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2nd National Meeting on University and Culture

18 November 2021 to 20 November 2021

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.

REGISTRATION

The registrations should be made through this link.

PROGRAMME

18 November | Almada Negreiros College, Auditorium A14

18h00. Musical Prelude

  • Mariana Camacho (NOVA)

18h10. Opening Cerimony

  • João Sàágua, Rector of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
  • Fátima Vieira, Vice-Rector of the University of Porto
  • Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
  • Representative of the Ministry of Culture

18h30. Opening notes

  • Paulo Pires do Vale (Commissioner of the National Arts Plan)
  • Maryam Barbari (EuroNews Kabul), Halima Rezayee (Azad University) e Massoma Barbari (Gawharshad University)

19h15 Reception

  • Fusion cocktail - science (food and molecular gastronomy) and cultural diversity
    (Cooking Lab – ULisboa / NOVA)

19h15. Short visits to the Esgrima and the Noble Hall, listening to a string duo

  • Joana Cunha Leal (NOVA) and "La Miseria Deluxe", Donatello Brida & Filippo Bonini Baraldi (NOVA).

19 de novembro | Fado Museum

  • What is the value of culture? ‘Where’ is culture? Who have access to it? Who goes to the university? Does culture provide jobs? Does the university prepare people to work in cultural activities?

14h45. Presentation

  • Fado Museum/EGEAC

15h00. Roundtable discussion

  • Rita Jerónimo (DGPC), Joana Sousa Monteiro (EGEAC), Fátima Vieira (UPorto) and António Saez Delgado (UÉvora) discuss the real relations between University and Culture.

16h00. Scientific experiments and performance

  • Filippo Bonini Baraldi (NOVA)

16h30. Roundtable discussion

  • Ana Paula Amendoeira (DRCA), Alexandra Gonçalves (UALg), António Candeias (UÉvora), José Eduardo Franco (UAb) discuss culture and territory.

17h30. Coffee break

18h00 Roundtable discussion

  • Sandra Vieira Jürgens (NOVA/ Festival Alkantara), Tiago Sigorelho (Gerador), José Soares Neves (OPAC/ISCTE) and Filipa Oliveira (UCoimbra) talk about cultures, creativity, intervention and communication.

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

  • Margarida Kol (Padrão dos Descobrimentos/EGEAC)

15h15h. A Jill Dias’s lesson and her collection of colonial photographs and postcards (NOVA)

15h45. Around Literature and the poem Rosa dos Ventos

  • Alexandra Lucas Coelho (independent), Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (NOVA) and Fernando Cabral Martins (NOVA) gather around the reading of the poem Rosa dos Ventos by Almada Negreiros.

16h45. Coffee break

17h15. “Concerted” Talks

  • Chiara Pussetti (ICS-UL/ Ébano), Cyril Isnart (MMSH, Aix-en-Provence) and Rui Cidra (NOVA) with Dju Di Mana and guests talk (and play) about culture and curating in different sites and scales.

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.