Keynote Speakers’ Abstracts and Bios

THE LISBON CONSORTIUM EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN CULTURAL STUDIES

I LISBON SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE PERFORMATICITY – URBAN PERFORMANCES AND THE PERFORMATIVE CITY

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS’ ABSTRACTS AND BIOS

27 June - 2 July 2011 Lisbon, Portugal

Organizing Committee Isabel Capeloa Gil, Peter Hanenberg, Alexandra Lopes, Paulo de Campos Pinto, Ana Fabíola Maurício

Affiliated Partner

I LISBON SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE PERFORMATICITY - URBAN PERFORMANCES AND THE PERFORMATIVE CITY

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Marvin Carlson, António Pinto Ribeiro, Luísa Leal de Faria, Frederik Tygstrup, Octavian Saiu, Eugénia Vasques & Rafael Alvarez (Performer), Edward Soja, Rossana Bonadei, André Lepecki, Antónia Gaeta, Marc Augé, Ansgar Nünning, Christoph Lindner, Nina Berman.

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MARVIN CARLSON (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)

The City as Stage Theatre has traditionally been an urban art, created and displayed primarily in cities. Ever since classic times, theatre buildings have appeared as significant parts of the urban landscape and the city itself has frequently been utilized for performative purposes. This paper will present an overview of some of the most significant manifestiations of this activity from the urban stages of medieval religious dramas to the monumental street theatre of contemporary groups like Royal de Luxe. Particular emphasis will be placed on variations of urban site- specific theatre, where elements of the city designed for other activity are specifically converted to theatrical use, such as Reinhardt‟s use of Venice, Evreinoff‟s of Saint Petersburg.or the New York productions of Reza Abdoh, Anne Hamburger and the New York Classical Theatre.

Bio Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the ASTR Distinguished Scholarship Award, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the Calloway Prize for writing in theatre. He is the founding editor of the journal Western European Stages. His most recent book, on contemporary German stage direction, is Theatre is More Beautiful than War (Iowa, 2009).

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ANTÓNIO PINTO RIBEIRO (CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION; CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL, LISBON)

All the World Is a Stage Or three short travel writings on three cities

Bio António Pinto Ribeiro. Nasceu em Lisboa. A sua formação académica foi feita nas áreas da Filosofia, Ciências da Comunicação e Estudos Culturais. É nestas áreas que tem desenvolvido o trabalho de investigação e de produção teórica publicado em revistas da especialidade. É professor-conferencista de várias universidades internacionais. A par da sua actividade de investigador e de professor tem tido uma prática de programação artística e de gestão cultural com a organização de vários programas e exposições nacionais e internacionais. Foi Director Artístico da Culturgest (Centro Cultural em Lisboa) desde a sua criação em 1992 até Abril de 2004. Foi consultor do Instituto Camões (2004-2006). Recentemente executou as seguintes tarefas de Gestão Cultural, de Curadoria e Programação Cultural: Coordenador (com Catarina Vaz Pinto) do Programa Gulbenkian Criatividade e Criação Arística (2004-2009),de Programador-Geral da Fundação Gulbenkian para o Fórum Cultural "O Estado do Mundo" (2006-07), Programador –Geral do Programa Intercultural Distância e Proximidade (2008) e do Programa Gulbenkian de Cultura Contemporânea Próximo Futuro (2009-2011)www.gulbenkian.pt/proximofuturo.É Professor Auxiliar convidado da Universidade Católica em Lisboa. Da sua obra publicada destaca-se: A Dança da Idade do Cinema (1991), Dança Temporariamente Contemporânea (1994), Por exemplo a cadeira –ensaio sobre as artes do corpo (1997), Corpo a Corpo: sobre as possibilidades e os limites da crítica (1997), Ser feliz é imoral? Ensaios sobre cultura, cidades e distribuição (2000), Melancolia (romance, 2003), Abrigos: condições das cidades e energia da cultura (2007),À Procura da Escala (2009), É Março e é Natal em Ouagadougou (2010.

