The Brutal Disobedience of a Gesture (“A desobediência brutal de um gesto”) [Rui Nunes] | IV TEOTOPIAS International Colloquium

The IV TEOTOPIAS International Colloquium, promoted under the Chair in Poetry and Transcendence (Cátedra Cátedra Poesia e Transcendência) – Sophia de Mello Breyner, established at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, aims to evoke the work of Rui Nunes on his eightieth birthday. The event will take place on November 14–15 and is free to attend.

Programme:

Nov 14
EVOCATION OF THE MEMORY OF CAMÕES
UCP Porto | EC138B

17:30 | Opening

18:00 | Session:
The Double Life of Camões: “People of war”(“Gente de guerra”)… Poet of the Court
Isabel Soler and Maria de Lourdes Pereira

 

Nov 15
TRIBUTE TO RUI NUNES
UCP Porto | EC138A

11:00 | Lecture:
Rui Nunes: Thinking about his Work Today
Maria João Reynaud

11:30 | Lecture:
The Intermittence of the World: Between Tolstoy, Joyce, and Rui Nunes
Diogo Martins

12:00 | Book Presentation:
Rui Nunes. A desobediência brutal de um gesto, by José Rui Teixeira [org.]

12:15 | Reading at the Sophia Memorial:
Quem se deita a meu lado ensina-me a morrer, by Rui Nunes

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15:30 | Roundtable:
So Close to Nothing: Absence and Silence of God in Rui Nunes — José Pedro Angélico
Heuristics of Dissolution: Redemption and Entropy in Os olhos de Himmler, by Rui Nunes — Pedro Pereira
On the Lucid Pain of Telling the World: The Worldview of Rui Nunes in Perspective(s) — Rui Teixeira

16:30 | Roundtable:
The Gerund of a Slaughter: A Reading of Uma viagem no outono, by Rui Nunes — Jorge Teixeira
The Sound of an Archaic Killing Machine: Some Considerations on the Writing of Rui Nunes — Hélder Moreira

17:15 | Break

17:45 | Book Presentation:
Para chegar ao branco da última palavra. Conversa com Rui Nunes e Sérgio Pombo, by Catarina Pombo Nabais

18:00 | Lecture:
There Are Precipices Like This: Rui Nunes’ Last Book - José Rui Teixeira

18:30 | Conversation with Rui Nunes

19:30 | Closing / Evocation of the Memory of Arnaldo de Pinho