Saturday, October 5, 2024
9:00am – 1:00pm
Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
APSA 2024: American Portuguese Studies Association Conference
Conference Theme: “Beyond Luso-Futurities” | “Além das Luso-Futuridades”
Participants in the conference will ruminate on questions of futurity —for example, how Lusophone cultural production has and proposes to understand the future, how we collectively imagine utopian/dystopian possibilities (JLS Vol 7 No 1 [2022]: Special Dossier: Narratives of the Apocalypse), how we enact decolonial practices (JLS Vol 8 No 1 [2023]: Special Issue: I Am Embedded in a History of Imposed Silences: Prácticas literárias e artisticas decoloniais luso-africanas) for rethinking the past, unthinking the contemporary moment, and thinking just over the horizon of possibilities.
The conference will include panel and paper proposals in the humanities, qualitative social sciences, and the arts (including language, linguistics, literature, film, popular music, media, history, anthropology) that explore futurity in the field of Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies.