CARLES GUERRA
ROBERTO VECCHI
ELISABETH BRONFEN
ROBERT WILSON
TIMOTHY SIMPSON
JORGE SANTOS ALVES
ELLEN SAPEGA
MÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA
XIAOMEI CHEN
VERA NÜNNING
ANTÓNIO SOUSA RIBEIRO
ANSGAR NÜNNING
BARBIE ZELIZER
WOLFGANG HALLET
PAULO DE MEDEIROS
ROBERT WILSON
THE LISBON CONSORTIUM
THE WATERMILL CENTER
II Lisbon Summer School for the Study Of Culture
SPECIAL EVENTS
PERIPHERAL MODERNITIES
JULY 9th “1. Have you been here before?
2. No this is the first time”
An evening with Robert Wilson
In an exceptional performance, director and artist Robert Wilson invites us into his astonishing
aesthetic universe. Combining hundreds of striking
images from through his prolific career, Wilson
provides an intimate self-portrait of his creative
process.
Mr. Wilson references his landmark original works
for the stage such as Deafman Glance, A Letter for
Queen Victoria, Einstein on the Beach (created with
composer Philip Glass), the CIVIL warS, and The
Black Rider, as well as his acclaimed work for the
operatic and theatrical repertoire including his
luminous stagings of Madame Butterly, Wagner’s
Ring Cycle, The Magic Flute, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and
Heiner Mueller’s Quartett.
At the conclusion of the performance, the audience is invited to explore Mr. Wilson’s
ideas further during an informal question-and-answer period.
21.00 h — São Luiz Municipal Theatre
Faust Fantasia by Peter Stein
The New York Times described Robert Wilson as
“a towering figure in the world of experimental
theater.” Wilson, born in 1941 in Waco Texas, is
among the world’s foremost theater and visual
artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including
dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music, and
text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned
the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide.
Wilson’s awards and honors include two Guggenheim Fellowship awards (’71 and ’80), the nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (’86), the
Golden Lion for sculpture from the Venice Biennale
(’93), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for lifetime
achievement (’96), the Premio Europa award from
Taormina Arte (’97), election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (’00), and Commandeur des
arts et des lettres (’02) among others.
Together with composer Philip Glass, he created
the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach. With productions such as Deafman Glance, KA MOUTain and
GUARDenia Terrace, Life and Times of Sigmund Freud,
CIVIL warS, Death Destruction & Detroit or a Letter for
Queen Victoria he redefined and expanded theater.
Wilson’s collaborators include diverse writers and
musicians such as Susan Sontag, Lou Reed, Heiner
Müller, Jessye Norman, David Byrne, Tom Waits,
and Rufus Wainwright. Wilson has also left his
imprint on masterworks such as The Magic Flute,
Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Madama Butterfly, Dreamplay,
Per Gynt, The Threepenny Opera, Shakesepeare’s Sonnets and Krapp’s Last Tape.
The long history of the modern seems to stress
that modernity was a privilege of Western rationality, disseminated from a European centre across
the imaginary waiting rooms of history. Yet, the
markers of what was hailed as the sign of Western
advancement – industrialization, secularization
and rationalization – have been consistently questioned over the past decade as indicators of universal validity and modernity itself reconceived
beyond Western provincialism. Homi Bhabha thus
conceives of a ‘contra-modernity’ to qualify the
post-colonial as a stage that both mimicks and
subverts Western modernity, Susan Friedman
speaks of ‘polycentric modernities’ that enlarge
the geographical scope of the modernization endeavour, whilst Argentinian critic Beatriz Sarlo has
defined the Argentinian Modernism as the aesthetical counterpart of the specific South-American decentering into ‘peripheral modernities’.
The II Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture will take the manifold assumptions about modernity and its modernisms as the stepping stone
to address the multiple ways in which the modern
has been claimed. Although the distinction between modernity as a social-political construct
and modernism as it aestheticcultural counterpart
seems to be widely consensual, the neat separation between the two terms is not uncontentious,
as the cultural does not exist beyond social framing and neither does the political occur beyond
the aesthetic exploits of artists. This gap, stressed
in the claim made by Adornian aesthe-tics’ that
modernism reflects modernity’s critical self-awareness, seems to bring more problems than results
for a complex mapping of the concept. In fact, the
process of modernity is complex, because it brings
together the social, the political, the cultural and
the economical. It is simultaneously critical and
hegemonic, imaginative and rational, dislocated
and situated, global and local, traumatic and empowering.
