Forthcoming Events

Relational Forms I: an International Conference on Literature and the Arts

Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

25-27 November 2010

Conference's website:

web.letras.up.pt/relational

This conference aims to respond to the intense interest that intermedial designs have obtained in all areas of study pertaining to literature, the arts, and related cultural practices. It will welcome contributions focusing on specific instances of intermediality, and on the frameworks of tradition within which they have been read. But it will also be open to studies that query conventional barriers between verbal and non-verbal art forms, and interrogate the theoretical and critical tools that have traditionally been applied to the study of intermedial relations. The conference will lay a significant emphasis on the word-and-image nexus, but its range will be considerably broader: the programme will accommodate participants with interests as diverse as (*) literary studies vs the other arts, the language of art history and art criticism, writing and performance, and language and visuality in the new media.

As suggested by its title, the conference aims to be the first in a series of academic events that will reflect the ongoing concerns of the eponymous research group (Relational Forms), based at CETAPS (the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Isobel Armstrong (Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, London)

Martin Heusser (University of Zürich)

Deirdre Madden (novelist; Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin)

For further queries please contact:

CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto Via Panorâmica, s/n 4150-564 PORTO PORTUGAL Phone / Fax: +351-22-6077183 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Conference executive committee:

Rui Carvalho Homem (convenor)

Paulo Eduardo Carvalho

Teresa Louro

Jorge Bastos da Silva

The Relational Forms research group:

Rui Carvalho Homem (director)

Adriana Bebiano

Isabel Donas Botto

Paulo Eduardo Carvalho

Teresa Casal

Maria de Deus Duarte

Teresa Louro

Jorge Bastos da Silva

This conference is hosted by the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP) and supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.