International Seminar
Representing Violence
September 19, 2008, 9:00, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Amphitheatre IV (5th Floor)
Speakers
Adriana Bebiano
Literary and Cultural Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Adriana Bebiano holds a Ph. D. in English Literature from the University of Coimbra (2003). She does research in Comparative Literature (Irish and Portuguese) and Women’s Studies. Her most recent publications are: “O sexo do desejo: Margaret Atwood reescreve Penélope”, In Norma e Trangressão (ed. Carmen Soares), Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 2008; “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know: the stories of Chicago May and Eliza Lynch”, in Irish Women Writers: National and International contexts (Amsterdam, Rodopi, in print).
António Sousa Ribeiro
Literary and Cultural Studies, Centre for Social Studies
António Sousa Ribeiro is a Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Coimbra University, a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where he co-coordinates the Nucleus for Comparative Cultural Studies, and Editor of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. His current areas of interest include studies of German-language literatures and cultures, comparative literature, post-colonial studies, translation studies, studies on Modernism and studies on violence. He is the author of Entre Ser e Estar: Raízes, Percursos e Discursos da Identidade, Edições Afrontamento, 2002 (with Maria Irene Ramalho), among other publications.
Catarina Martins
Literary and Cultural Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Catarina Martins is Assistant Professor of German Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Research Fellow of the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph. D. in German Literature from the University of Coimbra (2008). Her dissertation is entitled Modernismo. Ensaísmo. Imperialismo. Robert Müller e ‘A Corrente Amazónica da Alma Humana’. Her current research interests include German and Austrian modernism, essayism and post colonialism. She has written, among other titles, Camões na Alemanha. A figura do poeta em obras de Ludwig Tieck e Gunther Eich. Coimbra, Minerva / Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Germanísticos, 2000 (with Júlia Garraio).
Gerry Kearns
Geography, University of Cambridge
Gerry Kearns is a Co-Convenor of the Historical-Cultural Research Cluster. He is a director of the Centre for Gender Studies at Cambridge, and is Historical Geography Convenor for the European Social Science History Association. His research focuses on the history and cultural politics of public health; geography and imperialism; and geographical imaginaries of Irish nationalism. He has published over thirty articles and is co-editor of Selling Places: the city as cultural capital, past and present (1993) (with Chris Philo). He is currently working on Geopolitics and Empire, a book about the relations between the ideologies of Victorian-British and Neo-Conservative-American imperialism, and Vital Politics, an ESRC-funded international and interdisciplinary seminar series about the political, economic and social circumstances under which the beginning and end of life are culturally and technologically constructed (with Simon Reid-Henry, Queen Mary College, University of London).
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal and holds a Ph.D. from that same university. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies as well as representations of war and conflict.She is the author of Mythographies (Lisbon, 2007), and co-editor of Landscapes of Memory Envisaging the Past/Remembering the Future, Lisbon 2004; The Colour of Difference: On German Contemporary Culture (2005). She is also the editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Comunicação e Cultura (Communication and Culture).
José Manuel Pureza
International Relations, Centre for Social Studies
José Manuel Pureza is Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Coimbra University, a researcher with the Centre for Social Studies and a specialist in International Law, International Relations and Peace Studies. His areas of interest include prevention and management of armed conflicts and post-conflict reconstruction. He has published, among other titles, Para uma cultura da paz. Coimbra: Quarteto, 2001.
Júlia Garraio
Literary and Cultural Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Júlia Garraio is currently working on a post-doctoral research project about "Representations of sexual violence in contemporary German Literature about World War II" at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph. D in German Literature from that same university with a dissertation on Günter Eich's poetology. Her current research interests include identity, memory, sexuality and racism in twentieth century's Germany. She has published, among other titles,Um Lugar para a Poesia. Günter Eich e a Construção da Imagem do Poeta (1927-1959), Coimbra, Minerva/ CIEG, 2005.
Luís Quintais
Anthropology, University of Coimbra
Luís Quintais holds a Ph.D in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon, and is Professor of Anthropology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra. His areas of interest and research include anthropology of biomedicine and of biotechnologies, cognitive anthropology, and bio arts. He has published, among other books, Franz Piechowski ou a analítica do arquivo: ensaio sobre o visível e o invisível na psiquiatria forense, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2006.
Maria José Canelo
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Maria José Canelo is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Research Fellow of the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Ph. D. in American Studies from NYU (2003). Her dissertation is entitled Carey McWilliams and the Question of Cultural Citizenship in the 1940s. Her current research interests include literary and cultural studies, inter-American studies, 'little' magazines, modernism and the nation. She has written, among other titles, "Common Ground and Immigrant Literatures in the 1940s", in Isabel Caldeira et al (org.), Novas Histórias Literárias. Coimbra: Minerva, 2005, pp.295-306.
Roberto Vecchi
Literary Studies, Universities of Bologna and Milan
Roberto Vecchi is professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at Bologna and Milan Universities. He directs the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies at Bologna University and is overseeing editor for Diabasis Press’s essay anthology Extreme Europe, which is to publish in Italian a volume of studies on post-colonialism authored by CES researchers. Among his latest publications, the second volume of essays on Brazilian culture and the idea of the modern tragic; with Ettore Finazzi-Agrò and Maria Betânia Amoroso, Traversing the Post-Tragic. The Dilemmas of a Reading of Brazil (Sao Paulo, 2006) and the chapter “The Portuguese Empire and Biopolitics: a Precocious Modernity?” (in Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures, Utrecht, 2007)
Sílvia Maeso
Political Science and Sociolog, Centre for Social Studies
Silvia Rodríguez Maeso is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies – Associate Laboratory and a member of the Democracy Studies, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation Research Group. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Pays Basco (UPV). Her career as a researcher is also linked with the Studies on Collective Identity Research Group (CEIC) at UPV, being a member of the research team since its foundation, in 1997, under the PhD Program Society, Politics and Economics in Latin America (1997-1999), which developed at the Sociology 2 Department, at UPV. Her research interests are in the area of Political Sociology, particularly on processes of construction of collective identities; cultural diversity; human rights and equality; youth, culture and politics; migration and social processes in the transformation of urban space; religious diversity and citizenship in Southern Europe.
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