Portuguese Queer, Feminist, and Black Histories and Cultures
In English and Portuguese with Translation
Women in Words and Images
11:00 AM (NYC) 16:00 (Lisboa)
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Speakers:
Anna Klobucka
Susana Moreira Marques
Moderator: Daniel da Silva
Leading researcher of Portuguese literature, Anna M. Klobucka gives us an overview of women in Portuguese literature during the twentieth century, from the Estado Novo period to the revolutionary publication of Novas Cartas Portuguesas, reflecting on the contemporary legacy of that feminist work and intervention. Writer Susana Moreira Marques takes up the thread to ask about the importance of recovering and remembering forgotten works in the making of a genealogy of Portuguese women writers and feminist literature for women today.
Anna Klobucka is a Professor of Portuguese and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000; Portuguese translation 2006), O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (2009), and O Mundo Gay de António Botto (2018).
Susana Moreira Marques is the author of Quanto Tempo Tem um Dia (How Long is a Day), a memoir about motherhood, and Now and at the Hour of Our Death, a work of narrative non-fiction that was translated into English, French and Spanish. She has been awarded fellowships by the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation (Colombia), the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland) and Art Omi (US), amongst others.
Queer Histories and Art as Activism
2:00 PM (NYC) 19:00 (Lisboa)
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Speakers:
Raquel Afonso
André Murraças
Moderator: Daniel da Silva
For most of the twentieth century, Portugal languished under the conservative and authoritarian Estado Novo regime. Raquel Afonso gives us a history of homosexuality during this period that reveals its oppression and coded iterations. Contemporary queer artists and performers in Portugal refigure this cultural heritage, and André Murraças's work queers both stage and screen, giving us new formations of queer Portuguese archives and repertoires. Join us to talk about these histories, and performance and art as activism in normative social and cultural scenes
Raquel Afonso is an anthropologist and researcher at IHC-NOVA/IN2PAST (Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory) and a PhD student in Gender Studies. She is the author of the book Homossexualidade e Resistência no Estado Novo (Homosexuality and Resistance during the Estado Novo).
André Murraças holds a Master of Arts in Scenography from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Netherlands). As a playwriter and scenographer he is behind the many works, among them: Cabaret Repórter X, Espectáculo Guiado, Império, Coro, and 50 –Orlando. He is also the author of the text “O Espelho do Narciso Gordo”, which received an award by Clube Português de Artes e Ideias. As a filmmaker, he created the webserie Barba Rija, the first Portuguese gay/bear webserie.
Black Movements and Anti-Black Racism
4:00PM (NYC) 21:00 PM (Lisboa)
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Speakers:
Cristina Roldão
Joana Gorjão Henriques
Moderator: Daniel da Silva
Groundbreaking research on Black histories, activism, and anti-Black racism in Portugal have reshaped the discussion of the continuing erasure and systemic violence visited on Black people in Portuguese culture and society. Against these erasures, and against the continuing marginalization of Blackness in Portugal, Cristina Roldão gives a history of Black movements and activism in early twentieth-century Portugal, while Joana Gorjão Henriques exposes the particularities and proliferation of anti-Black racism in Portuguese society today.
Cristina Roldão is a researcher at ISCTE-IUL and a lecturer at Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnicode Setúbal. Roldão has actively participated in the academic and public debate on racism in Portugal. The history of Black presence and resistance in Portuguese society has been an important field of her research, with works such as "Black Feminism: Falta contar-nos " (Público, 2019), "The Black Presence in the City of Setúbal, 16th to 18th centuries(Setúbal, 2019).
Joana Gorjão Henriques is a journalist with Portuguese news outlet Público and author of the books Racismo em Português -o lado esquecido do colonialismo (Racism in Portuguese: the forgotten side of colonialism) and Racismo no país dos brancos costumes (Racism in the Nation of White Customs) both published by Tinta-da-china.
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Daniel da Silva is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. He has a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Feminist Scholarship from the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. His research centers voice, music, and queer performance in the study of gender, sexuality, race, and popular music in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures, with forthcoming book Trans Tessituras: Queer Repertoires and Black Diaspora in Lusophone Popular Music.
Film Screening: A Name for What I Am (Um nome para o que sou)
dir. Marta Pessoa, 2022
Streaming online Nov 11-13th (register for access)
Watch A Name for What I Am (Um nome para o que sou)
(Registration code required)
About the film: Between 1947 and 1949, the writer Maria Lamas traveled Portugal to document the reality of how Portuguese women lived, and published her findings in As Mulheres do Meu País (The Women of My Country). More than 70 years later, director Marta Pessoa and writer Susana Moreira Marques make their own journeys through Portugal and Lamas's book, connecting with women they find in person and in the text, to understand what it can tell us today.
About the director: Marta Pessoa was born on March 24, 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a cinematographer and director, known for The Lurking Fear (2015), Dia de Feira (2004) and Donzela Guerreira (2019).
Poetry in Person: Ana Luísa Amaral
Visit an exhibit of works in translation, by the late Portuguese poet
AB West 5th floor
Winner of the Premio Reina Sofía for Poetry, Ana Luísa Amaral (1956-2022) was born in Lisbon, in 1956. She was highly acclaimed not only for her poetry, but also for her plays, children’s books, books of essays, and a novel. She was widely regarded as the finest translator into Portuguese of Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. Her books have been translated into many languages and her national and international awards include the Premio Internazionale Fondazione Roma and the PEN Prize for Fiction. In 2019, New Directions published her What’s in a Name to rave reviews. Amaral was also a professor at Universidade do Porto. We remember her through her words and works, on display at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
An exhibit of works by Ana Luísa Amaral in translation will be on display at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Academic Building West 5th floor November 7-11, 2022.
MOVIMENTO is possible thanks to the generous support of Camões Institute and Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento