Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora (1928-2008)

Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal

This Conference will provide a forum on the Portuguese Diaspora and on some of its most significant features as observed from a variety of disciplinary fields (literary, linguistic, sociological, historical, cultural, and others). The event will be open to participants world-wide interested in all forms of narrating the Portuguese diaspora across the media, discussing diasporic experience, and exploring the effects on both those who made it happen and those who remained behind. 1928 was chosen as a tentative temporal boundary and also as a way of celebrating the publication of Os Emigrantes by Ferreira de Castro, a key-novel about the Portuguese Diaspora in Brazil.

This Conference is a follow up of other similar events (1999; 2001; 2005) initially organized by Irene Maria F. Blayer. The 2005 Conference – International Conference on Storytelling and Cultural Identity / Congresso Internacional de Literatura Oral e de Identidade Cultural – was organized by Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Blayer and took place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, Portugal. It was attended by over one hundred scholars and specialists from over forty countries and the five continents.

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