[Commlist] Spring Seminar 2021 · Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts

Spring Seminar 2021

Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts


5-7 MAY 2021, Blended

Please register to attend virtually (no costs) here:

http://bit.ly/SpringS2021_Register.
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Keynote Speakers and Artist Talks: 
Esther Peeren, João Pedro Rodrigues, 
José Bértolo, Loretta Fahrenholz, Margarida Medeiros and Ulrich Baer

Organizing Committee: Daniel Ribas
, Nuno Crespo


Some artworks, from cinema to visual arts and photography, have absorbed 
phenomena like ghosts, zombies, illness, death, spectra, apparitions, 
and other kind of “in-between” states of being. This kind of liminality 
is a way of bringing forward in our historical present its profound 
ambiguity. Images are ontologically problematic in their approach to 
reality. They are always a representation of a time and a space, and 
their manipulation puts into question their indexicality. This 
liminality of ghosts, spectra and apparitions is also a way of analyzing 
the complexity of our historical present, in both its linearity and a 
cross-over of past, present and future. Therefore, these “in-between” 
states discuss issues of the traumatic past, as are empowerments to 
change the future. That is, the traumatic past haunts the historical 
present demanding new ways of knowing the world and history that will 
transform power structures.


WEBSITE > https://artes.porto.ucp.pt/pt/springseminar

CONTACT > (jpamorim /at/ ucp.pt)

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PROGRAM

Full program in .pdf: http://bit.ly/SpringS2021_Program

MAY 5

16h30-18h00 · Artist Talk · Loretta Fahrenholz

Chair: Guilherme Blanc

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MAY 6

9h45-11h00 · Keynote Speaker · José Bértolo

“Kingdom of Shadows”: Film as Spectral Medium

Chair: Daniel Ribas

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11h15-13h00 · Panel #1

Chair: Maria Coutinho

Joana Passi · University of Coimbra

The angel in the house

Andrés Azzolina · Universidade de Lisboa

Ghost Communication: Media and Human Extinction

David Revés · Universidade Nova de Lisboa

The speculative hand: towards a (meta)physics of the hand from the 
analysis of “The Mesh and the Circle”

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14h30-16h00 · Keynote Speaker

Margarida Medeiros · Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Animism, haunted images and the return of the repressed in photography 
and cinema

Chair: Carlos Natálio

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16h30-18h00 · Panel #2

Chair: João Pedro Amorim

Rita Benis · Universidade de Lisboa

“The Strange Case of Angelica”: an ominous mirroring relationship

Matthew Mason · Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Spectres of Populism and Postmodernism in the Documentary Work of Adam 
Curtis (2015 -2021)

Temenuga Trifonova · York University

Spectrality, Haunting, and Ghosts in Contemporary European Cinema

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18h30 · Keynote Speaker

Ulrich Baer · New York University

Haunting Images. Ghostly Photographs in the Age of Global Media

Chair: Nuno Crespo

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MAY 7

9h30-11h00 · Panel #3

Chair: Joana Rafael

João Pereira Matos · Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Acheron in cyberspace: clinamen and spectrality

Ana Dinger · Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Duchamp’s aphorism revisited: “a guest + a host = a ghost”

Tiago Bartolomeu Costa · Universidade de Lisboa

Tânia Carvalho: spectral bodies and choreographic drills

Maithri · University of Amsterdam

“Unsex me here”: Lady Macbeth, Gender and Ghosts of Futures Past

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11h15-13h00 · Panel #4

Chair: Pedro Alves

Marina Gallani · Universidade Católica Portuguesa

The Driving Silence of Francesca Woodman and Laura Hospes: An Analysis 
of Death and Self-portraiture

Bárbara Bergamaschi · PUC-Rio / Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Peter Tscherkassky's Cinematic Hauntology

Alice Sanches · Universidade Nova de Lisboa

There are horses in Chernobyl: Notes on a (new) aesthetics of horror

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues · University of Coimbra

Decolonizing haunting? A set of questions and epistemological challenges

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14h30-16h00 · Keynote Speaker

Esther Peeren · University of Amesterdam

Living Ghosts of the Spectralized Rural

Chair: João Pedro Amorim

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16h30-17h45 · Panel #5

Chair: Carlos Ruiz

Mireille Berton · University of Lausanne

Medium (in) Cinema: Studying Film Representations of Spiritualism

Sandra Camacho · Universidade de Lisboa

The ‘Absent One’ in Daniel Blaufuks’s “The Absence”

Nicolò Villani · e-Campus University

The Haunting of Netflix Home: Reading the streaming platforms as haunted 
houses



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