JULY 11th 18.30 h — FLAD – CNC|DISQUIET program:
Lecture and talk with Portuguese author
Gonçalo M. Tavares
14.30 h — Maritime Stations of Alcântara
JULY 12th and Rocha Conde de Óbidos
Visit to Portuguese artist Almada Negreiros’ panels
with Jorge Vaz de Carvalho
JULY 12th 16.00 h — Joana Vasconcelos’ studio
Visit to the Portuguese visual artist
Joana Vasconcelos’ studio
JULY 13th
18.30 h — Casa da América Latina
Photography exhibition “A-N-A-L-O-G-I-A-S” and talk
with the artist Cristina Zabalaga
JULY 14th
12.45 h — Orient Museum
Visit to the Orient Museum
JULY 14th
20.00 h — Doca de Alcântara
http://www.nmopera.com/contactos.php
Lisbon Sightseeing Boat Tour and
IILSSSC Closing Dinner
08 —SUN
th
CCB
Centro Cultural de Belém
Modernity, urban cultures and popular
Inês Alves Mendes
Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Isabel
sectors in a marginal space of Argentina
Portuguese First Modernism and
Capeloa Gil, Ellen Sapega
(La Pampa, 1882-1951)
the Visual Arts: Peripheral Identities
Venue —
15.30 h — 16.00 h
ADJACENT ROOM TO
The hidden form: Petrarch and the Hispanic-
Coffee-break
THE AUDITORIUM
-American (Post-) Modernism
A Modern Hero in the Making - Hang
Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Xiaomei Chen,
Timothy Simpson
ROOM 1 LUÍS DE FREITAS BRANCO
Coffee-break
Occupy the City. Empty Spaces
Embodying Modernities in China since
and Cinema
for Creative Minds
the early twentieth century: the lure of
19.00 h
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Robert Wilson
Claudia Breitbarth
Sofia da Costa Pessoa
“1. Have you been here before?
Traveling as a longing for the periphery. On
Museums and Modernity Dynamics: The
Sanja Horvatincic
2. No, this is the first time.”
the example of some works of Raoul Schrott
emergence of the Popular Art Museum
MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR
Coffee-break
ROOM NOVA DELI
Spomeniks - Monumental Commemo-
11.30 h
14.00 h — 15.30 h
rative Sculpture in former Yugoslavia
Xiaomei Chen — (Univ. California)
Tânia Ganito
Between Invisibility and Popularity
Staging Chinese Communist Revolution
Rebellious Yawns, Disenchanted Laugh-
in Post Socialist China
ter: Cynical Realism and China’s Post-
Paper Sessions—
The strange case of ‘the five wandering art-
THE MODERN MEANING
ists’. Madeira, 1916: a peripheral modernity
OF PERIPHERAL
15.30 h — 16.00 h
strikes back Modernity
Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Vera Nünning,
Coffee-break
Jorge Santos Alves
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Venue —
AUDITORIUM
09.00 h
Isabel Capeloa Gil — (FCH|UCP)
Opening remarks
09.30 h
[Fashion And Design Museum]
[Catholic University of
Rua Augusta, 24
1100 – 053 Lisbon
P.: +351 218 886 117
DO CONCELHO, SALÃO NOBRE
LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/
The Bologna-Process between German
ROOM 422
Tradition and Transnational Modernity
Welcome reception sponsored
14.00 h — 15.30 h
Ana Vasconcelos
by Lisbon City Hall
Cristina Graça
Your civilisation and my barbarism” (let-
Tango, Periphery and Modernity
ter from Gauguin to Strindberg, undated)
Anabela Leandro dos Santos
Daniela Agostinho
“When a chicken becomes a duck by the
Transmodernity and (de-) colonial gaze in
hand of a quack” Two case studies: the
Raquel Schefer’s Nshajo (The Game) and
Topic —
Catarina Duff Burnay
representation of the body in Demétrio
Filipa César’s The Embassy
MODERN (CON)TENSIONS
The flows of Portuguese television fiction:
Chair: Rita Figueiras
production models, platforms, interna-
Coffee-break
18.00 h
10 —TUE
th
FCH|UCP
School of Human Sciences|
Catholic University of Portugal
Cinatti’s “Autoplastia” and in Lam Qua’s
paintings
Camarate in the media: Peripheral Cultural Memory
tional sales
THE MODERN MEANING
Venue —
15.30 h — 16.00 h
OF PERIPHERAL
MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR
Coffee-break
Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Wolfgang Hallet,
ROOM BEIJING
Adriana Martins
09.30 h
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Topic —
Amélia Cruz
Venue —
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
THE MODERN QUESTION
In which sense does modern youth litera-
ROOM ACROSS THE HALL
— (Unicamp, São Paulo)
Master Classes
ture debate the conflict(s) between center
FROM THE AUDITORIUM
Violence and Testimony in Modernity:
thinking beyond the dichotomy of center
and periphery?
