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  • CALL FOR PAPERS: VIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

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    REPLACEMENT AND REPLACEABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

    VIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

    6–7 December 2018 | Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Lisbon

     

    Call for Papers

    We call for papers for the 8th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies. This edition will be on the theme of “Replacement and Replaceability in Contemporary Culture” and takes place in Lisbon on the 6th and 7th of December 2018. The conference is organized by The Lisbon Consortium in conjunction with the Research Centre for Communication and Culture at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    We aim to discuss the ways in which the concept of ‘replacement’ can be understood and productively used for the study of contemporary culture. Replacement has been one of the central concepts in the study of culture for quite some time, and, at the risk of overstating this claim, one could say that replacement is a concern in all fields of knowledge dealing with the study of culture today. It is, however, rarely the central focus in academic discussion and this event aims to contribute to a more detailed analysis of the uses, misuses, and usefulness of this particular concept for the study of cultural objects.

    Hearing the words replacement and replaceability, one naturally wonders: Who or what is being replaced? Who is doing the replacing? What counts as replaceable? Is there a logic of replacement? What happens when bodies are deemed replaceable for other bodies? Or for machines? How does replacement communicate with other, related, concepts, such as translation, repetition, reiteration, quotation, citation, metaphor, metonymy, synechdoche, and displacement? And how does it acquire meaning in connection to other concepts like false-consciousness, workforce, precariousness, simulacrum, spectacle, and ideology? How can replacement or replaceability be made useful for the study of cultural objects? Which objects warrant their use? It is on these and related questions that we invite abstracts to be presented at our conference.

     

    Ideas for proposals

    -Replacement, technology and labor.

    – Replacement and the body.

    – Replacement and disability.

    – Replacement and the queer body.

    – Replacement and colonialism.

    – Replacement and representation.

    – Replacement and translation.

    – Replacement and biopower.

    – Replacement and the digital.

    – Replacement by AI.

    – Replacement and recognition.

    – Replacement and knowledge production.

    – Replacement and simulacrum.

    – Replacement and death.

    – Replacement and the archive.

    – Replacement and documentat

    Background

    Theoretical understandings of power tend to highlight the importance of controlled reproduction of human beings, or subjects, in order for power to function. One may think of a wide-ranging number of theorists here, from Karl Marx, through Louis Althusser, and on to Michel Foucault. In the study of bureaucratic modes of power exertion, documents can function as the irreplaceable expression of an identity or a right, as in the cases of identity cards, passports, and diplomas.

    In translation studies, the notion of translation as a specific act of replacement is of central concern. In media theory and the study of visual culture, the notion of representation can be understood as a moment in which the image replaces the ‘original.’ In literary studies, concepts such as metaphor and metonymy are examples of replacing one word for another, a procedure considered essential to the production of meaning through language.

    In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the mirror-stage functions as a scene in which the physical body is temporarily replaced by an imaginary double. Feminist- and queer theorists have often critiqued heterosexist and heteronormative approaches to otherness as failed, or attempted copies of heterosexual male life. In posthumanist discourses, the very notion of the human undergoes a moment of replacement by some kind of being that is no longer fully human and all too often celebrated as beyond the human in a teleological way. And post- and de-colonial theorists have read colonial activities of ‘Western powers’ as forced replacements of one culture for another.

     

    We invite proposals for contributions in the form of 20-minute presentations in which replacement or replaceability are used either as concepts of analysis, put into dialogue with a cultural object, or in which the concepts themselves come under theoretical scrutiny.

    Proposals should be no longer than 250 words and have to be sent to replacementconference2018@gmail.com no later than June 15th 2018.

    Your abstract will be peer reviewed and you will receive notification of acceptance as soon as possible thereafter, but no later than the end of July 2018.

    Upon acceptance you will be requested to register and provide some personal details to finalize your registration.

    The conference will be a two-day event, taking place at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. It is scheduled to take place on the 6th and 7th of December 2018.

     

    Registration fee

    The Registration Fee is €50,00 (this includes lunch, coffee breaks and conference materials).

    For The Lisbon Consortium students and members of CECC, there is no registration fee.

