Past Events

1st Meeting: May 16-18, 1980 – University of Coimbra (FLUC).

2nd Meeting: Oct 1 – Nov 2, 1980 – University of Lisbon (FLUL), Cruz Quebrada. Topic: “Investigação e Docência” (“Research and Teaching”).

3rd Meeting: Feb 26-28, 1982 – University of Porto (FLUP). Topic: “Ficção Narrativa: Discurso Crítico e Discurso Literário” (“Narrative Fiction: Critical Discourse and Literary Discourse”).

4th Meeting: Feb 4-6, 1983 – University of Coimbra (FLUC).

5th Meeting: May 4-6, 1984 – University of Minho (DEINA), Braga. Topic: “Literatura, Teoria, Educação” (“Literature, Theory, Education”).

6th Meeting: March 1-3, 1985 – University of Lisbon (FLUL), Sesimbra. Topic: “Língua, Literatura, Ideologia” (“Language, Literature, Ideology”).

7th Meeting: March 1986 – University of Porto (FLUP), Ofir. Topic: “Os Estudos Anglo-Americanos e o Ensino do Inglês em Portugal” (“Anglo-American Studies and the Teaching of English in Portugal”).

8th Meeting: March 6-8, 1987 – University of Coimbra (FLUC). Topic: “Literatura e História” (“Literature and History”).

9th Meeting: Feb 5-7, 1988 – New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova, FCSH-UNL), Sintra.

10th Meeting: April 7-9, 1989 – University of Aveiro.

11th Meeting: March 9-11, 1990 – ISLA, Lisboa.

12th Meeting: April 12-14, 1991 – University of Minho (DEINA), Braga.

13th Meeting: March 19-21, 1992 – University of Porto (FLUP).

14th Meeting: March 25-27, 1993 – University of Coimbra (FLUC).

15th Meeting: March 17-19, 1994 – University of Évora.

16th Meeting: March 16-18, 1995 – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto-Douro (UTAD), Vila Real.

17th Meeting: March 14-16, 1996 – University of Aveiro.

18th Meeting: March 20-22, 1997 – Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (ESTG-IPG). Topic: “Fringes at the Centre”.

19th Meeting: April 1-3, 1998 – University of Lisbon (FLUL), Sintra. Topic: “Elites, Inovação, Cultura Comum: no Bicentenário da Publicação de Lyrical Ballads”. (“Elites, Innovation, Common Culture”: at the bicentenary of Lyrical Ballads”)

20th Meeting: March 25-27, 1999 – University of Porto (FLUP), Póvoa de Varzim.

21st Meeting: April 6-8, 2000 – ESEV-ISPV, Viseu.

22nd Meeting: March 22-24, 2001 – University of Algarve, Faro. Topic: “What Now? Notes towards the Definition of Culture, Identity and Literature in the twentieth-first Century”.

23rd Meeting: April 18-20, 2002 – University of Coimbra (FLUC). Topic: “Novas Histórias Literárias/ New Literary Histories”.

24th Meeting: April 10-12, 2003 – Catholic University (UCP), Lisbon. Topic: “Landscapes of Memory / Paisagens da Memória”.

25th Meeting: April 22-24, 2004 – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto-Douro (UTAD), Vila Real. Topic: “Forms of Representation, Ways of Reading”.

26th Meeting: April 21-23, 2005 – University of Minho (DEINA), Braga. Topic: “Intertextual Dialogues: Travels and Routes”.

27th Meeting: April 27-29, 2006 – New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova, FCSH-UNL), Carcavelos. Topic: “Crossroads of History and Culture”.

28th Meeting: April 19-20, 2007 – University of Évora. Topic: “(Ex)Changing Voices, Expanding Boundaries”.

29th Meeting: April 17-19, 2008 – University of Aveiro. Topic: “Success and Failure”.

30th Meeting: Feb 19-21, 2009 – University of Porto (FLUP). Topic: “Self, Memory, and Expression” / “Sujeito, Memória e Expressão”.

31st Meeting: April 15-17, 2010 – Open University of Lisbon (UAberta). Topic: “Geographies of the Self”.

32nd Meeting: May 12-14, 2011 – University of Coimbra (FLUC). Topic: “Current Debates in English and American Studies”.

33rd Meeting: Sep 20-21, 2012 – Catholic University (UCP), Lisbon. Topic: “Authority versus Alterity: The Return of Hegemony?”

34th Meeting: May 9-10, 2013: University of Lisbon (FLUL). Topic: “Academy as Community: English and American Studies in Portugal and Europe”.

35th Meeting: April 10-11, 2014: University of the Algarve, Faro. Topic: “Diversities? Inequalities? Challenges in the Construction of an Inclusive Society”

36th Meeting: March 26-28, 2015: University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). Topic: “(Re)Thinking the Humanities: New Forms of Representation, New Ways of Reading”

37th Meeting: March 21-23, 2016: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

38th Meeting: March 27-29, 2017: Universidade do Minho

39th Meeting: April 26-28, 2018: Universidade de Évora

40th Meeting: June 6-9, 2019: Universidade do Porto

41st Meeting: March 26-28, 2020: Universidade de Aveiro

42nd Meeting: March 31-April 2, 2022: Universidade de Coimbra

43rd Meeting: June 1-3, 2023: Universidade Católica

44th Meeting: July 24-27, 2024: Universidade de Lisboa