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LUÍSA LEAL DE FARIA (CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL, LISBON)

MASTER CLASS Imperial Cities This master class seeks to examine the possibility of defining two major prototypes for “the Imperial City”. We will examine the origins of a number of displays of imperial power in different points in time and in different historical contexts, and relate those to later displays of “imperial identity”. We will, nevertheless, focus only on European and Western contexts, although cities in other parts of the world can be seen as “imperial”, such as Fez, Beijing and others. The first prototype centers on political power, and has its source in ancient Rome: We will examine first the city of Rome, as the centre of the Roman Empire, functioning as a prototype for Washington D.C. as the centre of the American Empire and for the architectural renewal of the city of Rome in the nineteenth century, at the time of the construction of Italian unity. Secondly we will look at Paris and Berlin, the first in connection to the Napoleonic Empire, the second connected to the concept of the Reich, both showing overlapping elements with the “classical” prototype of ancient Rome. The second prototype centers on trade, and has its source in Lisbon and London: We will look first at Lisbon as a prototype for overseas exploration in early modernity, connecting its history with the discovery of foreign sources of wealth and new markets, up to the “Exhibition of the Portuguese World” in 1940 and the collapse of the Portuguese Empire in the 1970‟s. Secondly we will look at London as a nineteenth century imperial city, connected not only with overseas exploration, but also with industrial development. The guidelines for reflection, supported by visual documentation, will focus mostly on the concepts of “empire”, “post-colonialism” and “the invention of tradition”. The students are welcome to provide further examples for “imperial cities” and the possibilities of reading the urban landscape in different ways.

Recommended readings:

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HANNAH ARENDT, Imperialism, Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism. San Diego, New York, London, A Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. EDWARD SAID, Culture and Imperialism, London, Vintage, 1993. ERIC HOBSBAWM and TERENCE RANGER, eds., The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. FELIX DRIVER and DAVID GILBERT, eds., Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Studies in Imperialism). Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003.

Bio Luísa Leal de Faria Geraldes Barba is, since 2004, Vice-Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal, where she holds the position of “Profesor Catedrático” in the Faculty of Human Sciences. Most of her academic career was developed at the University of Lisbon – Faculty of Letters, where she taught in the Department of English. She was vice-president of the scientific board and head of the Department of English, among other functions. She is currently in charge of a research unit at the “University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies”. She graduated in Germanic Philology with a dissertation on the Industrial Novels, moving from there to a doctoral thesis on Thomas Carlyle. She also obtained the title of “agregado” at the University of Lisbon in 2004. Her interests have been mainly concerned with Victorian Studies, and Literary and Cultural Studies. In 1988-9 she was Deputy General Director for Higher Education, and advisor to the Secretary-General of UNESCO. From 1989 to 1995 she was the National Coordinator for the Lingua Program, and in 1995-6 she was the National Coordinator of the Socrates Program. Her academic activities at the University of Lisbon, at the Catholic University and as a consultant for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education from 1995 to 2005 provided a favorable environment for a refocusing of her research interests into the study of European and American Universities in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the shifting role of disciplines in the field of the “Humanities” in the early 21st. century.

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FREDERIK TYGSTRUP (UNIV. OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK)

MASTER CLASS City Novels: Six Opening Chapters In this master class, we will discuss the historical development of the representation of cities in European literature. Covering a range of novels from classical realism to contemporary fiction, we will examine the images of cities presented by the novels, and not least the performative strategies employed – that is, how the techniques of representation are entangled with the subject matter represented. Reading for the master class will be the opening chapters of six novels, which will also give us an opportunity to study the literary techniques of opening a fiction in an urban framing, and thus, as Jean-Luc Godard once claimed, the intimate relation between cities and fictions.