    Organizing Committee

    Sara Magno, Jad Khairallah & Ilios Willemars

     

    For more information, updates and details, see replacementconference.wordpress.com/

  • 4 Cs: video of the artistic residency of Aimée Zito Lema in Lisbon

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    During her month-long residency at Rua das Gaivotas 6, Aimée Zito Lema (n. 1982, NL) has developed research on memory and the intergenerational transmission of events through material history and the human body. Through a methodology anchored in critical analysis, the artist conducted interviews with researchers, organized workshops with a group of teenagers (together with Pedro Penim, from Teatro Praga), and observed the work of Grupo de Teatro do Oprimido, in order to question the role of the body as agent of transformation and understanding of social histories.

    You can now see the video on 4 Cs webpage!

  • Student’s curatorship project: Artivism = Capital

    Student’s curatorship project: Artivism = Capital

    Artivism = Capital – puts together the students’ final projects of the 2nd edition of the Curatorship seminar, in the frame of the MA & PhD international program in Culture Studies. This curatorial project unites 4 artworks prepared by the Portuguese and international artists Alexandra Ferreira & Bettina Wind, Maria Trabulo, Marilá Dardot and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, who draw attention to problems such as migration crisis, passive citizenship, economic instability, and political injustice.
    Artivism = Capital will be published online as a special edition of Contemporânea magazine.

    Follow the project activities on facebook and on instagram.

  • Summer School Call for papers: deadline extension

    VIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

    Cyber+Cipher+Culture

    Lisbon, July 2-7, 2018

    DEADLINE EXTENSION: FEBRUARY 28

    The Summer School for the Study of Culture, the yearly seminar for doctoral students in the critical humanities and cultural analysis, will in 2018 inspect the contentious realm of cyber, as it performs the fluid and the solid, the evanescence of the cloud and the heavy materiality of technology, the fear of war and the brave world of global information, surveillance and security, the right of inspection and the obfuscation of knowledge. Under the conditions of modernity 4.0, the prefix cyber seems to have become the point of entry for a new narrative of experience. One that draws on a technological unconscious to reboot modes of conviviality, modes of knowledge production, the organization of society, the very definition of democracy, the idea of the human. Coined by mathematician Norbert Wiener, the term cybernetics referred to the science of autonomous machines, that could both adapt their behavior and learn. Cybernetics developed out of a system structured upon coding models. The infrastructure of the new autonomous machines was helpless without the incision, the graphing of the software that would effectively bring them to life.

    The Summer School brings together cyber with cipher in order to discuss the manifold incisions that write the machine into life and the strategies that users need to read them back. As Jacques Derrida famously claimed, writing always connotes an element of fracture, of removal from ‘the real’ context. Writing bears the signature of a physical absence – of the subject and of the context – and articulates a moment of rupture, enacted as a counter act or as a mode of dissent under the very act of writing. As our social and cultural experience is being increasingly shaped, written over and redone by the cyber world, it is also here in the utopian drive for perfectioning the human that the hope of resistance before the oblique powers of modernity may lie.

    Amongst other theme-related presentations, papers are welcome on the following topics:

    • Cyberculture and creativity;
    • Cyber mediation and the future of cultural media;
    • Citizenship, the public space and the right to privacy;
    • Cyberactivism;
    • Writing cybernetics: Net literature and the literary network;
    • The transformation of the face of war;
    • Surveillance and critique;
    • Cyberterrorism/cybersecurity and the artistic conviviality;
    • Critical thinking in the age of drones;
    • Representing cyber.

     

    Speakers:

    Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway College)

    Carla Ganito (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

    Frederik Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)

    Marie-Laure Ryan (independent scholar)

    Lev Manovich (City University of New York)

    Luís Gustavo Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

    Gustavo Cardoso (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)

    Manuel Portela (Universidade de Coimbra)

    The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from around the world. In the morning there will be lectures and master classes by invited keynote speakers. In the afternoon there will be paper presentations by doctoral students.

    Paper proposals

    Proposals should be sent to lxsummerschool@gmail.com no later than February 28, 2018 and include paper title, abstract in English (max. 200 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning ongoing research.

    Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by March 15, 2018.

    Rules for presentation

    The organizing committee shall place presenters in small groups according to the research focus of their papers. They are advised to stay in these groups for the duration of the Summer School, so a structured exchange of ideas may be developed to its full potential.

    Full papers submission

    Presenters are required to send in full papers by May 30, 2018.

    The papers will then be circulated amongst the members of each research group and in the slot allotted to each participant (30’), only 10’ may be used for a brief summary of the research piece. The Summer School is a place of networked exchange of ideas and organizers wish to have as much time as possible for a structured discussion between participants. Ideally, in each slot, 10’ will be used for presentation, and 20’ for discussion.

