Literary event at UFRN: “Saramago and the Saramaguianos”

The UFRN Department of Literature will promote the meeting “Saramago and the Saramaguianos: tribute to Conceição Flores”, on June 9th and 10th, 2025, in the afternoon and evening shifts, at the Zila Mamede Central Library.
It is a free event, open to anyone interested in Saramaguian themes or literature.
Registration is open via the form available at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDX4UH4DviHQBzzx3j_Qk8TA_NiPpzNUqiwE5HgWsBAlVbNw/viewform
More information on Instagram of Revista Estudos Saramaguianos. The address is: https://www.instagram.com/estudossaramaguianos/ or @estudossaramaguianos
This event, which we entitled “Saramago and the Saramagoians: tribute to Conceição Flores”, is a meeting for enjoyment, dialogue, critical reflection and celebration of two works: that of writer José Saramago and that of professor Conceição Flores. Proposed by the Study Group on Romance and in collaboration with the Portuguese Literature area of the Literature/Portuguese Language course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, the program is simple but interested in contributing to the review and opening of new perspectives on Saramagui's work and experiences of a memorial nature. sociology, philosophy, language, culture and related arts, among other possibilities raised by José Saramago's literature. This is also an opportunity to come into contact with the work developed by those who think about literary work and offer their readers other expansions different from those we can find individually when interacting with literary reading. From here, we can aspire to the formation of points of view that are important to social developments, after all, free dialogue and the formation of an interrogative reality are essential for this, to have two of the various possibilities raised by literature.
Check out more here: Final Program Saramago and the Saramagoians (1)
PROGRAMMING
Monday, June 9, 2025
2pm
Exhibition of José & Pilar (Miguel Gonçalves Mendes)
followed by a conversation about the film with Gabriella Kelmer and Pedro Fernandes
5pm
Table 1: What we already know and can know about José Saramago’s work
(Mediation Gabriella Kelmer)
Derivaldo dos Santos
Maria do Socorro Furtado Veloso
José Diego Cirne dos Santos
8pm
Master Class with Conceição Flores
(Presentation by Pedro Fernandes)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
3pm
Table 2: What we already know and can know about José Saramago’s work
(Mediation Gabriella Kelmer)
Ana Cristina Pinto Bezerra
Marta Aparecida Garcia Gonçalves
Cícera Antoniele Cajazeiras da Silva
5pm
Table 3: Memory: tribute to Conceição Flores
(Mediation Pedro Fernandes)
Diva Cunha
Maria da Conceição Oliveira Guimarães
Zuleide Duarte
Ilane Ferreira
8pm
Launch of the book From myth to romance: a reading of the Gospel according to
Saramago (Saramaguiano Studies Collection. Editora Moinhos)
(Mediation by Pedro Fernandes and Gabriella Kelmer)