Part of the CONVENTUS Project "New Perspectives on the former Convent of São José in Lagoa" this meeting brings together a wide and diverse group of researchers to discuss the latest approaches to the study of conventual architecture, including the exploration of knowledge regarding the new uses and meanings it has acquired over time, both before and after the secularization, as well as the challenges currently facing the musealization and management of this vast heritage.

The seminar will consist of three thematic sessions and a collective visit to the building of the former Convent of São José (now a Cultural Center), organized as part of the CONVENTUS project:
- Session 1. Between sacred walls: new interpretations of female conventual history, architecture and urbanism
- Session 2. Buildings of memories: the other histories, meanings and uses of conventual architecture
- Session 3. Heritage in the plural: the challenges of collaborative management of conventual heritage
- Session 4. Polyphonic collective visit and sharing of memories for the collective (re)construction of the history of the Convent of São José, with the presence of the CONVENTUS project research team and the local community.

Registration is free, but mandatory

Institutions | Município de Lagoa (CMLagoa), Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (CES-UC), Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, polo da Universidade do Algarve (CEAACP-UAlg)

Funding | Município de Lagoa

Línguas do seminário/Languages | Portuguese, Spanish and English

Organization | Catarina Almeida Marado, Lorena Sancho Querol, Andreia Fidalgo, Gabriela Vieira, Ismael Medeiros, Bárbara Santos, Maria del Castillo Garcia, Tiago Sobral

ScientificCommission
Catarina Almeida Marado (Universidade de Coimbra/Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
Eduardo Mosquera Adell (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Elizabete de Castro Mendonça (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Gianmario Guidareli (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
Henrik Lindblad (Uppsala University, Sweden)
José Aguiar (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Lorena Sancho Querol (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Manuelina Maria Duarte Cândido (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil)
Maria del Castillo García (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pérez Cano (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Raquel Henriques da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Silvia Beltramo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Thomas Coomans (KU Leuven, Belgian)