    Registration fees

    Participants with paper – 265€ for the entire week (includes lectures, master classes, doctoral sessions, lunches and closing dinner)

    Participants without paper – 55€ per session/day | 180€ for the entire week

    Fee waivers

    For The Lisbon Consortium students, there is no registration fee.

    For students from Universities affiliated with the European Summer School in Cultural Studies and members of the Excellence Network in Cultural Studies the registration fee is 50€.

     

    Organizing Committee

    • Isabel Capeloa Gil
    • Peter Hanenberg
    • Alexandra Lopes
    • Paulo de Campos Pinto
    • Diana Gonçalves
    • Clara Caldeira
    • Rita Bacelar

     

    For further information, please contact us through lxsummerschool@gmail.com. Find us online at http://www.lisbonconsortium.com.

     

  • 4 Cs project now online!

    4 Cs project now online!

    The 4 Cs From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, a European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, coordinated by Universidade Católica Portuguesa with several cultural international partners, is now online. You can follow the activities of the 4 year project on the website and also on facebook.

    4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture is a European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The 4Cs seeks to understand how training and education in art and culture can constitute powerful resources to address the issue of conflict as well as to envision creative ways in which to deal with conflictual phenomena, while contributing to audience development through active participation and co-production. The project aims at advancing the conceptual framework of intercultural dialogue and enhancing the role of public arts and cultural institutions in fostering togetherness through cultural diversity and intercultural encounters.

    The European Commission has acknowledged that tackling the migration and refugee crisis is a European obligation that requires a comprehensive strategy and a determined effort. Within such framework, the European Commission has emphasised the role of culture and the arts in contributing towards building a more cohesive and open society through the integration of refugees, helping them to better understand their new environment and its interaction with their own socio-cultural background.

    Grounded in the belief that culture and creative practice can emerge as powerful resources in conflict situations, the 4Cs wishes to respond to this challenge by exploring the ways in which culture and the arts can help bring individuals together within a model of intercultural dialogue, mutual recognition, and equal participation. This will be achieved by fostering equal involvement and by promoting cross-cultural collaboration through the creation and development of different activities such as exhibitions, artistic and research residencies, film screenings, mediation labs, workshops, conferences, publications, an online platform, and a Summer School.

    The 4Cs aims at responding to the challenges of migration, security, and freedom of expression by raising awareness about the role of creative and cultural work in the strengthening of European identity and European citizenship in a project of peace and conviviality. The 4Cs will support community members in their role as active agents in the cultural scene at local, regional, national, and international levels and contribute to a lasting change of attitude and active citizenship in local communities.

    Project leader

    • Faculdade de Ciências Humanas | Universidade Católica Portuguesa FCH|UCP (PT)
    • Scientific Co-coordinators: Isabel Capeloa Gil and Luísa Santos
    • Project Coordinator: Luísa Santos
    • Project Manager: Ana Fabíola Maurício
    • Coordinating Committee: Peter Hanenberg (Research Coordinator); Adriana Martins (Researcher); Daniela Agostinho (Researcher); Ana Cachola (Researcher); Sónia Pereira (Assistant Researcher); Inês Espada Vieira (Researcher); Elisabete Carvalho (Secretary)

    Partners

    • Tensta Konsthall (SE): Maria Lind (Artistic Director and Curator) and Hedvig Wiezell (Project Manager)
    • SAVVY Contemporary (DE): Bonaventure Ndikung (Artistic Director and Curator), Elena Agudio (Artistic co-director and co-curator), Lema Sikod (Project Manager)
    • Royal College of Art (UK): Michaela Crimmin (Artistic Director) and Peter Oakley (Project Manager)
    • Fundació Antoni Tàpies (ES): Carles Guerra (Artistic Director), Linda Valdés (Project Manager), Núria Bardalet (co-Project Manager), and Anna Saurí (co-Project Manager)
    • Vilnius Academy of Arts (LT): Rasa Antanavičiūtė (Artistic Director), Vytautas Michelkevicius (Project Manager), Evelina Rinkeviciute (Assistant to the Project Manager)
    • Museet for Samtidskunst (DK): Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen (Artistic Director and Curator) and Magnus Kaslov (Project Manager and Curator)
    • ENSAD (FR): Anna Bernagozzi (Project Manager, Researcher and Curator)

    Steering Committee

    • Isabel Capeloa Gil – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (PT)

