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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

  • LXC Film Sessions, March 15

    LXC Film Sessions, March 15

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    The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke from 2009, introduced by Prof. Dr. Adriana Martins

    is 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!

  • Ana do Carmo: PhD Defense

    Ana do Carmo: PhD Defense

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    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!

  • 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!

     

  • Roundtable 5/5

    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

     

  • 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

    LxC Film Sessions: March 1

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    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!

     

     

     

  • 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.

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    Photos: Helena Correia

     

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    Photos: Luísa Santos

  • Study trip to Porto and Guimarães

    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.

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    Check some photos of the weekend!

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  • LxC Conversation Pieces 3: February 15. Registration required

    LxC Conversation Pieces 3: February 15. Registration required

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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

     

     

  • 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:

  • PhD project defense: January 27

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    PhD Project: A autocaricatura de Teixeira Cabral – identidade dinâmica, linguagem gráfica e funções de marca

    January 27, 15h30
    Room Exposições (2nd floor – Library Building)

  • ‘Routes of Difference’: VIDEO

    ‘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.

  • 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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    Room Sociedade Científica (1st floor, Library Building )

  • Visit to “China Now”, Fundação Oriente

    Visit to “China Now”, Fundação Oriente

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  • Arjun Appadurai at Católica

    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/

  • ‘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

    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”

    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.

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    Photos: EMERGE

  • 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.

     

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    Curatorial Discourse: Helena Silva Correia
    October, 2016

    Qui 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-collapse

    Click to access Turner_Meadows_vs_historical_data.pdf

    Click to access MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf

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    ‘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.
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    The 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.

     

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  • “The Way we Work Now”: Irit Rogoff at Universidade Católica

    “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

  • Grant recipients. Congratulations!

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    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

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    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! 

  • Opening session of the Lisbon Consortium

    Opening session of the Lisbon Consortium

    The open session of the academic year of the Lisbon Consortium was held last friday, September 30, at Centro Cultural de Belém, with the faculty, the old and the new students, the partners and Bill Fontana.

    Welcome to the Lisbon Consortium!

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  • Bill Fontana at the Lisbon Consortium

    Bill Fontana at the Lisbon Consortium

     

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    The sound artist Bill Fontana is the special guest of the Lisbon Consortium opening session, due to take place on September 30,  at 18h, Centro Cultural de Belém (Sala Almada Negreiros)

    Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound. Since the early 70’s Fontana has used sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. He has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Post Museum in Frankfurt, the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna, both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, the 48th Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney and the new Kolumba Museum in Cologne. He has done major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, West German Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the Austrian State Radio.

    Here, you can know more about his life and work:

  • Faculty ID Card

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    The academic year is about to start and the new students have already met some of the faculty members. Click here to check the ID CARD

  • International Doctoral program

    International Doctoral program

    Applications now closed for 2016-2017

    Admission to the FCT-International Doctoral Program in Culture Studies 2016, see here intdcs-results

    Download the Application handbooks: PhD_Application Guidelines_2016-2017

    The International Doctoral Program in Culture Studies is a 4-year and dual-degree programme in Culture Studies awarded by the Catholic University of Portugal, the University of Giessen and the University of Copenhagen. It builds from different disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, thereby assuming the interdisciplinarity of contemporary modes of knowledge production focused on problem-oriented and practice-based research.

    Background – What is Culture Studies?

    Culture Studies have come of age over the last two decades. Within the framework of the crisis in the humanities and the growing call for renewed arts-based forms of knowledge production, the study of culture has changed from being a frame for humanities’ disciplines into gaining prominence in its own right. Two developments triggered this change. On the one hand, the rise of cultural studies in the 1960’s drew attention to the social-political dimension of culture, to its ordinariness and the many ways in which power was blended into creation. On the other, over the course of the 1980’s a new metadiscipline Kulturwissenschaft (science of culture) drew on the interpretative skills of the humanities and the growing attention to forms of mediation in media studies to look at the multiple ways in which culture matters as driver of artistic creation and also address how societies represent themselves and view others, look at the past and prepare the future. Bringing together the sociological methodology that is proper to British cultural studies with the interpretative qualitative approach of Kulturwissenschaft, Culture Studies is by definition transdisciplinary. It has risen to become a problem-oriented metadiscipline, representing a new paradigm of integrated reflection on the artistic forms of expression of individuals and societies, across the visual arts, literature, cinema and the media.

