International Conference: A luso-afro-brazilian inferno: (re)-building an erotic library

On September 4–5, Dalarna University will host an international conference highlighting censored and overlooked erotic literature in Portuguese-speaking countries.

This two-day conference “A Luso-Afro-Brazilian inferno: (re)-building an erotic library”, the first of its kind in Sweden, aims to build and establish an international research network to engage in the debate and research on Erotic Literature written in Portuguese. The objective is to uncover and study forgotten or censored works and authors (both men and women) in order to establish a corpus of this genre and to (re)build an erotic library. By gathering specialists and researchers in the field, the conference will facilitate the development of a research network and the subsequent dissemination of the event’s findings through a joint publication (special issue in the international journal Moderna Språk – open Access). The event will also serve to publicly disseminate knowledge of this genre within the Lusophone world and the global research community. Unlike the example of the Enfer of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France or the Private Case of the British Library, where some Lusophone Erotica has been preserved, this heritage remains invisible today, as no such collection exists national libraries within the Portuguese-speaking world.

 

Organizing and scientific committee
Alda Maria Lentina – Dalarna University, LiS (Sweden)
Fernando Curopos – Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREPAL (France)
Maria Araújo da Silva – Sorbonne Université, CRIMIC (France)