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Miguel Mesquita Duarte’s research examines the relationships between film, memory, and history, focusing on the role of archival images and oral discourse in non-fiction cinema and essay film. He addresses the limits and possibilities of film - photography and cinema - in conveying traumatic historical events and constructing non-normative multi-directional memories. In an interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on theoretical and practice-led research, Duarte explores issues related to aesthetics and documentary politics; the interplay of images and words as forms of testimony; and the relationships between visual storytelling and autobiographical memory. His recent research focuses on performative testimony and postcolonial memory in Portuguese non-fiction films and documentaries in the first person. He is the author of Imagem de Arquivo e Tempo Mnemotécnico / Archival Image and Mnemonic Time. Covilhã: LabCom.IFP Books, 2018.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Miguel Mesquita Duarte

Citation names

  • Duarte, Miguel Mesquita
  • Mesquita Duarte, Miguel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
841A-5BE5-452E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7213-218X
Scopus Author Id
57191336878

Email addresses

  • mduarte@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • https://unl-pt.academia.edu/MiguelMesquitaDuarte (Social media)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 PhD in Contemporary Art History (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Archival Image and Mnemonic Time: For an 'Archiviology' Project in Art History." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom por Unanimidade [Summa Cum Laude]
2010
Concluded
 Masters in Artistic Studies and Image Design / Mestrado em Estudos Artísticos e Design da Imagem (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
"Duplos e Virtuais. A Especularidade da Imagem Fotográfica. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2004
Concluded
 Multimedia Studies: Specialization in Photography (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2018 - Current Collaborator Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior LabComIFP Comunicação Filosofia e Humanidades, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2021 Scientific Committee and Research Group Member Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/11/15 - 2015/11/15 O Tempo Fotográfico e as Narrativas da Imagem: Relações entre o Fotográfico e as Novas Estratégias de Narração na Arte Contemporânea
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBD2%F687672%F2010/PT
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de História da Arte
UID/PAM/00417/2019
Researcher
2015/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Instituto de História da Arte
UID/PAM/00417/2013
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. Imagem (de) Arquivo e Tempo Mnemotécnico / Archival Image and Mnemonic Time. Covilhã, Portugal: LabCom.IFP Books. 2018.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Rethinking the (Post)Photographic: Writing, Photography, and Cinema". In Fotogramas: Ensaios sobre Fotografia, 37-51. Sistema Solar: Documenta, 2016.
    Published
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Cinema and Art: When the Erotic Bores Us. Body, Sex, and Desire in the Experimental Cinema of Andy Warhol and Julião Sarmento". In Avanca. Cinema 2014, 28-37. Portugal: Edições Cine-Clube de Avanca, 2014.
    Published
Book review
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Resenha de George Didi-Huberman, Devant le Temps, 2000". 2, 16 (2021): 247-256.
    Published • 10.19177/rcc.v16e22021247-256
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "John Dewey: Art As Experience". Review of Art as Experience 12, 1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/rcc.v12e12017161-169.
    Published
  3. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Jean-Luc Godard: A Filmmaker Historian". 3, 1 (2016): http://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/199/pdf.
    Published • 10.14591/aniki.v3n1.199
Conference poster
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "O Atlas de Gerhard Richter e a Transmissão da Memória Traumática: Entre Arquivo, Fotografia e Abstracção". Paper presented in Memória e Identidade Sob Condição Mediática III (LabCom.IFP - UBI), 2018.
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Collection of Photographs in Gerhard Richter’s Atlas: Between Archive. Autobiographical Memory, and Historical Construction". Paper presented in Encounters With Photography II (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto), 2017.
  3. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Body, Sex and Desire in the Experimental Cinema of Andy Warhol and Julião Sarmento". Paper presented in International Conference on Cinema, Art, Technology and Comunication (Avanca Cinema), 2014.
  4. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "The Regenerative Cinematic Surface: Contractions, Expansions and Migrations in The Aleph and Sans Soleil". Paper presented in International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film. Thinking Reality and Time through Film (Centre of Philosophy of Universidade de Lisboa), 2014.
  5. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Image and Memory. The Aesthetics of the Interval in Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa". Paper presented in The Post-Photographic (ICNOVA and IHA/NOVA), 2012.
Dictionary entry
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Memory". In The Didi-Huberman Philosophical Dictionary (ed. Magdalena Zolkos). Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
    Published
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Walter Benjamin". In The Didi-Huberman Philosophical Dictionary (ed. Magdalena Zolkos). Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
    Published
