KNOWLEDGE AND VISION

COURSE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN COLONIAL CONTEXTS: HISTORY, ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS

Lisbon, ICS-ULisboa, 25-28 February 2013

With 50 participants from different areas - mainly scholars, but also artists, documentary makers, and journalists - the course promoted the debate on multiple aspects of the subject, with the added benefit of including active visits to photographic collections. The course took place in February 2013, and it was divided in two parts, a theoretical one, and a practical one: the theoretical section was protagonised by the presentations of Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Pinney, the British both proeminent scholars in the field, and consultants to the project. Clara Carvalho and Cosimo Chiarelli, also a member of the research group, also presented their work; the practical side of the course was filled with participated visits to five photographic collections in Lisbon archives, museums and libraries. The ways in which archivists and librarians responded to our challenge was extremely positive. At the Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Joaquim Pais de Brito, its director and also a consultant to the project, and Carmen Loureiro Rosa, in charge of the Museum's library; at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, its Director Ana Canas and the researchers of the project Ana Cristina Martins and Catarina Mateus; at Sociedade de Geografia, Manuela Cantinho, director of the Museum; at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, its director Silvestre Lacerda, and the arquivists Fernando Costa and Paulo Tremoceiro, as well as the specialist in conservation Carla Lobo; and, finally, at the Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Rute Vieira and Mário Neves.

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