    • Luísa Santos – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (PT)

    • Maria Lind – Tensta Konsthall (SE)

    • Bonaventure Ndikung – Savvy Contemporary (DE)

    • Michaela Crimmin – Royal College of Art (UK)

    • Carles Guerra – Fundació Antoni Tàpies (ES)

    • Rasa Antanavičiūtė – Vilnius Academy of Arts (LT)

    • Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen – Museet for Samtidskunst (DK)

    • Anna Bernagozzi – ENSAD (FR)

  • Zohar Yanko writes about exhibition at MAAT

    Zohar Yanko, a MA student at the Lisbon Consortium, wrote about the exhibition ‘On Exile’, by José Carlos Teixeira, at MAAT. The text, available in portuguese and english, is part of January edition of Contemporânea Magazine.

    On Exile functions as a liminal space, located on the borderland between ethnographic and artistic research, between the scientific and the philosophical; it is a space where, in the poignant words of Homi K. Bhaba, [2] “[p]rivate and public, past and present, the psyche and the social develop an interstitial intimacy”. This integration of academic, political and psychological discourses with a visual art creates an intimate space for investigation. This unique crossroad invites the visitor to join the effort, to interact with the notion of exile in ways which would not be possible otherwise. It might even lead to wonder about these separations in the first place.

    Zohar Yanko

  • Parques de Sintra: call for artists for photography exhibition

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    Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua, one of the partners of the Lisbon Consortium, will promote a collective photography exhibition between May 5 and June 3, 2018, under the title “Significação. Outras Imagens do Jardim”. Artists are invited to submit their competition proposals, following the regulations that can be found here.

    In the call for artists, we can read:

    “Using the gardens, parks and hunting grounds that are under Parques de Sintra’s management as a working place, this show intends to promote a fresh look over the historical heritage, stimulating and supporting the artistic contemporary production and its fruitions by diverse audiences.”

     

  • Workshop “Donald Trump’s Political Reality”: call for participation

    The workshop organized by PhD students from the Lisbon Consortium is titled “Donald Trump’s Political Reality: The Politics of Fakery and the Fakery of Politics”. It takes place on April 30, 2018 at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    https://trumpsfakeryofpolitics.wordpress.com/

    Call for Participation – Workshop – The Lisbon Consortium

    This workshop on politics in the time of Donald Trump’s presidency is organized by PhD students from the Lisbon Consortium. The aim is to think and discuss the notion of an emerging political field that can perhaps be characterized by the prevalence of claims of inauthenticity, fakeness, lies, semblance, virtuality and error. Claims of “Fake News” are constantly made by different agencies within the Trump administration and by the president himself as well. This notion of fakeness, often comes to stand for a supposed political strategy by Trump’s opponents, suggestive of a binary between the ‘real,’ ‘truthful,’ and ‘honest,’ on the one hand, and a supposed rhetorico-political strategy of discrediting this ‘truth’ on the other. ‘The media’ is turned into the political opponent, suggesting that unmediated, direct, and straight-forward speech by Trump – ironically, often by means of his Twitter account – provides ‘the people’ with a truth that is less fake, less political, and more pure.

    Trump’s critics, at the same time, often use a similar rhetorics of fakery when it comes to criticizing this presidency. The common slogan “Not My President” performatively conjures up a connotation of a fake-presidency, a presidency that is not binding for all, one that can be disavowed at will. Indeed, there seems to be a rhetoric of crisis, of exceptionality, and of scandalousness, one that finds its grounding in the problematics of the political lie and distortion that are used by the Trump administration time and again to generate publicity and confusion.

    This workshop aims at discussing the logic of fakery in the connection to mediation within the context of Trump’s politics. In his recent book Scatter 1. The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida, 2016, Geoffrey Bennington asks a question that can be summarized as follows “What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself?” and in response, we want to ask: “What happens when fakery becomes the main strategy of political attack?” (Bennington 4). Following Jean-Jacques Baudrillard’s warning in, Simulacra and Simulation, that one should not all too readily read a political scandal as scandalous, and instead attempt to read it as part and parcel to a larger power structure that inscribes and overwrites the very notion of reality and the real, we ask: “What if Trump’s presidency is not a scandal?” (Baudrillard 12).

