Day 1 – Thursday, September 21, 2023

9:00 – 9:30
Opening session
Library Auditorium

Magnificent Rector, Professor Mário Raposo
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Professor André Barata
Chair of the Arts Department, Professor Sara Velez
LabCom Scientific Coordinator, Professor Anabela Gradim
Coordinator of the LabCom Arts Group, Professor Francisco Paiva
Head Investigator at Speculum, Professor Ana Catarina Pereira
Co-Head Investigator at Speculum, Professor Ana Isabel Soares

9:30 – 11:00
Pannel 1
Library Auditorium

Theme: Filming oneself and looking at oneself in the mirror: design of a research project focused on autobiography

Moderator: Daniel Oliveira
Presentations:

1. “Speculum: new directions for a project centered on filmed autobiography”
(Ana Catarina Pereira, UBI/LabCom)
2. “Since The Day I Stopped Being Yours: methods of a thesis based on autobiography”
(Julia Marques, UBI/LabCom)
3. “Hymne d’amour [Love Anthem]. In search of a female director”
(Ana Isabel Soares, UAlg/CIAC)

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45
Pannel 2
Library Auditorium

Theme: Self Writing in Portuguese-language documentaries

Moderator: Catarina Sales
Presentations:

1. “Ballad of the de-ranged: the queer act of creation in I Remember the Crows”
(Daniel Oliveira, UBI/LabCom
2. “The migratory images between life and home in To my parents, by Melanie Pereira”
(Silvia Wichan, UPorto)

12:45 – 14:15
Lunch break

14:15 – 15:45
Keynote
Library Auditorium

Invited Keynote Speaker: Virgínia Espa, Huesca Art School

Moderator: Ana Isabel Soares

“Una lectura autobiográfica del álbum de família” [An autobiographical reading of the family album], followed by a display of autobiographical works created by students from the Huesca Art School

15:45 – 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30
Pannel 3
Library Auditorium

Theme: The interdisciplinarity of autobiographical studies

Moderator: Fátima Chinita
Presentations:

1. “Talking about oneself is talking about racism: the experience of black female directors on the Brazilian scene”
(Pedro Pinto de Oliveira e Priscila Lima Freitas, UFMT)
2. “In defense of Narcissus: Surface, truth and liquidity in The Metamorphosis of Birds, by Catarina Vasconcelos”
(Teresa Nunes, UBI)
3. “The Splinter of the Toad: Leonor Teles’ case”
(Sérgio Bordalo e Sá, UL/FMH/INET-md)

17:30
Screening and debate
Parada Amphitheater

Screening of the film Gypsophila (Margarida Leitão), followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

“Matriarchy, autobiography and documentary in a film by Margarida Leitão”: a dialogue between Eduardo Paz Barroso (UFP/LabCom) and Margarida Leitão (ESTC/CIEBA)

20:00
Conference dinner

Day 2 – Friday, September 22, 2023

9:00 – 10:30
Pannel 4
Library Auditorium

Theme: Training and dialogues with the public: autobiographical film and the female spectator

Moderator: Sérgio Bordalo Sá
Presentations:

1. “Fixing memories: documentary as a process of writing the Self”
(Patrícia Nogueira, UBI/LabCom)
2. “Playing with myself: workshop report”
(Cláudia Clemente, filmmaker)
3. “Projected self-representation – Intimate and public space in Porto Femme”
(Rita Capucho, Porto Femme Film Festival)

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break

10:45 – 12:35
Pannel 5
Library Auditorium

Theme: Self-portrait a social complaint

Moderator: Rita Capucho
Presentations:

1.“A journey through family imagination, based on The Garbage Man, by Laura Gonçalves” (Marta Pinho Alves, IPS)
(Marta Pinho Alves, IPS)
2. “Autobiography and autoethnographic methodology: dialogues and borders”
(Catarina Sales, UBI)
3. “Self-portrait in Raquel Schefer”
(Caterina Cucinotta, URJC/IHC)
4. “Lúcia Murat’s autofictions in How Nice to See You Alive (1989) and A Long Journey (2011): the performance of emptiness and meaning on the memory of a trauma”
(Giovanna Campos, IPL)

12:35 – 14:00
Lunch break

14:00 – 15:15
Pannel 6
Remote presentation

Theme: The writing of the self by female Brazilian documentary filmmakers

Moderator: Julia Marques
Presentations:

1. “Autobiography in the Brazilian context of the 20th century: An analysis of Olga Futemma’s work”
(Hanna Esperança, USP)
2. “Between the private and the public: reflections on Heloísa Passos’ autobiographical documentary film”
(Danielle Parfentieff de Noronha, UFF)
3. “Fabulation, memory and archive image in autobiographical film essay: articulations, frictions, inventions”
(Carolina Gonçalves Pinto, USP)

15:30 – 16:45
Pannel 7
Remote presentation

Theme: Intimacy and reflection: the body shown in the first person

Moderator: Cláudia Clemente
Presentations:

1. “A film a month: narratives of a screaming body”
(Ianca Oliveira e Dorotea Souza Bastos, UFRB)
2. Familiar landscapes and figurations of the banal: drift, archives, traces, and intimate spaces in first-person cinema”
(Angela Prysthon, UFP)
3. “Feminist activisms and film: a few thoughts”
(Carla Cerqueira, ULusófona)
4. “The female documentary filmmaker as an archiver of female identity”
(Fátima Chinita, IPL/ICNOVA)

17:00 – 18:30
Pannel 8
Remote presentation

Theme: Body and memory

Moderator: Danielle Parfentieff de Noronha
Presentations:

1. “The subversion of women in video through the performance of themselves”
(Anna Clara Petracca, UMaia/LabCom)
2. “The nostalgic autobiography of things in Vidas Vencidas [Beaten Lives], by Maria Ondina Braga”
(Carina Infante do Carmo, UAlg/CEC)
3. “A entrevista [The Interview] (Helena Solberg, 1966): reciprocal narration or the limits of autobiography”
(Patrícia Sequeira Brás, UC)