Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical
anthropologist and is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the
Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London. She is
Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort
University, Leicester, where she was Director of the Photographic
History Research Centre from 2011- 2016. She is also Honorary
Professor in the Department of Anthropology University College
London. Until 2005 she was Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers
Museum and lecturer in visual anthropology at ISCA, University of
Oxford, where she is a Curator Emerita and Research Affiliate.
Specialising in the social and material practices of photography,
she has worked extensively on the relationships between
photography, anthropology and history for over 30 years. Elizabeth
Edwards is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo
Impulse.
Joseph Tonda is Professor of sociology and anthropology at Omar Bongo University in Libreville, Gabon. He is the author of inumerous articles and publications, having published various books, including Afrodystopie – La vie dans le rêve d’Autrui [Karthala, 2021]; L’Impérialisme Postcolonial – Critique de la Société des Éblouissements [Karthala 2015]; The Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo, Gabon) [Karthala 2005 / Seagull Books 2020], La Guérison Divine en Afrique Centrale (Congo, Gabon) [Karthala 2003]. He is also a literary writer and has published Tuée-tuée Mon Amour (LA DOXA éditions, Paris, 2017) e Chiens de Foudre (ODEM, Libreville 2013). Joseph Tonda is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo Impulse.
Richard Cleminson is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He has published on the history of sexuality in Iberia, concentrating on the history of eugenics, homosexuality and themes related to the labour movement. His most recent publications include Catholicism, race and empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 (Budapest/New York, 2014) and Anarchism and eugenics: An unlikely convergence (Manchester, 2019). Currently, he is working on a history of anticolonialism in Portugal between 1900 and 1940 and has published on this topic: Anarchism and anticolonialism in Portugal (1919-1926): Mário Domingues, A Batalha and black internationalism, in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 25(3), 2019, pp. 441-465. Richard Cleminson is a scientific consultant of the research project Photo Impulse.
Inocência Mata is professor of Literature, Arts and Culture (LAC) at the College of Letters, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies (CEComp/FLUL) and director of the PhD Program in Portuguese as a Foreign Language/Second Language. She holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon and a postdoctoral degree in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research are mainly in the field of Post-colonial Studies, focusing on the following topics: African literatures and cultures, aesthetic relations between literatures in Portuguese, world-literature, memory studies, literary production by authors of African descent in Portugal and intercultural communication. Visiting professor at many foreign universities, she is also a member of the Editorial and Scientific Board of numerous specialist journals, both national and foreign.
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July 13th
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9:30am-10:00am Reception and welcome coffee
10:00am-10:15am Official opening - Auditorium A224 (Zoom transmission)
10:15am-11:15am Elizabeth Edwards - Making paths: from colonial objects to historical presences | chair: Teresa Mendes Flores - Auditorium A224 (Zoom transmission)
11:25am-11:45am Coffee break
11:45am-1:15pm Parallel in-person panels: Panel 1 , Panel 2 , Panel 3
1:15pm-2:15pm Lunch
2:15pm-4:15pm Parallel online panels: Panel A , Panel B , Panel C
4:15pm-4:45pm Coffee break
4:45pm-6:15pm Parallel in-person panels: Panel 4 , Panel 5 , Panel 6
9:00pm-11:00pm Films projection: Fordlandia Malaise, de Susana de Sousa Dias and From Here and There, de Madalena Miranda
