Summer Culture, a two week emersion course in culture, communication and politics, took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 9-20, 2007. Five Annenberg graduate students, selected on the basis of research proposal submissions, joined 10 Portuguese doctoral students at the host institution, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, for a course of study organized around issues political visibility and invisibility in Portugal's present and past. Barbie Zelizer, Director of the Scholars Program, co-organized the program with Isabel Capeloa Gil, professor at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
Pictured below are the Summer Culture participants at the Palacio de Belem in Lisbon, where the group met the First Lady of the Republic of Portugal, Maria Cavaco Silva.