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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.07.2023
    The Silence of (the) God(s) (University of Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Silence of (the) God(s) International Conference Centre for Classical Studies School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Portugal) November 23-24, 2023 In 1951, John Cage entered the anechoic chamber of Harvard...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    "The Silence of (the) God(s)" International Conference on Literature (Lisbon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Silence of (the) God(s) International Conference Centre for Classical Studies School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Portugal) November 23-24, 2023 In 1951, John Cage entered the anechoic chamber of Harvard...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 19.05.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.05.2022
    World Literature and the Circulation of Art from 1800 to the present, Inaugural Issue of Compendium - Journal of Comparative Studies
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for Papers for Inaugural Issue Compendium Journal of Comparative Studies Revista de Estudos Comparatistas University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities CEComp — Centre for Comparative Studies Compendium: Journal of...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 7 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2021
    Marcel Proust: À la recherche de l’Art, Universidade de Lisboa
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Marcel Proust: À la recherche de l’Art Pour commémorer le centenaire de la mort de Marcel Proust , le Projet SYNESTHESIA , du Centre d’Etudes Comparatistes de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Lisbonne, en collaboration avec ...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and visual studies and 5 more
    Created on: 23.08.2021
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Comparative World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project aims to structure and to develop the field of World Literature in Portugal, based on two theoretical assumptions: the comparative perspective and the estrangement of reading. It currently develops a set of anthologies (3 vols) on World...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities,  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Portuguese Colonial Empire and Urban Popular Culture: Comparing Visions from the Metropolis and the Colonies (1945-1974)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Empires are spaces of circulation of people and goods between colonies and their metropolitan centres, but they are also spaces of global circulation. A variety of cultural forms were circulated within the space of the Portuguese empire as well as...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th Centuries)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The main goal of this project (besides critically bringing to light the literary and scientific production on India from the 19th and 20th centuries) is to determine the extent to which the Portuguese accumulation of knowledge on the Orient can be...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  South Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-Present)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how national identities are constructed in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, before and after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), in the complex tension between colonial power...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Description By showcasting divers materials referring to Iberian literary relations (images, texts, secondary bibliography), this project aims at contributing both to the field of Iberian Studies, and to Digital Humanities in Portugal. This...

    Fields of research Spanish literature,  Portugese literature,  Digital Humanities and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    TECOP. Texts and Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism - The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The TECOP project focuses on the study of Portuguese Orientalism within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework. It seeks to give visibility to the Portuguese orientalists taking part in the International Congresses of Orientalists and to...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  11. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Københavns Universitet (KU) / University of Copenhagen,  Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    HERILIGION. The Heritagization of Religion and Sacralization of Heritage
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens when religious sites, objects and practices are simultaneously considered heritage? Since World War II, cultural heritage is increasingly seen as defining identities and communities in times of change, and often what is now considered...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  12. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (CEC), Universidade de Lisboa
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC) is a scientific unit of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. Its activities encompass the comparative analysis of literatures, arts and cultures, using interdisciplinary methodologies and...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies and 6 more
    Created on: 08.04.2019