[ecrea] V Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - Applications until January 31st

call for papers

The Lisbon Consortium invites applications for:

V LISBON SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE

CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP

June 22nd through 28th 2015

Applications until January 31st 2015

Models of belonging have radically changed with modernity, and 
allegiances to the nation, to religion, class and tradition have been 
affected by the global flows, by the creative hybridization of the 
social, by the claim for rights for new identities (in ethnic, gender or 
religious terms) and not least by the impact of technological mobility 
on the lives of individuals and societies. Cultural actors have embraced 
the change and have been increasingly seeking to reform the very notion 
of democratic citizenship by dint of creation. As the global flows have 
helped to question traditional understandings of cultural identity, the 
notion of citizenship itself has been increasingly reshaped to include 
new forms of belonging, which often use literature as a mediator in the 
claim for new legal rights.

On the other hand, a new awareness about the importance of the cultural 
sector for social and economic sustainability, arising from the role 
played by the cultural and creative industries has not only given vent 
to a new professional class, that R. Florida has rightly termed the 
creative class, but has as well provided new challenges and 
opportunities for those dissecting cultural work and its meaning making 
potential.

The idea of culture, either as praxis, as a way of knowledge-production, 
of individual and collective belonging, as product and as singular 
creation, cannot do without creativity. While this is undoubtedly true 
for culture, could the same be argued for the economy? Clearly all human 
action is marked by some sort of cognitive creativity. One never 
performs the same task in exactly the same manner, one never thinks 
twice absolutely alike, and as Derrida contended, repetition does not 
necessarily mean overlapping. But is this the creativity we wish to 
consider and does it overlap with creation?

The theme of the V Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture focuses 
on the capabilities of the concept of cultural citizenship as a roadmap 
for the future, couched in the claim of a new civil contract, sponsored 
by the arts.

We welcome proposals discussing cultural citizenship from the standpoint 
of the following issues, amongst others:

- Reforming citizenship in the cultural sector;

- Curating as a strategy of citizenship;

- Globalization and the arts;

- Transglobal flows and literature;

- Literature and new global rights;

- The creative class and cosmopolitan citizenship;

- Cultural policies and entrepreneurship;

- Social media, art and the reform movements;

- Visual culture and the right to look;



Guest Speakers

Marina Abramovic (tbc)

Karl Erik Schøllhammer (PUC-RIO)

Hans Bertens (University of Utrecht)

Luisa Leal de Faria (Catholic University of Portugal)

Esther Peeren (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)

Martin Zierold (Karlshochschule International University)

- More to be announced -

Organization

The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in 
Lisbon and will gather 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, participants will be divided into groups (according to 
their topics) which will function as paper sessions with one permanent 
chair and two rotating respondents per group. Participants will have 15 
minutes to deliver their presentations, after which there will be 15 
minutes for questions and discussion of each presentation with the 
chairs and the other participants.

Participants are requested to send their papers two weeks in advance 
(date to be announced) in order to be circulated amongst chairs and 
students.

Abstract and paper submissions

Proposals for 15-minute papers should be sent to 
(lxconsortium /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt) no later than January 31th, 2015.

Submissions should include paper title, abstract in English (200 words), 
name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 
100 words) mentioning main research interests and ongoing projects.

Registration fees

Participants with paper – 250€ for the entire week

Participants without paper – €50 per session/day | 150€ for the entire week

For The Lisbon Consortium students, the students from Universities 
affiliated with the European Summer School in Cultural Studies, the 
Phd-Net in Literary and Cultural Studies and members of the Excellence 
Network in Cultural Studies there is no registration fee.

SCHOLARSHIPS for American citizens

Due to a partnership with FLAD – Luso-American Foundation for 
Development, the Summer School will provide travel and accommodation 
grants for American citizens or citizens with professional residency in 
the USA. To apply for the bursary send us a paper proposal and your full 
CV until January 31th.

Organizing Committee

* Isabel Capeloa Gil
* Peter Hanenberg
* Alexandra Lopes
* Paulo de Campos Pinto
* Daniela Agostinho

For more information feel free to contact us through 
(lxconsortium /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt) or go to 
https://culturalcitizenshipsummerschool.wordpress.com/.

The Lisbon Consortium is a partnership between the Master’s and Doctoral 
Degree Programs in Culture Studies at the Catholic University of 
Portugal and prestigious cultural institutions in Lisbon. The aim of 
this network is to promote the advanced training in the 
multidisciplinary field of Culture Studies as well as the professional 
integration of students. This collaborative network brings together 
theory, applied research, cultural programming and management.


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