(Ex)Changes: Short Fiction in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Ireland (1980-2010)
- Dates
- Friday 30 November 2012 (10:00-17:15)
Scientific consultant: Dr Patricia Odber Baubeta
Organisers: Ana Raquel Fernandes, Fátima Candé, Jennifer Arnold, Suzan Bozkurt
The organisers are grateful for support received from the University of Birmingham, Cátedra Gil Vicente, Camões – Instituto da Colaboração e da Língua, I. P., CEAUL/ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and also the BI Scholarship Holder Madalena Palmeirim.
Venue: Harborne Room, Lucas House (The Conference Park), University of Birmingham
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Programme
10:00 Opening Session
10:30-11:30 Keynote Address
- Professor Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick): Moving between Cultures: Texts and Transmission
11:30-11:45 Coffee-break
11:45-12:45 Panel A
- Suzan Bozkurt (University of Manchester, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?: the Portuguese translations of A Room of One’s Own and their influence on contemporary writers and critics in Portugal - Paul Melo e Castro (University of Leeds, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies)
The Lyric Short Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha - Serafina Martins (Universidade de Lisboa – CLEPUL)
O conto português e os códigos epocais - Do fim-de-século ao neo-realismo
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Panel B
- Sara Paiva Henriques (University of Lisbon, CEAUL/ULICES)
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Short Fiction and its reception in Portugal - Mário Semião (University of Lisbon, CEAUL/ULICES / Dalarna University Sweden)
‘A Collection of Stories from a Finalist of the Booker Prize’: The Reception of Julian Barnes’s Short Fiction in Portugal - Zuzanna Sanches (University of Lisbon, CEAUL/ULICES)
One Text as Another: Ireland, Portugal and translating between languages, texts and cultures
15:30-15:45 Coffee-break
15:45-16:45 Panel C
- Claire Williams
A Novel in Thirteen Stories: Contar de Subversão (Romance) by Olga Gonçalves - Inês Alves Mendes (Catholic University of Portugal, CECC)
The Brontë sister’s vampire: Hélia Correia’s Uma noite em Luddenden - Ana Raquel Fernandes (University of Birmingham, Cátedra Gil Vicente / University of Lisbon, ULICES)
Women Authors in (Ex)Change: Short Fiction in Portugal and the United Kingdom (1980-2012)
16:45-17:15 Closing Session