Memories of Change: Cinema and Culture in Portugal After the Carnation Revolution

8-9 December

This colloquium explores through Portuguese cinema, the cultural and social changes during the decades after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal.

Although Portuguese cinema is emphasised, this event is designed to possess a cross-disciplinary nature and a basis broad enough to include people from areas outside Portuguese and film studies. Given that the lectures and the films will cover a wide variety of themes and approaches to the history of contemporary Portugal and its national cinema, many ongoing debates in the humanities will be tackled through the local example.
The event consists of a colloquium (8th December) and a series of film screenings (9th December)

Details of both below:

Colloquium - 8th December
Morning: G24, Foster Court
9:00 - Opening session: Dr. Stephanie Bird, Dr. Lee Grieveson(UCL) & His Excellency the

Portuguese Ambassador to the U.K. João de Vallera

10:00 - "Young Ladies, Ladies and Gajas: Representations of Portuguese Women in

Post‐Revolutionary Portugal": Dr. Adriana Bebiano (U.Coimbra)

11:30 - "Which and Whose Tabu? Contemporary art against the amnesia of imperial

violence": Dr. Ana Oliveira (U.Lisbon/New U. Lisbon/Courtauld Institute)

Afternoon: 508, Roberts Building
14:00 - Screening of A Portuguese Farewell [Um Adeus Português] (João Botelho, 1985)

15:45 - "From Us to Us: Um Adeus Português in 1980's Portugal": Dr. Sérgio Branco (U.Coimbra)
17:00 - Round table on the circulation of art cinema: ProfessorStephen Hart, Dr. Roland­François Lack & André Graça (UCL)

18:00 - Reception

Film Screenings - 9th December

Venue: Room B02, 33-35 Torrington Place

Screenings at 10:00 and 11:30
Where the Sun Beats (J. Pinto, 1989)

Screenings at 14:00 and 16:00
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)

Room capacity limited to 12 pax. Please write an email convener to book your space