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  • International Colloquium Literature, Cinema, Comics

    2019-06-10

    POST-HUMAN FIGURES
    June 13-14, 2019 | Auditorium ILCH

    In memoriam Luís Mourão

    If some of the implications of the deep redefinition we now see of the human threshold appear to be clearly positive and exalting (think of the use of AI in health service), others are not without skepticism and reservations: may post-humanity mean the end of what until today was considered human? Or, how to equate the coexistence of humanity with higher forms of technological hegemony? Or, how can we think of animal humanization carried out by the defenders of the animal cause, bearing in mind the growing manifestations of post-humanity?

    These are, among several others, some of the issues to which this International Colloquium intends to give voice, through an admittedly intermedial and interdisciplinary perspective. This is the reason why the communications capable of focusing the post-human figures in two or more discursive modalities, favoring the connections between them, will be considered as priorities.

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  • Denis de Rougemont, René Girard, Ernst Lubitsch and the literary «myth» of love

    2019-04-04

    SEMINAR

    Toufic El-Koury, University Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth, Liban

    May 9, 2019 -14:30 | Auditorium ILCH

    Based on Denis de Rougemont’s theory on the birth of courtly love, or love-passion (a notion based less on an anthropological truth than on a literary creation) and René Girard’s external mediation of desire (the way our conceptions of love and desire are conditioned and determined by literary works – novels, theater, film), it will be argued that novels, and modern romantic fiction, also try, on multiple levels, to grasp the very nature of desire and love relations.

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  • XIII Colloquium of the Hispanic Association Portugueses Section of Medieval Literature

    2019-04-01

    HUMAN / ANIMAL THRESHOLDS IN THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
    June 4-5, 2020 | Monastery of Tibães - Braga

    In our contemporaneity, guided by the radical expansion of the technological Reason, by migrations, by globalization, not to speak of the breakdown of ethical-moral consensus, an unprecedented ecological crisis certainly heightened the awareness of the fragility of the living and, by extension, the clear perception of the interdependence of all Earth-Archè inhabitants. This is the reason why in recent decades there has been a notable emphasis on animality and animal studies in several areas, particularly in the field of literary studies, open to concepts and reading proposals derived from animal studies and zoopoetics. The purpose of this Colloquium is to invite researchers in medieval literature to revisit their object of study in the light of the human-animal relationship, which is seen as a frontier and a discontinuity rather than a threshold and continuity.

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  • Portrait&Representation

    2019-03-30

    The project Portrait & Representation developed by the Research Group on Identity(ies) and Intermediality(ies) of the Centre for Humanistic Studies os the University of Minho (Portugal) aims to develop a theoretical and critical reflection on the concepts and practices of the portrait in the western world paying attention to the production of portraits derived either from high culture or popular culture and expressed in different media and materials languages — without forgetting the long tradition of literature and poetic portrait — with special emphasis on the innovative solutions offered by contemporary art.

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