Full Conference Programme - updated since 07/14 

3rd of July – Thursday

08h00 – 09h00: Registry of Delegates and General Public 
09h00 – 10h00: Welcome Session by Executive Committee
Fernando António Baptista Pereira, PhD (CIEBA/FBA) 
Prof. Margarida Brito Alves, PhD (IHA/FCSH) 
Dra. Catarina Vaz Pinto (Lisbon’s Council for Culture  – CML)
Guest Speaker:  Helena Barranha, PhD (IST-UL/IHA-FCSH) 


10h00 – 10h30: Keynote Speaker: Cedar Lewisohn 

10h30 – 11h00: Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h15: Art Institutions // Chairman: Helena Barranha (IST/IHA-FCSH)
Ema Rocha (no affiliation provided), ‘Musealizar por aí’. Graffiti – The street as exhibit
Sofia Ponte (Instituto de História da Arte da FCSH/UNL and Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto), How does street artworks survive in museums?
Ulrich Blanché (Universitat Heidelberg), Banksy vs. Bristol Museum - Street Art or street “flavored” art? 
Alice Nogueira Alves (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa), Emerging issues of Street Art valuation as Cultural Heritage 

12h15 – 13h30: Lunch 

13h30 – 14h45: Cultural assets // Chairman: Rute Figueiredo (IHA-FCSH / ETH Zurich)
Helena Elias,Inês Marques, Susana Leonor (Universidade Lusófona), Recent public art interventions in the context of the luso-brazilian cultural relationship: street murals of Os Gémeos in Lisbon and Vhils in Rio de Janeiro
Ronald Kramer (University of Auckland), “The thing about walls is they became big murals”: The rise of legal graffiti writing cultures
Daniel D'Amico (The William Bartnett and The Joseph A. Butt S. J. College of Business at the Loyola University of N.Orleans), Lessons from Mardi Gras: Fostered Culture Between New Orleans and an Online Learning Community

14h45 – 15h15: Keynote Speaker: NUART Festival intervention

15h15 – 15h30: Coffee Break

15h30 – 17h00: Tactical Urbanism // Chairman: Mário Alves
Carlos Alcobia (CIEBA, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa), Largo da Batata Video Mapping and São Paulo's forthcoming arenas of protest 
Maria Domenica  Arcuri (no affiliation provided), Utopia on Walls: The Collective Political Artworking of Felice Pignataro 
Kris Murray (Concordia University), Rethinking political subjectivity in the urban context through the lens of graffiti and street art
Luis Menor Ruiz (Institut de Govern i Politiques Publiques de la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), Street Art and Urban Space. A problem or an opportunity for local governments? Barcelona as a case study 
Manuel García y Ruiz van Hoben (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa), Art(s) in the City. Chronicles of a Spray Can 

17h00 – 18h15: Community and Historiography actions // Chairman: Cristóvão Pereira (CIEBA/FBA)
Maria do Mar Fazenda (FCSH/University NOVA of Lisbon), Urban Acupuncture, artistic interventions in a deactivated shop window in Lisbon 
Lara  Seixo Rodrigues (Wool Festival), The Wool – Covilhã Urban Art Festival as an instrument of (community) transformation 
Jacob Kimvall (Art History Dept. Stockholm University), Mapping an Institutional Story of Graffiti and Street Art
Susan Phillips (Pitzer College in Claremont), Bomb the Canon: Re-Writing the History of Graffiti in Los Angeles

 19h00: André Saraiva’s Exhibition inauguration at MUDE
around 21h00: Dinner at Bellalisa Elevador Restaurant (previous Registration Required!)

4th of July – Friday

09h00 – 10h15: Public Space vrs. Urban Creativity // Chairman: Margarida Brito Alves (IHA-FCSH)
Julia Tulke (Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin), Aesthetics of Crisis. Street Art, Austerity Urbanism and the Right to the City 
Susan Hansen, Danny Flynn (Middlesex University/London Metropolitan University), “This is not a Banksy!”: Street art and the transformation of public space
Ágata Sequeira (DINAMIA'CET, Instituto Universitário Lisboa),  Out in the streets: The possibilities and implications of making art in the city’s public space
Theodore Kuttner (Universitat Hamburg), Os Gémeos & São Paulo: Reappropriating Public Space in a "City of Walls" 

10h15 – 10h30: Coffee Break

10h30 – 12h00: City-branding, Economy and Urban Art // Chairman: Daniela V. de Freitas Simões (IHA-FCSH)
Graeme Evans (Middlesex University, School of Art & Design), Graffiti, Art and the City: from pariah to place-making 
Christian Omodeo (Le Grand Jeu), Graffiti: between public art and entrepreneurial cities 
Heike Derwanz (Hafen City University Hamburg), Street Artists and their careers in Art and Design Markets
Pedro Costa, Ricardo Lopes (ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Is street art institutionalizable? Challenges to an alternative urban policy in Lisbon 