The six novels are:

Honoré de Balzac, Ferragus (1833) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/Balzac.pdf

Charles Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop (1841) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/Dickens.pdf

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/Woolf.pdf

Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities (1930) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/musil.pdf

Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual (1978) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/Perec.pdf

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (2009) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10307736/mccann.pdf

Bio FT is the director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies and an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. His primary specialisation is in the history and theory of the European novel (Fictions of Experience. The European Novel 1615-1857 (1992), and In Search of the Real. Essays on the 20th Century Novel (2000), both in Danish). His present research

ABSTRACTS & BIOS – KEYNOTE SPEAKERS interests focus on the intersections of artistic practices and other social practices, including urban aesthetics, the history of representations and experiences of space, literature and medicine, literature and geography, literature and politics. Recent articles (in non-Scandinavian languages) include:

“Life and Forms in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze”, in Jaap Koijmann (ed.): Forms of Life. Amsterdam University Press 2011, i.p. “The Blue Chair. A Literary Report on Dementia in America”, in Stene-Johansen & Tygstrup (eds.): llness in Context. Phenomenology, Archaeology, Clinic. Rodopi 2009, i.p. “The Politics of Symbolic Forms”, in Birgit Neumann & Ansgar Nünning (eds.): Ways of Worldmaking. Felix Lang 2009, i.p. “Art Encounters. On the Uses of Theory in Art Studies”, in Markus Rautzenberg & Regine Strätling (eds.): The Beauty of Theory, Fink 2009, i.p. Witness. Memory, Representation, and the Media in Question, MTP 2008 (ed., with Ulrik Ekman) “Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie‟s Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories”, in Gail Fincham et.al. (ed.): Literary Landscapes, London (Palgrave Macmillan) 2008 “Le Défi de la topologie littéraire” (avec Carsten Meiner), in Revue Romane 42,2, 2007 “Still Life. The Experience of Space in the Modern Novel”, in A. Eysteinsson & V. Liska (eds.): Modernism. Amsterdam & Philadelphia (John Benjamins) 2007. “Imagination and Institution”, in L. Møller & M. Rosendahl Thomsen (eds.): Productive Paradoxes, Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2006. “Urban Diagrams”, in M. Stræde: HomeCity, Copenhagen 2006. “The Literary City”, in V. Tinkler-Villani (ed.): Babylon or New Jerusalem? Perceptions of the City in Literature. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2005 – »Life and Forms in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze«, in Thomas Elsaesser & Jaap Koijmann (eds.): Forms of Life. Amsterdam University Press 2011 – »Art Encounters. On the Uses of Theory in Art Studies«, in Jooachim Küpper, Markus Rautzenberg, Mirjam Schaub & Regine Strätling (eds.): The Beauty of Theory. Zur Ästhetik und Affektökonomie von Theorien, Fink 2010 – »The Politics of Symbolic Forms«, in Birgit Neumann, Vera Nünning & Ansgar Nünning (eds.): Cultural Ways of Worldmaking, de Gruyter 2010 – Illness in Context, Rodopi 2010 (ed., with Knut Stene-Johansen) – »The Blue Chair. A Literary Report on Dementia in America«, in Illness in Context, op.cit. 2010 – »Forms of Space«, in Cort Dinesen (ed.): Carthography, Morphology, Topology, Copenhagen 2009 – »Traveling Concepts« (with Birgit Neumann), in Neumann & Tygstrup (eds) European Journal of English Studies, vol 13, 3, Routledge 2009 – Witness. Memory, Representation, and the Media in Question, MTP 2008 (ed., with Ulrik Ekman) – »Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie‟s Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories«, in Gail Fincham et.al. (ed.): Literary Landscapes, London (Palgrave Macmillan) 2008.

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– »Le Défi de la topologie littéraire« (avec Carsten Meiner), in Revue Romane 42,2, 2007 – »Still Life. The Experience of Space in Modernist Prose «, in Astradur Eysteinsson & Vivian Liska (ed.): Modernism. Amsterdam & Philadelphia (John Benjamins) 2007. – »Imagination and Institution«, in Lis Møller og Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (red.): Produktive paradokser, Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2006. – »Urban Diagrams«, in Morten Stræde: HomeCity, København 2006. – »The Literary City«, in Valeria Tinkler-Villani (ed.): Babylon or New Jerusalem? Perceptions of the City in Literature. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2005

OCTAVIAN SAIU (UNIV. OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND)

