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  • The Summer School is approaching – register now!

    The Summer School is approaching – register now!

    The XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture will again welcome international researchers and specialists to Lisbon between June 30 and July 5, 2025. The Summer School offers a great variety of sessions; keynote lectures, paper sessions, master classes, workshops and visits to exhibitions.

    This edition of the Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is also the ESSCS (European Summer School in Cultural Studies) Summer School, welcoming students from the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Giessen (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture), Université de Paris VIII (École Doctorale Esthétique, sciences e technologies des arts), Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis Ljublana, University of Trondheim (PhD Programme in Humanities and the Arts) and University of Bern (Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities). 

    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Bárbara Coutinho (MUDE-Design Museum)
    Barbara Vinken (LMU Münich)
    Brooke Harrington (Dartmouth College)
    Claudia Salamanca (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
    Désiré Feuerle (art collector, curator and consultant)
    Ghassan Moussawi (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
    Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen)
    Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania)
    Paulo Campos Pinto (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

    MASTER CLASSES

    Ilios Willemars (Leiden University): Racializing statistics: machine learning and semiotic excess

    Rita Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): The new Newspeak: when the excess of words makes lies sound truthful and murder respectable

    WORKSHOPS

    Linda Koncz and Eduardo Prado Cardoso (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): “One-Take” Filmmaking Workshop: Countering Today’s Excess

    Deborah de Muijnck (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Storying the Self in an Age of Excess: Cultural Models of Narrative Identity  

    Luísa Santos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): The Excess of/in Art Institutions

    You can find more information on the website https://theageofexcess.wordpress.com/.

    The Summer School is open and completely free for the Lisbon Consortium students. For external participants, the daily fee is 80€ (please contact lxsummerschool@gmail.com).

    Registration: https://fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/xv-lisbon-summer-school-study-culture

  • Opening |I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me – May 19, 18:00

    Opening |I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me – May 19, 18:00

    The exhibition I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me, curated by the MA students in Culture Studies, will open on May 19 at 18:00 in Galeria Fundação Amélia de Mello, UCP.

    The exhibition is organized under the collaboration protocol between CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and The Lisbon Consortium.

    We look forward to seeing you all there!

  • Closing of Rita Ravasco’s Tempo Sentido: Creative Writing Workshop and Open Mic at Casa do Comum (Dec. 8)

    Closing of Rita Ravasco’s Tempo Sentido: Creative Writing Workshop and Open Mic at Casa do Comum (Dec. 8)

    Nostalgia is a “temporal paradox” (Ravasco 2024) that blurs the lines between past and present, between imagination and remembrance. It can be cathartic, alchemical, dull, inspiring or painful. It can be consciously provoked or accidentally triggered by a vision, a sound, a smell.

    For the closing of Rita Ravasco’s installation Tempo Sentido (Casa do Comum, Nov. 13 – Dec. 8) we invite you to participate in our Creative Writing Workshop and/or our Open Mic Session, and share what makes you nostalgic!

    Bring an object or photograph, personal or found, and look into how and why it triggers a nostalgic longing in you.

    Creative Writing Workshop (Bilingual EN/PT)

    Dec. 8, 15h-16h

    Through a series of generative writing prompts anchored in the photo or object you decide to bring, we will explore different dimensions of nostalgia and the way it interacts with emotions, public and private life.

    The workshop prompts will be offered in English and Portuguese. You are free to write in any language.

    Workshop participants have the option to share the outcome of this creative writing session in the Open Mic Session that follows after.

    Workshop led by: Emily Marie Passos Duffy (Lisbon-based poet, performer and researcher)

    Workshop spaces are limited, if you are interested, please register under: info.diffractions@gmail.com

    Open Mic (Bilingual EN/PT)

    Dec. 8, 16:30h-18h

    In our Open Mic Session, we invite participants to share with us their thoughts, stories, poems, etc. about a nostalgic object or photograph they choose to bring (ca. 5 mins/participant). Photographs can be brought in analogue or digital form. Feel free to speak in Portuguese or English.

  • InterCECCtions | Maria Valentina Vallejo (MA) presents Arctic Routes, Southern Ways (28 November 2024, 5pm, Timor)

    InterCECCtions | Maria Valentina Vallejo (MA) presents Arctic Routes, Southern Ways (28 November 2024, 5pm, Timor)

    This month’s InterCECCtions will feature Maria Valentina Vallejo, MA student in Culture Studies, who will be discussing her study conducted as part of CECC‘s research project Arctic Routes, Southern Ways.

