A próxima edição da Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, que acontecerá entre os dias 28 de junho e 3 de julho de 2021, é subordinada ao tema “Convivial Cultures”. Estão abertas as submissões de propostas de estudantes de (pós-)doutoramento até ao dia 21 de fevereiro de 2021.

Mais informações sobre taxas de participação, tópicos e regras de submissão podem ser consultadas no site: XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture.

XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

Convivial Cultures

June 28-July 3, 2021

Deadline for submissions: February 21st, 2021

The XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, under the topic “Convivial Cultures”, is the final public activity of the 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. The 4Cs is a European Cooperation Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Founded in 2017 and ending in 2021, the 4Cs aims at responding to a series of emerging social and cultural challenges such as migration, securitization, and freedom of expression by raising awareness about the role of creative and cultural work in the strengthening of European responsibility and European citizenship in a project of peace and conviviality.

One of the key goals of the XI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture is to track the notions of conviviality in terms of the narratives of their theoretical productions as well as the conditions of their applications in multiple art forms and across different creative and cultural contexts. Such tracking aims at, on the one hand, reflecting upon the different notions and how they have been used to address the same idea of “living-with-difference”. On the other hand, it serves as a reminder of how ideas across different disciplinary fields move and interact across time and contexts.

Welcoming contributions from the fields of Cultural, Literary, Translation, Visual Arts, Music, and Performance Studies, the 11th edition of the Summer School intends to reflect on the interrelation between different notions and applications of conviviality, to examine the growing awareness of the need for new cultures of conviviality, and to discuss the necessity to rethink, reconceptualize, and redefine the relationship between humans and between humans and the world they live in.  

The Lisbon Summer School invites proposals by doctoral students and post-docs that address, though may not be strictly limited to, the topics below:

• Creativity and conflict/conviviality
• Conviviality/conflict in/and the arts
• Representations of conviviality
• Conviviality/Friendship/Solidarity/Commons
• Social change and planetarity
• Multispecies entanglements
• Multi- / Inter- / Trans- Culturalities
• Participatory and relational practices
• Conviviality and digitally-mediated networks
• Cultures of conviviality and interdependence
• Translation and Conviviality
• Artistic and cultural convivial practices

The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from around the world. In the morning there will be lectures and master classes by invited keynote speakers. In the afternoon there will be paper presentations by doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

Paper proposals

Proposals should be sent to lxsummerschool@gmail.com no later than February 21st 2021 and include paper title, abstract in English (max. 200 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning ongoing research.

Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by March 21st, 2021.