The Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon will organise the interdisciplinaryInternational Conference Arch&Lit: Inter-Arts Dialogue(s), in Lisbon (27-28 November 2014).
Working languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish. No translation will be provided.
We will privilege comparative and transdisciplinary approaches.Potential contributors are invited to submit a 300 word abstract on themes related to any of the following conference tracks:
- Architecture & Literature;
- Inter-Arts dialogues and poetics-policies of space;
- Ecocriticism;
- Architectural culture;
- Land/Sound/Smell/City/Bridge/StreetSCAPES;
- Human embodiment (architecture, gender, body) and Literary Studies;
- Spatial, Urban and Architectural Theory;
- Architectural Humanities;
- Architectural hermeneutics;
- Regionalism(s);
- Identity Studies;
- Styles, structures, textures, images, narratives, symbolic forms, and images: the dialogue between architecture and art;
- Travel Writing, literary places/spaces, and time;
- Literary and visual representations of technological and architectural elements/spaces;
- Negotiating spaces and buildings;
- The interrelations between literary characters and real/imaginary architectural structures and spaces;
- Architecture and Film Studies;
- Pacing and tension: the structures of literary texts (Literary Architecture);
- Architecture, literature and art as forms of (performing) individual and collective memory;
- Utopian and Dystopian Spaces;
- Gothic architecture and literature;
- Theories of the Everyday;
- Built environments in literature and in the Visual Arts;
- Archaeology, architecture and literature: ruins, abandoned/obsolete places and other ‘places of memory’;
- Literary and Architectural (Post)Modernisms;
- Non-places;
- Narrating colonial and postcolonial spaces/structures;
- Cultural and Psychogeography;
- Libraries, archives, bookstores, book fairs and other spaces for/in books.
Papers and panels on the above themes are invited. However, papers/panels on other subjects related to the above topics will also be considered. Participants will be held to a twenty minute presentation limit.
Please submit an abstract and a bio note, by 30 September, 2014, to:
- the conference convenor: Rogério Miguel Puga ([email protected])
- and to: [email protected]
To insure prompt notification, please include your e-mail address on your submission. If you are willing to chair a session, please note this at the top of your abstract.
Registration fee: 50 euros (BA and MA students 25 euros).
Conference website: http://internationalconferencearchandlit.wordpress.com
Advisory Committee
- Ana Mendes (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Carlos Ceia (Universidade Nova, Portugal)
- Maria Zulmira Castanheira (Universidade Nova, Portugal)
- Paula Morais [London School of Economics; International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), United Kingdom]
- Pedro Flor (Universidade Aberta; Universidade Nova)
- Rogério Miguel Puga (Universidade Nova, conference convenor)