Sumários

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14 Novembro 2019, 18:00 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Student-led discussions by I.  Pedro Cosme (Mirzoeff, The Right to Look); II. Yue Wang and Jingyi Li (Sturken and Cartwright, Practices of Looking); III. Elizabeth Solorzano and Mira Zaragova (Berger, “Race, Visuality, and History”)

Reading assignments:

•Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 2011. The Right to Look:  A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham: Duke University Press. 1-34.

Supplementary reading: 

•Barker, Chris. 2011. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. 4th Edition. Los Angeles, California; London: Sage. 62-74.


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7 Novembro 2019, 18:00 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Group discussion of the reading assigments.

Reading assignments:

•Han, Byung-Chul. 2015. “The Society of Exhibition.” In: The Transparency Society. Trans. Erik Butler. Stanford, California: Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press.  9-14

Supplementary readings: 

•Berger, Martin. 2005. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter: “Introduction: White Like Me” •Berger, Martin A. 2010. “Race, Visuality, and History.” American Art 24(2), 94-99. (See Berger 2005) •Wolters, Wendy. 2004. “Without Sanctuary: Bearing Witness, Bearing Whiteness.” Jac 24. 2: 399–425.


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31 Outubro 2019, 18:00 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Mediation of violence: violent images and images of violence. Reality or the spectacularization of reality (the truth-value of images). Violence as ‘the standard operating procedure of visuality’ (Mirzoeff 2011).  Audiences, voyeurism, and the fascination with violence.

Reading assignments:

•Hills, Matt. 2018. “Audiences.” In:  Kackman, Michael, and Mary Celeste Kearney, eds. 2018. The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice. New York: Routledge. 183–194.

Supplementary reading:

•hooks, bell. 1990. “Marginality as a Site of Resistance.” Out There: Marginality and Contemporary Cultures. Ed. Russell Ferguson et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 341– 344. •hooks, bell. 1992. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. 115-131.


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24 Outubro 2019, 18:00 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

There was no class due to illness. To be replaced by Lisbon Lectures in the Humanities – conference by Michael Fried ““Facingness Meets Mindedness: On Manet’s Luncheon in the Studio and The Balcony”, November 6 (Aud I). 


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17 Outubro 2019, 18:00 Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Guest lecture by Dr. Matthias de Groof (University of Antwerp, Belgium) on his documentary Palimpsest of the Africa Museum, that will have its International Premiere in Doclisboa.  Palimpsest gives us an insider perspective of the renovations of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Belgium, and their attempt to decolonize the museum’s discourse, working alongside COMRAF: a committee of experts and representatives of African organisations.

Supplementary reading:  Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. 2000. Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London: Routledge. (chapter 1)