Portrait Talks 2021

The Portrait Talks cycle, bringing together different approaches from the fields of Art and Literature on the subject of portrait representation in an interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational perspective, integrated a group of 10 speakers who produced, throughout 2021, the following lectures :

• 28 January 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Pedro Flor, ‘When is a portrait not a portrait’: Practices in the History of Art and problems around a concept (moderation: Bruno Marques) .
• 24 February 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Paula Morão, Self-representation in Literature: Cases and Frontiers (moderation: Eunice Ribeiro).
• 24 March 2021(5:00-7:00 pm): Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Francisco de Holanda and the Portrait: Theories and Practices (moderation: Bruno Marques) .
• 27 April 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Daniel Rodrigues, Portraits of desire: Poetry and sexualities (moderation: Eunice Ribeiro).
• 26 May 2021 (5:30-7:30 pm): Joana Baião, Portraits of women, representations of the people: the ‘Marias’ of Graça Morais (moderation: Bruno Marques).
• 6 July 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Carlos Reis, “Snapshots of happiness”: ethics and aesthetics of the 19th century portrait (moderation: Eunice Ribeiro).
• 22 September 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Xaquín Núñez Sabarís, Heisenberg (Breaking Dead) or the Postmodern Prometheus (moderation: Eunice Ribeiro).
• 27 October 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Emília Ferreira, “Self-portrait in red, 1966” (moderation: Bruno Marques).
• 29 November 2021 (5:30-7:00 pm): Daniel Tavares, Impressions: Notes for the contemplation of the last face (moderation: Eunice Ribeiro).
• 15 December 2021 (5:00-7:00 pm): Madalena Miranda , Digital Self-Portraits: Self-portrait as a job interview (moderation: Bruno Marques).