July 14th
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10:00am-11:00am Joseph Tonda - Decolonizing visuality, decolonizing the mind
| chair: Soraya Vasconcelos - Auditório A224 (Zoom transmission with translation in English)
11:00am-11:30am Coffee break
11:45am-1:15pm Parallel in-person panels:Panel 7 , Panel 8 , Panel 9
1:30pm-2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm-4:00pm Plenary of Photo Impulse
Teresa Mendes Flores, António Fernando Cascais, Margarida Medeiros and Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Zoom transmission)
4:00pm-4:30pm Coffee break
4:30pm-6:30pm Parallel in-person and online panels: Panel 10 , Panel 11 , Panel 12 , Panel D , Panel E , Panel F
9:00pm Film projection. Mosquito by João Nuno Pinto (in Portuguese with subtitles in English) . With the presence of the director and the screenwriter Fernanda Polacow - Sala Fernando Lopes
July 15th
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9:30am-11:30am Parallel in-person panels: Panel 13 , Panel 14 , Panel 15
11:30am-12:00am Coffee break
12:00am-1:00pm Richard Cleminson - O Negro (1911) and the ambivalences of colonialism | chair: António Fernando Cascais (Zoom transmission)
1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-3:30pm Artistic Research in the context of the Photo Impulse project
Conversation with artists and researchers Soraya Vasconcelos, Helena Elias, Maria Kowalski, Madalena Miranda, Teresa Cruz and Lorena Travassos (Zoom transmission)
3:40pm-5:10pm Parallel in-person and online panels: Panel 16 , Panel 17 , Panel G , Panel H
5:10pm-5:30pm Coffee break
5:30pm-6:30pm Inocência Mata - Decolonizing and expanding the literary canon: The urgency of the
visibility of the Portuguese literature of African-descent
authorship | chair: Filippo De Tomasi - Auditório A224 (In-person with zoom transmission and translation in English)
6:30pm-7:15pm Film projection [PT] Missão Sudoeste de Angola: Afinal, quem nos define?, de Carla Osório - Auditório A224
7:15pm - 7:30pm Closing remarks - Auditório A224
9:00pm
Conference dinner - Restaurant La Villa (Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, nº 40-41, 1150-225 Lisbon)
Chair: Flora Paim
Figurações da distância: Espectros fotográficos do exílio brasileiro em Portugal - Isabel Stein
Arquivo reativo: as imagens da arte política latino-americana dos anos 1960 e o olhar contem-âneo - Tainan Barbosa
Afroeuropa e o Atlântico: a política na arte e a arte como política - Luca Fazzini
Chair: Margarida Medeiros
Colonialism as Flesh and Stone: On the Inextricability of Photographs and Monuments - Afonso Dias Ramos
Historical statues: a story of power, of imperialism, of colonialism - Marc Lenot e Ivan Argote
Post-colonial architectural imagination in between aid and extraction - Sebastian Loosen
Chair: Soraya Vasconcelos
Experiences of Africas: Cruzeiro Seixas' stay in Angola, 1952-1964 - Jorge Croce Rivera
Studio Photography and Performance: Lai Yong and Fong Get's response to the Lie of the Colonial Situation - Ekalan Hou
The production of transformative knowledge in the experience of 'Catchupa Factory' photographic residency - Alfredo Brant
Chair: Alfredo Brant
Past and present as Black media activism in Nego Bala’s “Sonho” (2021) - Gabriel Juliano
Looking Together as Method: Decolonizing Ottoman Armenian Expatriation Photographs - Zeynep Gursel
The State of the World: Rehearsing an Abolitionist Reading Practice - Hadley Howes
Mimic image: Making of mediated decolonial political imaginaries and counter-hegemonic narratives in 2019-2020 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement - Jeffrey Lin Chi-ho
Chair: Ana Gandum
Missed Art or Missing Art? Contem-ary artistic practices dealing with questions of colonial looting of art - Veronika Rudorfer
Blackness and Visuality in a European Context - Britt Salvesen e Dhyandra Lawson
(Un)Seeing Goa’s Bom Jesus in Vishvesh Kandolkar’s This is Not the Basilica! - R. Benedito Ferrão
Counter-cartography, between relational art and political practice: a collaborative experience in the South of Italy - Chiara Falcone
Chair: Sayd Mansur
