LOCATION: FACULTY OF LETTERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON 06-12 NOVEMBER 2009
ULICES (UNIVERSITY OF LISBON CENTRE FOR ENGLISH STUDIES)
American Studies Research Group
Symposium Directors: Teresa F. Alves and Teresa Cid
Symposium Directors: Teresa F. Alves and Teresa Cid
DAY 1 - NOVEMBER 6th 2009
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BICENTENNIAL / RETHINKING LINCOLN
9:00/9:30 - OPENING SESSION: Abigail Dressel, Counselor for Public Affairs, USA Embassy, Lisbon), Isabel Fernandes, ULICES Scientific Coordinator (Reitoria of the University of Lisbon), Teresa F. Alves, Research Group Coordinator.
9:30/10:30 - KEYNOTE LECTURE: Richard Carwardine, Oxford University:" 'Plucking a Thistle and Planting a Flower': Lincoln's Purpose in Power"
Chair: Edgardo Medeiros Silva (ULICES/ISCSP-UTL)
Chair: Edgardo Medeiros Silva (ULICES/ISCSP-UTL)
10:30/10:45 - COFFEE BREAK
10:45/12:15 - PANEL SESSION:
Zina Abreu: “Illinois:The Land that Made Abraham Lincoln”
Teresa Botelho (ULICES/FCSH-UNL): «“Yes, They Could!”; The Post-Identity Politics Hypothesis and the Election of 2008»
Filipa Palma dos Reis (ULICES/Univ. Aberta): "Campus Novels and Race Difference at the University"
Chair: Mário Avelar (ULICES/Univ. Aberta)
Chair: Mário Avelar (ULICES/Univ. Aberta)
12:15/14:30 - LUNCH BREAK
14:30/16:00 - PANEL SESSION:
João de Mancelos (ULICES/Univ. Católica de Viseu):"A Slave With the Feet of a Portuguese Lady: Race Relations in Toni Morrison's A Mercy"
João de Mancelos (ULICES/Univ. Católica de Viseu):"A Slave With the Feet of a Portuguese Lady: Race Relations in Toni Morrison's A Mercy"
Rui Azevedo (ULICES/ULHT): "Dreaming of a New Racial Identity in (Immigrant) Autobiography?”
José Duarte (ULICES): “Gran Torino: Change in the Neighborhood”
Chair: Teresa Botelho (ULICES/FCSH-UNL)
Chair: Teresa Botelho (ULICES/FCSH-UNL)
16:00/16:15 - COFFEE BREAK
16:15/17:15 - KEYNOTE LECTURE: Isabel Caldeira, University of Coimbra: "Can the Racial House Have a Room of Our Own?"
Respondant: Teresa Cid
19:30 - DINNER: Cinemateca Portuguesa (guests)
21:30 - FILM: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), directed by Stanley Kramer. Introduction by Mário Jorge Torres (CEC/FLUL)
DAY 2 - NOVEMBER 9th 2009
18:00/18:30 - OPENING OF EXHIBITION – Lincoln Posters
(Library Hall, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon)
Presented by Jeffrey Childs (Univ. Aberta/CEC)
Presented by Jeffrey Childs (Univ. Aberta/CEC)
18:30/19:30 - DEBATE: The Current State of EU-USA Relations
(Faculty of Letters, D. Pedro V Room)
Moderator: Edgardo Medeiros Silva
Participants: David Ballard (Charge d'Affaires, USA Embassy, Lisbon), Luísa Castro e Brito (Escola Secundária D. Manuel I), Paula Escarameia (ISCSP-UTL), Teresa Botelho (ULICES/FCSH-UNL)
DAY 3 - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10th 2009
18:00/18:30 - OPENING OF PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Girls Will be Girls– by Tracy Corvo (Main Hall, Library of the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon)
Presented by Maria Antónia Lima (ULICES/Univ. Évora)
Presented by Maria Antónia Lima (ULICES/Univ. Évora)
18:30/19:30 - DEBATE: Racial Identity Models in Children’s Literature
(Faculty of Letters, Room 5.2)
Chair: Rute Beirante (ULICES/Univ. Évora)
Participants: Elsa Maurício Childs (Casa Verdes Anos), Elsa Serra (Storyteller/Creative Writing), Paulo Pires do Vale (Univ. Católica/ESEI Maria Ulrich)
DAY 4 - WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11th 2009
17:00/17:30 - RETELLING EUDORA WELTY
Session with Storytellers José Paula Santos and Leticia Liesenfeld
Presented by Diana Almeida (ULICES/FCT)
17:40/18:00 - COFFEE BREAK
18:00/19:30 - The Ponder Heart (film adaptation of Welty’s novel), directed by Martha Coolidge. Presented by Cecilia Beecher Martins (ULICES)
DAY 5 - THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12th 2009
EUDORA WELTY'S CENTENNIAL / THE THEMATICS OF RACE
9:00/10:00 - Introduction by Teresa Cid (ULICES/UL). KEYNOTE LECTURE: Patricia Yaeger, University of Michigan: "Women Trashing Infrastructure: From Eudora Welty to Contemporary Cinema"
Presented by Margarida Vale de Gato (ULICES)
Presented by Margarida Vale de Gato (ULICES)
10:15/10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30/12.00 - PANEL SESSION 3:
Maria Antónia Lima:" 'All Things Are Double': Eudora Welty's Prismatic View"
Hermínia Sol, "You Know How It Is With Them". Representations of "Blackness" in Welty's "Powerhouse" and in Bowles's "Sylvie Ann, the Boogie Man."
Isabel Alves,"The Waiting Arms of Missouri": Human Connections and Sheltered Lives in Welty's The Optimist's Daughter»
Chair: Filipa Palma dos Reis (ULICES/Univ. Aberta)
Chair: Filipa Palma dos Reis (ULICES/Univ. Aberta)
12:00/14.30 - LUNCH BREAK
14:30/16:00 - ROUNDTABLE: "Where is the Voice Coming From?" with the writers Hélia Correia and Luísa Costa Gomes and José Mário Silva. Moderator: Diana Almeida (ULICES/FCT)
16.00/16:15 - José Paula Santos tells us a story
Chair: Diana Almeida
16:15/16:30 - COFFEE BREAK
16:30/18.00 - KEYNOTE LECTURE: Teresa Castilho, "Welty’s Long Fiction and her Southern Feminine Voice"
Participants: Paula Elyseu Mesquita (ULICES/UBI) («White Southern Manhood in Welty's "Death of a Traveling Salesman"») and Diana Almeida (ULICES/FCT) («“We Need to Write with Love": Eudora Welty's Political View During the Civil Rights Years»)
Moderator: Teresa F. A. Alves
18:00/18:30 - CLOSING SESSION. Diana Almeida, Edgardo Medeiros Silva
Port Wine Toast (for guests)
