{"id":2755,"date":"2017-12-31T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:00:15","slug":"orion-portuguese-orientalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/locus\/orion-portuguese-orientalism\/","title":{"rendered":"ORION \u2013 PORTUGUESE ORIENTALISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>P.I.:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-team\/full-members\/catarina-nunes-de-almeida\/\">Catarina Nunes de Almeida<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portugal has had a long tradition in travel writing ever since the Discoveries. In the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries, the first Western images of China and Japan were spread out across Europe through Portuguese writing, which would present those places as utopian societies. Since this period, the representation of the Far East \u2013 the so-called \u201cOrient\u201d \u2013 has been an ongoing topic not only in travel writing but also in painting, music, and other arts. Since the late 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, Europe has undergone an \u201cOriental Renaissance\u201d which culminated in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and early 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries with the expansion of European empires into Asia. This imperial relationship reshaped Orientalism as part of the European material civilization and culture. Said\u2019s\u00a0<em>Orientalism\u00a0<\/em>considers the artistic experience of British, French and American empires as a unit, which in our view could also comprise the Portuguese Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese colonial empire came to an end a few years ago, with the handover of Macau to China in 1999, so it is now possible to study\u00a0Portuguese Orientalism\u00a0from a postcolonial perspective. Macau represents an important topic in this research project in view of its past geographic relevance as interface between worlds (China, Japan, India, and Europe), but also given the symbolic meaning of \u201cmacau\u201d as door\/harbour (porta\/porto) as explored by artistic achievements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This research intends to focus on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orientalism as European aestheticism (19th and early 20th centuries);<\/li>\n<li>Orientalism and empire;<\/li>\n<li>Interart Studies: representations of the Far East;<\/li>\n<li>Writing Macao;<\/li>\n<li>Goan Literature in Portuguese;<\/li>\n<li>Comparative Philosophies between Asia and Portugal;<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese Asia in the Visual Arts;<\/li>\n<li>The East and West in the colonial press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everton V. Machado<br \/>\nAna Paula Avelar<br \/>\nAna Paula Laborinho<br \/>\nBruno B\u00e9u<br \/>\nCatarina Nunes de Almeida<br \/>\nDaniela Spina<br \/>\nDuarte Drumond Braga<br \/>\nFernanda Gil Costa<br \/>\nFilipa Lowndes Vicente<br \/>\nJiayi Yuan<br \/>\nMarta Pacheco Pinto<br \/>\nM\u00f4nica Simas<br \/>\nPedro Schacht Pereira<br \/>\nRog\u00e9rio Miguel Puga<br \/>\nSandra Ata\u00edde Lobo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update and maintenance of the database <a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/electronic-resources-2\/orionbase\/\">OrionBase<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Update and maintenance of the database <a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/electronic-resources-2\/indiaportugal\/\">India@Portugal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Regular participation in the international research network on Orientalism <em>Les Orients d\u00e9sorient\u00e9s<\/em>, coordinated by Jean-Pierre Dubost (Universit\u00e9 Blaise Pascal), in collaboration with several European universities and research teams. Since 2011.<\/li>\n<li>International Conference <em>Images of Asia in Portuguese Cinema<\/em>. FLUL and Cinemateca Portuguesa. March 16-17, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching on the postgraduate seminar \u201cOrientalismos \u2013 Cultura, Pol\u00edtica e Literatura\u201d in the scope of the Programme in Comparative Studies (MA, 1st semester 2015-2016); Everton V. Machado and Catarina Nunes de Almeida (MA\/PhD, 2nd semester, 2014-2015).<\/li>\n<li>International Conference <em>ACT\u00a032: O Oriente em Tradu\u00e7\u00e3o \u2013 l\u00ednguas, literaturas e culturas asi\u00e1ticas no espa\u00e7o luso<\/em>. FLUL &amp; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o\/Museu do Oriente, November 26-28, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><em>Encontro Internacional Pensando Goa<\/em>. [in partnership with the University of S\u00e3o Paulo]. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, October 28-30, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Cycle of Talks \u00abOs Labirintos da Viagem: o Oriente como destino liter\u00e1rio para o s\u00e9culo XXI\u00bb. Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 Saramago, from October 2014 to May 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Organization of the open seminar \u201cFernando Pessoa e Oriente\u201d, in collaboration with the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL). Museu do Oriente, March 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Organization of the international colloquium <em>ACT 27 \u2013 Portuguese and Post-colonial Goa: Literature, Culture, and Society<\/em>. FLUL, 24-25 May 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Organization of 2 workshop cycles at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, all lectured by invited speakers; the first cycle was on the topic \u201cPortuguese Orientalism: On Its <em>Signifying <\/em>and<em> Signified<\/em>\u201d (it included 5 monthly workshops from January to May); the second cycle was on the topic \u201cPortuguese Orientalism: Space of Interdisciplinary Dialogue\u201d (it has so far included 3 monthly workshops from September to November). 2012.<\/li>\n<li>ECSAS panel on \u201cPortuguese Orientalism: Post-colonial Perspectives\u201d, which took place in ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute on July 25-28, 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almeida, Catarina Nunes de. 2016. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/other-books\/migracao-silenciosa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Migra\u00e7\u00e3o Silenciosa \u2013 Marcas do Pensamento Est\u00e9tico do Extremo Oriente na Poesia Portuguesa<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0V. N. Famalic\u00e3o: H\u00famus.<\/li>\n<li>Almeida, Catarina Nunes de and Duarte Drumond Braga (eds). 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/other-books\/nau-sombra-os-orientes-da-poesia-portuguesa-do-seculo-xx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nau-sombra: <\/em><em>Os Orientes da poesia portuguesa do s\u00e9culo XX<\/em><\/a>. Lisboa: Nova Vega.<\/li>\n<li>Machado, Everton V.. 2016. Critical edition of <em>Les Brahmanes<\/em> (by Francisco Lu\u00eds Gomes). 2nd ed. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Classiques Jaunes).<\/li>\n<li>Machado, Everton V., and Duarte Drumond Braga (eds.). 2014. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/act\/act-27-goa-portuguesa-e-pos-colonial-literaturacultura-e-sociedade\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACT 27 \u2013 Goa Portuguesa e P\u00f3s-Colonial: Literatura, Cultura e Sociedade<\/a><\/em>. V. N. Famalic\u00e3o: H\u00famus.<\/li>\n<li>Machado, Everton V.. 2012. Critical edition of <em>Les Brahmanes<\/em> (novel by Francisco Lu\u00eds Gomes). Paris: Classiques Garnier (Litt\u00e9ratures du Monde).<\/li>\n<li>Nunes, Ariadne and Marta Pacheco Pinto. 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/other-books\/relance-da-alma-japonesa-genetic-and-critical-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical and genetical edition of <em>Relance da Alma Japonesa<\/em> (by Wenceslau de Morais)<\/a>. Lisboa: INCM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.I.:\u00a0Catarina Nunes de Almeida<\/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\/2755"}],"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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/6575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}