14.00 h — 15.30 h
Venue —
14 —SAT
th
and periphery
Orient Museum
Portugal | School of
The flight and expulsion of the Germans
11.00 h — 11.30 h
Topic —
Human Sciences ]
A place deprived of History and forced
cal Paradigms. Narrating [within] the
at the end of the IIWW – A challenge for
Coffee-break
MODERN PROJECTS
Palma de Cima
to a discontinuous Modernity
Indian Ocean
postmodern museology
1649 – 023 Lisbon
Excentric modernities:
Elsa Alves
Barbie Zelizer — (Univ. Pennsylvania, An-
Venue —
Lunch
Vienna 1900 reconsidered
The Zone and the Globe:
nenberg School of Communication)
MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR
Spatial Modes in Nuclear Time
When the Peripheral Masks as Central:
ROOM BEIJING
Aura Restaurant & CaféLounge
Venue —
F.: facebook.com/LisbonCon-
Paper Sessions—
Public Transport
sortium
MODERNISMS AND
Underground
Getting here?
Baixa-Chiado (Blue and Green
Public Transport
Buses
line) and Jardim Zoológico or
28, 92, 206, 210, 706, 709,
Laranjeiras (Blue line)
711, 735, 745, 746, 759, 781,
ROOM 422
MODERNIZATION
09.30 h
Chairs: Alexandra Lopes,
Ansgar Nünning & Vera Nünning
Ansgar Nünning, Lara Duarte
— (Univ. Giessen and Univ. Heidelberg)
Underground
Cidade Universitária (Yellow
Chair: Peter Hanenberg
11.30 h
12.30 h
Getting here?
line) and Terreiro do Paço (Blue
09.30 h
António Sousa Ribeiro — (Univ. Coimbra)
S.: www.fch.ucp.pt
11 —WED
th
Maritime Station
of Alcântara
American Journalism, Modernity and
15.30 h — 16.00 h
Cold War Mindedness
Coffee-break
Wolfgang Hallet — (Univ. Giessen)
13.00 h
The Invention of the Modern Western
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Lunch
City in Graphic Fiction
Glaura Cardoso
Doca de Santo Restaurant
10.30 h — 11.00 h
Acácio Videira’s iconographic archive
Travelling Concepts, Metaphors and Nar-
Venue —
ratives for the Study of Culture: Coming
Topic —
CONFERENCE ROOM
to Terms with Peripheries, Modernities,
PERIPHERAL MODERNISMS I
and other Key Concepts
Chair: Jorge Vaz de Carvalho
09.00 h
and the Cinema
Paper Sessions—
Coffee-break
MODERNISMS AND
Joana Mayer
MODERNIZATION
11.00 h
Peripheral modernities at the centre
Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Marília Lopes,
Elisabeth Bronfen — (Univ. Zurich)
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
Cleopatra’s Cultural Survival
Buses
14.00 h — 15.30 h
701, 732, 735, 738, 755,
Ana Cachola
11.00 h — 11.30 h
Venue —
of cultural programmes: the exhibition
764, 768
Coming in from the margins: modernisms
Coffee-break
AUDITORIUM
“Borders” at the Gulbenkian Foundation
Venue —
12.30 h
13.00 h
09.30 h
MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR
Isabel Capeloa Gil — (FCH|UCP)
ROOM DILI
Closing remarks
15 E, 28 E
in Lisbon
as congenitally/intrinsically peripheral
MARITIME STATION
ORIENT MUSEUM
CCB
Elisabeth Kovach
Lunch
Ellen Sapega — (Univ. Wisconsin)
OF ALCÂNTARA
Avenida Brasília, Doca de
[Centro Cultural de Belém]
Building Infante Dom Henrique
Alcântara (Norte)
Conference Centre
Modern Misery: Alternatives to American
UCP Cafeteria
Simultaneous Contrasts: Literary Moder-
Doca de Alcântara Norte
1350 – 352 Lisboa
Praça do Império,
1449 – 003 Lisbon
Modernity and Modernism in Tillie Olsen’s
Yonnondio: From the Thirties
Paper Sessions—
nism and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth
14.00 h — 15.30 h
Century Portugal
Sónia Pereira
MODERNISMS AND
Living on the Edge: Black Metal and
P.: +351 213 611 000
P.: +351 213 585 200
P.: +351 213 612 697
15.30 h — 16.00 h
MODERNIZATION
11.00 h — 11.30 h
E.: [email protected]
E.: [email protected]
F.: +351 213 612 708
S.: www.portodelisboa.pt
S.: www.museudooriente.pt
E.: [email protected]
Coffee-break
Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Luísa Leal de
Coffee-break
S.: www.ccb.pt
Public Transport
Paper Sessions—
Maria Ana Carneiro
Ana do Carmo
ucp.pt
Public Transport
Orient Museum
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Contemporary African writing, and Criti-
S.: www.mude.pt
Getting here?
13 —FRI
th
Elena Brugioni
E.: [email protected].
Getting here?
15.30 h — 16.00 h
ROOM 421
E.: [email protected]
1399 – 121 Lisboa
in China
LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/
P.: +351 217 214 000
Trams
Marginal Sounds: The Story of Jazz
Carles Guerra — (MACBA, Barcelona)
E.: [email protected]
782, 794
Doca de Santo Restaurant
11.15 h
P.: +351 218 886 123
Line)
Adiel Portugali
Jennifer Müller
Coffee-break
VENUES
INFO
Lunch
Venue —
Periphery as a work: eccentric modernities
11.00 h — 11.15 h
revolutionary Modernity
13.00 h
CITY HALL BUILDING AT PAÇOS
Roberto Vecchi — (Univ. Bologna)
and luso-tropical rearrangements
Venue —
11.00 h — 11.30 h
tradition, the lure of progress
Ana Salgueiro Rodrigues
Venue —
FCH|UCP
OF PERIPHERAL
14.00 h — 15.30 h
Chair: Isabel Capeloa Gil
MUDE
THE MODERN MEANING
Jorge Santos Alves — (FCH|UCP)
Tuah in Contemporary Malay Literature
PERIPHERAL DISCOURSES
THE MODERN MEANING OF PERIPHERAL
10.00 h
Beatriz Puertas Hernández
Topic —
Paper Sessions —
Paper Sessions—
Marisa Fernández Falcón
MUDE
Fashion and Design Museum
MODERNISMS AND MODERNIZATION
e a denúncia de uma “outra Itália”
15.30 h — 16.00 h
09 —MON
Paper Sessions —
Cristo Si É Fermato a Eboli de Carlo Levi
CONFERENCE CENTRE
th
General Program
Timothy Simpson — (Univ. Macau)
Glass Architecture, Fictitious Capital, and
16.00 h — 17.30 h
An evening with Robert Wilson
Dates, Topics, Times and Venues
Gaspare Trapani
Macau’s Enclave Urbanism
Luca Salvi
Venue —
09.00 h
Getting here?
Public Transport
Train
Train
Alcântara-Mar station
Alcântara-Mar station
Buses
(Cascais line)
(Cascais line)
28, 714, 727, 729, 751
Buses
Buses
Trams
28, 712, 720, 732, 738, 760
28, 712, 720, 732, 738, 760
15 E
Trams
Trams
15 E, 18 E
15 E, 18 E
Faria, António Sousa Ribeiro
Paper Sessions—
11.30 h
THE MODERN MEANING
Venue —
Paulo de Medeiros — (Univ. Utrecht)
OF PERIPHERAL
LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/
Infinite Modernisms
Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Roberto Vecchi,
ROOM 421
Isabel Capeloa Gil
12 — THU
the Refusal of Modernity
th
Maritime Station
of Alcântara
Bart Vanspauwen
Beyond post-colonialism. Lusophone
musical reconnections of young cultural
entrepreneurs through the web
15.30 h — 16.00 h
13.00 h
14.00 h — 15.30 h
Lunch
Topic —
Venue —
Leonor Sá
Doca de Santo Restaurant
PERIPHERAL MODERNISMS II
AUDITORIUM
Early Crime Identification Photograhy
Chair: José Miguel Sardica
Coffee-break
16.00 h — 17.30 h
Miguel Pedro Quadrio
(in Portugal): a mark in modernity
Paper Sessions—
14.00 h — 15.30 h
and its obsession with taxonomy,
MODERNISMS AND
Venue —
O lugar (poli)sistémico da crítica jornalís-
Paula Inés Laguarda
visual culture and surveillance
MODERNIZATION
AUDITORIUM
tica de artes performativas
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