LOCUS – Spaces, Places, Landscapes

Coordinator: Ana Bela Morais

LOCUS group examines ideas of space, place, landscape and borders, organising its activities in 4 research clusters: 

DIIA: IBERIAN AND IBERO-AMERICAN DIALOGUES conducts in-depth research into the relationships between literatures in Portuguese and other Iberian languages produced in Europe and the Americas and delves into cultural and artistic interactions taking place in the Iberian and Ibero-American contexts. It hosted the FCT-funded project Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (IF/00838/2014) and is associated with projects IStReS – Iberian Studies Reference Site and IberTRANSLATIO.

MOV: MOVING BODIES: CIRCULATIONS, NARRATIVES AND ARCHIVES IN TRANSLATION gives voice to transnational agents, considering micro and macro-histories of translation. It organizes the TRT roundtable and the FlashMOV seminar annually and operates the online database TradBase – Portuguese Bibliography of Translation Studies.

ORION – PORTUGUESE ORIENTALISM promotes a continuous discussion around Portuguese orientalism. It hosted two FCT funded projects: one on the Portuguese representations of India (IF/01452/2013) and another on the Portuguese participation in the International Congresses of Orientalists (PTDC/CPC-CMP/0398/2014). Currently hosts the PORT ASIA project, focused on the mapping of literary and intellectual archives in Lisbon and Macao (1820-1955) (EXPL/LLT-LES/1191/2021).

TRAVEL AND UTOPIA discusses problems in utopian studies and develops research on contemporary and problematic utopias; it examines the problematization of travel writing, the destabilisation of utopian narratives and the contemporary idealisation of utopia/dystopia.

Keywords

• Theories of spaces, places, landscapes, borders
• National and transnational cultures
• Intersections between space and media
• Aesthetic cartographies of globalization
• Insular Studies

Subgroups


DIIA – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues

MOV - Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives and Archives in Translation

ORION – Orientalismo Português

Viagem e Utopia

Here you can access the entire history of the LOCUS Seminars.