    This workshop aims to analyze these problematics with an eye for an emerging field of political power that has both racist, sexist, heterosexist, and otherwise discriminatory elements, whilst at the same time promoting a classist economical agenda that marginalizes middle and low class Americans at the benefit of the extremely wealthy, big business, and high finance. A theoretical point of departure for our discussion will be that these two elements, economical state power on the one hand, and a logic of discrimination and racism on the other, should be analyzed in their connections rather than opposed to one another. Following Michel Foucault’s analyses of racism in connection to biopower, and with it to economy and capitalist State power, we suggest that an analysis of politics in the times of Trump should aim at a reading that pays attention to discrimination at the intersection of race, sex, gender, and class, and refuses to artificially oppose these elements of political strategy to each other (Foucault 259–261).

    The organizers invite everyone who is interested to join and discuss these issues with us during a morning and afternoon program which will include presentations and a lot of time for discussion.

    We call for proposals for ten minute presentations on themes related to the above. Proposals for presentations should be 300 words at the most and should be send to trumpsfakeryofpolitics[at]gmail[dot]com before March 15, 2018. The subject of your email should include your name and the words “proposal workshop Trump’s fakery of politics”. The organizers of the workshop will then notify you about the acceptance of your proposal as soon as possible.

    The workshop will take place on April 30, 2018, at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. More information about the location and exact times will follow.

    Keywords:
    • Donald Trump
    • Truth/Fakery
    • ‘fake-news’
    • Simulacrum
    • Political activism
    • Fascism
    • Biopower
    • Classism
    • Racism
    • Virtuality
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    Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010. Print.
    Bennington, Geoffrey. Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida. First edition. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016. Print.
    Foucault, Michel. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76. Ed. Mauro Bertani, Alessandro Fontana, and François Ewald. Trans. David Macey. New York: Picador, 2003. Print.
  • 4 Cs in ‘Público’ newspaper

    4 Cs in ‘Público’ newspaper

    4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, the  European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, promoted and coordinated by Faculdade de Ciências Humanas/Universidade Católica Portuguesa with several art institutions across Europe is the subject of a news article of Público that mentions the goals of the project and also the key issues of Aimée Zito Lema’s work, who is now finishing her artistic residency in Lisbon.

    The article is available here

  • 4 Cs: TALK WITH AIMÉE ZITO LEMA + DJ SET JORI COLLIGNON 

    4 Cs: TALK WITH AIMÉE ZITO LEMA + DJ SET JORI COLLIGNON 

     

    TALK WITH AIMÉE ZITO LEMA + DJ SET JORI COLLIGNON 

    Saturday, January 27th, 16h30 – 19h30
    Rua das Gaivotas6, Lisboa
    Free Admission 
    The talk will be held in English

    Chair: Isabel Carlos
    Curatorship (residency and exhibition): Luísa Santos, Ana Cachola and Daniela Agostinho

    During her month-long residency at Rua das Gaivotas 6, Aimée Zito Lema (n. 1982, NL) has developed research on memory and the intergenerational transmission of events through material history and the human body. Through a methodology anchored in critical analysis, the artist conducted interviews with researchers, organized workshops with a group of teenagers (together with Pedro Penim, from Teatro Praga), and observed the work of Grupo de Teatro do Oprimido, in order to question the role of the body as agent of transformation and understanding of social histories.

    In conversation with curator Isabel Carlos, Aimée Zito Lema will present her artistic practice and the research she conducted during the residency. This research will materialize into a project room at Gulbenkian Museum in June 2018, as part of the eight chapters of the exhibition of 4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, an international cooperation project coordinated by Universidade Católica Portuguesa and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

    4Cs Team (Lisbon): Isabel Capeloa Gil (scientific coordinator); Luísa Santos (general coordinator and scientific co-coordinator); Peter Hanenberg (research coordinator investigação); Ana Fabíola Maurício (project manager); Ana Cristina Cachola (researcher); Daniela Agostinho (researcher); Inês Espada Vieira (researcher); Adriana Martins (researcher); Sónia Pereira (assistant researcher); Elisabete Carvalho (secretary); vivóeusébio (designers); Sílvia Escórcio (communication).

    Partners 4Cs: Tensta Konsthall (SE); SAVVY Contemporary (DE); Royal College of Art (UK); Fundació Antoni Tàpies (ES); Vilnius Academy of Arts (LT); Museet for Samtidskunst (DK); ENSAD (FR).

    https://www.facebook.com/events/141777183159008/

  • Jan Świerkowski awarded in Poland

    The PhD student Jan Świerkowski was awarded with the Science Populariser 2017 competition organized by PAP – Science in Poland and the Ministry of Science, in the Animator Category. Congratulations!

