CARLES GUERRA ROBERTO VECCHI ELISABETH BRONFEN

ROBERT WILSON

TIMOTHY SIMPSON JORGE SANTOS ALVES

ELLEN SAPEGA

MÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA XIAOMEI CHEN

VERA NÜNNING

ANTÓNIO SOUSA RIBEIRO

ANSGAR NÜNNING

BARBIE ZELIZER WOLFGANG HALLET PAULO DE MEDEIROS

ROBERT WILSON THE LISBON CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EVENTS THE WATERMILL CENTER II Lisbon Summer School for the Study Of Culture PERIPHERAL MODERNITIES JULY 9th 21.00 h — São Luiz Municipal Theatre “1. Have you been here before? Faust Fantasia by Peter Stein 2. No this is the first time” An evening with Robert Wilson

In an exceptional performance, director and ar- The New York Times described Robert Wilson as The long history of the modern seems to stress The II Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Cul- tist Robert Wilson invites us into his astonishing “a towering figure in the world of experimental that modernity was a privilege of Western rationa- ture will take the manifold assumptions about mo- JULY 11th 18.30 h — FLAD – CNC|DISQUIET program: aesthetic universe. Combining hundreds of striking theater.” Wilson, born in 1941 in Waco Texas, is lity, disseminated from a European centre across dernity and its modernisms as the stepping stone Lecture and talk with Portuguese author images from through his prolific career, Wilson among the world’s foremost theater and visual the imaginary waiting rooms of history. Yet, the to address the multiple ways in which the modern Gonçalo M. Tavares provides an intimate self-portrait of his creative artists. His works for the stage unconventionally in- markers of what was hailed as the sign of Western has been claimed. Although the distinction be- process. tegrate a wide variety of artistic media, including advancement – industrialization, secularization tween modernity as a social-political construct dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music, and and rationalization – have been consistently ques- and modernism as it aestheticcultural counterpart Mr. Wilson references his landmark original works text. His images are aesthetically striking and emo- tioned over the past decade as indicators of uni- seems to be widely consensual, the neat separa- JULY 12th 14.30 h — Maritime Stations of Alcântara for the stage such as Deafman Glance, A Letter for tionally charged, and his productions have earned versal validity and modernity itself reconceived tion between the two terms is not uncontentious, and Rocha Conde de Óbidos Queen Victoria, Einstein on the Beach (created with the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. beyond Western provincialism. Homi Bhabha thus as the cultural does not exist beyond social fra- Visit to Portuguese artist Almada Negreiros’ panels composer Philip Glass), the CIVIL warS, and The conceives of a ‘contra-modernity’ to qualify the ming and neither does the political occur beyond with Jorge Vaz de Carvalho Black Rider, as well as his acclaimed work for the Wilson’s awards and honors include two Guggen- post-colonial as a stage that both mimicks and the aesthetic exploits of artists. This gap, stressed operatic and theatrical repertoire including his heim Fellowship awards (’71 and ’80), the nomi- subverts Western modernity, Susan Friedman in the claim made by Adornian aesthe-tics’ that th luminous stagings of Madame Butterly, Wagner’s nation for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (’86), the speaks of ‘polycentric modernities’ that enlarge modernism reflects modernity’s critical self-aware- JULY 12 16.00 h — Joana Vasconcelos’ studio Ring Cycle, The Magic Flute, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and Golden Lion for sculpture from the Venice Biennale the geographical scope of the modernization en- ness, seems to bring more problems than results Visit to the Portuguese visual artist Heiner Mueller’s Quartett. (’93), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for lifetime deavour, whilst Argentinian critic Beatriz Sarlo has for a complex mapping of the concept. In fact, the Joana Vasconcelos’ studio achievement (’96), the Premio Europa award from defined the Argentinian Modernism as the aes- process of modernity is complex, because it brings At the conclusion of the performance, the audi- Taormina Arte (’97), election to the American Aca- thetical counterpart of the specific South-Ameri- together the social, the political, the cultural and ence is invited to explore Mr. Wilson’s demy of Arts and Letters (’00), and Commandeur des can decentering into ‘peripheral modernities’. the economical. It is simultaneously critical and th ideas further during an informal question-and- arts et des lettres (’02) among others. hegemonic, imaginative and rational, dislocated JULY 13 18.30 h — Casa da América Latina -answer period. and situated, global and local, traumatic and em- Photography exhibition “A-N-A-L-O-G-I-A-S” and talk Together with composer Philip Glass, he created powering. with the artist Cristina Zabalaga the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach. With pro- ductions such as Deafman Glance, KA MOUTain and GUARDenia Terrace, Life and Times of Sigmund Freud, CIVIL warS, Death Destruction & Detroit or a Letter for JULY 14th 12.45 h — Orient Museum Queen Victoria he redefined and expanded theater. Visit to the Orient Museum Wilson’s collaborators include diverse writers and musicians such as Susan Sontag, Lou Reed, Heiner Müller, Jessye Norman, David Byrne, Tom Waits, and Rufus Wainwright. Wilson has also left his th imprint on masterworks such as The Magic Flute, JULY 14 20.00 h — Doca de Alcântara Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Madama Butterfly, Dreamplay, http://www.nmopera.com/contactos.php Per Gynt, The Threepenny Opera, Shakesepeare’s Son- Lisbon Sightseeing Boat Tour and nets and Krapp’s Last Tape. IILSSSC Closing Dinner th Modernity, urban cultures and popular Inês Alves Mendes Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Isabel 09.00 h Gaspare Trapani 08 —SUN sectors in a marginal space of Argentina Portuguese First Modernism and Capeloa Gil, Ellen Sapega Timothy Simpson — (Univ. Macau) Cristo Si É Fermato a Eboli de Carlo Levi (La Pampa, 1882-1951) the Visual Arts: Peripheral Identities Glass Architecture, Fictitious Capital, and e a denúncia de uma “outra Itália” CCB Venue — Macau’s Enclave Urbanism Centro Cultural de Belém Luca Salvi 15.30 h — 16.00 h ADJACENT ROOM TO Paper Sessions— The hidden form: Petrarch and the Hispanic- Coffee-break THE AUDITORIUM 10.00 h THE MODERN MEANING -American (Post-) Modernism Jorge Santos Alves — (FCH|UCP) OF PERIPHERAL Venue — 16.00 h — 17.30 h 14.00 h — 15.30 h A Modern Hero in the Making - Hang Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Xiaomei Chen, CONFERENCE CENTRE 15.30 h — 16.00 h Marisa Fernández Falcón Beatriz Puertas Hernández Tuah in Contemporary Malay Literature Timothy Simpson ROOM 1 LUÍS DE FREITAS BRANCO Coffee-break Occupy the City. Empty Spaces Embodying Modernities in China since and Cinema for Creative Minds the early twentieth century: the lure of Venue — 19.00 h 16.00 h — 17.30 h tradition, the lure of progress 11.00 h — 11.30 h MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR Robert Wilson Claudia Breitbarth Sofia da Costa Pessoa Coffee-break ROOM NOVA DELI “1. Have you been here before? Traveling as a longing for the periphery. On Museums and Modernity Dynamics: The Sanja Horvatincic 2. No, this is the first time.” the example of some works of Raoul Schrott emergence of the Popular Art Museum Spomeniks - Monumental Commemo- 11.30 h 14.00 h — 15.30 h An evening with Robert Wilson rative Sculpture in former Yugoslavia Xiaomei Chen — (Univ. California) Tânia Ganito Ana Salgueiro Rodrigues Paper Sessions— Between Invisibility and Popularity Staging Chinese Communist Revolution Rebellious Yawns, Disenchanted Laugh- The strange case of ‘the five wandering art- THE MODERN MEANING in Post Socialist China ter: Cynical Realism and China’s Post- ists’. Madeira, 