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Meeting Discusses the Work of Teixeira Coelho, Who Will Receive Title of Professor Emeritus

by Richard Meckien - published Sep 03, 2015 02:20 PM - - last modified Sep 18, 2015 11:17 AM
Rights: Original version in Portuguese by Mauro Bellesa. Translation by Carlos Malferrari.

José Teixeira Coelho Netto
José Teixeira Coelho Netto,
a specialist in cultural politics

The School of Communications and Arts (ECA), with support from the IEA, will hold on September 23, at 2 pm, a meeting on Expanding the Being’s Sphere of Presence: Reflections on the Work of Teixeira Coelho, which will precede the ceremony to bestow the title of Professor Emeritus to José Teixeira Coelho Netto, professor at ECA’s Department of Library Studies and Documentation, “for his significant work and intellectual career.”

The event will be held in the Auditorium of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), in USP’s Butantã campus. The ceremony (open only to guests) will take place at 6:30 pm in the same venue.

According to the organizers, the choice of guests “sought to combine intellectual rigor and affection in the broadest sense: people who affected and were affected by meetings, discussions, debates, his vast work, his restless and free thinking.” See program below.

Teixeira Coelho specializes in Cultural Policy. He has a Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from USP’s School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences (FFLCH), and completed a post-doctoral program at the University of Maryland (United States). He began his teaching career at ECA-USP in 1973, becoming a full professor in 1989, and has also taught at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Mackenzie Presbyterian University.

Currently, Teixeira Coelho is curator of the Curitiba Biennial, a contributor to the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Policy at the University of Girona (Spain), and consultant to the Cultural Policy Observatory of the Itaú Cultural Institute, where he coordinates the Books of the Observatory collection. He was curator-coordinator of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP), director of the MAC-USP museum and curator of several exhibitions in both institutions. He has written several books on culture and art, as well as works of fiction. His book História natural da ditatura [Natural history of dictatorship], published in 2006, won the Portugal Telecom award in 2007.

Program

Part 1: Expanding the Being’s Sphere of Presence: Reflections on the Work of Teixeira Coelho

Coordinator: Lúcia Maciel Barbosa de Oliveira (ECA-USP)

2:30 pm          Opening: Luiz Milanesi (ECA-USP)

2:50 pm          Alfons Martinell (University of Girona, Spain)

3:10 pm          Gerardo Caetano (Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay)

3:30 pm          Intervention by José Teixeira Coelho Netto (ECA-USP)

3:50 pm          Break

4:20 pm          Celso Favaretto (School of Education and FFLCH-USP)

4:40 pm          Regina Silveira (ECA-USP)

5:00 pm         Manuel da Costa Pinto (journalist and literary critic)

5:20 pm         Intervention by José Teixeira Coelho Netto (ECA-USP)

5:40 pm         Conclusion: Martin Grossmann (IEA and ECA-USP)

6:00 pm         Break

Part 2: Solemn Session of the Faculty of ECA-USP – Title-Bestowing Ceremony

18:30 pm        Musical presentation

Opening

Opening of the work: Margarida Krohling Kunsch (ECA-USP director)

Salutation: Maria Helena Pires Martins (ECA-USP)

Academic Assistance

Statement by José Teixeira Coelho Netto (ECA-USP)

Statement by Margardia Krohling Kunsch (ECA-USP director)

End of Solemn Session

Photo: Cecília Bastos/Agência USP