Event Date:
Event Location:
- 6020 McCune Conference Room
- Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Event Price:
Free Attendance
Event Contact:
For further information, contact Professor André Corrêa de Sá
This year’s celebration of the Carnation Revolution pays homage to one of the most significant figures of Portuguese culture: the essayist, philosopher, critic, and professor Eduardo Lourenço (1923-2020).
10:30 am
Opening Remarks
10:45 am — 11:45 am
Robert Patrick Newcomb, University of California Davis
“O Labirinto da Saudade in Comparative Perspective: Lourenço, Buarque, Paz”
12 pm — 1pm
António Damásio, University of Southern California
“Consciousness, Language and Literature”
2 pm — 3 pm
Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Paying Witness to the Revolutions of the Everyday”
This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Portuguese Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program.
