All the news available on this page refer to activities promoted by Grupo2i or organized with the collaboration of this research team.
Between September and December 2025, CEHUM's Group2i will be promoting a new cycle of seminars on Intermedial Poetics, within the scope of the 2i Meeting Points.
Read more about 2i Meeting Points | Intermedial Poetics2i Journal a publication of the Center for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), joined the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) since October 2025.
This platform brings together open-access scientific journals, promoting the visibility, transparency, and sustainability of academic publishing at no cost to authors or readers.
The Diamond Discovery Hub is an initiative of the European Diamond Collections Hub (EDCH) within the scope of the DIAMAS project, funded by the European Union.
Explore the integrated journals here: https://ddh.diamas.org/en
Read more about 2i Journal in Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH)The project iCOn-MICs is a COST Action for the promotion, dissemination and networking of researchers on Iberian comics, as well as their relationship with professionals and the comics industry.
Website: https://iconmics.hypotheses.org/
Read more about iCOn-MICs: Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural AreaUnder the heading Meeting Points 2i, Group 2i regularly organizes seminars, open classes and workshops with invited personalities, promoting moments of debate and reflection on different topics in the scope of intermedial studies and identity studies.
Read more about PONTOS DE ENCONTRO 2iLEA! (Lire en Europe Aujourd’hui | Reading in Europe Today) is an international network, created on December 2007, which brings together professorslecturers and/or researchers from Belgium, Hungary, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal thus drawing a true North-South axis of European research.
Webpage: http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/lea/?page_id=1760
Read more about LEA! - Reading in Europe today – Reading and Writing Literary Texts in the Age of Digital HumanitiesDuring the year 2021, the monthly cycle of Portrait Talks took place, with organization shared between the Institute of Art History of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Center for Humanistic Studies/Group2i of the University of Minho.
This initiative brought together a group of national and international researchers and specialists around the theme of portrait representation in different media, from the most traditional to the most emerging, thinking about ideas and practices historically associated with the genre of Portrait, as well as its multiple philosophical, social, cultural and/or political implications.
Throughout 2021, in the last week of each month, an online talk was announced, with speakers from the universe of Arts and Letters, open to all interested public. The various sessions were moderated by Bruno Marques (IHA/FCSH-UNOVA) and Eunice Ribeiro (Grupo2i/CEHUM-UMinho).
Read more about Portrait Talks 2021Animals, humans: these others so close
March 4, 2021 | Online
In this meeting with Anne Simon, theorist of zoopoetics, and Frédéric Worms, philosopher, we propose a debate around the relations with our neighbors, considered from the angle of a concern for others centered on the care, the attention and the solicitude, but also considered in an enlarged circle which includes within it other living beings and in particular animals.
This session is part of the REVIF project, the Animots network, the activities of the 2i research group (CEHUM) and the program of the Mois de la Francophonie.
Website/Inscriptions : http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/animaux
Read more about Night of ideas 2021SINESTÉTICAS is a collective of artists created in 2019 by Portuguese and Brazilian students of the Master in Portuguese Language Literatures at the University of Minho, whose main objective is to stimulate the production and dissemination of literature. Since May 2020, the collective has been a collaborator in Grupo2i of the Center for Humanistic Studies of that University.
During its first year of existence, more than 400 original texts were produced in partnership with writers representing different facets of Portuguese speaking and several workshops and soirees were held in the city of Braga.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sinesteticas/
Read more about Soirees SINESTÉTICASPOST-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.
Read more about International Colloquium Literature, Cinema, ComicsSEMINAR
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.
Read more about Denis de Rougemont, René Girard, Ernst Lubitsch and the literary «myth» of loveHUMAN / ANIMAL THRESHOLDS IN THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
June 2-3, 2022 | 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.
Website: http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/limiares
Read more about XIII Colloquium of the Hispanic Association Portugueses Section of Medieval LiteratureThe 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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