12h00 – 13h30: Lunch

13h30 – 14h15: Authors // Chairman: Marcus Willcocks (UAL/CSM)
Javier Abarca (Universitat Complutense de Madrid), Revs, the unknown pioneer 
Minna Valjakka (Academy of Finland, Art History, University of Helsinki), Kaid Ashton: conflating Streets, Arts and Charity 
[presentation via Skype] Juliana M. M. Soares, Felipe Carrelli (Projecto Ocupe Carrinho), The Margin in the Center: the birth of Project Occupy the Car in the Santa Cecilia’s

14h15 – 15h30: Open air and market // Chairman: Giulia Lamoni (IHA-FCSH)
Laura Castro, José Guilherme Abreu (CITAR / Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Paredes’ Public Art Circuit. A Public Art and Community Orientated Program 
Ila N. Sheren (Washington University - St. Louis), The Open-air Gallery: A Return to the Revolutionary, or More of the Market? 
Peter Bengtsen (Dept. of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Art History and Visual Studies, Lund University), Stealing from the public: on the removal of street art from the street
Veronica Werckmeister (independet researcher), A Case study in Monumental Street Art: Creating Landmarks, Creating Together 

15h30 – 15h45: Coffee Break

15h45 – 16h15: Keynote Speaker: Marcus Willcocks 

16h15 – 17h45: Semiotics, Visual Arts and Media // Chairman: Rogério Taveira (CIEBA/FBA) 
Axel Philipps, Eelco Herder, Sergej Zerr (Leibniz University, Hannover), Chroniclers of Street Art on Flickr 
Patricia Guiley (University of Utah, Dept. of Art History), The World as it is Written on the Wall 
Duarte Lobo Antunes (The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London), Desecration, Condensation: Lisbon’s futuristic imagery as a site of urban creativity
Giada Pellicari (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice - curator in chief), Graffiti and New Media: the correlations between the two cultures
[did not present] Paulo Barroso (no institution provided), Keith Haring's personal lexicon and public semiotic-art

19h30: Alexandro Farto aka Vhils' ‘Dissection’ Exhibition inauguration at EDP Foundation

5th of July - Saturday

09h00 – 10h15: Contradictions  // Chairman: Javier Abarca (UCM)
Julio da Cruz Paulos, Agata Walny (University Paris 8 - Institute of European Studies), The art of pragmatic action 
Panizza Allmark (Edith Cowan University), Statues, Subversive actions and Surveillance 
Carolyn Loeb (Michigan State University), Reimagining the City: West Berlin Murals and the Right to the City

10h15 – 10h45: Keynote Speaker: Dra. Graça Fonseca (CML)

10h45 – 11h00: Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h15: Urban Creativity and Innovation // Chairman: Pedro Soares Neves (CIEBA/FBA-IST)
Laura Iannelli, Lorenza Parisi (University of Sassari, Italy), To Govern artfully. Linking relational public art to urban governance toward new forms of civic participation
Cecilia Dinardi (City University London), Urban creativity from below: grassroots cultural interventions, politics and informal creative cities
Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro (Faculdade de Belas-Artes da U. Porto), No passage should go unnoticed: a case for a critical stance in temporary public art interventions 

12h15 – 13h30: Lunch

13h30 – 14h45: In Theory // Chairman: Daniela V. de Freitas Simões (IHA-FCSH)
Victor Correia (FCSH - University NOVA of Lisbon), Public Art: a conceptual problematic 
Ilaria Hoppe (Institut for Art and Visual History, Humboldt Universitat), Urban Art as Countervisuality? 
Luísa Santos Silva (Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance), Public Art Projects - Towards a Critical Discourse on Urban Aesthetics 
Mischa Piraud, Luca Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini, Leticia Carmo (Laboratory of Urban Sociology, EPFL), Creativity without critic. An inquiry into the aesthetization of alternative culture

14h45 – 15h15: Tactical Urbanism (book launch),
Mário Alves, João Seixas and Pedro Campos Costa

15h15 – 15h30: Coffee Break

15h30 – 16h30: Participation // Chairman: Lígia Ferro (ISCTE-IUL/CIES)
Helena Maria Santana, Maria do Rosário Santana (Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Universidade de Aveiro), Flash Mob as a moment of creation and human intervention on urban spaces 
Ana Vilar Bravo (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa), Participatory Urban Art 
Filipa Ramalhete, Maria Assunção Gato, Sérgio Vicente (e-Geo da FCSH/UNL and CEACT-UAL), A Participatory Public Art Process in Almada – Agents and Values 

16h30 – 17h00: Closing Session