    Arctic Routes, Southern Ways is a joint research project implemented by CECC members which seeks to compare/contrast two different colonial legacies – the Portuguese and the Norwegian – and create alternative narratives and methods of knowledge production in art institutions and academia.

    Hegemonic narratives of the search for national unity in Norway, or the view of a “good” colonialism or “lusotropicalism”, in Portugal, bring these otherwise distant countries close in the way that such experiences have prevailed in many instances of public discourse, policies in institutional practices, in academia and in art institutions. The project will include online meetings, listening sessions in Lisbon and in Bergen, and research visits to Portugal and Norway.

    The project puts together two academic institutions (CECC-Universidade Católica Portuguesa and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway) and two contemporary art centres (HANGAR, from Portugal, and Bergen Kunsthall, from Norway), and will organize several scientific activities throughout its lifetime.

    Arctic routes was officially launched in 16 January 2024, is coordinated by CECC, financed by an EEA grant and supported by a Globus OpStart grant from the Nordisk Kulturfond.

  • Late Afternoon Talk with Ebru Yetiskin

    Late Afternoon Talk with Ebru Yetiskin

    On October 28th 2024, Ebru Yetiskin was invited for CECC’s Late Afternoon Talk by PhD student Aishwarya Kumar, to share with us her work in the field of Art-Science, “The Future is Now: Critical Curating in Art, Science, and Technology”. Having met during Yetiskin’s residency at Ecotopia, their work relates to complimentary elements of cognition, perception and action. While Kumar is focusing on the relationship between Curiosity through gestures of non-extraction and Performance, Yetiskin has been delving into notions of Ignorance through Response-ability, and Political Staging, philosophical topics which have gained notorious currency in the technological condition.

    Yetiskin recently concluded her participation in Art and Science Residency Program of Ectopia Experimental Art Lab in Lisbon which had the opening of a collective exhibition titled ‘Metamorphosis’ on October 18. The exhibition is currently open to the public until the 8th of December, on Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 9am – 4pm.

    – Aishwarya Kumar

    Reading suggestion: Ebru Yetiskin: “Invisible motion: Paratactical curation of bio art and performative political imaginaries”

  • Culture and Artificial Intelligence | October 22

    Culture and Artificial Intelligence | October 22

    PhD candidates in Culture Studies Aishwarya Kumar Iyer, Amadea Kovič, Teresa Weinholtz and Thales Alecrim took part in a conversation about culture and artificial intelligence with Alexandre Quintanilha (Biophysics researcher), Carlos Fiolhais (Professor of Physics), William Hasselberger (Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory @ UCP) and Rudolfo Quintas (artist).

    Other speakers at the event were Maria Calado (President of Centro Nacional de Cultura), Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (Executive Trustee of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) , Sneska Quaedvlieg – Mihailovic (Secretary General of Europa Nostra).

    The event was organized by Centro Nacional de Cultura in partnership with the Lisbon City Hall, The Lisbon Consortium FCH-UCP at Beato Innovation District. Copyright of the photos @ Enric Vives-Rubio.

  • Conversation pieces with Joana Vicente

    Conversation pieces with Joana Vicente

    In the first LXC Conversation pieces of the new academic year 2024-2025, the Lisbon Consortium students had a conversation with independent film producer and executive Joana Vicente.

    After graduating from FCH-Católica, Vicente has launched her career in New York. Together with her husband, Jason Kliot, she founded three production houses in New York: Open City Films, Blow Up Pictures and HDnet Films, besides launching Made in NY Media Center by IFP, an incubation center for independent producers. She has produced more than 40 films, including several award winners, such as Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room and Three Seasons, and worked with various important directors, namely Brian De Palma, Alex Gibney, Steven Soderbergh, Hal Hartley, Todd Solondz and Jim Jarmusch. She has been the Executive Director of the Independent Filmmaker Project, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. For three years, she taught Business of Film at the NYU’s School of Business. 

    The conversation centered on the role of female producers, executives and filmmakers in the independent film industry and the challenges posed by current crises, wars and political and ideological tensions to the processes of film-making and curating films for festivals. Vicente also shared some crucial advice on how to enter and navigate new spaces and different roles in the field of independent film and the cultural industry at large.