    Collaborative model
    The program is born out of the commitment to develop a doctoral program that promotes both high level research training at the forefront of scientific interest and responds to the cultural sector’s growing call for highly qualified professionals. It is inspired by the ‘collaborative turn’ on two levels: firstly as a model of advanced research training that draws from artistic practice and cultural management to reflect on theory and in turn embeds practice in theoretically informed premises; secondly as a form of doctoral training that is transnational by definition, because the study of culture inevitably deals with diversity.

    The programme works on a feed-back loop model, allowing the research methods and theories it devises to be tested in institutional practice by means of internships, curating and other applied projects (i.e. audience research, implementation of new strategies in museum services) while bringing artists, curators and cultural managers to reflect on their practice within scholarly work. These new training formats are specifically directed at tapping into the innovative potential of creative practices and combining these with research agendas that are challenge-based and object-based rather than discipline-based in a traditional sense.
    The program intends to inspire students to customize their curriculum and is committed to support work placement. It will provide doctoral students with methodological tools for cultural analysis, challenging them to revise phenomena that are either “invisible” or undervalued by contemporary societies while encouraging a look into the humanist tradition to deepen the understanding about the discourses and creations that have moulded cultural history. Consequently, it aims to promote original and internationally relevant research and to integrate doctoral students into multinational research teams. In addition, it will support knowledge transfer, urging students to take their work outside the seminar room and interact with professional realities other than academia.

    Mobility

    As part of a tri-national network, students will benefit from up to two semesters at one of the partner institutions in order to conduct empirical or theoretical research. The stay abroad is part of the co-tutelle agreement and will also allow the candidate to work with the second supervisor. A work programme will be established for the duration of the stay at the partner institution. Within the framework of the many exchange agreements between the three partners universities, CECC and their international counterparts, candidates may apply for an additional stay as a visiting researcher, specially if these agreements are of particular importance to the research project.

    Network

    The Lisbon Consortium – Catholic University of Portugal

    Program Director: Isabel Capeloa Gil

    Graduate Center for the Study of Culture – University of Giessen

    Program Director: Ansgar Nünning

    Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies – University of Copenhagen

    Program Director: Frederik Tygstrup

    External advisory committee 

    Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University, Villiard professor of Comparative Literature)

    Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)

    George Yúdice (University of Miami)

    The program is entirely taught in English.

    STRUCTURE

    First Semester

    Metaculture I

    Elective 1

    Elective 2

    Elective 3

    Grad Labs

    -Publishing Strategies
    -Managing Bibliographies
    -Database Research
    -Academic English-Career Development

    Second Semester

    Metaculture II

    Elective 4

    Elective 5

    Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

    Third and Fourth Semesters

    Research Colloquium I and II

    Dissertation Writing

    Fifth to Eight Semester

    Dissertation Writing

    Elective Courses:

    Methods for Cultural Analysis • World Literature •   Visual Culture • Asian Visual Cultures • Cultural Entrepreneurship • Cultural Economics  • Cultural & Creative Industries • Management of Cultural Projects  • Culture and Globalization • Cyberculture • History of Film   • Media, Society & Culture  • Translation & Globalization  • The Emergence of Asia and the Global Impact  • East Asia: Tourism & Cultural Industries amongst others availabe at http://www.fch.lisboa.ucp.pt

    Courses offered by the Department of Culture Studies are always offered in English. Coursed offered by other Departments are usually offered in Portuguese.

    Grad Labs

    Academic English • Strategies for Publishing in English • Database research • Managing Bibliographies •  Career Development

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