Imagens pensantes do índigena brasileiro no filme Rituais e Festas Bororo, de Luiz Thomaz Reis (1917) - Beatriz Avila Vasconcelos
Do Templo ao Museu: O caso dos boho-a-Bwété (Gabão) e dos nkisi (Angola, Congo) - Filipa Maia Duarte de Almeida
Curadorias colaborativas e insurgentes: modos para construir um outro museu - Elisa Noronha e Michelle Dona
Chair: Rita Carvalho
The Prospects and Limitations of Visual Participatory Methods for Decolonizing Visuality: A Critical Evaluation - Luc Pauwels
Decolonizing the (In)Visibility of Sally Hemings - Sarah Richter
Decolonizing European Aesthetic Values. A Critique of Immanuel Kants’ “Critique of Judgement” - Seda Pesen
Chair: Maria Teresa Cruz
Nino Cais aesthetic: European vs Brazilian identity - deconstructing colonial icons - Maria de Fatima Lambert
Slow Trees in Manhattan - Sarah Moore
Screaming heads: a decolonial gaze on Francis Bacon’ images of flesh - João Pereira de Matos
Chair: Philipp Teuchmann
Panorama du Congo: The 'All-Embracing' Colonial Propaganda. Decolonising with VR and Artistic Research - Victor Flores, Leen Engelen e Linda King
Photographs as historical sources for reconstituting colonial collections and connecting histories - Elisabete Santos Pereira e Maria de Fátima Nunes
Chair: António Fernando Cascais
António Custódio das Neves: a Trans* counter-archival practice for a potential history of Trans* persons in Portugal - Catarina Martins
Bik'eh Hozho: Queer politics and Diné identity in photographs by Jolene Nenibah Yazzie - Louise Siddons
Shifting Vernaculars: Power, Deviancy and Queer Caribbean Photographic Histories - Linzey Corridon
“Bewitchingly lovely in the very act of eating”: Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Gustatory-Visual Sensualism - Abigail Dennis
Chair: Nathália Pamio
Colonial patterns, decolonial perspectives. Exhibition of African Art in the National Ethographic Museum in Warsaw - Magdalena Wróblewska
Questioning views: colonial vernacular photographs and the museum - Agnese Ghezzi
"...and the importance of critique": 'Humanitarian' discourse and restitutive practice in Renzo Martens 'White Cube" - Jakob Claus e Lisa Deml
Chair: Madalena Miranda
The “Relational Gaze”: a Decolonial Strategy in También la lluvia/Even the Rain by Icíar Bollaín - Mirta Roncagalli
Structures of Feeling, Structures of Loss: Cinematic Memory and Cinematic Forgetting in Rhymes for Young Ghouls Corey Schultz
Narratives from the Margins: Changing Aesthetics in Indian Cinema - Haritha. R
The dispersed Utopia in the work of Olivier Marboeuf - Aleksi Rennes
Chair: Mariana Gomes da Costa
From Colonial Science to African Heritage? The photographic constellation of the Institut français d’Afrique noire - Anais Mauuarin e Julie Cayla
Trailing Capelo and Ivens’ 2nd African journey, through their geological samples - José M. Brandão e Sofia Mesquita Soares
Representing a new Portuguese Empire in Africa: the Cartography Commission and the -tuguese Scramble for Africa, 1883–1891 - Daniel Gamito-Marques
Chair: Filipa Lowndes Vicente
Shifting the ground of the image: South African photographer Fanie Jason (1990s) - Patricia Hayes
(De)colonial Gaze and Archival Bodies in Ayana V. Jackson's photographic self--traits - Julia Stachura
Gendering Decolonial Counter-Visuality in Joris Postema’s 'Stop Filming Us': The Marginalization of Congolese Women's Oppositional Gaze - Younghoo Yoo
Di Vilna Troupe: the Avangardist Reinvention of Marginalized Yiddish Tradition - Camelia Craciun
Chair: Isabel Stein
Hidden histories: A study of transcultural identity mediated through family photography - Caroline Molloy
What is not there in family photo album: visual absence and production of counter narratives of motherhood - Jelena Salaj
Performing the (private) archive, rethinking history, and rewriting memory - Ana Janeiro
Chair: Pedro Florêncio
Martin Parr and the Legacy of British Colonial Photography - Cammie Tipton
Decentring the ‘Decisive Moment’ in India's Post-Independence Photography - Manila Castoro
What to do with all these photos? – An exhibition series about countering images with images - Lucia Halder
Chair: Sara Castelo Branco