The City, between Identity and Exile. Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and died in Paris in 1989. Eugene Ionesco was born in 1909 in the small Romanian town of Slatina and died in the same Paris in 1994. Both writers inscribed the anguish of deracination, yet neither ever felt exiled in the city that became an absolute landmark in their respective destines. Beckett, who thought life was constant displacement, felt most at home in Paris. And Ionesco, for whom “living was absurd”, embraced Paris as a tender consolation for the uncertainties of existence. For both, it was the land of choice, of life and ultimately of death, their neighbouring graves at Cimetière du Montparnasse completing what may be termed a cycle of devotion towards the same city. My paper will explore the meanings of Paris, the emblematic European city, as a quintessential reference for Beckett‟s and Ionesco‟s drama. In a theatrical language that eludes the fundamental questions of identity, placing its characters in a “no man‟s land” defined by absurdity, Paris endured as a city of identification, par excellence. More than an occasional background, it permeated the writings of Beckett and Ionesco in various ways, although in the former‟s universe Dublin was never truly abandoned and never replaced and in the latter‟s writing Bucharest, the capital of his native Romania, persisted as an indelible memory. Through a cross-cultural analysis of the critical reception of Beckett‟s and Ionesco‟s theatre in Ireland, France and Romania, I will demonstrate that for these two authors Paris

ABSTRACTS & BIOS – KEYNOTE SPEAKERS was the only city where origins and foreignness could be reconciled. The Irish claim Beckett as very much their own, and in Romania Ionesco is almost always “Ionescu, the Romanian”, but what prevails over such emphatic national classifications is the fact that both chose to write, live and die in Paris. Theirs was a self-imposed exile in a city that eventually became their own.

Bio Octavian Saiu has taught theatre and dramatic literature as Associate Professor at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography (NUTC) in Bucharest and as Guest Lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 2008-2009, he was Visiting Fellow at the University of London. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies (NUTC) and one in Comparative Literature (Otago). He has been actively involved in several worldwide theatre events and academic conferences in Romania, Israel, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, Ireland, etc. For three years, he was a presenter for Romanian National Television, coordinating TV shows about theatre, cinema and visual arts. Since 2004, he is the Chair of the Academic Conferences of Sibiu International Theatre Festival (SibFest), one of the largest performing arts festivals in the world. A former co-editor of Theatre Nowadays, he is a founding editor of Romanian Studies in Theatre Theory. He is currently the Vice-President of the Romanian Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). He has published four theatre books, one of which received the Critics‟ Award in 2010. His most recent publication in English is the monograph In Search of Lost Space (NUTC Press, 2010).

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EUGÉNIA VASQUES (ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE TEATRO E CINEMA, LISBON, PORTUGAL) & RAFAEL ALVAREZ (CHOREOGRAPHER AND PERFORMER)

TRANSITIVITIES: OME THOUGHTS ABOUT PERFORMANCE (from representation to being?) The concept of performance is a «suitcase» concept (as Lewis Carrol would say), an expansive one that embraces all artistic disciplines and that puts in its center the living body of the «performer», the action and the reception, through inter media. Let‟s follow up the polemic concept and show you some Portuguese performative propositions. Performance-demonstração/Rafael Alvarez Serão apresentados excertos de uma trilogia coreográfica composta pelos espectáculos: ÚLTIMA CHAMADA (2005), COLECÇÃO PRIVADA (2008) e LONG DISTANCE CALL (2009), desenvolvidos em torno das temáticas da viagem, das relações amorosas e da construção de identidades, onde questões ligadas aos conceitos de não-lugar e dicotomias entre espaço urbano/público e o domínio do privado/biográfico se cruzam. A par do visionamento de imagens e demonstração de algumas acções performativas, serão comentados alguns dos pressupostos temáticos e metodológicos do referido projecto que se constitui como uma acumulação de objectos e micro-narrativas sob a forma de instalação e paisagem coreográfica.