    The award in the Animator category went to Jan Świerkowski, the leader of the B61 Institute who promotes science by combining the work of artists and researchers. His performances have been watched by over 20,000. spectators, and the exhibition “Cosmic Underground” (realized on a freight train) travelled across Europe: from Tallinn, through Poland, to Lisbon.

    “It is important for our team of scientists and artists to work out a language of understanding with the public” – emphasised Świerkowski.

    Read more here

  • VII Graduate Conference: January 25 and 26

    VII Graduate Conference: January 25 and 26

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    The VII Graduate Conference on “Alterity and the Research Imagination” will take place at Universidade Católica, January 25 and 26.

    Jess Auerbach ׀ Assistant Professor of Social Science, African Leadership University

    Jeremy Gilbert ׀ Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London

    Margherita Laera ׀ Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theater, School of Arts, University of Kent

    Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius ׀ Associate Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London

    Follow the blog and the facebook event.

  • Happy holidays!

    Happy holidays!

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  • Lx Summer School on Global Translations: VIDEOS

    Lx Summer School on Global Translations: VIDEOS

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    The 2017 Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture on Global Translations (June 26-July) brought together students, researchers and professors in Lisbon. Now, the main lectures are online: you can watch them here .

  • MA in Culture Studies on top five: prestige and employment

    According to Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking 2016/2017, the MA in Culture Studies ranks #5, in terms of prestige and employment, considering all the fields of study.

    1. CONTABILIDADE E AUDITORIA

    Mestrado em Finanças, NOVA School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    2. DIREITO COMERCIAL E EMPRESARIAL

    LL.M. Law in a European Global Context, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

    3. COMUNICAÇÃO

    Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Empresarial, Porto Business School – Universidade do Porto

    4. FINANÇAS EMPRESARIAIS

    Mestrado em Finanças, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    5. GESTÃO DE ARTE E CULTURA

    Mestrado em Estudos Culturais – The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Faculdade de Ciências Humanas

    On E-Konomista

     

  • December 15: special guest lecture with Maura Marvão

    Maura Marvão is an international specialist and consultant in 20th century and contemporary art and she will be at Universidade Católica for a special lecture.

    She  has a law degree from the “Universidade Católica Portuguesa”  and studied Public Relations and Arts Administration (master) at the “New York University”

    Worked at the “United Nations” and at the “New Museum of Contemporary Art” both in New York.

    In Portugal taught classes on Cultural Marketing and PR, namely at the “Universidade Católica – Escola das Artes” (Catholic University – Arts School) and worked as a consultant for several institutions, companies, museums and universities.

    Was president of “ADIAC” – Association of Portuguese contemporary art collectors.

    Since 2008 represents Phillips auction house for Portugal and Spain. Is a board member and the cultural advisor at “Fundação Portuguesa da Juventude” (Portuguese Youth Foundation).Is a board member of “Bagos D’Ouro”, an NGO that operates in the Douro Valley creating academic opportunities for children and young people. Is the president of the “friends group” of “Fundação Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva” – FRESS – in Lisbon. Is the founder and president of the Portuguese branch of the “National Museum of Women in the Arts” in Washington.

     

    Maura Marvaio

  • 4 Cs first conference in images

    4 Cs first conference in images

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  • SAVE THE DATE: 4 Cs CONFERENCE

    SAVE THE DATE: 4 Cs CONFERENCE

    Conviviality and the Institutional is a two-day conference in the frame of 4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, a cooperation project supported by the European Commission in the frame of Creative Europe – Culture Subprogramme. Coordinated by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 4Cs aims to explore how art and culture can constitute powerful resources to address the subject of conflict. A major focus will be on training and education. The programme includes exhibitions, artistic and research residencies, film screenings, mediation labs, workshops, conferences, publications, an online platform and a Summer School.

    Check the program here

    Free admission with registration and limited to the seats available.

    Please contact: fabiola.mauricio@fch.lisboa.ucp.pt

  • Progress reports 2017

    Progress reports 2017

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    On November 13 and 14, the Phd international students discussed the progress reports with the international Steering Committee. “Cultural Analysis in the 21st Century” was the lecture presented by Professor Ansgar Nünning and Professor Frederik Tygstrup, in a session chaired by Professor Isabel Capeloa Gil.
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  • José Carlos Teixeira at Lisbon Consortium

    Last thursday, November 9, José Carlos Teixeira met the Lisbon Consortium students for an informal meeting. The visual artist, who also teaches at University of Wisconsin-Madison, talked about his background and the current exhibition at MAAT, “On Exhile”, tackling subjects like migration, displacement and identity.

