On the 13th and 14th February, the National Library of Portugal will host the conference História da Edição: um balanço luso-brasileiro/History of Publishing: A Luso-Brazilian Appraisal. Organized by the Centre for Comparative Studies and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, the conference will take place in a hybrid format (face-to-face and remote) and will be held in Portuguese.

History of the Book, History of Publishing, Written Culture, Print Culture, Textual Materiality. Over the last few decades, there have been several statements accumulated to delimit – with their topic and methodological nuances – the contours of studies dedicated to books and publishing. Forty years after the publication of seminal works in the constitution of a broad and diverse space of knowledge, such as those of Henri-Jean Martin and Roger Chartier or Laurence Hallewell, the tools and methods of document treatment offered by the digital world, as well as a widening of the socio-political-cultural space, seem to signal a moment of inflection calling for an appraisal. This is the main purpose of the Conference History of Publishing: A Luso-Brazilian Appraisal, which proposes a reflection on the broad and heterogeneous universe of approach to print culture based on the publishing act as a mediating interposition and construction subject to diverse processes in their duration and contingent structures, working as observatories. Observatories allowing for and generating a body of knowledge within the Brazilian and Portuguese framework of the research carried out and simultaneously producing a bird’s eye perspective of this knowledge through focused discussion panels (Overviews, Circulations and Materialities). Coordinated by Nuno Medeiros and Ana Utsch and with the participation of Roger Chartier, the conference will bring together Brazilian and Portuguese researchers whose work has contributed to shaping the terms and directions of studies around books and publishing.

Full Program

Coordination:
Nuno Medeiros and Ana Utsch

Organization:
School of Arts and Humanities of Universidade de Lisboa / Centre for Comparative Studies

Supported by:
National Library of Portugal, Foundation for Science and Technology and CNPQ

Link to the Conference:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96523966769