Bios Eugénia Vasques (n. Coimbra, 1948) é Professora-Coordenadora da Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema/IPL e investigadora no CIAC (Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação/Universidade do Algarve-ESTC). Estudou na Universidade de Paris VIII, na Escola de Teatro do Conservatório Nacional, na Universidade de Lisboa e na University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Crítica de teatro entre 1985 e 2001 (Expresso), publicou, entre outros artigos e ensaios sobre Teatro, Artes Performativas e Estudos sobre as Mulheres, os volumes Jorge de Sena: Uma Ideia de Teatro (1938-71) [Cosmos, 1998]; Considerações em Torno do Teatro em Portugal nos Anos 90: Portugal/Brasil/África [IPAE, 1998]; Mulheres Que Escreveram Teatro no Século XX em Portugal [Colibri, 2001]; O Que É Teatro [Quimera, 2003]; João

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Mota, Pedagogo Teatral (Metodologia e Criação) [Colibri/IPL, 2006], Para a História da Encenação em Portugal [Sá da Costa, 2010]. O seu campo de investigação situa-se no âmbito da formação de actores (“Actor Permanente”) e na História da Escola de Teatro do Conservatório Nacional. O volume A Escola de Teatro do Conservatório (1839-1971) encontra-se no prelo (Lisboa, Gradiva).

Rafael Alvarez Coreógrafo, performer, cenógrafo e figurinista. É pós-graduado em Ciências da Comunicação - Cultura Contemporânea e Novas Tecnologias pela FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e formado pela Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema em Realização Plástica do Espectáculo e Estudos Superiores Especializados em Teatro e Educação. É doutorando em Comunicação, Cultura e Artes na FCHS da Universidade do Algarve. Tem vindo a desenvolver e dirigir os seus próprios projectos desde 1997 na área da dança contemporânea e performance. Um dos aspectos recorrentes no seu trabalho é o uso e a exploração de elementos visuais e de uma dimensão objectual no discurso coreográfico, a par de um investimento marcante no desenvolvimento de um trabalho a solo. As suas obras têm sido apresentadas em diversos teatros e festivais na Europa, Médio Oriente, América do Norte e América do Sul. Colaborou com diversos artistas, tais como o artista visual português Pedro Valdez Cardoso, o coreógrafo francês Christian Rizzo, o coreógrafo português Francisco Camacho, o encenador Luís Castro ou o fashion adviser luso-americano Rody Vieira, entre outros. A par da sua actividade de criação artística, tem leccionado de forma regular, em particular nas áreas da dança contemporânea e dança inclusiva, desenvolvendo diversos projectos de cooperação internacional e intervenção artística para a comunidade, dirigidos a população sénior, pessoas portadoras de deficiência ou em situação de desvantagem social, crianças e artistas em geral. É artista associado à EIRA e coordenador-adjunto na Casa das Artes da Fundação LIGA. www.rafaelalvarez.jimdo.com

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EDWARD SOJA (UCLA, CALIFORNIA)

The Cultural Force of Cities In recent years, it has been discovered that cities--urban agglomerations of people, their activities and built environments--generate a force that powerfully stimulates economic development, technological innovation, and cultural creativity. In my talk, I will examine the specifically cultural force of cities, jumping from the first burst of artistic creativity that occurred at least 9000 years ago in such early cities as Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia, to the present day work of Allen Scott and Richard Florida on creative cities and the cognitive cultural economy.

Bio Edward S. Soja is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Urban Planning at UCLA and author of Postmodern Geographies (1989, Portuguese translation- 1990;Spanish translation forthcoming, Mexico City), Thirdspace (1990), Postmetropolis (Spanish translation, Madrid 2008), and Seeking Spatial Justice (2010). See also Nuria Benach and Abel Albet, Edward W. Soja: La Perspectiva Postmoderna de un Geografo Radical, Barcelona: Icaria (2010).

ROSSANA BONADEI (UNIV. BERGAMO, ITALY)

Urban palympsests. Engraftings, transits and performances Cities unfold, take shape and evolve in time and space like a text (or an archive of texts) carved or written by different authors/actors, both individual and collective, private and institutional: a landscape both concrete and immaterial, forged into stone and wood as well as into signs and words. The urban construct- material and immaterial- is the sign of the many engraftings produced to make cities out of nature and to inscribe the city into human history, narrating and modelling it in time and dynamically absorbing the many collective perceptions of it.

