Conference on Literature in Portuguese Language “Perceptions of Lusophonie: identities, conceptions and stereotypes”

When:
Friday, Apr 25, 2014 9:30a -
3:30p

Where:
UMass Boston
Ryan Lounge, McCormack Hall, 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02125

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/812508185429964/

This conference aims to highlight key debates from the concepts of Lusophonie and what it means to the Portuguese-speaking world. Lusophonie is prone to create interrelated and ambiguous interpretations. “Firstly, Lusophonie is a geolinguistic space, that is, a number of highly dispersed regions, countries, and societies whose official and/or maternal language is Portuguese. Secondly, Luso-phonie is a sentiment, a memory of a common past, a partition of common culture and history. Thirdly, it is a set of political and cultural institutions attempting to develop the Portuguese language and culture in Portuguese-speaking spaces.” (Léonard, 1999, p. 438)


We will be celebrating cultures, identities, and diversity in the Portuguese-speaking world by tracing the roots of the Lusophone concept and discourse.


Writers, academic researchers, scholars, teachers, students, community, and everyone who is interested in ideas and thoughts will create a memorable debate on the challenges of the Lusophone world.


This conference is also presenting the launch of the book "Ary dos Santos: A Voz da Resistência à Ditadura Salazarista”, by Cecília Amaral Figueiredo, following a workshop on “Teaching Portuguese through music and poetry”.


Fernando Beleza, a PH.D. candidate at UMass Dartmouth, will present the topic “Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cinema in the classroom: In Theory and Practice”.


Léonard, Yves. (1999). "As Ligações a África e ao Brasil." In Francisco Bethencourt & Kirty Chaudhuri, História da Expansão Portuguesa, Vol. 5, Navarra, Círculo de Leitores.


Guest writers:
Valter Hugo Mãe (Portugal)
Francisco Alvim (Brazil)
Dr. David Hopffer Almada (Cabo Verde)


Special guest:
Onésimo T. Almeida


Guest speakers:
Cecília Amaral Figueiredo
Irene Amaral
Fernando Beleza


Event coordinator: Maria Madureira
For more information contact: [email protected]


Please visit our website for further information.
http://www.bostonportuguesefestival.org/#!lecture/cqeb

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