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  • LxC Inaugural Session

    LxC Inaugural Session

    The inaugural session of the academic year of the Lisbon Consortium took place at Universidade Católica, last friday, November 3, with the presence of Prof. Isabel Capeloa Gil, Rector of UCP and Director of the Lisbon Consortium, Prof. Nelson Ribeiro, Dean of the School of Human Sciences, and the special guest and speaker, Mr. Miguel Honrado, Secretary of State for Culture, partners, students and faculty members of the program.

    It was also time for the awarding of the Lisbon Consortium scholarships.

    The Millennium bcp Foundation Grant was awarded by Ms. Fátima Dias to Diana Ferreira,  second-year student of the Master’s Program in Culture Studies and Ana Rita Folgado, first-year student of the Master’s Program in Culture Studies. The Millennium BCP Foundation Scholarship for the Lisbon Consortium aims at funding Portuguese students in the Master’s program in Culture Studies through 2 scholarships. These scholarships consist in a  tuition reduction, amounting to 4.020 euros (over 2 years).

    The EDP Foundation International Granta was awarded by Mr. António Soares to Gregor Taul, second-year student of the Doctoral Program in Culture Studies. 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 (euros), is directed to tuition payment.

    After the awards, Mr. Miguel Honrado gave a lecture about his professional life in the world of culture and shared his vision about the future challenges.

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  • Meet and Greet: VIDEO

  • Inaugural Session: SAVE THE DATE.

    Inaugural session

  • CECC Field Work: Call for Participation

    CECC Field Work: Call for Participation

    Society of the Spectacle – 50 Years Later

    CECC Fieldwork 2017 | November 23-24

    “All life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles,” writes Guy Debord in his 1967 book, The Society of the Spectacle. “Everything that was once directly lived has become mere representation.” In the theses that follow, Debord offers a revolutionary critique of contemporary capitalist society, a striking vision of a world reduced to the superficiality of images.

    For Debord, the concept of the spectacle “unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena.” And today, in an era of so-called “post-truth,” a hyperreal, liquid modernity in which, as Marx once presciently wrote, “all that is solid melts into air,” the spectacle represents an enduringly valuable concept through which to interpret capitalist society. We live in an age saturated by social media, in which “selfies” hold more weight than actual lived experience, where our lives (both real and virtual) are dominated by advertisements at every turn. Images in urban environments mediate and commodify our social relations on a daily basis, while the 24-hour news cycle helps reduce “knowledge” to a series of vapid, sporadic flashing images. It is within such a context that The Society of the Spectacle finds its real relevance.

    The book has stirred considerable controversy and debate. Michel Foucault, for one, insists that modern society is, in fact, “the exact reverse of the spectacle.” For him, “our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance.” Meanwhile, Jean Baudrillard builds upon the work, suggesting that the concept of spectacle has been superseded by a new, dystopian regime of simulation. And Sadie Plant shows how many of the ideas of the Situationist International, of which Debord was a member, have come to influence ideas of the postmodern, but in ways which mark a certain political “break.” The work has, arguably, been drained of its fundamental radical qualities, co-opted by the mainstream and repackaged as benign rhetorical theory. In The Society of the Spectacle, as Debord predicts himself, the concept might be reduced to “just another empty formula of sociologico-political rhetoric.”

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication, this two-day symposium, as part of CECC’s annual Fieldwork meeting, will explore the impact and legacy of this pivotal work. In what sense does the spectacle unify or explain the contemporary world? How do individuals and communities produce, confront or challenge spectacle on a daily basis? How relevant is Debord’s spectacle thesis in a rapidly changing contemporary cultural and political landscape? This symposium welcomes contributors to address current local and global concerns through Debord’s ideas, from the increased influence of digital media, the portrayal of refugees and the risk of ecological disaster to gender performativity, urban development and nationalist discourse. We invite academic colleagues, artists and thinkers of all stripes, from Lisbon and beyond, to come together on November 23-24 and join us in a spectacular retrospective of this landmark text in political and cultural theory.

