XXXII CELEBRAÇÃO GLOBAL VASCO DA GAMA, 1469-1524 He Brought Two Worlds Together Ele Ligou Dois Mundos XXXII SYMPOSIUM ON PORTUGUESE TRADITIONS UCLA, APRIL 17-18, 2009 Sunset Recreation Center
THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON PORTUGUESE TRADITIONS EUROPE, AMERICA, AFRICA, ASIA April 18-19, 2009 University of California, Los Angeles Buenos Ayres Room, Sunset Recreation Center Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-10:45 Session I Moderator: Piers Armstrong Cassandra Tesch, University of California, Los Angeles From Kuxa Kanema to Dockanema: The Preservation of Collective Memory in Mozambican Cinema Acílio da Silva Estanqueiro Rocha, Universidade do Minho O Padre António Vieira: Palavra e Acção Maria Aparecida Torres Morais, Universidade de São Paulo Em Busca do Português Paulista Carlos Eduardo Pacheco Amaral, Universidade dos Açores Os Açores no Projecto Europeu e sua Relação Transatlântica 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:00 Session II Moderator: Claude L. Hulet Welcome from the Sponsoring Organizations Randal Johnson, Director, Latin American Center Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Teófilo Ruiz, Chairman, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Honored Guests José Alfredo Graça Lima, Consul General of Brazil, Los Angeles Edmundo Macedo, Honorary Consul of Portugal, Los Angeles Philip Levine, Professor Emeritus, Dean, College of Letters and Science Robert Stevenson, Professor Emeritus, Music Department Maria Helena Carvalho dos Santos GUEST OF HONOR Eduardo Dias
12:00-2:00 No-host Luncheon 2:00-3:00 Session III Moderator: Ramiro Dutra José Santos-Alves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa O Correio Brasiliense ou Armazem Literário, Precursor do Moderno Periodismo Luso-Brasileiro: o Artigo de Fundo e a Companha de Imprensa Álvaro Cardoso Gomes, Universidade de São Paulo Carlos Drummond de Andrade e a Função Social da Literatura Milton Azevedo, University of California, Berkeley O Dialeto Caipira na Obra de Valdomiro Silveira 3:00-3:10 Break 3:10:4:15 Session IV Moderator: Eduardo Mayone Dias Eliane de Alcântara Teixeira, Faculdades São Sebastião A Alegoria dos Cegos que Vêem: Uma Leitura de Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, de Saramago Elizabeth Zarur, State University of New Mexico The Convent of Mafra and the Artistic Connections with Rome and Bavaria (Illustrated) Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino, Stanford University Everyman in Translation: Narrative Voice in Pepetela s Os Predadores Maria João Marçalo and Maria do Céu Fonseca, Universidade de Évora Linguistics Landscape: Languages and Culture in Ex-Votos of Rural Portugal (Illustrated) 4:15-4:30 Break 4:30-5:45 Session V Moderator: José Luiz Passos Edmundo Macedo, Honorary Consul of Portugal A Rosinha da Foz Velha do Porto, a Nossa Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Read by Maria José Alves Hulet David Ross, State University of California, Fresno The Biography of a Model Enlightened Monarch: Portugal s King Joseph I in the 1777 Supplement to Diderot s Enciclopédie (Illustrated) Brenno Kenji Kanayasu, University of California, Berkeley Estória, História e Construção de Sentido em Grande Sertão: Veredas Aileen El-Kadi, University of Texas, El Paso Violence and the Imaginary in Brazilian and Columbian Contemporary Fiction
6:00 Reception Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:00-10:00 Session VI Moderator: Ronald Harmon José Luís Brandão Luz, Universidade dos Açores Os Açores na Vida e Obra do Padre António Vieira Maria de Barthez de Bragança, Fundação António Quadros Cultura e Pensamento. Museu de Arte Popular: O Culminar da Política do Espírito, de António Ferro (Illustrated) Renato Cabral Rezende, UNICAMP Representations of Novel Writing as Social Practice in Two Brazilian Novels, The Tree of the Seventh Heaven, by Milton Hatoum, and Budapest, by Chico Buarque Vanina Eisenhart, University of California, Los Angeles Espasmos da Civilização: As Visões Urbanas de João do Rio e Adelino Magalhães (Illustrated) 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:00 Session VII Moderator: Theodore Young Irene F. Brayler, Brock University Sobre Variação e os Socioelectores Insulares Açorianos Pedro Martins, Università de Siena O Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Illustrated) Nicola Gavoli, University of California, Santa Barbara Complot na Academia: A Conspiração ao Ritmo de Enfartes em Farda, Fardão e Camiosola de Dormir, de Jorge Amado Eduardo Mayone Dias, University of California, Los Angeles A Polícia em Portugal: Dos Quadrilheiros à PSP. Read by Piers Armstrong. 12:00-2:00 No-Host Luncheon 2:00-3:35 Session VIII Moderator: Milton Azevedo Francisco Cota Fagundes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jorge de Sena: Retratista e Auto-Retratista Robert A. Kenedy, York University Arco-Iris: Understanding the Portuguese-Canadian Identity of LGBT Activists Akira Kono, Institute for World Languages, Osaka Brazilian Characters in Japanese Fiction
Sunday Cont. Ricardo Vasconcelos, University of California, Santa Barbara Uma Boleia para a Aldeia: A Presença de A Morgadinha dos Canaviais em A Cidade e as Serras e a Afirmação Queirosiana de que Júlio Dinis Escreveu de Leve Maria Luiza Schultheis, University of California, Los Angeles Aspects of the Future Subjunctive for Teachers of Portuguese (Illustrated) 3:35-3:50 Break 3:50-5:45 Session IX Moderator: Carlos Quícoli Isabelle Resende, University of Michigan Maputo: A Visual Exploration (Illustrated) Diane Gunn, University of California, Los Angeles Meu Arcaico Horror and My Primeval Horror : The Cockroach as a Syncretic Journey towards Wholeness in Clarice Lispector s The Passion According to G.H. Hiroyuki Mito, Nagoya University Alguns Problemas da Denominação Japonesa de Deus no Vocabulário Portuguez e Latino, de Raphael Bluteau Claude L. Hulet, University of California, Los Angeles First to Round the Cape of Good Hope: Bartolomeu Dias, 1487-1488 (Illustrated) 6:00 Reception We wish to draw special attention to the selfless endeavors of the teachers at all levels, grade and college, who teach the Portuguese language, for the study of the Portuguese language is the essential springboard to greater understanding and appreciation of the multi-secular values of Portuguese culture.
PURPOSE The Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia) is an annual forum dedicated to the exchange and dissemination of ideas and information about the language and culture of the far-flung Portuguese-speaking world, past and present. WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Latin American Center Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department of Spanish and Portuguese Boris Catz Eurípides De Oliveira Rosa Maria A. Pinto de Albuquerque Henry Schwarz Donald Waters SYMPOSIUM ON PORTUGUESE TRADITIONS COMMITTEE Claude L. Hulet, Organizer Maria José Alves Hulet, Executive Secretary Piers Armstrong Eurípedes De Oliveira Vanina Eisenhart Diane Gunn Henry Schwarz Selected papers and reports presented are published in the Symposium's journal Encruzilhadas/Crossroads For information: www.humnet.ucla.edu/spanport/portsymp/portsympmain.html