  • CfP: Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes

    CfP: Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes

    Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes

    Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 6-8 March 2025

    This event brings together researchers from different scientific areas to generate cross-disciplinary debate on how food shapes our everyday lives at various levels of society and culture. Food practices such as production, consumption, and intangible food culture together form what is the most intricately connective web of human experience. Beginning from the primal need of an individual body while simultaneously demanding inter-reliance and community, we are undeniably in a food-webbed world. Despite this, food-related studies have traditionally been delegated to strictly separate academic spheres, which is why this conference aims to offer an opportunity for truly interdisciplinary dialogue.

    Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes runs for three days (March 6-8, 2025) at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and other venues in Lisbon, Portugal, and includes a series of keynote lectures, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and off-site excursions with curated culinary programming.

    At this multi-disciplinary and international forum, we address the essential role of food for communication and transmission of traditions, and the (re)establishment of peoples and communities throughout time. We are particularly interested in the relationship between food and processes of cultural transformation and change, as well as the centrality of food to/the impact of food on technology, migration, media and communications, political and economic development, social initiatives, and cultural and artistic expressions.

    Through this conference, we hope to share and discuss food practices with the awareness that all food-related studies can and should benefit from shared perspectives on how food is both an instrument and a vehicle of culture.

    We welcome contributions for paper sessions, interactive workshops, or presentation of case studies related to food studies from researchers with different backgrounds. The aim of this conference is to offer a shared experience through a unique approach based on bringing together theory and practice.

    Possible topics (although not exclusive):

    • Culinary histories on recipes or menus
    • Cookbooks and menus as narrative text / in translation
    • Food writing and journalism/ food in the news
    • Food in film, literature and fine arts
    • Food policies/ the politics/economics of food
    • Food and the senses
    • Food and memory or cognition
    • Industrial food practices production
    • Food and the environment
    • Food and social media/ food and influencers
    • Food and migration/ as vehicle for hospitality
    • Food and human rights and/or activism
    • Food with social impact/ the social impact of food
    • Food, health and nutrition
    • Food in/ and institutions (ex. Schools, hospitals, prisons)
    • Food and community
    • Food and religion/ food and ritual
    • Food and tourism

    Keynote speakers

    Marília dos Santos Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa/ CECC)
    Sarah E. Worth (Furman University)

    Interactive Tasting Workshops

    Olive Oil: production, consumption, socio-ecological cultures in the Mediterranean
    Johnny Madge, olive oil and honey sommelier, gustatory educator and author  

    Wine:  Socio-political and cultural systems of consumption in Ancient Greece
    Sarah E. Worth, full professor of aesthetics, philosophy of food  

    Interdisciplinary Workshop

    CellAgri Portugal – the Portuguese Association for Cellular Agriculture

    Joaquim Cabral, distinguished full professor of bioengineering and biosciences (Instituto Superior Técnico), and President of CellAgri Portugal
    Carlos Rodrigues, coordinator of the Bioreactor and Biomaterial Technologies for Stem Cell Manufacturing Lab (Instituto Superior Técnico)

    Roundtable: “Food in Migration: diasporic cooking and futures of fusion”

    Speakers TBA

    Paper proposals

    Proposals should be sent to foodconf2025@gmail.com no later than October 31, 2024, and include:

    • Paper title
    • Abstract in English (max. 250 words)
    • Name, email address, institutional affiliation
    • Brief Bio (100 words)

    Applicants will be informed of their submission results by December 2, 2024.

    The registration is open only to those with an accepted abstract. Deadline to register is December 31, 2024.

    Paper sessions will run 1.5 hours. Each participant will have 20 minutes for speaking, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A. 

    All participants are expected to attend the full conference, for the benefit of knowledge-production and knowledge-exchange.

    Fees*

     Early birdNormal
    Senior researchers200€240€
    PhD researchers100€130€
    CECC full researcher–20€
    CECC PhD researcher–10€

    * The fees include coffee breaks, lunch, and conference materials. Early bird fees are valid until December 15, 2024.

