Ephemera at the Table – 2024.10.23

The Rui Cunha Foundation presents on Wednesday, October 23th at 7:00pm, a conference on “Ephemera at the Table: Examples from the East to the West”, inserted in the History and Heritage Public Lectures’ series, an active partnership between FRC and USJ – University of Saint Joseph, Department of History and Heritage, Macau.

Gonçalo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Full Professor at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, will be guest speaker of this lecture, as a specialist in History of Silver and Jewelry in Portugal, and scientific coordinator of the academic degree in Art – Conservation and Restoration and of the doctorate in Heritage Studies from that institution.

«Through the study of a private collection, Professor Gonçalo Vasconcelos e Sousa will give us an image of the visual impact that the Orient had on the documents used at Western tables in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also of the influence of Western practices in the Orient, in terms of the use of ephemera documents associated with major events, namely diplomatic life and important official receptions», reveals the lecture’s proposal.

Gonçalo Pinto de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa (Porto), Doctor (2002) and Aggregate Professor (2006) in History of Art from the Arts Faculty of Porto University, was President of the Scientific Council and the Pedagogical Council of the Portuguese Catholic University (2011-2013), having also previously been Director of CITAR (Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts) since 2011, Director of CIONP (Silver and Goldsmithing Centre in the Northern Portugal), former Director of the Conservation and Restoration Centre (2006-2013).

He is Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Joseph – Macau, Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of Historysince 2003, and of the National Fine Arts Academy since 2001, as well as foreign correspondent of the Brazilian Academy of Art, effective member of the Historical and Geographical Institute of São Paulo, partner of the Institute Geographic and Historical of Bahia and honorary member of PIN – Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewelry. He received the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Regional and Local History (ex aequo, 2005), and was unanimously elected, in 2021, President of the Board of Directors of the Museums of Portugal Friends Federation. He was recently appointed Commissioner of Viana do Castelo‘s candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2027.

The lecture will be moderated by Priscila Roberts, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History and Heritage at the University of Saint Joseph – Macau, and shall be presented in English with 1 hour and a half duration.

Admission is free.

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