  3. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Gerhard Richter". In The Didi-Huberman Philosophical Dictionary (ed. Magdalena Zolkos). Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Image, oral testimony, and the workings of (post)colonial memory in Diana Andringa’s microhistorical documentaries". Studies in Documentary Film (2025): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2025.2457184.
    10.1080/17503280.2025.2457184
  2. Mesquita Duarte, Miguel. "Histories of the Portuguese colonial war and its (other) images: a photo-text essay". photographies 17 3 (2024): 263-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2024.2356265.
    10.1080/17540763.2024.2356265
  3. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "O ATLAS COMO CIÊNCIA DAS IMAGENS: HISTÓRIA DA ARTE E HISTÓRIA DA CULTURA EM GERHARD RICHTER E ABY WARBURG". Quintana: revista do Departamento de Historia da Arte 22 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/quintana.22.8262.
    10.15304/quintana.22.8262
  4. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Jean-Luc Godard and Walter Benjamin: metahistory, dialectical images and worldly theology". French Screen Studies (2023): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26438941.2022.2151195.
    Published • 10.1080/26438941.2022.2151195
  5. MIGUEL MESQUITA DUARTE. "Album: a visual essay on photography, loss and the poetics of time as return". photographies 15 3 (2022): 332-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2022.2096677.
    10.1080/17540763.2022.2096677
  6. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Dialectical Thinking. Truth, Imagination and the Politics of Historical Memory: Godard, Benjamin and Warburg". Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39 6 (2021): 1235-1261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.2010479.
    Published • 10.1080/10509208.2021.2010479
  7. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Photography and Writing, or the Intimacy of the Image: A Dialogic Encounter between Barthes’s Camera Lucida and Blanchot’s Philosophy of Otherness". Photographies 12 3 (2019): 283-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2019.1627392.
    Published • 10.1080/17540763.2019.1627392
  8. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "(Dis)Figuration of Memory In, Around, and Beyond Gerhard Richter's Atlas". RIHA Journal: International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (2018): https://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2018/0200-mesquita-duarte.
    Open access • Published
  9. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita; Marques, Bruno. "Reinventing the body on the photographic stage: Theatricality, identity, and figural writing in the work of Helena Almeida". Philosophy of Photography 9 1 (2018): 71-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pop.9.1.71_1.
    Published • 10.1386/pop.9.1.71_1
  10. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Reading history through film: cinema, memory, and the persistence of time in Heddy Honigmann's Forever (2006)". Studies in Documentary Film 12 1 (2017): 56-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2017.1420415.
    Published • 10.1080/17503280.2017.1420415
  11. Mesquita Duarte, Miguel. "The (Un)representable in History: Cinema and the Holocaust Archives / O (ir)representável da História: o cinema e o arquivo do Holocausto". DOC On-Line - Digital Magazine On Documentary Cinema 22 (2017): 216-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.20287/doc.d22.ar1.
    Published • 10.20287/doc.d22.ar1
  12. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Reading Georges Didi-Huberman’s Devant Le Temps: History, Memory and Montage". Studies in Visual Arts and Communication: an international journal 4 1 (2017): http://journalonarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SVACij_Vol4_No1-2017-Miguel-Mesquita-Duarte_Reading-Georges-Didi-Hubermans.pdf.
    Published
  13. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita; Marques, Bruno. "On a 1947 Rediscovery: Archive, memory and self-inscription in the work of Julião Sarmento". Photographies 9 3 (2016): 251-273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2016.1202310.
    Published • 10.1080/17540763.2016.1202310
  14. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita; Marques, Bruno. "Narrative Imageries and (Anti)Expanded Cinema in Julião Sarmento / Narrativas da Imagem e (Anti)Expanded Cinema em Julião Sarmento". Aniki : Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 2 1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v2n1.103.
    Open access • Published • 10.14591/aniki.v2n1.103
  15. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "Testimony, Instant, and Memory in Video Letter / O Testemunho, o Instante e a Memória. Espaços de corte e de interrupção em Video Letter (1982), de Shuji Terayama e Shuntaro Tanikawa". Aniki : Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 1 2 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v1n2.17.
    Open access • Published • 10.14591/aniki.v1n2.17
  16. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. "The Regenerative Cinematic Surface: Contractions, Expansions and Migrations in Jorge Luis Borges’ The Aleph and Marker’s Sans Soleil". Studies in Visual Arts and Communication: an international journal 1 2 (2014): http://journalonarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SVACij-Vol1_No2_2014-DUARTE_Miguel-The-Regenerative-Cinematic-Surface.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Journal issue
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita; Marques, Bruno José de Sousa; Oliveira, Luísa Soares de. "Times and Movements of the Image (Co-Editor)". Revista de História da Arte - Série W 11 (2020):
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita; Marques, Bruno; Rodrigues, Érica Faleiro. "Sex and Censorship in Art (Co-Editor)". Revista de História da Arte 15 (2020):
    Published • Coeditor