    Organizing Committee

    Annimari Juvonen
    Márcia Dias Sousa
    Rissa Miller
    Verena Lindemann Lino

    Scientific Committee

    Adriana Martins | UCP
    Ana Margarida Abrantes | UCP
    Isabel Drumond Braga | FLUL
    Ana Isabel Buescu | NOVA de Lisboa
    Luísa Santos | UCP
    Sofia Pinto | UCP
    Peter Hanenberg |UCP
    Rissa Miller | UCP
    Márcia Dias Sousa | UCP
    Maria Graça da Silveira | Univ. dos Açores

  • AYNI | Igor Jesus: Time Machine (2023) Galeria Antecâmara 28.3. 18h

    AYNI | Igor Jesus: Time Machine (2023) Galeria Antecâmara 28.3. 18h

    We would like to invite you to the fifth installation of Ayni: Theorems of Reciprocity, the multi-media installation Time Machine (2023), by Igor Jesus. This installation integrates photography, movement, interactive sound, and radio elements and will premiere at Galeria Antecâmara, on the 28th of March 2024, from 6 p.m.  Join us as we watch Time Machine transition from day to night.

    Presented at Antecamara starting on the 28th March to 4th May 2024, Igor’s Time Machine explores philosophical perspectives that give priority to human-centric views of reality. Consistent with Igor practice, the exhibition highlights that creativity and artistic expression have the special power to make visible what is invisible.The work, in conversation with the physical space of the here and now, also pulsates with dynamic sound and visual effects, offering a sensory journey that extends beyond the boundaries of the gallery space.

    Time Machine builds on Igor Jesus’s previous works, including Poem of Fire (2021), where he blended classical and electronic music together with light and astrological activity. Inspired by the unfinished work of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1871–1915), Poem of Fire explored the modeling of sound after the visual, using a NASA database to translate solar pulses into song. Lastly, by framing the piece’s multisensory elements within Galeria Antecâmara, one can imagine Jesus’s narrative infusing the hollowed spaces of the building’s architecture, while also, due to the space’s exhibitionism-ready windows, extending beyond the confines of the gallery.

    Igor Jesus lives and works in Lisbon and has a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In 2013, he won the first prize in the ICA (Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual) competition for the making of short films. Igor most recent group exhibitions include: HangarOut – EntreLinhas, Palácio Marquês de Abrantes (2017), 2016 Artists’ Film International (at MAAT, Lisbon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Istanbul Modern, Turkey, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, and Projecto 88, Mumbai, India).

    Curated by PhD and MA Students in Culture Studies at The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa: Teresa Weinholtz, Aishwarya Kumar, Rosalind Murphy, Ida Svee and Joana Nóbrega. In the framework of the seminar in Curatorial Practices, coordinated by Luísa Santos. Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes.

    Learn more about the project on AYNI website and instagram.

  • AYNI | Opening The Third Thing: An Experiment in Intervals III – Violet Desert 7.3. 2024

    AYNI | Opening The Third Thing: An Experiment in Intervals III – Violet Desert 7.3. 2024

  • Book Launch | Sarah Nagaty — The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing for a Better Life 26.02. 18h30

    Book Launch | Sarah Nagaty — The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing for a Better Life 26.02. 18h30

    The launch of Sarah Nagaty’s book The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing for a Better Life will take place on the 26th of February at 18h30 in Sala Brasil (Library building, UCP).

    There will also be a roundtable discussion on revolutionary dreams in Latin America and Pan-Arabism with Prof. Peter Hanenberg (CECC), Dima Mohamed (IFILNOVA) and Iyari Martinez (CECC).

    Congratulations, Sarah!

  • AYNI | Opening Jabulani Maseko: Goals 18.1. 2024 Hangar

    AYNI | Opening Jabulani Maseko: Goals 18.1. 2024 Hangar

  • AYNI | Jabulani Maseko: Goals 18.1. 2024 Hangar

    AYNI | Jabulani Maseko: Goals 18.1. 2024 Hangar

    We would like to invite you to the second installation of Ayni: Theorems of Reciprocity, the projection of “Goals”, a video performance piece by Jabulani Maseko, followed by a roundtable talk with the artist and the curators. It will take place at Hangar on the 18th of January 2024, from 7 p.m.  

    The event will be the second installation of the Ayni: Theorems of Reciprocity project, which is a set of five project rooms at Brotéria, HANGAR, Antecâmara, and Universidade Católica Portuguesa that will feature works by Rita Ferreira, Jabulani Maseko, LANDRA – Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho, The Third Thing – Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov, and Igor Jesus.