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The recognition of “urban complexity”, constantly explored by literature and art, and called for by contemporary sociology and ethnography, reveals the tension- filled processes that play out between long established, accepted memories, that insist on the continuity of the past in present, and the plural interpretative drives that carry with them discontinuity and rupture. From the “continuous city” of Calvino, to the “city-memory” of Augé, from the dispersing network evoked by Jean Luc Nancy, marked by endless transit and cum-negotiations, to the urban “palympsest” as the effect of different interpretations and worked out in the “puff-paste of time” (Enzensberger): in the „visions‟ that nourish the contemporary discourse on the city, the endless „movement‟ and propagation goes together with a semantic and political dispersion. In this precise perspective the city, a long-lasting “being” endlessly adapting in time and space can persist only in the continuous performance of itself, of its changing present and its many pasts, and of its many memories, themselves persistent and yet frail, flowing in underground streams and then suddenly returning to the surface as they follow the changing contours of historical developments and cultural constructions.

Bio Rossana Bonadei is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bergamo, Italy, where she teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She is Member of the Doctoral school of Euroamerican Literatures and of the Giessen PHDnet. Her research ranges in the contexts of literary and aesthetic practice, as related to problems of critical theory and cultural analysis, with special focus on the relationship between literature, ideology and the construction of „authorship‟ (Dickens, Woolf, Keynes, Orwell). She has been working on Landscape and Visual Studies and on the epistemology of tourism, with focus on the intercultural aspects of post-modern mobilities. Her present concern is on Urban studies: “The City” is in fact at the core of some latest publications.

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ANDRÉ LEPECKI (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)

Choreo-politics of Urban Grounds In this talk, I will address how choreography can been used simultaneously as a practice and as a theoretical framing for addressing different politics of mobility in contemporary urban scenarios. Addressing New York, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon through artistic practices that directly implicate the social tensions that form and perform urban terrains, I will propose how these practices reveal a choreo-political dimension inherent to the contemporary grounds of globalized violence.

Bio André Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. Doctoral degree from New York University. Author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of Movement (currently translated into 6 languages) and the editor of several books on dance and performance theory. Recipient of many grants, including the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso- American Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He was Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies "Interweaving Performance Cultures", Free University, Berlin. Fellow and Curator of the Festival IN TRANSIT 2008 and 09 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt-Berlin. Recipient of the "Best Performance" Award 2008 from the International Art Critics Association (AICA) for his re-doing of "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" by Allan Kaprow. Visiting Scholar at MoMA, NY in 2011. He has lectured at Princeton University Gauss Seminars, at Brown University, Roehampton University, Free University Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia, Hayward Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among many other academic and cultural venues.

ANTÓNIA GAETA (CURATOR, LISBON, PORTUGAL)

Portable Geography

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MARC AUGÉ (ACADEMIAN, PARIS, FRANCE)

La Ville à l’heure Planétaire

ANSGAR NÜNNING (UNIV. OF GIESSEN, GERMANY)

Performative Inventions of the Modern “city of a thousand moods": Representing London in urban poetry of the Nineties between Aestheticism and Naturalism Ever since the Victorian fin de siècle, the myth of London has held great fascination for many novelists, poets, and travel writers. The lecture will attempt to reconstruct the emergence of the myth of the modern city by exploring both how London was represented in urban poetry of the Nineties and the ways in which poetry contributed to the performative invention of what the poet John Davidson called the “Subtle city of a thousand moods!” It is argued that representations of the city in urban poetry of the Nineties nourished the myth with lyrical views of the city and metaphors, providing new perspectives on the British metropolis and shaping modern views of life in the city in general. More specifically, the lecture will attempt to reconstruct the forms and functions of representing the British metropolis that are specific to the Victorian fin de siècle and to give a representative cross-section of the city lyrics in this period, arguing that the broad range of urban poety is marked by the poles of aestheticism and decadence on the one hand and naturalism or realism on the other hand. Lyrical city representations of the nineties will be interpreted as an indicator for a profoundly changed attitude to the city in historical terms that is echoed in urban memories of the twentieth century.

