PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PORTUGUESE
There will be a conference at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
in London, on Psychoanalysis and Portuguese. It is coorganized by Paulo de
Medeiros and Hilary Owen and will take place on 30 and 31 May 2008. We hope
lots of our colleagues will be able to come. You are very welcome! The IGRS
web link for further information, directions and booking forms can be found
at:
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/prog_psych_portuguese.htm
Conference Programme
Friday 30 May
9.30-10.00 registration
10.00-11.30 Session 1 - Chair - Hilary Owen
Claire Williams (University of Liverpool) "Writing 'a vida pós-dor': Maria
Gabriela Llansol on Love and Loss"
Cláudia Pazos Alonso (University of Oxford) "Displacement and Condensation:
a Freudian analysis of A Confissão de Lúcio by Mário de Sá-Carneiro".
11.30-12.00 Morning Coffee (tea and coffee provided)
12.00 -13.00 Keynote - Chair - Hilary Owen
Ana Paula Ferreira (University of Minnesota) "Tragedy and Ethics in the
Fiction of Lídia Jorge"
13.00 -14.30 Lunch (sandwich buffet lunch provided)
14.30-16.00 Session 2 - Chair - Ana Paula Ferreira
Paulo de Medeiros (University of Utrecht) "Consenting to be Wrecked:
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Lídia Jorge's novels"
Maria Manuel Lisboa (University of Cambridge) "The Art of Parenting in the
Portuguese Oitocentismo: Eating Children Is Wrong "
16.00 - 16.30
Afternoon Tea (tea and coffee provided)
16.30-17.30 Keynote - Chair - Paulo de Medeiros
Isabel Capeloa Gil (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon) "Savages and
Neurotics: Freud and the Colonial School"
Saturday 31 May
10.00 - 11.30 Session 1 - Chair - Claire Williams
Hilary Owen (University of Manchester) "Why António Nobre is not a woman:
Abjections to feminism in Hélia Correia's A Casa Eterna"
Phillip Rothwell (Rutger's University, New Brunswick) "From Perversion to
Psychosis: When Empire Ends in Lídia Jorge and António Lobo Antunes"
11.30-12.00 coffee
12.00-13.00
Closing Round Table Discussion.
This conference is generously supported by:
The British Academy, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The University of
Utrecht, and the University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics
and Cultures.
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