{"id":2750,"date":"2017-12-31T00:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T00:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:20:09","slug":"travel-and-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/locus\/travel-and-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAVEL AND UTOPIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P.I.:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-team\/full-members\/ana-isabel-moniz\/\">Ana Isabel Moniz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This project has been carrying out research on the variation and problematization of travel writing and utopian paradigm in contemporary times.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to study the contemporary travel writing as experience of the (global) world and literary practice, supported by new dynamics of interpretation implying detours, networks and connections, in order to bring into the foreground its creative and critical projections: concerning new routes to understanding and also the problematization of the Known Universe, related to man, the world and (travel) writing itself.<\/p>\n<p>It also aims to analyze the modes of destabilizing utopian narratives and the different ways of thinking about Humankind and the World; and investigate how contemporary thought idealizes utopia \u2013 or, conversely, dystopia, by exploring aesthetic, cultural and ideological problems raised by utopian discourse, as well as its thematic, psychological and literary-historical underpinnings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A critical understanding of Travel Writing opening up to the hermeneutics of the Other and allowing the discussion of concepts such as \u201cencounter\u201d, \u201cconfrontation\u201d, \u201cculture\u201d and also of \u201cliterature\u201d itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To examine and discuss state-of-the-art problems in Utopian Studies in order to address new research on contemporary utopias, taking into interdisciplinary account the approach of aesthetic, cultural, social and ideological problems raised by the recent utopian discourse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ana Isabel Moniz<br \/>\nMaria de Lourdes C\u00e2ncio Martins<br \/>\nC\u00e9lia Nunes Carvalho<br \/>\nCelina Martins<br \/>\nLeonor Coelho<br \/>\nManuel Gusm\u00e3o<br \/>\nMaria Helena Silva<br \/>\nPaula Alves dos Santos<br \/>\nRita Monticelli<br \/>\nVita Fortunati<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conference\u00a0&#8220;Travel and Utopia III \u2013 Projects and Reflections: Theoretical and Contemporary Critical Approaches&#8221;. School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, December 11, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference\u00a0\u201cRecep\u00e7\u00e3o da Utopia na Literatura e Cr\u00edtica Contempor\u00e2nea\u201d, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, November 17, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Seminar in the scope of the program of the Summer School promoted by APEF (Association Portugaise d\u2019Etudes Fran\u00e7aises), on the subject \u201cLa Th\u00e9orie litt\u00e9raire aujourd\u2019hui. M\u00e9thodes et enjeux\u201d, held in the University of Algarve. July 16-22, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Two seminars on the topic \u201cJ.M. G. Le Cl\u00e9zio, <em>La Quarantaine<\/em>: P\u00f3s-Modernismo, Viagem e Utopia\u201d, in the scope of the Free Course \u201cImagens da Europa na Literatura do S\u00e9c. XX\u201d, held at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. May 18-25, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Seminar \u201cUtopia: Projects and Reflections Between Lisboa and Bologna\u201d, joint organization of the Centre for Comparative Studies (University of Lisbon) and the Centre for Research and Utopian Studies (University of Bologna), held at the University of Bologna. January 20, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Utopia \u2013 Bibliografia Cr\u00edtica Anotada (2000-2005)<\/em>, Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Cosmos. November, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Viagem e Utopia \u2013 Os Lugares da Inven\u00e7\u00e3o em Helena Marques<\/em>, by Ana Isabel Moniz, preface of Lourdes C\u00e2ncio Martins, DRAC \u2013 Madeira. 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.I.: Ana Isabel Moniz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}