[ecrea] CFP: VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - Transvisuality

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Transvisuality

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VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

Lisbon, June 27 – July 2, 2016

Deadline for paper proposals: January 31 2016


The VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture addresses the role
of visual regimes in the creation of meaning, in the refashioning of
identity, in organizing the political, long before the awareness that
the social is increasingly being constructed in visual terms. The very
process of modernization, from the late 18^th  century onwards and more
so later with the development of reproducible technologies, is deeply
entangled with a transformation of optical regimes, that is, ways of
seeing that impact ways of doing and the fashioning of identity. Even
the hailed ‘visual turn’ was coined many decades before the visual
euphoria of the 1990s, when in 1924 Hungarian theoretician Béla Balász
described a ‘visual turn’ which spoke to the impact of film on culture.

The Summer School wishes to focus on the /longue durée /of the visual
construction of the cultural by inviting a reflection on transvisuality.
Because visual practices are unavoidably comparative, and visuality,
i.e. the semiotic and cultural system that structures the way visual
artifacts are produced, interpreted and disseminated works across
dialogue and hybridity, through citation, borrowing and adaptation, a
discussion of the cultural process of visualization is best understood
through a comparative strategy, such as that of transvisuality.

The circulation of images under the aegis of modernity has not only
changed modes of production, but also modalities of reception, aesthetic
forms and cultural environments. It has also made us aware that the way
we see and what we see are not singular acts built on biological
determination, but depend heavily on cultural frames, which are
unstable, situated and comparative.

This is a process that is deeply complex, and certainly ambiguous and
contradictory, because visual regimes may support a democratic or
authoritarian gaze; repression or resistance; de-individualization or
singularity; tradition or transformation. Located precisely at the
intersection where the national and the cosmopolitan collide, and where
situated comparison between systems, genres, institutional and technical
relations, and modes of viewing contribute to a deeper, if more complex,
understanding of visual culture, transvisuality both refers to and
invites a conversation between visual practices.

The Summer School invites proposals by doctoral students and post-docs
that address, though may not be not be strictly limited to, the topics
below:

  * The globalization of images
  * Visual economies
  * Transvisuality and citizenship
  * Global streaming: production and technological deterritorialization
  * The right to look and the streaming of images
  * How much comparison can there be in images of atrocity?
  * Transvisual modernity/ Transvisual modernisms
  * Photography and the birth of the modern /habitus/
  * Gender and transvisuality
  * Film and authoritarianism
  * The civil contract of images
  * Film as industry (Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood) and the
    (re)fashion of the nation
  * Fleeting images in advertising and television
  * Image critique and emancipation
  * Transvisuality and the critique of national film
  * World Cinemas
  * The visual after the end of sight.

*NEW: Confirmed keynote speakers*

  * Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU)
  * Eric Rentschler (Harvard University)
  * Anton Kaes (Berkeley)
  * Claudia Benthien (University of Hamburg)
  * Pepita Hesselberth (University of Leiden)
  * Anders Michelsen (University of Copenhagen)
  * Isabel Capeloa Gil (UCP)

* more to be announced *

*Venues and programme
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The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in
Lisbon and will gather outstanding 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 there will be paper presentations by
doctoral students with respondents from international faculty members.

The Summer School will partner with the Goethe Institute to organize a
film programme dedicated to UFA cinema.

*Abstract and paper submissions*

Proposals for 15-minute papers should be sent to (lxconsortium /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(lxconsortium /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt)> no later than *January 31st, 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.

Participants are requested to send their *full* *papers by May 30* in
order to be circulated amongst chairs and students.

*PRIZES*

The Lisbon Consortium will award two prizes:

  * Best Paper Award for a Lisbon Consortium student (travel grant for
    the 2016/2017 academic year)
  * Best Paper Award for an external student (Fee waiver for the Lisbon
    Summer School 2017)

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*REGISTRATION*

*Registration fees*

Participants with paper

*Early bird:* 250€ for the entire week (includes entire academic
programme, lunches and closing dinner) - *Deadline: April 30 2016*

*Late registration*: 300€ for the entire week (includes entire academic
programme, lunches and closing dinner)

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Participants without paper – €50 per session/day | 150€ for the entire
week (lectures only; does not include lunches)

Deadline for participants without paper: June 1

For The Lisbon Consortium students, the students from Universities
affiliated with the European Summer School in Cultural Studies
<http://esscs.hum.ku.dk/esscs_network/>, the Phd-Net in Literary and
Cultural Studies <http://phdnet.uni-giessen.de/wps/pgn/home/phdnet/> and
members of the Excellence Network in Cultural Studies there is no
registration fee.

*SCHOLARSHIPS*

Due to a partnership with FLAD – Luso-American Foundation for
Development, the Summer School will provide travel and accommodation
grants for doctoral candidates based at American universities and flying
from to the US. To apply for the bursary send us a paper proposal and
your full CV until January 31.

*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/ gmail.com) <http://gmail.com>. Find us online at
www.lisbonconsortium.com <http://www.lisbonconsortium.com>.

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