Spring Seminar 2021

Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts

05 MAIO 2021

16h30 - 18h00
Artist Talk
Loretta Fahrenholz · Mashes of the Afternoon 
Chair: Guilherme Blanc

18h30
Screening + Q&A
O Ornitólogo
de João Pedro Rodrigues
Portugal, 2016, 117’


06 MAIO 2021

9h45 - 11h00
Keynote Speaker
José Bértolo · “Kingdom of Shadows”: Film as Spectral Medium
Chair: Daniel Ribas

11h00 - 11h15
Pause

11h15 - 13h00
Panel #1
Chair: Maria Coutinho

Joana Passi · University of Coimbra
The angel in the house

Andrés Azzolina · Universidade de Lisboa
Ghost Communication: Media and Human Extinction

David Revés · Universidade Nova de Lisboa
The speculative hand: towards a (meta)physics of the hand from the analysis of “The Mesh and the Circle”

13h00 - 14h30
Lunch

14h30 - 16h00
Keynote Speaker
Margarida Medeiros · Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Animism, haunted images and the return of the repressed in photography and cinema
Chair: Carlos Natálio

16h00 - 16h15
Pause

16h30 - 18h00
Panel #2

Chair: João Pedro Amorim

Rita Benis · Universidade de Lisboa
“The Strange Case of Angelica”: an ominous mirroring relationship

Matthew Mason · Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Spectres of Populism and Postmodernism in the Documentary Work of Adam Curtis (2015 - 2021)

Temenuga Trifonova · York University
Spectrality, Haunting, and Ghosts in Contemporary European Cinema

18h00 - 18h30
Pause

18h30
Keynote Speaker

Ulrich Baer · New York University
Haunting Images. Ghostly Photographs in the Age of Global Media
Chair: Maria Coutinho


07 MAIO 2021

9h30 - 11h00
Panel #3

Chair: Joana Rafael

João Pereira Matos · Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Acheron in cyberspace: clinamen and spectrality

Ana Dinger · Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Duchamp’s aphorism revisited: “a guest + a host = a ghost”

Tiago Bartolomeu Costa · Universidade de Lisboa
Tânia Carvalho: spectral bodies and choreographic drills

Maithri · University of Amsterdam
“Unsex me here”: Lady Macbeth, Gender and Ghosts of Futures Past

11h00 - 11h15
Pause

11h15 - 13h00
Panel #4

Chair: Pedro Alves

Marina Gallani · Universidade Católica Portuguesa
The Driving Silence of Francesca Woodman and Laura Hospes: An Analysis of Death and Self-portraiture

Bárbara Bergamaschi · PUC-Rio / Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Peter Tscherkassky's Cinematic Hauntology

Alice Sanches · Universidade Nova de Lisboa
There are horses in Chernobyl: Notes on a (new) aesthetics of horror

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues · University of Coimbra
Decolonizing haunting? A set of questions and epistemological challenges

13h00 - 14h30
Lunch

14h30 - 16h00
Keynote Speaker

Esther Peeren · University of Amesterdam
Living Ghosts of the Spectralized Rural
Chair: João Pedro Amorim

16h00 - 16h15
Pause

16h30 - 17h45
Panel #5

Chair: Carlos Ruiz

Mireille Berton · University of Lausanne
Medium (in) Cinema: Studying Film Representations of Spiritualism

Sandra Camacho · Universidade de Lisboa
The ‘Absent One’ in Daniel Blaufuks’s “The Absence”

Nicolò Villani · e-Campus University
The Haunting of Netflix Home: Reading the streaming platforms as haunted houses

17h45 - 18h00
Pause

18h30 | SALA DE EXPOSIÇÕES
Exhibition Opening
Nuno Cera

Sinfonia do Desconhecido II

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