The objective of the course is to introduce the participants to the field of cultural ageing. We will address the following themes: ageing and gender, ageing and invisibility, ageism, self-awareness, the body, memory, identity and re-storying. The bibliography will include fictional, non-fictional and theoretical texts in English. The sessions will be taught in Portuguese.
Contact hours: 12 in 2 days Total hours: 14: 12 + 2 hours of reading and working from home
Programme:
1. Introduction to ageing studies 2. Ageisms 3. Memory, the body and the identity 4. “Restorying”, life and writing 5. The Buildungsroman and the Reifungsroman 6. New approaches to ageing
Dates: April 22-23, 2024 Organization: CEAUL/ULICES/FLUL Trainer: Zuzanna Zarebska Location: School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon Schedule: To be defined
ROAM Outreach 3: FINDING A HOME (FOR ART) IN LISBON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTIST ALEKSEI GRIBEL
18 April 2024 | 11h — 12h30 | ROOM B112.C
Abstract
This event has been organised by three undergraduate students of Contemporary Visual Arts, a subject that is common to several degree courses at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. The artist Aleksei Gribel will be interviewed by the three students about his work, his studies, his relationship with art and his life in Lisbon as a foreign artist. Topics such as his source of inspiration, the process of selecting materials for his artworks and what influences his choices, as well as the meaning of the concept of “home” for the artist, in the broad sense of the word, will be explored.
In addition, Aleksei Gribel will showcase one of his art pieces and elaborate on its construction and the story behind its creation. Lastly, both the artist and the students will give the audience the opportunity to ask questions and maybe have an open conversation about themes such as the artist’s political activism and how he expresses it in his (street) art, the artist’s background and origin, and his experience in finding a home (for art) in Lisbon.
Artist’s Bio note
Aleksei Gribel, a Russian artist-sculptor, graduated from Saratov College of Information Technology and Management (SKiTU at SSTU), with a specialty in Decorative and Applied Art – Artist-master (hand-painted fabrics and hand weaving) in 2012. In 2013 he moved to St. Petersburg, immersing himself in diverse creative pursuits and refining his skills. By the end of the year, he began self-education in construction and form manipulation. In 2015, Gribel joined the “Interior Theatre” as a decoration creator, gaining valuable insights into design and self-expression. Transitioning to freelance work by late 2015, he focused on crafting sculptures, decorations, and props on commission. In 2017 he began to create street sculptures and installations, drawing on his artistic experience in various fields of art. He has since then continued to engage in street art, creating many works.
He has collaborated with companies such as the quest “ilocked”, “Rabbit hole”, “Big Funny”, “Movie art”, the Museum of Records and Facts “TITIKAKA”, the photography studio POLYGON, brand “TUNDRA” and has taken part in festivals such as “Gamma Festival 2016, 2019”, “SYSTEM 6. 0, 7.0”, “Solar Systo 2018”, “Journey 2019”, “St. Petersburg drizzle 2021”, “ArtWeekend 2021” (St. Petersburg), “Room in the Gully 2018, 2022” (Nizhny Novgorod).
With an extensive portfolio, Gribel has participated in numerous collective exhibitions and held a significant solo exhibition showcasing his decade-long artistic journey.
Some exhibitions:
June 2021, Youth Day Art Festival, eco-art “Bionic Structures”, Kvadrat Centre, St Petersburg, Russia
September 2021, Charity online auction of art group “Milestone” in support of independent media. Sculpture “Dish of the Day” sold to private collection. Moscow, Russia.
January 2022, Collective exhibition of studio works by street artists as part of Puskeen’s presentation of the “Public ART” application, Lumiere Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
October 2022 – participation in the auction of the art group “Veha”, “you will not be recognized” Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russia
November 2022 – Personal sale exhibition “Gribel’s Treasury” at the art space “F5”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
December 2022 – participation in the international grant “Innenarchitektur von Kunstwohncontainern” in Fürstenwalde, Germany in the up-cycling Art Residence “P.a.S.E.V.” with the projects “Gribels port” and the functional object “techno-oven”
Receiving the Shock, Giving Form in Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector
Date: 19 de April, 2024 Schedule: 15h30 – 17h Venue: Room B112.D
Speaker: Professor Flavia Trocoli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Lily Briscoe, the painter in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse [1927], finishes her painting in the absence of Mrs. Ramsay who, previously, had been the model for her vision and painting. G.H., sculptor and narrator-protagonist of The Passion According to G.H. [1964], by Clarice Lispector, is only able to write after killing, eating and vomiting the cockroach in the maid’s room. From these scenes, the relationships of homologies and differences will be addressed in what Virginia Woolf pointed out as the artist’s task: receiving the shock and giving form to it.
Host: Professor Miguel Ramalhete Gomes Speaker: Professor Priscila Matsunaga (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon
In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, tragedy is disguised as comedy: money, debts and business are constant elements. The play provokes different reactions when it deals with anti-Semitism issues through the character of Shylock, the Jew. The usurer charges a pound of flesh as a fine for a debt acquired by Antonio the Merchant. In this seminar, the characters’ relationships will be addressed based on the economic anthropology of David Graeber and the system of economic-symbolic values present in the play. What, after all, is at stake when the payment of a debt is not made with currency, but with flesh?
