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,