    Presented at Hangar, in January 2024, Maseko’s video installation Goals (2018) takes center stage. This ten-minute piece unfolds against a winter-landscape in Switzerland, capturing Maseko’s struggle as he pushes a goalpost from one side of the frame to the other. The video cleverly plays with the idiomatic expression “moving the goalpost”, embodying a physical and metaphorical push, reflecting the artist’s journey to redefine boundaries and test the limits of the body. This work also reaffirms the artist’s way of working, which often reflects where he is geographically at any given moment. Following the screening of Goals, the evening transitions into an interactive conversation with Maseko. The talk delves into the overarching theme of the body in his work, exploring its recurrence and significance in his broader artistic portfolio. A unique exploration of the body as a site of contradictory emotions and states is promised, threading the narratives of both personal and collective memory, and offering visitors an engaging and reflective experience.

    Jabulani Maseko, born in Apartheid South Africa in 1977, was the first black student at Redhill, a private school for white children at the time. He left the country at 18, coinciding with the collapse of the regime. His pursuit of higher education led him to the UK, where he earned a master’s degree at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Maseko’s works have graced group and solo exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Africa. Maseko’s creative arsenal, which spans sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and performance, often gravitates towards materials rich with meaning from his childhood in Apartheid South Africa. His works delve into the collective black experience throughout history- a history based on the black body in conflict with society and ultimately in conflict with itself.

    Curated by students of the MA and PhD programmes in Cultural Studies, The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in the framework of the seminar in Curatorship, coordinated by Luísa Santos. Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes.  

    Learn more about the project on our website, and our Instagram @ayni_theoremsofreciprocity. 

  • AYNI | Opening Rita Ferreira: Casa de Chá (Tea House) 11.1. 2024 Brotéria

    AYNI | Opening Rita Ferreira: Casa de Chá (Tea House) 11.1. 2024 Brotéria

  • AYNI | Rita Ferreira: Casa de Chá (Tea House) 11.-27.1. 2024 Brotéria

    AYNI | Rita Ferreira: Casa de Chá (Tea House) 11.-27.1. 2024 Brotéria

    The opening of Ayni: Casa de Chá | Tea House exhibition will take place at Brotéria on the 11th January, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

    The exhibition which can be visited during the working hours of Brotéria from 11th to 27th of January, 2024, inaugurates the Ayni, theorems of reciprocity project, which is a set of five project rooms at Brotéria, Antecâmara, HANGAR and Universidade Católica Portuguesa that will feature works by Rita Ferreira, Igor Jesus, LANDRA – Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho, The Third Thing – Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov, and Jabulani Maseko.

    In Ayni: Casa de Chá | Tea House, artist Rita Ferreira proposes to engage with the aesthetic and functional dimensions of Broteria’s Reading Room, as well as explore the tension between the notions of originality and reproduction. The artist’s painting lies on the surface of a large table, beneath a layer of protective glass. This translucent horizontal surface opens a window into the past and functions as a mirror of the present, inviting the inhabitants of the space to take notice and act upon the artwork. Here, Ferreira’s archive – meaningful or trivial forms and objects collected over time – undergoes a process of abstraction that seeks to fixate the fluid and destabilize the still.

    Rita Ferreira was born in Obidos in 1991 and is currently residing and working in Lisbon. She obtained a BA in Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (University of Lisbon). In 2023, Rita Ferreira was one of the finalists of the Amadeo Souza-Cardoso Prize and was also one of the finalists in 2022 of the EDP New Artists Prize. 

    Curated by students of the MA and PhD programmes in Cultural Studies, The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in the framework of the seminar in Curatorship, coordinated by Luísa Santos. Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes. 

    Learn more about the project on our website, and our instagram @ayni_theoremsofreciprocity.

  • Space Oddity – On Spatial Narratives

    Space Oddity – On Spatial Narratives

    XII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies
    25-27 January 2024

  • 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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  • 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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  • ‘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.

  • 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/

  • “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

  • 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:

  • Induction Week: 19-22 September

    Induction Week: 19-22 September

    The start of a new program is always a very exciting moment, full of expectations. Yet, it can also be quite confusing and overwhelming. In order to help you settle in and show you what the Lisbon Consortium is all about, the Coordination of the Program has organized some special events and activities for the 2016-2017 cohort of students.
    The Induction Week will take place from Monday, September 19 to Thursday, September 22 and is mandatory for all new students.

     Please check the welcome_guide_2016_2017  This Guide gathers key, practical information about the University and the city so as to make you feel more at home and minimize the stress associated with new beginnings.

    We wish you a very successful and productive year!
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