Communication and Diversity Seminar – ‘Intercultural communication and contemporary Portuguese-African photography’

On 7 November, at 11:00 a.m., in Room 1.15 (CP2, Gualtar Campus), professor and researcher Fernando Gonçalves (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will present a reflection on contemporary Luso-African photography and intercultural communication.

The session is part of the Communication and Diversity Seminar series, promoted by CECS, in partnership with the Virtual Museum of Lusophony.

Fernando Gonçalves holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a postdoctoral degree in Sociology of Everyday Life from Paris V University, Sorbonne. He is a full professor  professor at the School of Social Communication at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. His research interests are the intersections between communication, art, and visual culture, particularly artistic practices with photography that discuss issues related to the body, memory, and marginalised knowledge and territories. In 2024 and 2022, he co-edited the collection Políticas e Narrativas do Corpo (I and II). In 2020, he published the book Estética e política da representação na fotografia contemporânea (Aesthetics and Politics of Representation in Contemporary Photography); in 2016, he published Ruídos para ver (Noises to See); and in 2006, Fabulações Eletrônicas: poéticas da comunicação e da tecnologia em Laurie Anderson (Electronic Fabulations: Poetics of Communication and Technology in Laurie Anderson).

Admission is free.

[Posted: 15-10-2025]