Friday 17th September

9.00 – 9.25
Conference registration
Main reception

9.25–10.30
Welcome remarks

and Plenary Session

Room: G.02 (Zoom: TBC)

Chair: Hilary Owen
"Uncanny Women and Angolan Unhomeliness"
Phillip Rothwell, Oxford University

10.30–11
Coffee break
 11– Room G.02 (Zoom: TBC)
12:30pm
Gendering Portuguese Cinema
Chair: Ana Margarida Martins,
University of Exeter
“À mesa com o alien: Race and
Gendered Spaces in João Canijo’s
Sangue do meu sangue”
Inês Castro Silva, Warwick
University / University of
Birmingham
“António Reis and Margarida
Cordeiro: Ways of Working”
Raquel Morais, Birbeck College,
University of London
“Women on the Edge of Time in
Margarida Gil’s Relação Fiel e
Verdadeira”
Hilary Owen, Oxford University /
University of Manchester
12:30pm
–
2pm
Room G.41 (Zoom: TBC)
Early Modern Encounters in Portuguese Literature
Chair: Conceição Pereira, Newcastle University
University
“Poets, plunder and popery: Elizabethan poets in
16th-century Portugal and Brazil”
Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá, Cambridge University
“Fernão Lopes’s encounter with Petrarch”
Juliet Perkins, King’s College London
Lunch break
Room G.56 (Zoom: TBC)
19th Century Portuguese Literature and Culture I
Chair: Fernando Beleza, Newcastle University
“The influence of foreign authors in the anti-liberal
and doctrinaire journalism in Brazil and Portugal
(1821-1823)”
Guilherme Celestino, King’s College London
“Castilho, o primeiro autor lusófono?”
Duarte Drumond Braga, Universidade de Lisboa
“Friendship and the end of empire in Garrett’s
Camões” Simão Valente, Oxford University
"Villainy or martyrdom: female adultery in Ana
Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco"
Mónica Ganhão, Universidade de Lisboa
2-3.30pm Room G.41 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.56 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.02 (Zoom: Room G.06 (Zoom: TBC) Room 1.17
TBC)
1822/1922, Brazil I Modern and Contemporary Women, Memory Subversions and dialogues Book
Brazilian Literature and and Resistance in presentation:
Chair: TBC Culture I the Lusophone Chair: Inês Castro Silva,
Atlantic Warwick University O Quiosque
“Gilberto Freyre e a Semana de Chair: TBC literário:
Arte Moderna de 1922” Chair: Carmen “The rhetoric of the fragment aprender
Rogério Lima, Universidade de “The Familiar Exotic Science Ramos Villar, in A última obra-prima de português
Brasília of Machado de Assis” University of Aaron Slobodj” com a
Viviane Carvalho da Sheffield Alexandra Dias, King’s College literatura.
“Oswald de Andrade: Ironia e Annunciação, University of London
sátira na poesia modernista Cambridge Margarida Rendeiro, Ana Bela Almeida
brasileira” CHAM, FCSH-NOVA, “Moving body, moving image: Joana Meirim
Carolina Sáenz Abril, Universidade
“‘Novo mundismo’ na Lisboa e Ana Hatherly’s transcultural Goncalo Duarte
de Viena Amazônia de Ferreira de Universidade Lusíada dialogue with cinema”
Castro: o contexto migratório de Lisboa Maria Luisa Coelho, Oxford
“Uma recepção constelar: Haroldo e a voz colonial” University
de Campos e as notas marginais Roberto Mibielli, Ana Raquel
sobre o modernismo brasileiro” Universidade Federal de Fernandes, CEAUL- “The Ethics of Poetics:
Maria Aparecida Fontes, Roraima Universidade de Ideology and Text in As
Università degli Studi di Padova Lisboa / Universidade Quybyrycas (1972)”
“A visão poética da Europeia Tom Stennett, Oxford
existência vegetal em Cecília University
Meireles” Federica Lupati,
Bruna de Almeida Pereira, CHAM, FCSH-NOVA,
Universidade Federal Lisboa
Fluminense
3.30 -
4pm Coffee break

4– Second plenary session

5:30pm
Room: G.02
Chair: Stephanie Dennison

“Decolonising Portuguese Studies”

Mark Sabine, University of Notthingham

Ana Reimao, University of Liverpool
Emmanuel Santos, University of Birmingham

5:45
AGM
Online and in-person
Room G.02 (Zoom: TBC)
followed by a wine reception.

9:30- Room G02 (Zoom: TBC)
11am
Gendering Modern and
Contemporary Portuguese
Literature
Chair: Kathryn Sanchez,
University of Wisconsin, Madison “Afropolitan nights: literary
“The Unwell M(Other): Mental
Illness and Motherhood in O
Retorno”
Olivia Glaze, Oxford University Belfast
“Submerging Patriarchy,
Emerging Matriarchy : Natália
Correia ’s ‘Cântico do país
emerso’ (1961)” Andrzej Stuart-
Thompson, Oxford University
“Urban Vulnerability and Black
Masculinities in Djaimilia Pereira
de Almeida’s Luanda, Lisboa,
Paraíso” Claudia Pazos-Alonso,
Oxford University
Saturday 18th September
Room G.41 (Zoom: TBC)
Urban Landscapes in Lusophone
African Literatures and Cultures
Chair: TBC
representations of urban nightlife
in 21st century Luanda and
Malabo”
Erin McCombe, Queen’s University
“Urban and cultural landscapes:
Reading Luanda in contemporary
narratives by Luandino Vieira,
Pepetela and Ondjaki”
Orquídea Moreira Ribeiro,
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e
Alto Douro
“‘meu musseque, as mil cores de
gentes, mil vozes’: The
Cosmopolitan Musseque of José
Luandino Vieira”
Georgia Nasseh, University of
Oxford
Room G.56 (Zoom: TBC)
Racism and Anti-Racism in
Brazil and Portugal
Chair: Inês Cordeiro Dias,
University of Leeds
“E se fosse connosco? Anti-
racist coalition building in
twenty-first century
Portuguese music”
Peter Haysom, University of
Nottingham / Leeds
“Bola Sete and the legacy of
racial misrepresentation in
Bossa Nova - A Story of
Racism, Narrative Building
and Culture of Erasure”
Geovane Paiva Santos, Tulane
University
“The Challenges for Anti-
racists in Bolsonaro’s Brazil”
David Treece, King’s College
London
Room G.06 (Zoom:
TBC)
Migrant Cultures
Chair: Fernando
Beleza, Newcastle
University
“The Narratives of the
Ocean Crossing in
Portuguese American
Women Life Writing”
Carmen Ramos Villar,
University of Sheffield
“Até com amigos
portugueses, tendo a
falar em castelhano”:
Discourses of
multilingualism and
the creation of
linguistic habitus
among Portuguese
migrants in Andorra.
James Hawkey
(University of Bristol)
 11-
11.30
11.30- Room G.02 (Zoom: TBC)
1pm
Bodies, Peripheries, and Race in Literature and Biography
the City
Chair: Fernando Beleza,
Newcastle University
“Hair Politics in the Wake:
Embodied Post-Colonial
Geopolitics in Yasmin Thayná
and Djaimilia Pereira de
Almeida”
Kathryn Sanchez, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
“The Peripheral Subject in
Welket Bungué’s Films”
Inês Cordeiro Dias, University of Viktor Mendes,
Leeds
“Macunaíma: um herói de um
povo (brasileiro) por vir”
João Albuquerque, UCLA
Coffee Break
Room G.41 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.56 (Zoom: Room 1.17 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.06
TBC) (Zoom: TBC)
Possible Cinemas 1822/1922, Brazil II 'Portuguese and
UCML - University
Chair: Erin McCombe, Queen’s Chair: Georgia Nasseh, Chair: TBC Council for
University Belfast University of Oxford Modern
“O Mário da Paulicéia: Languages' and
“‘Putting the Fish in the Stream’: “Political and aesthetic Modernismo, transgressão e 'Publishing in
The Intersection of Literature and possibilities of resistência” Portuguese
Biography in Guidebooks To indigenous cinema in Sheila Praxedes Pereira Studies'
(Clarice Lispector’s) Rio and (Maria Brazil” Campos, Universidade Workshop 1 and 2
Ondina Braga’s) Braga” Claire Christian Fischgold, Federal de Roraima (45 minutes each
Williams, Oxford Univesrity University of workshop).
Manchester “A semana de arte de 1922 e
“Branching Out From the a Tropicália: Propostas e
Environmentalized Lives of Pessoa, “O cinema de língua conflitos de nacionalismo e
According to Richard Zenith portuguesa” modernidade”
(2021)” Héloïse Ducatteau, Dario Borim Jr, University of
University of Universidade de Aveiro Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Massachusetts Dartmouth
 1–2
p.m.
Lunch break
2- Room G.41 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.56 (Zoom: TBC) Room 1.17 (Zoom: TBC) Room G.06 (Zoom: Room G.02
3.30pm TBC) (Zoom: TBC)
Modern and Contemporary Black Latin American literature Modern and Contemporary African Literatures TROPO Panel
Brazilian Culture and Society and Culture Brazilian Literature and and Cultures
Culture II Chair: Sofia
Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Martinho,
Chair: TBC University of
“A sombra dos ausentes: breves “Repositioning Women, “The Da Silva Museum Leeds
reflexões sobre o impacto do Reclaiming Freedom: An Analysis “Male Mastication: Food, in Benin: an example
desaparecimento de pessoas na of Neo-Slave Narratives from Brazil Gender, and Disgust in Clarice of Afro-Brazilian “Ensinar o futuro
cultura brasileira and Colombia” Lispector’s Laços de família” identity and cultural (quase) sem foco
contemporânea” Jordan B. Jones, Brown University Serena Rivera, University of memory” na forma”
Christian Dutilleux, UFRRJ Pittsburgh Sanne Molenaar, Conceição
“Rosa Maria Egipcíaca: escravidão University of Pereira, Camões,
New Worldism, theories of lack, e gênero de uma “santa”, na “Emotion, Memory, and Time Birmingham IP/ University of
theories of acclimatisation” diáspora, do Atlântico Sul Perception in O Verão Tardio, Newcastle
José Luis Jobim, Universidade Colonial” by Luiz Ruffato: Bridging “O universo
Federal Fluminense Marcela Magalhães de Paula, Cognitive Science and descarrilado: passado “Multiple benefits
CABE/Embaixada do Brasil em Literature” e presente na ficção de of producing
“A experiência dos territórios Roma Aline de Almeida Moura Mia Couto” summaries in final
periféricos na Cidade do Rio de Maria Cardoso year core
Janeiro” “Super negra: Espiritualidade, Mendes, Universidade Portuguese
André Gomes, PUC-Rio negritude e super humanidade na do Minho language module”
obra de escritoras negras Carmem Mackle,
brasileiras” University of
Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Leeds
Bernardo, Tulane University
 3:45-
5pm
Third plenary session
Room G.02 (Zoom: TBC)

Chair: Stephanie Dennison

A conversation with:
Tata Amaral

Conference ends