INTERNATIONAL EVENT

ANA ISABEL SOARES PARTICIPATES IN THE 13TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LUSITANISTAS

Today, at 3:00pm, CIAC researcher Ana Isabel Soares will be present at the 13th Congress of the International Association of Lusitanistas, together with Ana Catarina Pereira (LabCom-UBI) and Caterina Cucinotta (IHC-Unova Lx), for the presentation of “Languidez de Agosto: O Verão de Pavese e o de Silva Melo”. La Sapienza – University of Rome is responsible for the organization of the congress, which takes place online.

“Languidez de Agosto: O Verão de Pavese e o de Silva Melo” is the result of the Ana Isabel Soares, Ana Catarina Pereira and Caterina Cucinotta’s investigation on the film adaptation of the novel La Spiaggia, by Cesare Pavese, in Agosto film by Jorge Silva Melo.

Filmed in 1987 and premiered in 1991, Agosto offers a perspective of the Portuguese reality in the eyes of those who, in the late 60s (when Silva Melo placed the action), were experiencing personal identity crises simultaneously with the national crisis (which would lead to Democratic Revolution). Through the portrait of a group of young Portuguese people in a summer resort, the film intends to show the reality of a country that was confronting its own passage into adulthood – towards more complex social, political and economic relationships.

The International Association of Lusitanistas was founded in 1984 and aims to promote studies in the language, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries.