Conference Cycle XV Week of Sociomuseology - 2024

The Sociomuseology Week calendar marks the academic year of the PhD and Master's programmes in the Department of Museology and takes place at Lusófona University.

The 15th edition will take place from 15 February to 2 March 2024.

The week will include conferences, doctoral juries, study group presentations, a research seminar in sociomuseology, exhibitions, technical visits, classes and lots of dialogue.

This year's academic immersion programme is being coordinated by the Department of Museology - ULusofona and the UNESCO Chair "Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity", in partnership with CeiED - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development and the FCT Project - Foundation for Science and Technology.

This year, the program is mostly face-to-face, but part of it will be streaming on the Department's Museology Department Facebook Page.

Programme

15th February

9h30 - Reception and Welcome

10h00 - Opening Speeches

• Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Bruno and Prof. Dr. Maria das Graças Teixeira

Mediation: Prof. Dr. Mário Moutinho

14h30 - Welcome and presentation of the ULusofona Museology Department and the PhD, Master's, Post-Doctoral and Scientific Residency Programmes

• Prof. Doutor Mário Moutinho
• Prof.ª Doutora Judite Primo
• Prof. Doutor Adel Igor Pausini

16h00 - Presentation of the Museology Department's projects

• Project: "Generating bodies: from aggression to insurgency. Contributions to a decolonial pedagogy" - Prof. Dr Judite Primo - Grant holder: PhD student Lucas da Silva
• Project: "CARIM - Contemporary Art - A Tool for an inclusive and regenerated museology" - Prof. Dr Marta Jecu - Scholarship holders: PhD students Henrique Godoy and Arantxa Ciafrino. 
• Project: "HIGHRES - Helping Intangible Heritage REsilience through Storytelling" - Prof. Dr. Mário Moutinho - Researcher: Prof. Dr. Adel Igor Pausini
• Project: "INOMPOR - The social role of innovation in Portuguese museums" - Prof. Dr Mário Moutinho - Grant holder: Ms Desirèe Nobre

Exhibition: in the lounge of the Vítor de Sá Library.

16th February

9h30 - Presentation of Completed Research and Post-Doctoral Projects

• Master's Degree - Maria Luisa Moita Marcondes da Silva: "Mauritshuis on the Move: New Perspectives in Search of a Decolonial Look"
• PhD - Moana Campos Soto "'And the Word became Flesh': Paulo Freire's Influence on Museums and Museology"
• Postdoctoral - Clovis Carvalho Britto "Museologies at the service of difference and speciality language: An integrative review on the resonances of the term difference in Sociomuseology"
• Post-doc - Hugo Menezes Neto "LGBT+ Museology in Portuguese: The Lusophone Museum of Sexual Diversity and other experiences"

14h30 - Presentation by the UNESCO Chair in Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity Welcome and Presentation

• Prof.ª Doutora Judite Primo – Chair Holder

15h00 - Presentation of the Unesco Chair Study Groups "Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity"

• "Sociomuseology + Paulo Freire"
• "Socio-expography Laboratory - LabSE"
• "Sociomuseology and Cultural Accessibility"
• "Sociomuseology, Critical Thinking and the University - SIU"
• "Insurgent Museologies in Our America - MINA"

17th February

9h00 - Time and Meeting Point

• Lusófona University Main Entrance

10h00 - Technical visit

15h00 - Technical visit

19th February

10h00 - Master's Jury

• Heloísa Vivanco Pires - "Expography from the Perspective of Sociomuseology: Views on the Insurgencies exhibition"

14h30 - Round table discussion: "50 years of the April Revolution"

• Prof. Doutor Mário Moutinho – Lusófona University (ULusofona)
• Prof.ª Doutora Arlinda Cabral – Lusófona University (ULusofona)
• Prof. Doutor Matheus Pereira – Institute of Social Sciences (ICS/UL)

Mediation: Prof. Dr Judite Primo - Lusófona University (ULusofona)

17h00 - Cultural Activity: "Poetry from April"

• Doctoral student and poet Mabel Cavalcanti.

20th and 21st February

Preparation for the XXI MINOM International Conference - Catania/ Italy
"Rethinking museologies for change: transdisciplinary alliances for fairer societies"

22nd February

I International Congress - AGRRIN: Generating Bodies - "Everyday racism: from aggression to insurgency" (Day 1)

23rd February

I International Congress - AGRRIN: Generating Bodies - "Everyday racism: from aggression to insurgency" (Day 2)

26th February

10h00 - Final Doctoral Jury

• Fabiana de Oliveira Ferreira - "Audiovisual Preservation: A Sociomuseological Study on Institutional Aspects and Public Policies"

14h30 - XVI Seminar on Research in Sociomuseology (Day 1)

27th February

10h00 - Final Doctoral Jury

• Júlio Cézar Chaves "'El olvido está lleno de memoria': fragments, burials and absences from the mythical Round Table in Santiago de Chile, 1972"

14h30 - XVI Seminar on Research in Sociomuseology (Day 2)

28 February

10h00 - Doctoral Preliminary Jury

• Maria Josiane Vieira "Tramando Museus Universitários: Public Policies for Education and Culture in Brazilian Federal Universities in the 21st Century"

14h30 - XVI Seminar on Research in Sociomuseology (Day 3)

29 February

9h30 - Experimental Image Mediation Activity for Blind, Deaf and Deafblind Audiences - Unesco Chair

• "Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity"
• Study Group "Sociomuseology and Cultural Accessibility";
• Study Group "Sociomuseology + Paulo Freire".

11h00 - Round Table Discussion: Research Grants (2023)

• PhD student Desirèe Nobre
• PhD student Geanine Vargas
• Doctoral student Alex Nogueira
• PhD student Ana Paula Carvalho
• PhD student Luiza Trápaga

15h00 - Technical visit

• National Coach Museum - Av. da Índia 136, 1300-300 Lisbon

1st March

10h00 - 1st year class

• Prof Dr Maria Cristina Bruno - PhD and Master's - Museology and Contemporary Issues

15h00 - 1st year class

• Prof Dr Maria Cristina Bruno - PhD and Master's - Museology and Contemporary Issues

2nd March

10h00 - 1st year class

• Prof Dr Clovis Carvalho Britto - PhD and Master's - Museology and Contemporary Issues

15h00 - 1st year class

• Prof Maria das Graças Teixeira - PhD and Masters - Museology and Contemporary Issues

15h00 - 2nd year class

• Prof. Dr. Mário Moutinho and Prof. Dr. Adel Igor Pausini - PhD and Master's - Research Seminar in Museology

18h00 - Sociomuseology Week closing party

Locations

• From February 15th to 28th at Ed. Biblioteca Vítor de Sá - José Araújo Auditorium.
• From February 29th to March 2nd in rooms A.1.1. - 1st year and A1.5. - 2nd year
• Locations of technical visits

Keynote Speakers

• Prof Dr Mário Moutinho
• Prof Dr Judite Primo
• Prof Dr Adel Igor Pausini
• Prof Dr Maria Cristina Bruno
• Prof Dr Maria das Graças Teixeira
• Prof Dr Clovis Carvalho Britto