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WE's: Community and Emancipation Seminar

This document provides the program for a two-day seminar titled "Comparing 'WE's': Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in a Global Context" held on October 8-9, 2015 at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. The seminar consisted of five sessions over the two days covering topics such as collective identities, public spaces, peripheral art histories, online communities, participatory democracy, feminism, and LGBTQ emancipation movements from various international scholars. Presentations were followed by coffee breaks and a closing session on the second day.

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WE's: Community and Emancipation Seminar

This document provides the program for a two-day seminar titled "Comparing 'WE's': Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in a Global Context" held on October 8-9, 2015 at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. The seminar consisted of five sessions over the two days covering topics such as collective identities, public spaces, peripheral art histories, online communities, participatory democracy, feminism, and LGBTQ emancipation movements from various international scholars. Presentations were followed by coffee breaks and a closing session on the second day.

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Comparing WEs.

Community, Cosmopolitanism and


Emancipation in a Global Context
October 8th-9th
Centre for Comparative Studies
University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Seminar Program

Venue: Faculty of Letters. University of Lisbon


Room 5.2

8th of October 2015

9-930

Registration

930-1000

Opening session

1015-1145

Session 1

-Cory Stockwell (Bilkent University. Turkey) Meydan.


-Remy struc (Universit de Cergy-Pontoise, France) Forms of the
We: On the Tangibility of Community.
-Denisa Tomkova (University of Aberdeen, Scotland). Identity
Cards as Biopolitical Art in Eastern Europe since 1990s.
1145-1330

Lunch break

1330-1530

Session 2

-Elsa Peralta and Lars Jensen (University of Lisbon; University


of Roskilde) Austerity, National Identity Crisis and (Post)colonial
Nostalgia: Portugal and Denmark.
-Gaia Giuliani (Centro de Estudos Sociais. Universidade de
Coimbra) The Colour(s) of Lampedusa.

-Bruno Gis (Instituto de Cincias Sociais. University of Lisbon)


The Irish Question Again: Sinn Fin (We Ourselves) and Anti-austerity
Internationalism in Europe.
1500-1515

Coffee break

1515-1735

Session 3

-Ayman A. El-Desouky (Department of the Near and Middle East.


SOAS, University of London). The Egyptian Amra: Collective Realities
and Connective Agency on the Other Side of Discourse.
-Aybige Yilmaz (School of Performance and Screen Studies.
Kingston University. United Kingdom). The Cosmopolitan Potential of
Humour and Creativity.
-Tomaz Carlos Flores Jacques (School of Humanities and Social
Sciences. Al Akhawayn University. Morocco) Occupying Spaces,
Suspending Time: The We as Threshold.
-Nomusa Makhubu (Michaelis School of Fine Art. University of
Cape Town. South Africa) Makawe! Precarious Publics and Post-1994
Resistance Art in a World City

9th of October 2015

1000-1200

Session 4

-Luisa Cardoso (Department of Art History. New University of


Lisbon). Comparing Differences, Creating Communities, Encompassing
Emancipations: Peripheral Art Histories in a Global Context.
-Magdalena Lpez (Centre for Comparative Studies. University of
Lisbon) New Maroons: Post-Utopian Proposals in Lusophone Africa and
the Hispanic Caribbean.
-Sofia Roque (Centre of Philosophy. University of Lisbon). Entre
Ns: restaurar a liberdade como o sentido prprio da poltica em Hannah
Arendt.
1200-1330

Lunch break

1330-1550

Session 5

-Camelia Gradinaru (University of Iasi. Romania) The virtual


we. Storytelling and Knowledge Transfer in Online Communities.
-Ioan-Alexandru Gradinaru (University of Iasi. Romania)
Searching for the Real We: A Brief Inquiry into the Practices of
Participatory Democracy.
-Linda Aloysius. (University of The Arts, London)We and We: A
Feminist Analysis of The Economics of Care.
-Anna Jawor (Polish Academy of Sciences) How to Make US
Rainbow? Comparing Strategies of Emancipation on the Example of LGBT
Movements and Queer Communities.
1550-1615

Coffee break

1615-1715
University of Lisbon.

Closing

1715

Closing remarks

2100

Seminar dinner

conference.

Paulo

Raposo.

ISCTE,

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