Framework

The Colloquium Stories, Memories and New Narratives of/in Emigration aims to deepen knowledge about creative ways of expressing Portuguese identity in diaspora communities. Starting from the three countries participating in the project "Tip of the tongue: Stories, Memories and Innovation in Emigration" (Brazil, USA, and France), as well as focusing on language, culture and body issues as manifestations and support of identities and identifications, the objective is to bring together experts and lay people who, in the academic world, in the social sciences, in the media, in literature and in the arts, are dedicated to Portuguese emigration through innovative approaches and practices.

At the same time, the Colloquium aims to expand research and collaboration networks between national and international professionals who have developed interdisciplinary and creative research focused on the concrete people who are the migrants in their stories, memories, desires and life projects between Portugal and the countries of immigration.

The Colloquium is sponsored by the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra with the support of the Center for Portuguese Studies of the University of Berkeley (California), Department of Portuguese and Spanish Studies, Rutgers University (Newark), CRILUS University of Paris-Nanterre and the Museu da Pessoa (São Paulo).

Goals

• Discuss and deepen expressions of identity in the diaspora, within a movement of deconstruction, reinvention, innovation in face of stereotypes;
• Develop cross, interdisciplinary and artistic perspectives that allow to (re)cognise complex and diversified versions of identity;
• To promote the exchange of experiences that take memory, language, culture, body and biographical and (auto)biographical approaches as an object of research, action, and identity claim, in its different aspects;
• To socialize results whose objects contemplate the theoretical-methodological aspects of biographical and (auto)biographical research, as well as other dimensions of research-formation-action with recourse to theatre, social memory, digital literacies, linguistic repertoires, arts in general.

Thematic Axes

I  -  Lives, (auto)biographies and practices of memory and reinvention of identity in emigration.
II -  Language and culture in migratory contexts: referral centres and decentralization.
III - Narrative documentation, writings of self, body and performativity of identity, formal and informal education of the Portuguese in the diaspora.
IV - Biographical spaces, arts and culture at the intersection of multiple belongings.
 

Submission of proposals until 10/05/2018, by email napontadalingua@ces.uc.pt

Notification of results 7/06/2018

Registration Procedures
Presentation Modalities:
- Individual Paper
- Poster or video

General conditions for registration
- Each participant can register a work as main author or as co-author;
- Entries signed by more than three co-authors are not allowed;
- In case of co-authorship, the co-authors will have to register: 50 Euros Students, 100 Euros Researchers, Teachers, Professionals.

Abstract submission
Abstracts (between 300 and 500 words) must be sent in Word format to the following address: napontadalingua@ces.uc.pt

Support: CES e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Abstract Guidelines
- Before the title and the abstract, indicate the thematic axis to which the work is linked.
- Text should be set to A4 size, in a recent version of Word for Windows, font Times New Roman (body 12), single-line, justified text, margins at 2.5 cm.
- At the top of the page, in uppercase and bold, should include the title of the paper (leave a line of space). Next, the name (s) of the author (s), immediately followed by the identification of the institution (s)
- Specify email (leave a line of space).

Individual Paper Session
Abstracts for  Individual Papers should be between 200 and 300 words; font Times New Roman; size 12; single spacing; without paragraph; without bibliography; without notes; without figures (only text), linking to one of the thematic axes.  Individual Papers will be later grouped in Paper Sessions coordinated by the Organizing Committee.

Notes:
1. The complete texts must be delivered after the presentation. The date and guidelines for the texts will be specified in the letter of acceptance;
2. There will be no refund of the registration fee;
3. The approved works can only be presented by their authors and/or co-authors.

Organisers: Project Tip of the tongue and Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra

Scientific Support: CES and the Foundation for Science and Technology

Support: CES and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

 
Scientific Committee
Elsa Lechner - CES (Coordinator)
Deolinda Adão – University of California at Berkeley
Graça Capinha – CES/FLUC
Graça dos Santos - Université Paris Nanterre
Jacinto Godinho – RTP and Universidade Nova de Lisboa
José Manuel Esteves – Instituto Camões, Paris
Karen Worcman – Museu da Pessoa
Kimberly da Costa Holton – Rutgers University -Newark
Manuel Antunes da Cunha – Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Maria Clara Keating – CES/FLUC
Michèle Koven – University of Illinois
Onésimo Teotónio de Almeida – Brown University
Ricardo Correia – ESEC and Casa da Esquina