Women, public space and intercultural dialogues International colloquium SECOND CIRCULAR

Research group “Literature and intercultural dialogues” CITCEM

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

April 10-12, 2025

Meeting Rooms 1 and 2 and Zoom platform

COLLOQUIUM PROGRAM: https://bit.ly/41Ri2uI

Throughout history, the process of women conquering public space has been marked by slowness and difficulty. Although the present is much more satisfactory and the future apparently more promising, it cannot be denied that there are still areas of shadow that need to be illuminated using critical postulates and legitimized theories, so that we can continue to move forward as a society that, on the one hand, values knowledge of the history and social and cultural realities of which we are heirs, and, on the other, aspires to build a more inclusive and shared future.

Although a priori it may seem that, apart from gender, there is nothing in common between a medieval European nun, a 19th century Latin American writer and a contemporary African artist, in fact they all belong to a space that even today is considered “differential” (Romiti, 2013): that of the culture produced by women as active subjects of society.

In addition, for centuries, the isolation experienced by women with cultural concerns, combined with the consequent lack of knowledge of their own genealogy and tradition, as well as the scarcity of references of their own gender, caused the weakening of female communicative forces that could have contributed to the recognition of their productions, transferring them from the regions of invisibility through which they circulated to a more legitimized or even canonized public sphere.

Therefore, considering as a starting hypothesis that there is a close relationship between the mechanisms of emancipation and gradual access to the public space (political, intellectual, labor, etc.) employed by women over the centuries and the construction of female identity, which is shaped mainly collectively.) employed by women over the centuries and the construction of female identity, configured in a mainly collective way, it becomes necessary to offer an updated panoramic view of this crossed reality from the Academy which, adopting a diachronic, diatopic and intercultural approach, revisits women’s historical access to culture, as a “nomadic, intensive, multiple, embodied” subject (Braidotti, 1994).

With this in mind, CITCEM’s “Literature and Intercultural Dialogues” research group is organizing a colloquium to be held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto on April 10-12, 2025. With the theoretical framework of the geopolitics of knowledge as a backdrop, the main objective of this scientific meeting is to focus on historically marginalized women’s cultural traditions, affiliations and networks, namely on the triple geographical axis Africa-Latin America-Europe, thus bringing out intertextualities and dialogues that are often silenced.

Thematic lines

– Women and artistic creation in the Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary times

– Constructing female identity: image and (self)referentiality

– Reading, writing, philosophy and women’s spirituality

– Cultural patronage, artistic production and memory

– Women’s cultural networks, travel and cross-correspondence

– Professionalization of women writers, journalists and artists

– Politicization of the women’s collective: exercising political power and militancy

– Women, gender mainstreaming and sexual identity

Type of event:

Hybrid (face-to-face and virtual, using the Zoom platform)

Colloquium Languages

Portuguese, Spanish, French and English

E-mail/Contact:

dinterculturais@letras.up.pt

Deadlines

Submission of paper abstracts (max. 300 words) with biographical note (max. 150 words): January 7, 2025

Informing authors of the outcome of the scientific review: February 10-17, 2025

Once the proposals have been accepted, the registration fee must be paid.

Registration/payment deadline: March 15, 2025

Registration fees:

• Participants with communication: 40 €
• Master’s or doctoral students with a paper: free of charge
• CITCEM researchers and members of the UPorto community: free of charge
• Assistants without communication: free

In the case of co-authored papers, each speaker must pay their individual registration fee.

Non-communication assistants interested in receiving a certificate of participation must also register by sending their personal details (full name) and academic details (university) to the colloquium e-mail (dinterculturais@letras.up.pt) by April 8, 2025.

Payment:

It is done online (credit card or MB WAY) via the following link, after filling in the information required on the form:

https://www.letras.up.pt/si/subscriptions?event=103

Other information:

Communications may not exceed 20 minutes.

Access links to the Zoom platform will be published in the event program, which will be sent to registered attendees by e-mail.

Exclusive booking conditions for participants in our event (10% discount on the best rates available on their website, as long as bookings are made directly from the link indicated):

https://coloquiocitcem25.hfhotels.com/

These conditions apply to the group’s 4 hotels in the city of Porto:

– HF Ipanema Park 5*;

– HF Ipanema Porto 4*;

– HF Fénix Porto 4*;

– HF Tuela Porto 3*.

Organizing Committee

Mirta Santos y Fernández (U. Porto/ CITCEM)

Pilar Nicolás Martínez (U. Porto/ CITCEM)

Francisco Topa (U. Porto/ CITCEM)

José Carlos Morais Teixeira (U. Porto/ CITCEM)