Nem cá nem lá: mas também
Neither Here Nor There: Yet Both
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
Portugal
Registration
9:30-10:00 – Welcome to participants
10:00-10:50 Anf. 3
Plenary speaker Onésimo T. Almeida (Brown University), “Sobre o universo literário luso-americano actual – de osmoses, intersecções e diferenças”
Chair: Teresa F. A. Alves (ULICES)
10:50-11:15 – Coffee Break
Anf. 3 – CHARLES REIS FELIX Chair: Teresa Botelho (CETAPS/CEAUL)
António Ladeira (Texas Tech U), “‘A scary proposition’: ethnic masculinities in Charles Reis Felix and Henry Roth”
Carlos Ventura (U Azores/ULICES), “From Sapateiro to Cobbler, from Cobbler to Shoemaker: Charles Reis Felix coming to terms with his Portuguese heritage”
Isabel Oliveira Martins (CETAPS), “Familial and societal relationships in Charles Reis Felix’s novel Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934”
Rui Zink (FCSH-UNL/IELT), “Charles Reis Felix and the 1934 Election”
5.2 NARRATIVES OF THOSE WHO LEFT AND THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND
Amy Sayre-Baptista (Benedictine University), “Speaking in Stolen Tongues: collaborative narrative structure and the making of new feminist folklore” “Home Is an Island: the weaving of a Portuguese-American life”Millicent Accardi (Independent scholar), “New Cá, New Lá, yet Neither / New Here, New There, yet Neither” Paula Neves (Rutgers University, Newark), “Calling Out the Inner Dictator: Self-Censorship in the Portuguese-American Experience and its Challenges for a Writer”
13:15-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Anf. 3 SELF IDENTITY, SOCIAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Chair: Laura Bulger (Univ. Toronto)
Carmen Villár (University of Sheffield), “Can you see what I see? Images and Photographs in Portuguese-American Autobiography”
Irene Blayer (Brock University), “Where is Here? Identity, selves and memory in Luso-Canadian emigrant narrations”
Richard Simas (Free-lance writer), “Fact or Ficção, Creating Interrogations About Luso Diaspora”
5.2. VISUAL ARTS AND FILM
Chair: Maria do Céu Marques (UAberta)
Diana V. Almeida (ULICES/FLUL/FCT), “Mel Ramos: Identidades Descartáveis”
Ana Barroso (UL/ULICES), “Ainda à procura de um método: James Franco e a adaptação da prosa de Cormac McCarthy ao cinema”
Reinaldo Silva (U Aveiro/ULICES), “‘Playing in the Dark’ with Portuguese Statues in the United States of America: João
Rodrigues Cabrilho, Peter Francisco, and Catarina de Bragança”
16:30-18:00 – Anf. 3 LUSO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chair: Reinaldo Silva (UAveiro/ULICES)
Frank F. Sousa (U Mass Dartmouth), “Taking Stock of Portuguese-American Literature: Successes and Challenges”
Margarida Vale de Gato (ULICES/FLUL/FCSH), “Translation and Diaspora in Luso-American Literature”
Teresa Cid (ULICES/FLUL), “The Health and the Wealth of Story: Julian Silva’s ‘Candle In the Wind’ ”
5.2 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
Chair: Edgardo Medeiros Silva (ULICES/ISCSP)
Graça Cordeiro e Lígia Ferro (ISCTE-IUL /CIES-IUL), “The MAPS triangle – Crossing individual and organizational trajectories within a Portuguese speaking community in Massachusetts”
Rosa Simas (UAçores), “Energy and Environmental Issues and Generations in the Azores and the US Immigrant Communities”
Sandra Silva (IGOT/CEG), “Os Jovens Luso-Canadianos: Redes Sociais Locais ou Transnacionais?”
18:30-20:30 – FLAD LUSO-AMERICAN WRITERS’ READING
Chair: Onésimo T. Almeida(Brown University)
Readings by Anthony de Sa, Frank Gaspar and Katherine Vaz
• Book launch: T. Cid, T. Alves, I. Blayer, F. Cota Fagundes, Portugal pelo Mundo Disperso
Presenter: Dulce Scott
• Journal launch: InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (“IJPDS”)
Presenter: Teresa F. A. Alves
Friday, 12 July 2013
Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon
9:00-10:30 – Anf. 3 ROUNDTABLE – A World of Possibility: Portuguese-American Authors’ Perspectives on Writing and Life
Amy Sayre-Baptista (Benedictine University), Brian Sousa (Writer), Lara Gularte (Poet), Millicent Borges Accardi (Independent scholar), Oona Patrick (Writer), Paula Neves (Rutgers University, Newark), Richard Simas (Free-lance writer),
10:30-11:00 – Anf. 3 Book Launch
• Francisco Cota Fagundes, Do Sonho e do Pesadelo. Narrativas da Minha Diáspora no Vale dos Pioneiros
Presenter: Teresa Cid
11:00-11:45 – Visit to the Library Exhibitions with the presence of photojournalist Rui Ochoa: Portugueses da América / Making it in America: Interviews with Portuguese-Americans, by Rui Ochoa
Miguéis em Nova Iorque / Miguéis in New York, by Ana Aguilar Franco
Sponsored by the Luso-American Foundation (FLAD)
Coffee-Break – 11:45-13:30 Anf. 3
Public presentation of DISQUIET Luso-American writing workshop with Katherine Vaz
Chair: Jeff Parker (DISQUIET)
13:30-14:45 Lunch
14:45-16:45 Anf. 3 – TRANSLATING WITH AUTHORS
PEnPAL workshop – public debate on problems regarding the translation of Luso-American authors into Portuguese
5.2 THE PARTICIPATION OF PORTUGUESE MIGRANTS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT?
Chairs: Ana Maria Belchior (ISCTE-IUL/CIES-IUL),
Joana Azevedo (ISCTE-IUL/CIES-IUL), Marco Lisi (UNL), Manuel Abrantes (SOCIUS-UTL)
Ana Maria Belchior (ISCTE-IUL/CIES-IUL); Joana Azevedo (ISCTE-IUL/CIES-IUL); Manuel Abrantes (SOCIUS-UTL);
Marco Lisi (UNL), “Participation in Home Country Elections – The Case of Portuguese emigrants in the United States of America”
José Mapril (UNL/CRIA), “Açorianos ou Luso-canadianos? Origens, transnacionalismo e cidadania em Vancouver”
16:45-17:00 – Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 – Anf. 3 PANEL ON PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Chair: Francisco Cota Fagundes (UMass Amherst)
Francisco Cota Fagundes (UMass Amherst), “The Autobiography of Lawrence Oliver, A Portuguese-American revisitada”
Rui Azevedo (ULICES/ULusófona), “The Journey of a Lifetime: The Unknown Worlds of Francisco Cota Fagundes”
Teresa F. A. Alves (ULICES-FLUL), “The Women’s angle: Portuguese American voices and the native tradition”
19:00-21:00 – Cinemateca Portuguesa / Museu do Cinema – Film “Deportado”, with the presence of the director Nathalie Mansoux
21:00-23:00 – Cinema S. Jorge Conference Dinner
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon
10:00-10:50 – Auditório 1
Plenary speaker Dulce Maria Scott (Anderson University, USA), “Portuguese Americans in the Political Systems of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: A Comparative Historical Analysis”
Chair: Zulmira Castanheira (CETAPS)
11:10-11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 – Auditório 1 VISIONS FROM HERE AND THERE
Chair: Isabel Oliveira Martins (CETAPS/ULICES)
Ana Aguilar Franco (ULICES), “José Rodrigues Miguéis: o eterno viajante”
Isabelle Marques (UCoimbra / CLUNL / LER-UParis 8), “Aquém e além fronteiras: o caso de Um Homem sorri à morte – com meia cara de José Rodrigues Miguéis (1959)”
Teresa Botelho (CETAPS-FCSH/UNL/ULICES), “Teasing Ethnicity: the Ironic Gaze in Julian Silva’s Move Over Scopes”
Zulmira Castanheira (CETAPS), “Here-and-there-ing in Portugal in 1929: the perspective of an American ‘impressiongatherer’”
Aud
itório 2 – TRANSLATION AND DIASPORA
Chair: Margarida Vale de Gato (ULICES/FLUL/FSCH)
Ana Viotti (UNESP), “Do inglês para o português: notas sobre a tradução de textos médicos e botânicos estrangeiros que circularam no Brasil colonial (séculos XVIII e XIX)”
Dulce Afonso (CETAPS), “Contributo para o Estudo das Relações entre Portugal e os EUA nos Anos 60 do Século
XX: A Tradução de um Discurso Político de J.F. Kennedy na Imprensa Portuguesa do Estado Novo (1961)”Sara Paiva Henriques (ULICES/FLUL), “Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person: a Transelation from the Portuguese of Alberto Caeiro, by Eirin Mouré – From rural Portuguese landscape to the Toronto cityscape”
Sara Vieira (FLUL), “A Expressão Criativa da Memória no Discurso de Frank Gaspar e a sua Repercussão no Processo Tradutório Inglês-Português”
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Auditório 1 BEING PORTUGUESE IN AMERICA
Chair: Ana Aguilar Franco (ULICES)
Cecília Figueiredo (UMass), “A condição de estrangeiro vivida por Alfred Lewis em Home is an Island”
Isabel Alves (UTAD/ULICES), “’America like a cloud’: Lewis’s search for home”
Rogério Miguel Puga (CETAPS – UNL), “ ‘Of God and Cod’: Representações de Afectos e Memória(s) em Barnacle Love (2008), de Anthony de Sa”
Auditório 2 – LITERATURE AND IDENTITY
Chair: Rui Azevedo (ULICES/ULusófona)
Fernanda Feneja (Universidade Europeia-Laureate International Universities/ULICES), “Paths to Luso-Americanness: Dos Passos’s Portugal Story”
Maria do Céu Marques (UAberta), “John Dos Passos’ quest for Identity”
Miguel Oliveira (FLUL), “’Possibly Amenable to Service Action’- Subject: John Dos Passos A Security Matter-C”
16:00-17:30 – Auditório 1 HYPHENATED LANGUAGES AND IDENTITY
Chair: Irene Blayer (Brock University)
Helena Simas (AMIDEAST), “Negotiating Meaning Between Two Worlds: An Azorean-American Experience”
Sílvia Oliveira (Rhode Island College), “Portugueses de Rhode Island”
Vera Hanna (U Presbiteriana MacKenzie), “Bilinguismo, Multilinguismo e Falantes Transnacionais nos EUA: o ensino de Português como Língua Estrangeira no século XXI, os sujeitos nos entre-lugares”
Auditório 2 – DOCUMENTING THE LUSO-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Chair: Filipa Palma dos Reis (UAberta/ULICES)
Carlos Riley Faria (U Açores), “A experiência luso-americana virada do avesso: os “Boston Brahmins” nas ilhas dos Açores (1770-1870)”
Edgardo Medeiros (ISCSP/ULICES), “Observing the American Scene – The Abbé Correia da Serra in America, 1812-1820”
Sónia Pacheco (U Mass Dartmouth), “The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives: A study in immigrant archives”
17:30-19:30 – Farewell Merenda with new Luso-American readings
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