A result of the collaboration between the PerformAbility Project (Skenè Research Centre, University of Verona) and the Project in Medical Humanities (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon), this one-day symposium aims to widen the dialogue between Disability Studies and Narrative Medicine. Starting from the study of disability in its cultural, discursive, and performative dimensions, this event will seek to explore possible synergies between Disability Studies and Medical Humanities along these lines: theatre and performance, education, and lived experiences of disability.
Participants will speak in Portuguese and English.
The Symposium is free of charge and open to the public.
ESC#60 – Videographic Montage: The video essay as a discursive tool
Videos are an essential tool in academic work, offering a powerful way to communicate research papers, ideas, and arguments. Video abstracts and video essays visually demonstrate research findings and allow for the use of creative tools to convey complex ideas and emotions in an impactful way. Videos capture affective, experiential, and embodied qualities that are often left dormant in traditional textual research, making academic work more approachable and understandable to a broader audience. This workshop aims to equip participants with the skills and tools they need to create captivating videos that leave a lasting impression on the audience. Participants will use DaVinci Resolve, a free-to-use video editing software used in many Hollywood productions, and can choose to utilize a library of free-to-use images or images captured by them to construct their first video montage.
The workshop, a three-day immersive experience (from 10h-16h), will employ a “farm to table” approach to guide participants through the entire process and pipeline, from incubating their ideas to seeing their videos materialized and projected on the big screen. The “farm” refers to the participant’s mind, where the workshop will plant the seeds of investigative inquiry and work closely with participants to help them bring their ideas to fruition. The workshop aims to foster and support the creative process to create a supportive and collaborative environment for participants to develop their video rhetoric. Participants will be provided with theoretical background knowledge of the American versus Russian school of montage, allowing them to utilize the techniques of these differing schools in the way they deem most fitting to illustrate their ideas. With this knowledge, participants can choose a soundscape or a reading of a text as a basis for their video essay. Their final video essays will be screened at an art gallery so that the participants work may be disseminated and achieve higher exposure. This workshop is perfect for anyone with a passion for art and film, regardless of their level of experience. The maximum number of participants will be capped at 15 to ensure every participant can be helped equally. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to learn how to harness the full potential of video editing for your academic work!
Those interested in registering must do so until April 26th. To complete the registration, it will be necessary to fill in the registrationform with all the requested data and send it to gestao.ceaul@letras.ulisboa.pt. Afterward, you will be contacted on how to proceed with the payment of the 40 € fee (for students and ULisbon staff) and 65€ for others.
Medical Humanities Project Open Lecture: “Along the Yellow Brick Road: Narrating illness and disability experiences in Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz” with Sidia Fiorata, University of Verona
The Medical Humanities Project Lecture “Along the Yellow Brick Road: Narrating illness and disability experiences in Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz ” with Sidia Fiorata of the University of Verona, Italy will take place on Thurs 11 de abril (quinta-feira) a partir das 17,00 (Hora Portugal Continental). You can attend in room C245.B of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa or online through the link https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97630534736?pwd=bHNsZHlEcGkvcGNtbGdFdzRRYWhjQT09
On the Road with the Beats: A Conversation with Barry Miles, The Biographer of the Counterculture
4 April, 17h Room C009.A
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of The University of Lisbon
We are very happy to invite all to a conversation with Barry Miles, the bestselling author of numerous biographies and cultural histories of the Beat Generation, the Beatles, the Sixties counterculture and its musicians. He cofounded International Times, Europe’s first underground newspaper, in 1966 and was the label manager of Zapple, the Beatles’ experimental record label. He has written the biographies of the Beats Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and musicians Paul McCartney and Frank Zappa, among others.
RHOSE #29 | Neil Larsen, “Morbid Interiors: Basements, Living Rooms and Gothic Domesticity in 19th Century America”
In collaboration with the American Studies Group (CEAUL/ ULICES RG3)
Date: 15 March 2024, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, room C 138 A
Neil Larsen, professor emeritus of Comparative Literature, has taught at Northeastern University in Boston, the University of California, Davis and the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He is the author of Modernism and Hegemony (1990); Reading North by South (1995) and Determinations (2001) as well as numerous essays and articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. His areas of research include Comparative Literature; Latin American literature and Latin American studies; and Critical Theory.
RHOSE #28 | “Hugo David in conversation about his work”
Date: 14 March 2024, from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, room C 008
Hugo David (Lisbon, 1995) grew up surrounded by photography. Following in his parents’ footsteps, he chose to study and invest in photography. He studied dance for some years, and then joined Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, an arts school, where he specialised in photography. He completed his BA in Photography and Visual Culture at IADE Creative University – Escola Superior de Design, in 2016.
Professionally, he photographs for Companhia Nacional de Bailado, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Lux Frágil, Companhia de Dança de Almada, Epal, Imago Lisboa, 7 Maravilhas de Portugal, Sapo 24, Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Brotéria, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, among others.
