1st Call for Papers
Call deadline: July, 1 2015
The International Conference Literary Portugal is an international event that aims to reflect on
the relationship between literature and tourism. This conference, to be held at the Faculty of
Letters of Lisbon, on the 14th and 15th June 2016, is part of the set of activities undertaken by
the Project LIT & TOUR of the Centre for Comparative Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the
University of Lisbon and the School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism, University of
Algarve, with the support of the Estoril School of Hospitality and Tourism.
The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers in literary studies
and in tourism studies, namely for those with interdisciplinary interests, to share the results of
their research and to promote academic reflection on the construction of a Literary Portugal.
The conference will be organized around the following themes:
I - Literature and tourism - conceptualization and trends (theoretical aspects of the research in
literature and tourism)
II – Space, place/literary territories - construction and communication (literary places, tourist
destinations, literary itineraries, urban and rural territories, topophilia, landscape, literature and
heritage ...)
III - Tourists, travellers and writers - motivations, experiences, impacts (travellers, tourists,
literary tourists, literary travelers, literary pilgrims, reader tourists and tourist readers, virtual
tourists, tourist literature and publics ...).
Keynote Speakers
Maria Alzira Seixo (Universidade de Lisboa)
Maria de Fátima Marinho (Universidade do Porto)
Teresa Rita Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Jamie S. Scott (York University)
Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts (in Portuguese, English or Spanish, between
5000 and 7000 words). Manuscripts will be anonymously evaluated by at least two reviewers.
The selected papers will be published in the Literary Portugal Volume. Authors cannot submit
more than two manuscripts/communications. Presentations will be 20 minutes long.
IMPORTANT DATES
1 July 2015
30 September 2015
30 November 2015
Deadline for submission of full paper ([email protected]) edited according to
the authors’ guidelines available at:
http://www.esght.ualg.pt/littour/images/sampledata/NormasAutoresPL2016.
Notification of acceptance
Deadline for registration and payment
CONFERENCE FEE 100 €1 (it includes four coffee-breaks, two lunches, certificate and book of
abstracts).
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.esght.ualg.pt/littour/
Organising committee: Sílvia Quinteiro; Rita Baleiro; Cláudia Henriques; Isilda Leitão; Isabel
Dâmaso and Raquel Baltazar.
Honorary Committee:
Carlos Reis
Helena Carvalhão Buescu
Teresa Rita Lopes
Scientific Advisory Board:
Alexandra Rodrigues – Directora Regional da Cultura do Algarve/ UAlg, Portugal
Ana Isabel Moniz – Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Ana Prata – FL/Universidade de Lisboa/ CEC, Portugal
Carina Infante do Carmo – FCHS/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Cláudia Henriques – ESGHT/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Everton Machado – FL/Universidade de Lisboa/CEC, Portugal
Harald Hendrix - Royal Netherlands Institute Rome, Italy
Isabel Dâmaso – FL/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Isilda Leitão – Escola Superior de Turismo e Hotelaria do Estoril, Portugal
João Albino – FE/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
João Carvalho – FCHS/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
João Minhoto Marques – FCHS/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
João Sarmento – Universidade do Minho, Portugal
José Manuel Simões – IGOT/ Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Júlio Mendes – FE/Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Leonor Coelho – Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Luciana Nascimento - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel – Universidade de Sevilha, Spain
Manuela Guerreiro – FE / Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Maria Alexandre Lousada – FL/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Maria Cristina Moreira – Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Maria de Lourdes Netto Simões – Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil
Maria do Rosário Girão – Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Maria Graciete Besse – Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France
Pedro de Alcântara Bittencourt – Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Raquel Baltazar - ISCP/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Rita Baleiro – ESGHT/ Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Rogério Puga – FCSH/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Sara Augusto – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Sílvia Quinteiro – ESGHT/Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Vítor Ambrósio - Escola Superior de Turismo e Hotelaria do Estoril, Portugal
Vivina Carreira – ESAC/Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal
Xerardo Pereiro – ECHS/ Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
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Students at FLUL, ESGHT and ESHTE may attend the conference for free.