When we talk about culture, are we all talking about the same thing? And when we talk about university? What does the university do for culture and vice versa? Does the university prepare students for working on culture activities? What is the value of culture?
These are some basic questions with complex answers that we must simplify in order to act. The 2nd National Meeting on University and Culture proposes a series of duets, trios, quartets, and guided tours, to open up channels for a better transit between two universes often turned inward.
The University and Culture Meeting is an initiative of the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities and the National Arts Plan associated with different partners, namely the DGPC and EGEAC which, during the days of the event, offer free access to their Museums, Monuments and Galleries, as well as with Alkantara Festival, which offers special conditions of access to some of its events.
The registrations should be made through this link.
18 November | Almada Negreiros College, Auditorium A14
18h00. Musical Prelude
18h10. Opening Cerimony
18h30. Opening notes
19h15 Reception
19h15. Short visits to the Esgrima and the Noble Hall, listening to a string duo
19 de novembro | Fado Museum
14h45. Presentation
15h00. Roundtable discussion
16h00. Scientific experiments and performance
16h30. Roundtable discussion
17h30. Coffee break
18h00 Roundtable discussion
19h00 Projection of the film A Ramadan in Lisbon
(CRIA: ISCTE-UL/NOVA/UMinho/UCoimbra)
20th November | Guided tour Sant'Ana Hill: Knowledge and Health | 10h
20th November | Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries)
Culture outside and inside the University. When we talk about culture are we all talking about the same thing? And when we talk about university? What does the university do for culture? What does culture do for the university?
15h00. Presentation
15h15h. A Jill Dias’s lesson and her collection of colonial photographs and postcards (NOVA)
15h45. Around Literature and the poem Rosa dos Ventos
16h45. Coffee break
17h15. “Concerted” Talks
19h. Closing
The programme, which brings representatives from the whole country, will include academic debates, literary and musical interludes, with various delegates of associations, institutions, and companies, of different scales and formats, in an attempt to open up channels for the free movement of people (and particularly university students) between culture, research and teaching. The event also commemorates the European Day of Academic Heritage and underscores the need to unveil the academic collections and competences through the light and stages of culture, as well as the relevant role of scientific research and care to illuminate cultural artifacts and exhibitions. In this spirit, DGPC, EGEAC and other cultural partners of this initiative join the event and open their spaces to the academic community.