As part of the IHA Reading Seminar, the RESONANCE project – Epistemologies of Documenting Forms of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979) –  organizes a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.

The seventh session of the RESONANCE Reading Group will be dedicated to the text “Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility”, by Carrie Lambert-Beatty, published in the journal October , 129 (2009), by MIT Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2009.129.1.51

 

Moderated by Afonso Dias Ramos (IHA / IN2PAST), the session starts from this text, which proposes the concept of “parafiction” to think about artistic practices that operate between reality and fiction, questioning the mechanisms of credibility and the construction of truth.

 

To register for this session, please email the project team at resonance.fcsh.unl@gmail.com .