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- October 21-29 – Pirates at Heart exhibition at the Library of the Faculty of Letters
- October 22 – Movie premiere of You Are Not I, by Sara Driver, at the Portuguese Cinematheque
- October 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
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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)
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