19. e 20.09.25

PROGRAM

September 19th (Friday)

14h00 Opening

Mário Passos, Mayor of Vila Nova de Famalicão
Manuel de Novaes Cabral, President of the Armando Ginestal Machado National Railway Museum Foundation

15h00 Opening conference

Ana Paula Vieira Silva e Sousa (FLUL) – 150 years of the train north of the Douro – Minho and Douro Lines and Braga Branch – mobility; memory; tourism

16h00 Break

16h15 Panel: Art and the railroad

António Gonçalves (Ala da Frente Municipal Gallery) – Lines of expression and travel

Armando Oliveira (Infraestruturas de Portugal, SA | IP Património) – Railway tile heritage

17h45 Debate

18h00 Closing

September 20th (Saturday)

09h30 Hugo Pereira – The past, present and future of the Douro line

Interval

10h45 Panel: Teaching proposals

Cristiana Martinha and Pedro Rego – Territorial Citizenship and Transport: the contribution of Geography

Ana Cristina Santos and Alfredo F. Costa – The Train Between Times

12h15 Debate

12:30 p.m. Lunch break

14h00 Round table with testimonies

Level Crossing Guard – Amelia Miranda; Proofreader – José Ribeiro; Driver/Inspector – Vergílio Fonseca; José Pinto – driver; Fernando Augusto Ferraz – driver

15h15 Break

15h30 Hugo Barreira (CITCEM/FLUP) – Cottinelli Telmo – The train as a motif of progress at the dawn of modernism in Portugal

Fátima Outeirinho (ILC/FLUP) – With the railroad, in some Portuguese travel writing

16h45 Debate

17h00 Break

17:15 Closing conference

Álvaro Costa (FLUP) – Mistakes, indecisions and challenges for Portugal’s rail network

18h00 Closing

National Railway Museum – Lousado, VN Famalicão

GD teacher registration: https://www.cfaevnf.pt/course/4290
General public registration: https://forms.gle/aXwsfLngA89gxqMaA

Organization

• Vila Nova de Famalicão City Council

Scientific Coordination

• Arminda Ferreira (CMVNF)
• Luis Alberto Alves (CITCEM/FLUP)
• Cláudia Ninhos (IHC-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST)
• Filipa Lopes (IHC-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST)
• Cristina Climaco (LER – Paris 8 University)
• António Gonçalves (GM Front Wing)
• Miguel Barros (APH)
• Aurora Marques (CFAEVNF)