Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Portuguese Studies Review (Conference Held on 26-27 October 2017, Lady Eaton College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario)

Thursday, 26 October

10.00 – 11.00 Registration
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”

11.00 – 12.30 Opening Brunch and Welcome Addresses
Lady Eaton College, Senior Common Room

12.30 – 14.00
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Session 1: Presenting the Portuguese Studies Review and the Lusophone Studies Association
Chair: Robert A. Kenedy (York University)

Douglas L. Wheeler (Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of New Hampshire, Founding Editor of the Portuguese Studies Review), “Portuguese Studies Review: The First Ten Years and Before”

Ivana Elbl and Martin Elbl: “Portuguese Studies Review: The Trent Years”

Hannah Laginski (Trent University), “The Portuguese Studies Review: A Student's Perspective”

Fernando Nunes (Mount Saint Vincent University), “Reminiscences on the Formation of the Lusophone Studies Association”

14.00 - 15.00
Session 2: Presenting the Editors of the Portuguese Studies Review and Their Work, I
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”

Keynote Address
António Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon) “Portuguese Democracy and the Legacies of Authoritarianism”
Chair and Discussant: Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez (Trent University)

15.00– 15.30
Launch of the PSR Issue in Honour of Francis Dutra ... and Coffee Break
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”

15.30 - 16.30
Session 3: Presenting the Editors of the Portuguese Studies Review and Their Work, II
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Chair: Ivana Elbl (Trent University)

Ivana Elbl (Trent University): “Infante D. Henrique (“Henry the Navigator): Striving for Greatness in the Age of Disasters”

José C. Curto (York University): "Mateus (Mathiew/Mathieu) da Costa in Canada: Myth and Reality"

16.30-16.45: Break

16.45 - 18.15
Session 4: Presenting the Editors of the Portuguese Studies Review and Their Work, III
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Chair: José C. Curto (York University)

Timothy Coates (College of Charleston)
Introduction in absentia by Ivana Elbl (Prof. Coates cannot attend in person due to illness)

Martin M. Elbl (PSR and Baywolf Press): "Tangier, Tourism, and Techno-Revival: Portuguese Medieval and Early Modern Built Heritage in the Age of Cruise Liner Tours"

Maria João Dodman (York University), “Reading Fiction, Understanding Life, Enhancing Humanity”

18.30 - 21.00
Celebrating the PSR: A Dinner Reception
Includes a  performance of Portuguese and Galician medieval music by Roy Hagman and Cindy-Ellen Morgan (members of the “Hurly-Burly” Early Music Ensemble)

Friday, 27 October

9.00 – 9.30: Breakfast/Coffee
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”

9.30 – 11.00
Session 5: The Portuguese and Their Descendants in Canada
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Chair: Fernando Nunes ( Mount Saint Vincent University)

Robert A. Kenedy (York University): “Portuguese-Canadian Peer Tutoring and Leadership: Educational Training for Post-Secondary Success”

Anabela Alves dos Santos Rato (University of Toronto): “Second Language Speech Learning: European Portuguese as L1 and L2”

Esra Ari (University of Western Ontario), “Whites or Dark-Whites: The Case of Portuguese in Canada”

11.00-12.30
Session 6: Portugal: The Imperial Past and its Aftermath
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Chair: Ivana Elbl (Trent University)

George Bragues (University of Guelph – Humber), “Luís de Camões: Questioning Patriotism in Os Lusíadas”

Ernst Pijning (Minot State University), ““War and Contraband: The War of the Spanish Succession and Illegality in the South Atlantic”

Jennine Hurl Eamon (Trent University): “British Masculinity, Portuguese Femininity:  Peninsular War Memoirs”

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch in Honour of Douglas L. Wheeler, Founding Editor of the Portuguese Studies Review
Lady Eaton College, Senior Common Room

13.30 - 14.15
Douglas L. Wheeler
"Portugal: A Past In Search of a Future" (1977 video produced by Prof. Wheeler)
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”

14.15 – 14.30: Break

14.30– 16.00:
Session 7: Modern Lusophone World
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Chair: José C. Curto (York University)

Gilberto Fernandes (York University): “ ‘Oh Famous Race!’ The Estado Novo’s Imperial Propaganda and the Construction of Portuguese Diasporic Memory in North America”

Gilberta Pavão Nunes Rocha and Derrick Mendes (Universidade dos Açores): “Imigração lusófona e diversidade cultural nos Açores: ritmos e permanências”

David Balosa (University of Maryland), “Global Social Media Role in the African Process of Renegotiation of its Relationship with the Western World for ‘a Better Africa-a Better World’”

16.00 - 17.30
Session 8: Communicating Portuguese: Language, Literature and Understanding
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”
Chair: Maria João Dodman (York University)

Aida Jordão (University of Toronto), “Inês de Castro and the Incorporation of Affect in Portuguese Golden Age Literature”

Inês Cardoso (Sessional Assistant Professor, York University - Docente do Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua; Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers – CIDTFF), “Writing Didactics: Paths of Research and Action (Group “Protextos”)”

Irene Marques (Sessional Faculty at Ryerson University and University of Toronto and Bilingual Writer): "The Strings that Weave the Word: Obsessions, Understanding and Deep Communication in Creative Writing”

17.30 - 18.00
Closing of the Conference
Lady Eaton College, The “Pit”