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The programme for the second edition of the associate laboratory IN2PAST’s annual boot camp is now available. It includes several sessions open to the public, including talks, debates, the music listening session with commentary ‘Acordes da Liberdade’ (‘Chords of Freedom’) and the screening of the film Disobbedienti. The 2025 IN2PAST Doctoral School/ In2Future Boot Camp will once again be held in Évora, between the 19th and the 24th of May, under the topic ‘Common heritage: associative ties in the interstices of social life’, and again in partnership with Évora 27 – European Capital of Culture.
For one week, PhD candidates from the seven research units that make up the IN2PAST consortium will be challenged to explore ideas around the notions of ‘associative legacy’ or ‘common heritage’, and to carry out practical and immersive experimental research around the associative legacy with heritage value in the city of Évora.
On the afternoon of Tuesday the 20th, the Palácio de Dom Manuel will host two inspiring talks, ‘Marcel Mauss’ gift as heritage’, by archaeologist and archaeological historian Nathan Schlanger (École Nationale des Chartes – PSL), led by Afonso Dias Ramos (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), and ‘Sociality and Emptiness’, by anthropologist Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxforfd), based on her text Bordering encounters, sociality and distribution of the ability to live a ‘normal life’ (DOI 10.1111/1469-8676.12075), moderated by Rita Luís (IHC – UÉvora / IN2PAST).
The film Disobbedienti, by Oliver Ressler and Dario Azzellini (2002, 54′) will be screened at 6 pm in the Soror Mariana Auditorium, followed by the debate ‘Associativism on an Interverted Horizon’, with José Alberto Ferreira (CHAIA – UÉvora / IN2PAST & Évora_27) discussing the social and artistic intervention of cultural associations in Évora with Francesca Iorio (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).
© Filipe Rebelo | Sociedade União Eborense “Bota Rasa”
Anna Tsoupra, António Candeias, Catarina Miguel, José Neves, Pedro Antunes, Rita Luís, Sónia Vespeira de Almeida
University of Évora
IIFA – Institute for Advanced Studies and Research
Sociedade União Eborense ‘Bota Rasa’
Eugénio de Almeida Foundation
Évora Municipality
On the previous day, May 19th, Luiz Souza (School of Fine Arts – Federal University of Minas Gerais / IN2PAST Brazil), a chemist and specialist in Heritage and Conservation Sciences, leads the guided tour ‘Dialogues with conScience’, part of the International Museum Day celebration, at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation (EAF). And ‘Cultural Associativism in Alentejo: Processes and Practices’ is the subject for the talk with Maria Zozaya-Montes (CIDEHUS – UÉvora), about the documentary ‘Os patrimónios da sociabilidade I. As associações em Évora’ (‘The heritage of sociability I. Associations in Évora’), at Sociedade União Eborense ‘Bota Rasa’. Fátima Nunes (IHC – UÉvora / IN2PAST) and Paulo Simões Rodrigues (CHAIA – UÉvora / IN2PAST) are in charge of commentary.
Chords of freedom arrive at ‘Bota Rasa’ at 6:30 pm on Thursday 22nd, with Caio Priori Santos (CESEM – UÉvora / IN2PAST), and ac tor and stage director Paulo Roque inviting us to reflect on democracy and art as forms of expression and resistance in our society, and the meaning and importance of freedom in our lives.
The music listening session with commentary ‘Acordes da Liberdade’ commemorates the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974, celebrating the values of freedom, citizenship and democracy through the poetry and music of António Gedeão, Luís Vaz de Camões, Natália Correia, Manuel Freire, José Mário Branco, José Afonso, José Niza and Paulo de Carvalho.
At the end of that morning, the Boot Camp participants will be taken on a guided tour of the contemporary art forum by Maria José Barril, coordinator of EAF’s Heritage and Research Area. Finally, on Friday May 23rd, after the visits to local associations, six workshops/skill building sessions on the Boot Camp’s main topic of common heritage and associative legacy, and other challenges, the PhD students will publicly present the results of their work. The event starts at 5:30 pm at ‘Bota Rasa’ and everyone is invited.
This year’s edition of the Boot Camp closes on Saturday, with the 4th IN2PAST Field Trip: ‘Évora in Common, between the Countryside and the City’, which will pass through the Malagueira neighbourhood (Bairro da Malagueira), designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira and an important place in the history of the Local Ambulatory Support Service (‘Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local’) and Portuguese architecture during the years of the ‘April Revolution’, and the Cistercian Monastery of São Bento de Cástris, a national monument that is the object of study and heritage safeguarding by different projects at the University of Évora.
The final programme (PT) is now available for download in PDF format and also in online flipbook format.
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IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory is funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. under reference LA/P/0132/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0132/2020)
