CYCLE OF CONFERENCES

ISABEL SOARES AND ISABEL NOGUEIRA ARE THE NEXT GUESTS OF THE ALMA PROJECT CONFERENCE CYCLE

On May 20, 2022, at 6 pm (Lisbon time), the ALMA Project – Anthropophagy, Literature, Modernism and Audiovisual – promotes the third conference of a cycle dedicated to anthropophagic thought, which will be held online and broadcasted on CIAC’s Youtube channel. The debate “The Modern in Ernesto de Sousa” will feature researchers Ana Isabel Soares (CIAC/UAlg) and Isabel Nogueira (University of Lisbon), and will be moderated by Pedro Varoni (UFSCar) and Jorge Carrega (CIAC).

This session focuses on the figure of Ernesto de Sousa, one of the most relevant and dynamic Portuguese modernists in cinema, but especially in the visual arts. The artist is the author of two documentaries about Almada Negreiros (whose work he knew very well) and the director of Dom Roberto (1962), his only feature film.

The conference cycle, which will run until November 2022, brings together writers, filmmakers, artists and academics from Brazil, Portugal and Angola to reflect on the idea of anthropophagy as a key to understanding contemporary issues that transcend issues of national identity and refer to the cultural relations between Portugal and its former colonies, Brazil and Africa.

The following sessions are scheduled: “Contemporary views on history” (September 30th), with director and scriptwriter Elza Cataldo and actor, photographer and director Miguel Pinheiro; “Autofiction in the work of Leonardo Mouramateus” (October 28th), with Mirian Tavares (CIAC/UAlg) and Patrícia Dourado (CIAC); and “Technological anthropophagies” (November 25th), with directors Isael Maxacali and Charles Bicalho.

The ALMA project – Anthropophagy, literature, modernism and audiovisual is the result of a partnership between Labor – Laboratório de Estudos do Discurso (Federal University of São Carlos), CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação (University of the Algarve), UEMG – Universidade Estadual de Minas Gerais and Polo Audiovisual da Zona da Mata. The project team is composed by Miriam Tavares and Jorge Carrega (CIAC/UAlg); César Piva (Audiovisual Pole of Zona da Mata); Vanice Sargentini, Daniel Laks, Pedro Henrique Varoni de Carvalho and Rodolfo Magalhães (UFSCar); and Cláudio Santos Rodrigues (State University of Minas Gerais).

Participation in the conference is free of charge and confers a certificate (by registration here).

About the guests:

Ana Isabel Soares holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and English) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (1993) and a PhD in Theory of Literature from the same Faculty (2003), where, in 2009, she completed a post-doctoral research on Portuguese cinema and poetry. She has been a university lecturer at the University of Algarve, where she is an Assistant Professor, having already taught a semester at the FLUL’s Theory of Literature Program and several intensive courses at foreign universities. She was part of the founding team of the Association of Image in Motion Researchers, of which she was the first President (2010-2014). Her scientific activity is related to the areas of Theory of Literature, and to multi-artistic (David Wojnarowicz), filmic (Manoel de Oliveira, António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro) and literary works (namely, Portuguese poetry of the 21st century). The essays resulting from his reflections have been published in Portuguese and Brazilian journals. She is a member of the Arts and Communication Research Center (University of Algarve).

Isabel Nogueira holds a PhD in Fine Arts, specializing in Art Science and Art Theory (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon) and a post-doctoral degree in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Image Theory (University of Coimbra and Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne). She is a contemporary art historian, university professor, essayist and art critic. She is corresponding author of the journal Recherches en Esthétique. In the field of essays, she has published the following monographs: Do pós-modernismo à exposição Alternativa Zero (2007); Alternativa Zero (1977): o reafirmar da possibilidade de criação (2008); A crítica nas artes: fundamentos, conceitos e funções (coord. ) (2011); Art theory in the 20th century: modernism, avant-garde, neo-avant-garde, postmodernism (2012 and 2014); Théorie de l’art au XXe siècle: modernisme, avant-garde, néo-avant-garde, postmodernisme (2013); Visual arts and criticism in Portugal in the 1970s and 1980s: avant-garde and postmodernism (2013 and 2015); Modernidade avulso: writings on art (2014); The image in the frame of desire: transitivity in painting, photography and cinema (2016).