Within and Without: Representations of Ageing: International Symposium III: Special Issue Within & Without III is the third edition of the Within and Without Old Age: International Symposium on Representations of Ageing series and will be held on-line at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL) on January, 9th, 2024. It will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas on […]

Open Course in Narrative Medicine The Open Course in Narrative Medicine will be offered in a hybrid format so that participants can either attend it online or inhouse at FLUL. The Open Course aims to provide training on the role, importance and limits of narratives and communication in the clinical encounter. Bringing together knowledge from […]

Project “Vozes do Mundo Antigo e Medieval” (CEAUL/CEC): Hélio Pires (IEM-FCSH) – Presentation of the book As Runas Desvendadas: Dois Milénios de História e Mistério

Lesley Saunders, “Losing One’s Place: ‘Dementia’ and the Poetics of Absence” Date: 22 February 2024, 5 p.m. Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, room C 245.B & online Via Zoom - https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97630534736?pwd=bHNsZHlEcGkvcGNtbGdFdzRRYWhjQT09 Poet and educator Lesley Saunders will discuss poems from Louise Glück’s collection Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021) in a lecture […]

RHOSE #28 | “Hugo David in conversation about his work” Date: 14 March 2024, from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, room C 008 Hugo David (Lisbon, 1995) grew up surrounded by photography. Following in his parents’ footsteps, he chose to study and invest in photography. He studied […]

In collaboration with the American Studies Group (CEAUL/ ULICES RG3) Neil Larsen, “Morbid Interiors: Basements, Living Rooms and Gothic Domesticity in 19th Century America” Date: 15 March 2024, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, room C 138 A Neil Larsen, professor emeritus of Comparative Literature, has taught at Northeastern […]

Medical Humanities Project Open Lecture: “Along the Yellow Brick Road: Narrating illness and disability experiences in Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz” with Sidia Fiorata, University of Verona The Medical Humanities Project Lecture “Along the Yellow Brick Road: Narrating illness and disability experiences in Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz " with Sidia Fiorata of […]

ROAM Outreach 3: FINDING A HOME (FOR ART) IN LISBON: AN INTERVIEW WITH CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTIST ALEKSEI GRIBEL

Money & Debts on The Merchant of Venice 18 April 14h – 15h30 Room C250 Host: Professor Miguel Ramalhete GomesSpeaker: Professor Priscila Matsunaga (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)School of  Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon  In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, tragedy is disguised as comedy: money, debts and business are constant elements. The play provokes […]

Receiving the Shock, Giving Form in Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector 19 de April 15h30 - 17h  Room B112.D  Speaker: Professor Flavia Trocoli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)  Lily Briscoe, the painter in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse , finishes her painting in the absence of Mrs. Ramsay who, previously, had been the model for her vision […]

Curso livre. Estudos em envelhecimento cultural The objective of the course is to introduce the participants to the field of cultural ageing. We will address the following themes: ageing and gender, ageing and invisibility, ageism, self-awareness, the body, memory, identity and re-storying. The bibliography will include fictional, non-fictional and theoretical texts in English. The sessions […]