Date: 21-22-23 October
Venue: Faculty and Rectory of the University of Lisbon
Conference – Concert – Cinema – Exhibition

21-29 October – Pirates at Heart exhibition at the Library of the Faculty of Letters
22 – Movie premiere of You Are Not I, by Sara Driver, at the Portuguese Cinematheque
23- Paul Bowles Concert at the Orient Museum

To mark the centennial of the north-american writer and composer Paul Bowles, the American Studies research group of the University of Lisbon organizes a multidisciplinary meeting to discuss and reflect on the legacy and work of the author.
Experts on Paul Bowles oeuvre from around the world participate in this event that includes a film screening at the Portuguese Cinematheque with the movie You are not I, by Sara Driver and short documentaries by Javier Martin-Dominguez and Karim Debbagh, followed by discussion; a concert at the Orient Museum with António Rosado, Irene Herrmann, Anabela Duarte and Richard Horowitz, and a biblio-iconographic and videographic exhibition named "Pirates at Heart", in partnership with the University of Delaware, at the exhibition center of the Library of Faculty of Letters.

more info in: Do You Bowles?

Deadline for paper proposals: 250-word abstracts by June 30, 2010, addressed to Anabela Duarte and/or Hermínia Sol This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Suggested Topics:

– Bowles and Portugal (influences, writings, translations)
– Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles (interactions/interinfluences)
– American Existentialism (the Beats, American negativity, dissonance, crime, Modernism)
– The Maverick Tradition (rebels, individualism/community, Avant-garde, Anti-art)
– New American Music (trends, aesthetics, fictions)
– Literature and Other Arts (music, contemporary opera, spoken-word, film music, cinema)
– Gothic and the Grotesque (American gothic, horror, dark poiesis)
– Exile (Moroccan fiction/place/culture and travel)
– Literature and Anthropology (Anarchism, cultural clash; magic/smoking/religion)