertation
Joana Isabel Barroso de Jesus Hortas
Dissertation: Intervenção Urbana e Cultura: entre a intenção e o impacto. o caso do Largo do Intendente Pina Manique em Lisboa?
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Arjun Appadurai at Católica
Tomorrow, Professor Arjun Appadurai will be at Universidade Católica, in the context of the 25th aniversary of the Refundation of the School of Human Sciences, and will present the lecture “Failure, Design and the Globalization of Risk”
The entrance is free but you have to register here: goo.gl/PELYZz
Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. He serves as Honorary Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Tata Chair Professor at The Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai and as a Senior Research Partner at the Max-Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen. He was previously Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives at The New School in New York City, where he also held a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences. Arjun Appadurai was the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School from 2004-2006. He was formerly the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University. Appadurai is the founder and now the President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit organization based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai (India).
Professor Appadurai was born and educated in Bombay. He graduated from St. Xavier’s High School and took his Intermediate Arts degree from Elphinstone College before coming to the United States. He earned his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1967, and his M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
During his academic career, he has also held professorial chairs at Yale University, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania, and has held visiting appointments at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the University of Delhi, the University of Michigan, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Iowa, Columbia University and New York University. He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles, including Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Duke 2006) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, (Minnesota 1996; Oxford India 1997). His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Italian.
Arjun Appadurai has held numerous fellowships and scholarships and has received several scholarly honors, including residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto (California) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and an Individual Research Fellowship from the Open Society Institute (New York). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
He has also served as a consultant or advisor to a wide range of public and private organizations, including many major foundations (Ford, MacArthur, and Rockefeller); UNESCO; UNDP; the World Bank; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Science Foundation; and the Infosys Foundation. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Asian Art Initiative at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Forum D’Avignon in Paris.
Appadurai’s latest book, The Future as a Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition was published by Verso in 2013.
In http://www.arjunappadurai.org/
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‘Reading circles’ by PhD students of Culture Studies
This reading circle is organized by PhD students in Culture Studies at the Lisbon Consortium in Lisbon, Portugal. It is open to whoever is interested in taking part in discussing the readings that are decided on and announced on this website by the organizers of this circle.
The circle gathers weekly on Fridays in the canteen of the Economics Building at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa . For contact details and other practicalities, please go here.
We intend to formulate different ways of relating to text using the notion of surroundings as a productive point of entry. Realizing that it can be interpreted in many divergent and perhaps even contradictory ways, we do not suggest that this is either the only, best or final concept to draw on. We hope, however, that it will open up a space of discussion and reading in which we can come to terms with some of the more urgent political and conceptual issues in cultural analysis today.
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International PhD: Progress Reports
The International Steering Committee of the FCT-International Doctoral Program in Culture Studies was in Lisbon last week, on November 7, to meet all INTDCS-FCT doctoral students and assess their progress. All FCT scholarship holders had to participate and present their ongoing work.
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PhD Thesis Defense: Ana Fabíola Maurício
The Lisbon Consortium congratulates Ana Fabíola Maurício for successfully defending,on November 8, her doctoral thesis on ’30 Years of Culture, Art and Methamorphoss. The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Reshaping of Lisbon’s Culturalscape’ with the final result of summa cum laude by unanimous decision, in a double degree with Giessen University. Congratulations!
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LxC Conversation Pieces: “Cadernos de Memórias”
Last Tuesday, October 25, the first LxC Conversation Pieces took place at the bookstore of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, bringing together the artists João Queiroz and Eduardo Salavisa (with an exhibition there) and Professor Marília Santos Lopes, to talk about drawing, writing, memory and traveling.
Photos: EMERGE
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Exhibition CHINA NOW, curated by Helena Correia
The exhibition ‘CHINA NOW: Defying the Limits’, opens on the 27th October, 6:30pm, at the Oriente Museum in Lisbon,curated by Helena Silva Correia, Cultural Manager, Curator, Designer and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Lisbon Consortium.
Curatorial Discourse: Helena Silva Correia
October, 2016Qui Jin, Du Zhenjun and Lifang presents us with a contemporary view of the numerous existing realities with which China confronts itself today, utilizing three visual and very different discourses; all with its’ incongruences, disparities and inequalities regarding issues with the environment, population growth, and China’s role in the era of Globalization. Whether they be, world(s) of cyberculture such as social media or socio-economical issues but also creative and artistic freedom, where the diffusion of images of the naked human body is still regarded as pornography.
The curatorial discourse is based on the Australian researcher and physic’s research, Graham Turner “Compares the Limits of Growth’ with the reality of 30 years ago” (2008) inspired this visual narrative of these three Chinese artists of today, through their work, present the ‘defying the environmental limits’, the search of the Chinese identity or the struggle for greater freedom of expression, all to reflect upon China’s role in the world today.
Fontes:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapseClick to access Turner_Meadows_vs_historical_data.pdf
Click to access MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
Cultural Citizenship_Qui Jin
‘Cultural Citizenship’ is based on the guarantee of cultural rights for all citizens but it goes further, to stimulate a generation towards a new political conscience “through the appropriation of culture as a right to fruition, experimentation, to information, to memory and participation”, in the words of the philosopher, Marilena Chauí.
Qui Jin approaches his theme of work inspired by the duality of his ‘cultural citizenship’. As Chinese artist, he constructs and imposes the encounter with the reinterpretation of western advertising and ‘pop culture’, utilizing Chinese iconography with references to Mao Tsé-Tung period, uses manly figures with cat heads, in order to create highly detailed pencil drawings, characteristic of ancestral Chinese art.
The solitary artist, Qui Jin calls himself “the man from the other mountains” where he grew up in China before living in Switzerland, from 1989. During his childhood and he lived through the Chinese Cultural Revolution, producing propaganda drawings for the local newspaper, in the Province of Shanghai. Today, his work is intrinsically autobiographical as he combines the realism with cultural references of the West with the Orient, concerned with the doctrinaire form of politics that occurred in China. Qiu utilizes mockery, scorn and defame to counterbalance the revolutionary fiction of his art. His artistic style could be described as ‘political pop’, due to the fact that he confronts the history of Chinese society through imagery while it dissolves itself in the western popular culture, creating a visual portrait of his own personal journey as an artist, living outside China.
The Limits of Growth_Du ZhenjunThe sustainable development concept appeared with the study developed by the United Nations Organization, with regard to climate change at the beginning of the decade of 1970, in response to humanities’ concerns facing social and environmental crisis, that confronted the world since the second half of the previous century. This concept searches to reconcile societies’ necessity towards economical development with the promotion of social development, and respect towards the environment.
Du Zhenjun presents us with a dystopian view of the profound social transformations that China has endured since the “Chinese Cultural Revolution” resorting to digital art and technology to create montages of great photographic detail with enormous visual richness, to translate the frenetic growth of globalized capitalism, over the last two decades – with repercussions on the environment, population growth, the growing scarcity of natural resources – water and food, or the more dramatic effects of global warming, such as the rise of sea levels or poor air quality.
With the Babel Towers of capitalism set in the background, is an allegory to the story of the Genesis, when mankind wanted to construct a city in the shape of a tower that could reach the heavens. God didn’t appreciate the idea and punished mankind by creating numerous languages, and spreading mankind across the World. Today, the World confronts itself with the frenetic economic growth generated by China which defies the limits of CO2 emissions everyday, consequently contributing to the rise of the Planet’s temperature, one may ask until when?Freedom of Expression_Li Fang
The Universal Declaration of 1948 constitutes ‘freedom of expression’ one of the fundamental human rights, and is part of Constitutions of all the democratic systems. This liberty supposes that all individuals have the right to express themselves without being discriminated by their opinions, as the article 19 from the Human Rights Letter on Freedom of Expression confers: “All have the right to freedom of expression and to opinion. This right includes the freedom to have opinions without interference and to search, receive and give information and ideas via any form of communication and without the concern of borders.”
Li Fang presents us her work utilizing the Human Rights theme — ‘freedom of expression’ which she produced in 2012. The impressionist representation of cyberspace depicts two episodes that Ai Weiwei, in which Li Fang also defies representation and the “mechanical representation” (Benjamin, 1934) contributing with another layer of information or the return of the virtual space to reality, of the limitations imposed by the Chinese authorities to Ai Weiwei’s art work, inevitably associated to the limits of repression and applied force in 2011 when the artist was detained.
In the same year Ai Weiwei posed naked with his four studio assistants, later diffusing the image via social media, generated a wave of indignation from the Chinese authorities, due to the fact that the image(s) placed in circulation were of naked figures. Ai Weiwei contested that “nudism isn’t pornography”. Consequently in the same month, the social media company Facebook decided to also censor the same image and disactivate the artist’s page.
Today, Ai Weiwei continues to fight for more transparency and freedom for the public domain in China, a theme in which Li Fang inspired to give continuity to the movement in honour of the fight for freedom of expression beyond the social spaces and internet’s chronological time(s), where social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and Youtube are blocked by the ‘Great Fire Wall of China”, and the largest search engine – Google, currently is unable to operate by the regime.More info here
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“The Way we Work Now”: Irit Rogoff at Universidade Católica
Irit Rogoff’s lecture “The Way we Work Now”
Diffractions Lecture Series on “Creative Knowledge Practices”, with CECC and Lisbon Consortium
Lisbon, October 12 2016
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Grant recipients. Congratulations!
This year’s winners of the Millennium BCP Foundation Scholarship and EDP Foundation International Grant were announced on September 30 at the Opening Session of the Lisbon Consortium academic year.
The Millennium BCP Foundation Grant was awarded by Fátima Dias, representative of the Millennium BCP Foundation at the Curators Council of the Lisbon Consortium
The Millennium BCP Foundation Scholarship for the Lisbon Consortium aims at funding Portuguese students in the Culture Studies program through 3 scholarships. These scholarships consist in a reduction of full-tuition in the first two semesters, amounting to 1.750€.
This year’s winners of the Millennium BCP Foundation Scholarships are:
- Mafalda Barrela – first-year student of the Master’s Program in Culture Studies.
- Diana Oliveira – first-year student of the Master’s Program in Culture Studies.
- Diana Ferreira – first-year student of the Master’s Program in Culture Studies
The EDP Foundation International Grant will be awarded by José Manuel dos Santos, Member of the Board of Directors and Cultural Director of the EDP Foundation and Member of the Curators Council of the Lisbon Consortium.
The EDP Foundation International Grant for the Lisbon Consortium aims at funding research conducted by an international PhD student in the Culture Studies program. The scholarship, in the amount of 5.000€, is destined to the payment of tuition fees.
This year’s winner of the EDP Foundation International Grant is:
- Matthew Mason – first-year student of the Doctoral Program in Culture Studies.
CONGRATULATIONS!
The Lisbon Consortium 