Beja: International Congress Sister Mariana Alcoforado until Sunday.
Mariana Congress – First International Congress on Soror Mariana Alcoforado in Beja 15 a 17 November.
Between 15 and 17 November the city of Beja will receive the first international congress on Soror Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun who is believed to have written five published love letters there 350 year old, in Paris.
Three and a half centuries after the coming of the audience one of the most influential texts of Western culture, the appeal of the famous Letters It remains irresistible: the epistolary of Beja nun, with his fiery writing love and pain, He raised and always raises numerous debates, essay, PhD theses, Literary recreations novelÃsticas, poetic and theatrical, paintings, plastic and musical, figuring prominently form in Portuguese and foreign imaginary.
Almost fifty participants, from seven countries, They will meet during 3 Beja days for a thorough examination of previous studies and the launch of new work on the Alentejo Poor Clare and the baroque world in which he lived.
This is an organization of researchers from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and the City of Beja, “Melancholy, Love and Lettersâ€, where researchers, Portuguese and foreign, debate around the Sister Mariana work, whose passion remains in the center of myths gallery of Portuguese Love.
The scientific committee is composed by Philip Delfim Santos teachers, Klobucka, Parreira, Amaral de Oliveira, Maria Odete Sequeira Martins, Myriam Cyr and Lisa Bolt, as well as the priests and Cartageno Aparicio.
This congress will start in Lisbon 15 November, the National Library of Portugal, where will take place the concentration of congressmen and opening of the Congress Mariana with the guided tour of the exhibition on the literature Portuguese letters, prepared for Congress with the species that institution.
Will be present 50 Members of the Committee of Support, coming from 8 nations, as well as 45 Congressmen traveled from Beja 6 nations (Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, UK, USA) and several North Portuguese cities, Center and On.
The organization included in the program 3 Guided visits, 6 tributes (Mariana Alcoforado, Christmas Button, Luciano Cordeiro, Florbela Espanca, LuÃs Amaro, Leonel delete it) and the launch of 4 books (Vitor Amaral de Oliveira, Miguel erase it, Patricia Tavares de Azevedo, Paulo Monteiro).
The international congress on Soror Mariana Alcoforado has provided 42 communications around the motto "Melancholy, Love and Lettersâ€, a program that also includes infographics Cristina Pires dos Santos, patent no IPBeja, and an exhibition of illustrations.
The Program Congress includes a concert of sacred and secular music, by Carmo Beja Choir, directed by Fr.. Antonio Cartageno, Gregorian chant with the antiphonal parts of the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Polyphony from the time of Mariana and profane Repertoire, in the spirit of Letters, a theatrical performance, a tour of the seventeenth century Beja, book launches and a literature exhibition and artistic alluding to the theme mariânico.
Org: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Assistance: Free and open, with inscription in the Secretariat, on site sessions
Support: Foundation for Science and Technology, C.M. Beja, National Library of Portugal and Beja Regional Museum.
Learn more at: www.marianalcoforado.pt
program officer: https://indd.adobe.com/view/6d366c42-d9aa-438b-b01f-ee64b4784ebc
Photo: Platform 9
