Tatiana Moura, investigadora do Centro de Estudos Sociais de Coimbra acaba de publicar o livro Novíssimas Guerras, pela Almedina na coleçção Cosmopolis. Em 2008 foi recipiente da bolsa Prins Bernhard Scholarship para efectuar investigação directamente relacionada ao livro, no Brasil.
Artdaily.org announces that a painting by Vieira da Silva has achieved a new sales record at auction as Sotheby's sold it recently for more than a million euros.
José Saramago's A Viagem do Elefante (2008) has been translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa and will be soon published in the USA and UK. Harvill Secker, the book's UK publisher will have promotional events throughout the month of June including elephants in the streets of London and proof copies of the novel.
Segundo notícia de hoje do Público faleceu o escritor João Aguiar. Licenciado pela Universidade Livre de Bruxelas, João Aguiar deixa uma vasta obra de onde se destacam romances históricos.
A Feira do Livro do Porto, que faz 80 anos, iniciou-se a 1 de Junho e continuará até 20 de Junho
11 June 2010 Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht
The celebration of Portugal’s National Holiday (10th June) in the Netherlands presents itself as the ideal pretext to promote a discussion about the historical and cultural relations between the two countries. Supported by the Camões Institute for the promotion of Portuguese culture abroad, in association with the Portuguese Embassy in The Netherlands, Utrecht University invites Dutch and Portuguese specialists and enthusiasts from various fields to come together and reflect on the two countries’ connections throughout history, tracing back different moments when their past endeavours, global context and shared interests have brought them together.
This diachronic expedition will progressively lead the debate to the present day, always emphasizing mutual influences, preserved and continually renewed cultural links, as well as encouraging a digression through Portuguese literary and artistic manifestations in contemporary Dutch society.
PROGRAM
9:00 – OFFICIAL OPENING of the Symposium by the Portuguese Ambassador in the Netherlands, Manuel Nuno Tavares de Sousa.
VENUE: Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Stijlkamer van Ravesteijn, 15:00-17:00
Monday, June 7 2010
This paper intervenes in contemporary discussions of World Literature in the Anglo-American academy, which frequently reference Goethe, Marx and Engels, and later Auerbach from the German speaking World. With the inclusion of Hermann Hesseʼs conceptualization of a library of world literature in his essay, “Eine Bibliothek der Welt Literatur” (1929), the paper spotlights a hitherto under-discussed text, which proposes new standards of world literary comparison in the 20th century. The paper makes a case for comparative examination of World literatures beyond the Western literary landscape. To this end, it argues for an inclusion of libraries— private and public—as spaces of circulation, distribution, and classification of literatures. The paper focuses on three key terms: the Bibliothek, the Bibliograph, and the Bibliophile to imagine World literature as a transactional space conditioned by Bibliomigrancy—physical and virtual movement of books from one part of the world to another.
B.Venkat Mani is Associate Professor of German at UW-Madison and faculty affiliate of Centers of Global Studies, German and European Studies, and South Asia Studies. He leads UW-Madisonʼs World Literature/s Research Workshop. He was educated in India, Germany, and the United States. He is the author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk (University of Iowa Press, 2007). He has published articles on cosmopolitanism, postcolonial theory, globalization, migration, language, and politics of pedagogy. He is currently working on a book-length project, “Borrowing Privileges: World Literatures and Bibliomigrancy”, a study on comparative literature and world literature with a
special focus on public and private libraries. Current projects include a translation, from German into English, of three essays by Hermann Hesse on the topic of World Literature, and a new Hindi translation of Bertolt Brechtʼs Die Dreigroschenoper. Recent grants include a DAAD Grant for the research collaborative “Positioning ʻModernʼ Germany: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, Colonialism, Migration.”
Prof. Ana Paula Arnaut focused on the novels of António Lobo Antunes in her lecture. Those interested in hearing the author speak about one of the recent novels can do so here.
On May 18 from 14:00 to 16:30 the Department of Portuguese will host two guest lectures by Prof. Ana Paula Arnaut on "O Feminino nos Romances de António Lobo Antunes" and by Prof. Teresa Cristina Cerdeira da Silva on "Literatura: A personagem em diáspora".
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