ALL PROGRAM NEWS AND MANY GENERAL IDEAS ARE UPDATED DAILY on our own Forma de Vida facebook page, here.
2024/25
A preview:
Nuno Amado on Kafka, Hemingway and Yeats
Alberto Arruda on the Sublime
António M. Feijó on Portuguese Modernism
João R. Figueiredo on Criteria
Chiara Nifosi on (Un)becoming Women
Miguel Ramalhete on Senses of History in British Modernism
Miguel Tamen on Cesário Verde, António Nobre and Camilo Pessanha
Interviews on April 3rd. Interviewees will be contacted individually.
Admission decisions by April 15th.
PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE WORKSHOP
Inês Ramos, Coordinator. Spring calendar below. As always, on Tuesdays, at 6:30 pm, in our usual room. Poster here. Podcasts of past sessions are available here.
February
6 Carmo Sousa Lima on Oedipus, from Ingres to Bacon
20 Carla Quevedo on dying by Thursday
27 Rita Patrício on a meeting with Théophile Gautier
March
5 Philipp Kampschroer on coming home
12 Henrique Leitão on describing the world in the 16th Century
19 Ivo Castro on strange life forms
April
2 João Bray on poetic risk in Ruy Belo
9 Alda Rodrigues on the things we do with words
16 Marta Cordeiro on image and melancholia
23 Manuel Cardoso on Hobbes and public censorship policies
30 Telmo Rodrigues on going to the ball game
May
7 Maria Pacheco de Amorim on throwing together Snow Crash and Buffy
14 David Horst on moral worth
THESIS AND DISSERTATION DEFENSES
Tue, April 2nd, 3:30, C128
Cristina Costa, "In Defense of Reason. Ataque à Razão em Ralph Waldo Emerson [In Defense of Reason. The Attack on Reason in Ralph Waldo Emerson]", PhD. António M. Feijó (adv.), Mário Avelar & Jeffrey Childs (disc.)
Thu, April 4th, 3:30, C128
Sofia Carvalho, "Um Mundo que se Inicia: A Poesia como Religião Excedida, a partir dos Inéditos de Teixeira de Pascoaes [A World Begins: Poetry as Exceeded Religion, after Teixeira de Pascoaes's Unpublished Writings]" , PhD. António M. Feijó (adv.), António Cândido Franco & Joana Meirim (disc.)
FORMA DE VIDA. THE PROGRAM'S JOURNAL
JOGOS FLORAIS
Poetry, criticism, interviews and much more, under the care of Ana Maria Pereirinha, Joana Meirim, Madalena Alfaia, Maria Sequeira Mendes and Sara Carvalho. It's all here. And now on book, here.