1916: a peripheral modernity OF PERIPHERAL 15.30 h — 16.00 h revolutionary Modernity strikes back Modernity Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Vera Nünning, Coffee-break 13.00 h Jorge Santos Alves Lunch Adiel Portugali th Venue — 16.00 h — 17.30 h Doca de Santo Restaurant Marginal Sounds: The Story of Jazz 09 —MON CITY HALL BUILDING AT PAÇOS Venue — Jennifer Müller in China DO CONCELHO, SALÃO NOBRE LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/ The Bologna-Process between German MUDE ROOM 422 Tradition and Transnational Modernity 15.30 h — 16.00 h Fashion and Design Museum 18.00 h Coffee-break Welcome reception sponsored 14.00 h — 15.30 h Ana Vasconcelos Topic — by Lisbon City Hall Cristina Graça Your civilisation and my barbarism” (let- th 16.00 h — 17.30 h PERIPHERAL DISCOURSES Tango, Periphery and Modernity ter from Gauguin to Strindberg, undated) 13 —FRI Maria Ana Carneiro Chair: Isabel Capeloa Gil Camarate in the media: Peripheral Cul- Anabela Leandro dos Santos Daniela Agostinho Orient Museum tural Memory Venue — “When a chicken becomes a duck by the Transmodernity and (de-) colonial gaze in AUDITORIUM hand of a quack” Two case studies: the Raquel Schefer’s Nshajo (The Game) and Topic — Catarina Duff Burnay th representation of the body in Demétrio Filipa César’s The Embassy MODERN (CON)TENSIONS The flows of Portuguese television fiction: Dates, Topics, Times and Venues 09.00 h 10 —TUE Cinatti’s “Autoplastia” and in Lam Qua’s Chair: Rita Figueiras production models, platforms, interna- Isabel Capeloa Gil — (FCH|UCP) paintings Paper Sessions— tional sales General Program FCH|UCP Opening remarks THE MODERN MEANING Venue — School of Human Sciences| 15.30 h — 16.00 h OF PERIPHERAL MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR Paper Sessions — 09.30 h Catholic University of Portugal Coffee-break Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Wolfgang Hallet, ROOM BEIJING MODERNISMS AND MODERNIZATION Roberto Vecchi — (Univ. Bologna) Adriana Martins Paper Sessions — Periphery as a work: eccentric modernities 16.00 h — 17.30 h 09.30 h THE MODERN MEANING OF PERIPHERAL and luso-tropical rearrangements Topic — Amélia Cruz Venue — Márcio Seligmann-Silva th THE MODERN QUESTION In which sense does modern youth litera- ROOM ACROSS THE HALL — (Unicamp, São Paulo) 11.00 h — 11.15 h Master Classes ture debate the conflict(s) between center FROM THE AUDITORIUM Violence and Testimony in Modernity: 14 —SAT Coffee-break and periphery? thinking beyond the dichotomy of center Orient Museum Venue — 14.00 h — 15.30 h and periphery MUDE FCH|UCP VENUES 11.15 h LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/ Elena Brugioni Ana do Carmo INFO [Fashion And Design Museum] [Catholic University of Rua Augusta, 24 Portugal | School of Carles Guerra — (MACBA, Barcelona) ROOM 421 Contemporary African writing, and Criti- The flight and expulsion of the Germans 11.00 h — 11.30 h Topic — 1100 – 053 Lisbon Human Sciences ] A place deprived of History and forced cal Paradigms. Narrating [within] the at the end of the IIWW – A challenge for Coffee-break MODERN PROJECTS Palma de Cima to a discontinuous Modernity 09.30 h Indian Ocean postmodern museology Chair: Peter Hanenberg P. : +351 218 886 117 1649 – 023 Lisbon António Sousa Ribeiro — (Univ. Coimbra) 11.30 h P. : +351 218 886 123 12.30 h Excentric modernities: Elsa Alves Barbie Zelizer — (Univ. Pennsylvania, An- Venue — E.: [email protected] P. : +351 217 214 000 Lunch Vienna 1900 reconsidered The Zone and the Globe: nenberg School of Communication) MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR E.: [email protected] E.: [email protected]. S.: www.mude.pt ucp.pt Aura Restaurant & CaféLounge Spatial Modes in Nuclear Time When the Peripheral Masks as Central: ROOM BEIJING S.: www.fch.ucp.pt Venue — th American Journalism, Modernity and Getting here? F.: facebook.com/LisbonCon- Paper Sessions— ROOM 422 15.30 h — 16.00 h Cold War Mindedness 09.00 h Public Transport sortium MODERNISMS AND 11 —WED Coffee-break Wolfgang Hallet — (Univ. Giessen) MODERNIZATION 09.30 h Maritime Station 13.00 h The Invention of the Modern Western Underground Getting here? Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Ansgar Nünning & Vera Nünning 16.00 h — 17.30 h Lunch City in Graphic Fiction Baixa-Chiado (Blue and Green Public Transport of Alcântara line) and Terreiro do Paço (Blue Ansgar Nünning, Lara Duarte — (Univ. Giessen and Univ. Heidelberg) Glaura Cardoso Doca de Santo Restaurant Line) Underground Travelling Concepts, Metaphors and Nar- Acácio Videira’s iconographic archive 10.30 h — 11.00 h Cidade Universitária (Yellow Venue — ratives for the Study of Culture: Coming Topic — and the Cinema Paper Sessions— Coffee-break Buses line) and Jardim Zoológico or CONFERENCE ROOM to Terms with Peripheries, Modernities, PERIPHERAL MODERNISMS I MODERNISMS AND 28, 92, 206, 210, 706, 709, Laranjeiras (Blue line) and other Key Concepts Chair: Jorge Vaz de Carvalho Joana Mayer MODERNIZATION 11.00 h 711, 735, 745, 746, 759, 781, 782, 794 Buses 14.00 h — 15.30 h Peripheral modernities at the centre Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Marília Lopes, Elisabeth Bronfen — (Univ. Zurich) 701, 732, 735, 738, 755, Ana Cachola 11.00 h — 11.30 h Venue — of cultural programmes: the exhibition Márcio Seligmann-Silva Cleopatra’s Cultural Survival Trams 764, 768 Coming in from the margins: modernisms Coffee-break AUDITORIUM “Borders” at the Gulbenkian Foundation 15 E, 28 E as congenitally/intrinsically peripheral in Lisbon Venue — 12.30 h 13.00 h 09.30 h MAIN BUILDING, 4TH FLOOR Isabel Capeloa Gil — (FCH|UCP) MARITIME STATION ORIENT MUSEUM CCB Elisabeth Kovach Lunch Ellen Sapega — (Univ. Wisconsin) ROOM DILI Closing remarks OF ALCÂNTARA Avenida Brasília, Doca de [Centro Cultural de Belém] Modern Misery: Alternatives to American UCP Cafeteria Simultaneous Contrasts: Literary Moder- Building Infante Dom Henrique Alcântara (Norte) Conference Centre Modernity and Modernism in Tillie Olsen’s nism and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth 14.00 h — 15.30 h Doca de Alcântara Norte 1350 – 352 Lisboa Praça do Império, Yonnondio: From the Thirties Century Portugal 1399 – 121 Lisboa 1449 – 003 Lisbon Paper Sessions— Sónia Pereira MODERNISMS AND Living on the Edge: Black Metal and P. : +351 213 611 000 P. : +351 213 585 200 P. : +351 213 612 697 15.30 h — 16.00 h MODERNIZATION 11.00 h — 11.30 h the Refusal of Modernity E.: [email protected] E.: [email protected] F. : +351 213 612 708 Coffee-break Chairs: Alexandra Lopes, Luísa Leal de Coffee-break th S.: www.portodelisboa.pt S.: www.museudooriente.pt E.: [email protected] Faria, António Sousa Ribeiro Bart Vanspauwen S.: www.ccb.pt 12 — THU Paper Sessions— 11.30 h Beyond post-colonialism. Lusophone Getting here? Getting here? Public Transport Public Transport Getting here? THE MODERN MEANING Venue — Paulo de Medeiros — (Univ. Utrecht) Maritime Station musical reconnections of young cultural Public Transport OF PERIPHERAL LIBRARY BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR/ Infinite Modernisms of Alcântara entrepreneurs through the web Train Train Chairs: Peter Hanenberg, Roberto Vecchi, ROOM 421 Alcântara-Mar station Alcântara-Mar station Buses Isabel Capeloa Gil 13.00 h 15.30 h — 16.00 h (Cascais line) (Cascais line) 28, 714, 727, 729, 751 14.00 h — 15.30 h Lunch Topic — Coffee-break Doca de Santo Restaurant Buses Buses Trams Venue — Leonor Sá PERIPHERAL MODERNISMS II 28, 712, 720, 732, 738, 760 28, 712, 720, 732, 738, 760 15 E AUDITORIUM Early Crime Identification Photograhy Chair: José Miguel Sardica 16.00 h — 17.30 h (in Portugal): a mark in modernity Paper Sessions— Miguel Pedro Quadrio Trams Trams 14.00 h — 15.30 h and its obsession with taxonomy, MODERNISMS AND Venue — O lugar (poli)sistémico da crítica jornalís- 15 E, 18 E 15 E, 18 E Paula Inés Laguarda visual culture and surveillance MODERNIZATION AUDITORIUM tica de artes performativas Graphic Design_Francisco Elias — franciscoelias.com