How archives, museums and cultural institutions can change the accessibility and searchability of images by expanding controlled vocabularies with local knowledge and participation - Anke Schürer-Ries
Decolonizing museum practices – case study of the exhibition “Museum? What for?” - Barbara Banasik
Exhibition-making as storytelling: the 14th FEMSA Biennial in Michoacán, Mexico - Ana Gonzalez Rueda , David Murrieta Flores
Chair: Fabiana Bruce Silva
Imagens Críticas do Estado Novo Brasileiro: Modernidade, Trabalho e Propaganda Oficial em Conflito - Sayd Mansur - Sayd Mansur
Contra Cidades: Territorialidades transantlânticas dispóricas - Priscila Musa , Carolina Anselmo
Future Scenarios: arte, política e utopia - Ana Lúcia Mandelli De Marsillac
Narrativas em paralaxe como estratégias contra hegemônicas - Lilian Cristina Monteiro França
Chair: Rita Cássia
A degenerescência na fotografia da antropobiologia colonial portuguesa - Mariana Gomes da Costa
De facto biológico a artefacto cultural: um olhar sobre a construção visual da questão do cabelo nas Missões Antropológicas de Moçambique e Angola - Philipp Teuchmann
O dispositivo obsceno: estratégias do olhar colonial - José Pedro Batista
Chair: Linda King
Decolonizing Irish Photo-Archives: Anti-imperialism and Human Rights in Roger Casement’s photographs of the Putumayo Atrocities - Justin Carville
The First ‘Famine’ Photograph? Poverty, Philanthropy and Resistance in 19th century Ireland - Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
Chair: Ana David
Vumbi II - Mário Domingues: uma contra narrativa para a descolonização da ilustração - Rita Carvalho
Estranhas presenças: o Iran enquanto imagem (excertos de Fogo no Lodo) - Daniel Barroca , Catarina Laranjeiro
Memórias de Pau-preto e Marfim: A imagem e o arquivo familiar na contribuição de narrativas pós-coloniais - Susana Lourenço Marques , Inês Costa
Musealizar o multiculturalismo no Museu Nacional de Etnologia (Lisboa): experiências e reflexões sobre uma educação reparadora - Lorena Sancho Querol
Chair: Wim Forceville
Beyond Surface Matters: Unsettling Views of a Western American Landscape - Laura Smith
Negative Space: Photography as Strategy in Late-Colonial Old Goa - Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar
Polaroid, Power and Western Imperialism - Witold Kanicki
Chair: Victor Flores
MapaHistória: perdas, faltas e ausências de um itinerário algodoeiro no Vale do Ave - Ludgero Almeida
Remote Sensing: Imagens da Luz e da Escuridão e a Idéia de Desenvolvimento - Tomás Ribas
Manchester’s Child - Maria Madalena Miranda
Chair: Ana Lúcia Mandelli De Marsillac
História e Fotografia: uma (des)construção da narrativa visual do arquivo fotográfico da Diamang - Bruno Madeira , Filipa Santos
O axé nos axós das fotografias decoloniais dos candomblés - Aymê Okasaki
Cercanias. Que jardim há nessa fotografia? - Fabiana Bruce Silva
Chair: Flávia Meireles
Titties & Goo: Diffractive Materialities, Agential Processes, & the Enduring Bodies of the Photographic Archive - Megan B. Ratliff
Seeing as (Un)making – Photogrammetry as a techno-feminist practice of counter-mapping - Dave Loder
Deconstructing domestic spaces: Caribbean Identity through the vernacular scope - Katherine Thompson
EVAM- Observatório em Estudos Visuais e Arqueologia dos
Media
Filippo De Tomasi
Isabel Stein
PHOTO IMPULSE
Teresa Mendes Flores (ICNOVA & ULHT)
Margarida Medeiros
(NOVA FCSH)
Soraya Vasconcelos (ICNOVA & ULHT)
Mariana
Gomes da Costa (NOVA FCSH)
José Pedro Batista (NOVA FCSH)
Maria
Kowalski (NOVA FCSH)
Catarina Marques Mateus (MUNHAC)
ICNOVA Scientific Management
Patrícia Contreiras
Natália Manso
Alzira Tude de Sá (UFBA-Brazil)
Ana Lúcia Marsillac
(UFSC-Brazil)
António Fernando Cascais (NOVA FCSH)
Catarina
Marques Mateus (MUNHAC)
Élia Roldão (NOVA FCT)
Filipa
Lowndes Vicente (ICS-UL)
Helena Elias (FBAUL)
Lorena
Travassos (UAL & ICNOVA)
Margarida Medeiros (NOVA FCSH)
Maria
da Conceição Casanova (NOVA FCT)
Maria do Carmo Piçarra (UAL
& ICNOVA)
Maria Teresa Cruz (NOVA FCSH)
Sílvio Marcus de
Sousa Correa (UFSC - Brazil)
Soraya Vasconcelos (ICNOVA &
ULHT)
Susana de Sousa Dias (FBAUL)
Teresa Castro
(Sorbonne Nouvelle 3)
Teresa Mendes Flores (ICNOVA & ULHT)
Victor
Flores (ULHT)