Literatures and Cultures in Portugal and Hispanic America: New Perspectives in Dialogue

11 April (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon) 12 April (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

Organized by: Projeto DIIA – Diálogos Ibéricos e Ibero-Americanos / Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Letters (University of Lisbon), in collaboration with Gulbenkian Next Future Programme.

Programme

11 April - Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon

09:30             Opening session (Lecture Hall 3)

09:45-10:45    Opening Lecture

HORÁCIO COSTA (University of São Paulo)

Considerations on a bargueño

11:15-13:00    Parallel sessions (Lecture Hall 3, rooms 5.2. and 2.13)

Panel 1: Life on the edge and cross-border identities

Panel 2: Gender writings and identities

Panel 3: Borgesian dialogues

Lunch

14:30-16:00    Parallel sessions (Lecture Hall 3, rooms 5.2. and 2.13)

Panel 4: Memory and representations of History

Panel 5: Metafiction and self-referentiality

Panel 6: Re-readings and confluences

16:30-17:30    Plenary lecture (Lecture Hall 3)

MARÍA-ROSA OLIVERA-WILLIAMS (University of Notre Dame)

Tango: el deseo de pertenecer

17:30-18:00    Port Wine Reception kindly offered by the Embassy of Argentina

18:00-19:30    Round table with the writers

MEMPO GIARDINELLI, SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO, KARLA SUÁREZ, HÉLIA CORREIA

12 April - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

09:30-11:00    Parallel sessions (Auditorium 3 and room 1)

Panel 7: Space, representation and performance

Panel 8: Subjectivities and national identities

11:30-12:45    Plenary lecture (Auditorium 3)

JORGE FORNET (Casa de las Américas, Cuba)

(Algo de) Utopía y (mucho de) desencanto en la reciente narrativa hispanoamericana

Lunch

14:30-16:00    Parallel sessions (Auditorium 3 and room 1)

Panel 9: Dictatorship, censorship and memory

Panel 10: Peripheral modernities

16:30-17:45    Plenary lecture (Auditorium 3)

MEMPO GIARDINELLI (Argentina)

Escribir en la crisis: literatura y presente

17:45-18:00 Closing Session

[SPEAKERS AND WRITERS]

HÉLIA CORREIA

Graduated in Romance Literature and Culture, has worked as a secondary school teacher and currently devotes herself to translation and writing. Recently awarded the 2013 Vergílio Ferreira Prize and the 2013 Correntes d´Escritas Litererary Prize (Casino da Póvoa), she is one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese literature.

HORÁCIO COSTA

Brazilian poet, translator, literary critic and university lecturer. With more than ten volumes of poetry published, his work has been translated into several languages. He concluded his doctorate at Yale on José Saramago. Formerly professor at the Universidade Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM (1987–2001), he currently teaches at the University of São Paulo (USP). He was chairman of the Brazilian LGBT Studies Association-ABEH (2006-8) and organized the book containing essays from the 6th ABEH conference, published in 2010.

JORGE FORNET

Graduated in Language and Literature from the University of Havana, he concluded his master's and doctorate in Hispanic Literature at El Colegio de México. He has been director of the Literature Research Centre at the Casa de las Américas. He was awarded a research bursary by the Latin American Studies Center, at the University of Maryland. He won the 2006 Aleja Carpentier Essay Prize. His work has been published in journals and he is author of several books.

MEMPO GIARDINELLI

Writer and journalist. He was exiled in Mexico from 1976 to 1984. Founder and director of the magazine Puro Cuento (1986-1992). Awarded the 1993 International Rómulo Gallegos Prize and the 2007 Pregonero de Honor Prize. Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Poitiers, France (2007) as well as other literary distinctions in America and Europe. Member of the Advisory Board to the Buenos Aires Province Memory Commission, and from 2005 to 2007 sat on the Board of Directors of the Poder Ciudadano Foundation. In 1996 he donated his personal library of 10,000 volumes to set up the Mempo Giardinelli Foundation (Chaco).

MARÍA ROSA OLIVERA-WILLIAMS

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Notre Dame (U.S.A.), where she is also Faculty Fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. PhD in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from Ohio State University. She recently received the J. William Fulbright Research Award (2011-2012) for the book she is preparing on tango and modernization in Rio da Prata.    

SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO

Writer, born in Lima (1975), has lived in Mexico, Peru and Spain. Currently lives in Barcelona. The youngest writer to have won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. He has written novels, films and television scripts and children's books, as well as working as a literary translator. He contributes to the RNE radio station, to El País and other media publications in Latin America and Europe.

KARLA SUÁREZ

Writer, born in Havana (1969), has lived in Rome and Paris and currently lives in Lisbon. She has published novels and books of short stories. Her work has been translated into several languages. Two of her short stories have been adapted for Cuban television and another for the theatre. In 2012 she received a writer's bursary from the Centre National du Livre, in France. She has taught on writing courses in Italy, France and Porto Rico. In 2007 she was selected as one of the 39 young writers most representative of Latin America. In Lisbon she coordinates the reading club at the Instituto Cervantes.