    Workshop: Call for Participation
    During this two-day symposium, we seek to (re)engage with Debord’s pivotal work and attempt to delve into not only its historical significance, but to also ask new questions about the book’s contemporary relevance. On the morning of November 24, we will organise a student-led workshop, a space for emerging researchers to share their thoughts, ideas and work related to The Society of the Spectacle.

    We invite proposals for short, 10-minute papers which engage with the notion of the ‘spectacle’ with both its contemporary and historical relevance and on its use as a theoretical or practical tool. Motivations for papers may include, but are not limited to, the following disciplinary themes, interests and topics:

    • Literary theory and criticism
    • Modernist and postmodernist philosophy
    • Post-war French intellectual theory
    • Media studies and the critique of media
    • The critique of everyday life
    • Migration and the centrality of the image in its contemporary portrayal
    • Political theory
    • Activism and the relationship of research to politics, policy and practice
    • Visual culture and its epistemologies
    • Urban topographies and political spaces
    • Ethnographic approaches to the experience of spectacle

    Abstracts (250 words) and a short biographical note should be sent via email to hello@reubenross.net  and matt.mason87@outlook.com , including title, name, contact details and institutional affiliation.
    The deadline for submission is 27 October 2017.

    For further information or questions, please contact one of the organisers:

    Reuben Ross: hello@reubenross.net
    Matt Mason: matt.mason87@outlook.com

     

    Website: https://societyofthespectacle.persona.co/

  • “Tension & Conflict”: visit to MAAT

    September 21: the new MA and PhD students were at MAAT, to a guided tour at the exhibition “Tension and Conflict: Video Art after 2008” by Luísa Santos, professor of the Program and curator of the exhibition (with Pedro Gadanho).

  • Meet & Greet 2017-2018

    September 18: the new Ma and PhD students gathered for the ‘Meet and Greet’ of the Lisbon Consortium, the start of the Induction Week.
    Welcome! We wish you all a very successful and productive semester.

     

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  • Interview with Michael Cronin by Rita Bueno Maia

    Michael Cronin was one of the keynote speakers of the VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, on Global Translations. You can listen to his interview, on several subjects of his investigation and the fiel of Translation Studies, by Rita Bueno Maia.

  • Closing session – Lisbon Summer School

    Closing session – Lisbon Summer School

    Last saturday, Michael Cronin gave the last lecture of the VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture on Global Translations, at the bookshop Ler Devagar.

    In the closing session, chaired by Peter Haneberg, two prizes were selected by a juri and awarded by Isabel Capeloa Gil for the best paper to Jad Khairallah (Lisbon Consortium) and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (University of Warwick).

    The Lisbon Consortium would also like to thank and congratulate all participants and invite you all to participate in the next edition, from July 2 to July 7, 2018, under the topic “Cyber + Cypher + Culture”. See you soon!

  • Summer School preliminary program now online

    Summer School preliminary program now online

    The VII Lisbon Summer School, on Global Translations, is about to start! Check the preliminary program here.

  • UCP Project supported by European Comission

    4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture supported by the European Commission in the frame of Creative Europe – Culture Sub-programme.

    Europe: a site of hospitality and conviviality is one of the headlines of 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, a European Cooperation project which has been awarded a Grant of approximately 1.8 million euros by the European Commission through Creative Europe – Culture Sub-programme.

    Coordinated by the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 4Cs aims to explore how art and culture can constitute powerful resources to address the subject of conflict. A major focus will be on training and education. The programme will include exhibitions, artistic residencies, film screenings, mediation labs, workshops, conferences, publications, an online platform and a Summer School. These will be the means by which new audiences will be brought together in intercultural dialogue and collaboration, mutual recognition and equal participation. The programme will include a response to the challenges of migration, security, and freedom of expression.

    The European Commission praised the project particularly for the quality of the partnership, with a team combining theory and practice, and its intent to foster citizenship in the EU.

    Eight partners from eight different countries (Portugal; Sweden; Germany; UK; Spain; Lithuania; Denmark; and France) will work together in this project, which will be active from July 2017 to July 2021: the School of Human Sciences and The Lisbon Consortium at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Tensta Konsthall; SAVVY Contemporary – Laboratory of Form-Ideas; Royal College of Art; Fundació Antoni Tápies; Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts; Museet for Samtidskunst; and ENSAD, as well as a series of associate partners including Culture+Conflict; MIMA; Klaipėda University; Gulbenkian Foundation; Rua das Gaivotas 6; Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados; PEROU, and Refugees at home.