THE DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN STUDIES AT

BROWN UNIVERSITY

 
Presents

 A MOVEABLE FEAST: POETRY IN PORTUGUESE

May 4-5, 2007

  FRIDAY, MAY 4

McCormack Family Theater

Department of English and Program in Literary Arts

Brown Street

 
 3:00pm – 4:30pm

Opening Remarks

Prof. Luiz F. Valente

Chair, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Introductions and Bilingual Readings

Presenters: Prof. Luiz F. Valente, Ms. Ana Catarina Teixeira

and Ms. Sophia F. Beal

Readings by Chacal, Ricardo Aleixo, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes,

Salgado Maranhão (Brazil), Ana Paula Tavares (Angola)

and Paco Sininho (Mozambique)

 4:30pm – 4:45pm

Break

4:45pm – 5:30pm

Introductions and Bilingual Readings

Presenters: Prof. Leonor Simas-Almeida, Dr. Ana Luisa Amaral,

and Prof. Onésimo T. Almeida

Readings by Vera Duarte (Cape Verde), Ana Luisa Amaral,

Gastão Cruz (Portugal), Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto (Vancouver)

and José Francisco Costa (Providence)

 
5:30pm – 6:00pm

Coffee Break

 6:00pm – 7:00pm

“Poemas Americanos”

A Performance by Chacal (Brazil)

SATURDAY, MAY 5

Conference Facilities

Vartan Gregorian Quad

Thayer Street

 
9:00am – 10:00am

Coffee

 
 
10:00am – 11:00am

Readings by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (Brazil), Vera Duarte (Cape Verde)

and Gastão Cruz (Portugal)

11:00am – 11:15am

Break

 11:15am – 12:15pm

Readings by Salgado Maranhão (Brazil), Ana Paula Tavares (Angola)

and Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto (Vancouver)

 12:15pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Readings by Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Paco Sininho (Mozambique)

and José Francisco Costa (Providence)

2:30 – 2:45pm

Break

2:45pm – 4:00pm

A Roundtable with the Poets

Moderated by Prof. Nelson H. Vieira

4:00pm – 4:15pm

Coffee Break

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Roundtable Discussion:

Translating Poetry from the Portuguese

Discussion Leaders: Prof. Alexis Levitin (SUNY-Plattsburgh)

and Ms. Patricia Soldati

7:00pm – 8:00pm

McCormack Family Theater

Department of English and Program in Literary Arts

Brown Street

 
“Um ano entre os humanos”

A Performance by Ricardo Aleixo (Brazil)

Closing Remarks

Professor Luiz F. Valente

SPONSORS

Anonymous Fund in Brazilian Studies

Camões Institute

Center for Latin American Studies

Cogut Humanities Center

C. V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund

Department of Comparative Literature

Heimark Fund in Africana Studies

Karina Lago Memorial Fund in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)

Mr. and Mrs. Rexford T. Parker’74

Portuguese Consulate, Boston

Program in Literary Arts

Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mr. Luiz C. (Luca) Prazeres

Mr. Guilherme T. Ribeiro

Prof. Leonor Simas-Almeida

Prof. Luiz F. Valente

SPECIAL THANKS

Dr. Manuela Bairros

Prof. Forrest Gander

Ms. Tatiana G. Gottlieb

Ms. Candida Hutter

Ms. Armanda Silva

-- 
Erin Goodman
Program Officer
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
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