Call for Papers for colloquium: On Portraiture: Theory, Practice, and Fiction — From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag

Dame Monica Margaret Mason, Director, Royal Ballet and ballet dancer, by Saied Dai. Oil on board, 2013. NPG 6978 © National Portrait Gallery, London

University of Lisbon, 26–28 April 2021; proposals due by 30 Nov 2020

This colloquium intends to discuss the theory and practice of artistic, historical, anthropological, social, and political experience on the topic of portraiture, as well as the fictional dimension contained within it. Located at the intersection of several disciplinary fields, the discussion(s) and papers will address the portrait as a concept, theme, process, object (monument and document), and device, in its multiple developments and in its successive conceptual, technological, and contextual updates. More than defining a temporal framework, the subtitle—From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag —underscores the dynamic porosity on the researched topic in the fields of art and literature, as well as, in its mutual reversibility. Further details here >>