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Keeping in mind Seneca’s sentence – IGNORANTI QUEM PORTUM PETAT, NULLUS SUUS VENTUS EST [“He who does not know to what port he wants to go, never finds a favorable wind”] (Seneca, Letters, 71, 3) in “emblematic” connection with the female personification of Air, represented in the central tile panel of the upper gallery of the cloister of the Cathedral of Porto (work attributed to António Vital Rifarto), the city of Porto hosts the 13th International Congress of the Spanish Emblematic Society.

Under the auspices of “better winds” leading to this safe harbor, the scientific community is invited to present innovative proposals in the scope of verb-visual culture and emblematic culture in particular, from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective. In the support of this holistic vision, we intend to promote new lines of reflection around image and emblem studies extensive to the Portuguese reality, proposing an equally wide range of thematic lines:

– Theories and practices of emblematic forms: Andrea Alciato and the tradition of emblems; emblematic strategies of relating texts and images; particularities of national and local emblems…

– Relations between emblematics and other symbolic forms: companies, hieroglyphics, allegories, heraldry, historical mottoes, sigillography, medals and numismatics…

– Classical, biblical, medieval and contemporary themes, topics/types and sources from the emblematic tradition and visual culture;

– Emblematic, hermetic and alchemical;

– Relations between emblematics and other forms of artistic expression: festive relations, architectural spaces, sculpture, painting, decorative arts…

– Relations between emblematic and literature; the subgenres of emblematic and related works: allegorical literature, bestiaries, books of fables…

– Emblematic and press. The production and reception of emblem books: authors, editors, printers, engravers, translators and commentators, editorial fortune…

– The uses of iconography: iconography of power, urban iconography, Masonic iconography…

– Iconography, emblematics and devotion;

– The present of emblematic and visual culture: photography, advertising, films, comics, performances…

– Emblem books / visual repertories and digital humanities: digitization, databases, web places…

– Presentation of projects, doctoral theses, and ongoing research on visual culture and emblematics;

– Analog /digital edition of emblem books.

Local

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Organization

CITCEM – Center for Transdisciplinary Research “Culture, Space and Memory

SEE – SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE EMBLEMÁTICA

Organizing Committee

Ana Cristina Sousa (Faculdade de Letras do Porto /CITCEM)

Carme Lopez Calderón (University of Santiago de Compostela / IACOBUS)

José Julio García Arranz (University of Extremadura / Patrimonio&ARTE)

Secretariat

Marisa Santos (FLUP /CITCEM)

Contributors:

IACOBUS – Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela

Patrimonio&ARTE – Research Group, University of Extremadura

Deadline for abstract submission – March 1, 2021

The proposal should include:

1. Full name of author(s), institution/affiliation, address, phone number, and email address;
2. Curriculum vitae (up to 150 words)
3. Title
4. Abstract (up to 500 words)

Email for submission: xiiicongressointernacionalsee@gmail.com

Official Languages of the Congress: Portuguese, Spanish, English

Notification of proposals: April 11, 2021

Registration fees for authors:

April 12 to July 31, 2021

CITCEM researchers: 60 Euros

SEE members: 90 euros

Others: 120 euros

Between August 1 and October 1, 2021

CITCEM researchers: 70 Euros

SEE members: 100 euros

Others:130 euros

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