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Armando Nascimento Rosa participates in the conference “The action of censorship in cinema and the performing arts”

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Armando Nascimento Rosa, a researcher at CIAC, is the guest speaker on the subject of censorship in theatre creation during the Estado Novo in the conference The Action of Censorship in Cinema and the Performing Arts. The initiative also includes two other guest speakers, Cristina Lopes and Hugo Castro, and will be moderated by Cristina Fernandes.

During the Estado Novo, censorship was always very active in all cultural areas and will be the main topic of conversation at this conference, which takes place as part of the cycle on censorship in Portugal, in literature, art and the press, this time dedicated to censorship in cinema and the performing arts.

Armando Nascimento Rosa has a PhD in Portuguese Studies — 20th Century Dramatic Literature (2001), a master’s degree in Comparative Literary Studies (1994) and has been teaching at the School of Theatre and Communication since 1998. He holds the title of Specialist in Theatre [Dramaturgy] from the IPL, obtained in 2023. He began his professional career as a playwright in 1990 at the Teatro da Politécnica, and has been a researcher and member of CIAC since its creation in 2007. Furthermore, he has published two and a half dozen books of original dramaturgy and essays, including critical bibliographies on Samuel Beckett, António Patrício, Fernando Pessoa, and Natália Correia, an author whose complete dramatic work he published in 2023, at INCM.

The initiative will take place at the Eduardo Lourenço Municipal Library, in Guarda, on November 8th, 2024, at 6 pm. The event is organised by the Calafrio Cultural Association, as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the April Revolution.

More information (here).

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