Bio Ansgar Nünning is professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. He is the founding and managing director of the “Giessener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften” (GGK), established in 2001, of the “International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture” (GCSC), funded by the Excellence Initiative and inaugurated in 2006, and

ABSTRACTS & BIOS – KEYNOTE SPEAKERS of the European PhD Network “Literary and Cultural Studies”, a joint PhD- programme, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (as of 2008), of the GCSC, the Finnish Graduate School for Literary Studies and the PhD-programmes of the universities of Bergamo, Lisbon and Stockholm. In 2007, he was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching” Prize of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts of the state Hesse and the Hertie Foundation. He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory, including 15 monographs and more than 200 scholarly articles in referreed journals and collections of essays. His most recent English book publications include Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives, (ed. with Vera Nünning & Birgit Neumann. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2010), A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (2010; Pbk. ed. of Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (ed. with Astrid Erll, 2008), An Introduction to the Study of Drama and Plays (with Sibylle Baumbach, Stuttgart: Klett 2009), Literature and Values: Representation, Dissemination, Generation (ed. with Sibylle Baumbach & Herbert Grabes, Trier: WVT 2009), Metaphors Shaping Culture and Theory. REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 25 (ed. with Herbert Grabes & Sibylle Baumbach (Tübingen: Narr 2009), An Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (with Birgit Neumann, Stuttgart: Klett 2008), An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (with Vera Nünning. Stuttgart: Klett 2004, 7th ed. 2010), Ethics in Culture: The Dissemination of Values through Literature and other Media (ed. with Astrid Erll & Herbert Grabes, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2008), Narrative and Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Critical Analyses (ed. with Birgit Neumann & Bo Pettersson, Trier: WVT 2008).

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CHRISTOPH LINDNER (UNIV. OF AMSTERDAM)

Urban Skimming: Staging Global Cities in Contemporary Photography This talk will examines the role that transnational photographic exchange can play in both resisting and reinforcing dominant, globalized images of contemporary city spaces. Focusing on a pair of linked photography exhibitions about the transatlantic histories of Amsterdam and New York, the discussion will address the relationship between globalization and various strategies of staging and performing “the urban,” ranging from aesthetic experimentation in individual artworks, to art- marketing campaigns, to new practices in urban branding.

Bio Christoph Lindner is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2007, he has also been a Research Affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris. In Amsterdam, he coordinates the ASCA Cities Project, which brings together humanities scholars interested in interdisciplinary urban analysis (www.hum.uva.nl/cities). His book publications include Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities (ed. Routledge, 2010), Urban Space and Cityscapes (ed. Routledge, 2006), and Fictions of Commodity Culture (Ashgate, 2003).

NINA BERMAN (ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER, N.Y. CITY)

Performance and spectacle: constructing the American homeland security state Ms. Berman‟s lecture will address the communal aspect of the contemporary American security state; the role of state as scriptwriter and theatrical producer, and the role of citizens as paid actors and volunteers in the advancement of the war on terror narrative. Within this landscape stands the visual artist serving as documentarian and social critic. Ms. Berman will show photographs from her series Homeland.

ABSTRACTS & BIOS – KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Bio Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She is the author of two monographs Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq and Homeland, which both examine war and militarism in post 9-11 America. Her work has been recognized with awards in art and journalism by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation and the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund among others. Recent exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art 2010 Biennial, the Milano Triennale, the Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, and Princeton University. She is a member of the NOOR photo collective based in Amsterdam and lives in her hometown of New York City. Monographs: Homeland, Photographs and texts by Nina Berman, Trolley Books, London, 2008 Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq, Photographs and texts by Nina Berman, Trolley Books, London 2004 Selected catalogues: Disquieting Images, Germano Celant and Melissa Harris, Skira, Milan, 2011 Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2010 US Today After, Gilles Verneret, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2010 A History of Women Photographers, Naomi Rosenblum, Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, 2010 Humans Being: Disability in Contemporary Art, Chicago Cultural Center, and Chicago, 2006.