Movimento

As part of a global conversation on the struggles and shifts of the social, political, and cultural terrain of women, queer identities and desires, and Black lives, I am proud to announce MOVIMENTO - A Virtual Symposium on Portuguese Queer, Feminist, and Black Histories and Cultures, November 11, 2022, on Zoom.

Go to: https://go.rutgers.edu/ixswhl8l for all the details and to register for each talk.

11:00 AM (NYC) 16:00 (LIS) Women in Words and Images Leading researcher of Portuguese literature, Anna M. Klobucka gives us an overview of women in Portuguese literature during the twentieth century, from the Estado Novo period to the revolutionary publication of Novas Cartas Portuguesas, reflecting on the contemporary legacy of that feminist work and intervention. Writer Susana Moreira Marques takes up the thread to ask about the importance of recovering and remembering forgotten works in the making of a genealogy of Portuguese women writers and feminist literature for women today. Registration for this panel gives you access to an exclusive online screening of the documentary "A Name for What I Am" (dir. Marta Pessoa, 2022).

2:00 PM (NYC) 19:00 (LIS) Queer Histories and Art as Activism For most of the twentieth century, Portugal languished under the conservative and authoritarian Estado Novo regime. Raquel Afonso gives us a history of homosexuality during this period that reveals its oppression and coded iterations. Contemporary queer artists and performers in Portugal refigure this cultural heritage, and André Murraças's work queers both stage and screen, giving us new formations of queer Portuguese archives and repertoires. Join us to talk about these histories, and performance and art as activism in normative social and cultural scenes

4:00 PM (NYC) 21:00 (LIS) Black Movements and Anti-Black Racism Groundbreaking research on Black histories, activism, and anti-Black racism in Portugal have reshaped the discussion of the continuing erasure and systemic violence visited on Black people in Portuguese culture and society. Against these erasures, and against the continuing marginalization of Blackness in Portugal, Cristina Roldão gives a history of Black movements and activism in early twentieth-century Portugal, while Joana Gorjão Henriques exposes the particularities and proliferation of anti-Black racism in Portuguese society today. Visit the Dept of Spanish and Portuguese for some in-person poetry to honor the late Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral from Wednesday - Friday of this week.