The first international congress on the nun Mariana Alcoforado, who is believed to have written the five love letters published 350 years ago, takes place on November 16th and 17th, in Beja.
«Three and a half centuries after the release of one of the most influential texts in Western culture, the appeal of the famous Letters remains irresistible: the epistolary of the nun of Beja, with its impetuous writing of love and pain, has always aroused and arouses countless debates, essays, doctoral theses, novelistic, poetic and theatrical literary recreations, pictorial, plastic and musical works, figure prominently in Portuguese and foreign imagination», says Câmara de Beja.
Nearly fifty participants, from seven countries, will gather for two days in Beja, for an in-depth examination of the studies already carried out and the launch of new works on the Alentejo Clarissa and the baroque world in which she lived.
This is an organization of researchers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and the Municipality of Beja.
The scientific committee is made up of Professors Filipe Delfim Santos, Klobucka, Parreira, Amaral de Oliveira, Maria Odete Sequeira Martins, Myriam Cyr and Lisa Forrell, as well as Fathers Cartageno and Aparício.
This congress will start in Lisbon on November 15, at the National Library of Portugal, where the congress participants will gather and the Mariana Congress will open with a guided tour of the bibliographical exhibition on the Lettres Portugaises, prepared for the Congress with the species of that institution .
50 Members of the Support Committee will be present, from eight nations, as well as 45 delegates who traveled to Beja from six nations (Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, United Kingdom, United States of America) and from several Portuguese cities in the North, Center and South.
The organization included in the program three guided tours, six omenagens (Mariana Alcoforado, Noël Bouton, Luciano Cordeiro, Florbela Espanca, Luís Amaro, Leonel Borrela) and the launch of four books (Vitor Amaral de Oliveira, Miguel Borrela, Patricia Tavares de Azevedo, Paulo Monteiro).
The international congress on Soror Mariana Alcoforado has planned 42 communications around the motto “Melancholy, Love and Letters”, in a program that also includes infographics by Cristina Pires dos Santos, patents at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja and an illustration exhibition.
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