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork
  1. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. The Birds After Hitchcock. Beyond the Movement of Cinema. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 5(4).
    https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.11390
  2. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. From Reality to Desire. PHE Discovery Award 2010-2011. Madrid, Spain.
  3. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. Encontros da Imagem. Power and Illusion, 2015. Braga, Portugal.
  4. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. Prémio Jovens Criadores 2009. Évora, Portugal.
  5. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. Grammatology of the Nymph: Godard and Warburg. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 8(1).
    https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.11451
  6. Duarte, Miguel Mesquita. Three Short Letters to Godard, and an Exergue. [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 11(4).
    https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.15793
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Times and Movements of the Image: Inviting speakers, to issue a call for papers, review submissions, and create a program. (2018 - 2018)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016/07/19 - 2016/07/19 Francofonia. A Film by Aleksandre Sokurov – Special Session. Film screening followed by presentation and debate with Professor Margarida Acciaiuoli, Professor João Mário Grilo and Professor Manuel Villaverde Cabral (in partnership with Leopardo Films). (2016/07/19 - 2016/07/19)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2024 Aniki. Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image AIM - Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento
2018/08/27 - 2018/09/03 Bulletin of Spanish Studies (1475-3820) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2017/07/04 - 2017/07/31 Comunicação pública (2183-2269) School of Communication and Media Studies
2017/05/05 - 2017/05/28 Studies in Documentary Film (1750-3299) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2017 - 2017 Aniki. Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 4.1 (2183-1750) AIM - Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018 - 2021 IHA, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa: Scientific Committee Member
Member
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2018/11/15 - 2018/11/16 Times and Movements of the Image International Conference FCSH/NOVA and ESAD

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2012/03/29 - 2012/03/29 Masters Seminar Lecture: "Photography and Surrealism: The World Transformed Into Representation". Photography, Realism, Modernity (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019 - 2020 Revista de História da Arte (1646 -1762) Instituto de História da Arte
2018 - 2020 Revista de História da Arte - Série W (2182-3294) Instituto de História da Arte
Distinctions

Award

2015 International Photography Festival 2015: Power and Illusion - Encontros da Imagem de Braga
2011 Photo España Discoveries Award: From Reality to Desire
2009 Prémio Jovens Criadores

Other distinction

2011 PhD Fellowship SFRH/BD/68767/2010
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal