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The abstract submission period is open until September 1, 2024. Proposals must be sent via the following email: ciclc(at)ipportalegre.pt

Proposals must present the following information:

• Title
• Name(s) of author(s)
• Affiliation
• Thematic line in which you subscribe
• Summary up to 300 words
• Up to 5 keywords
• Up to 5 bibliographic references

• Date of the Congress – September 26th and 27th, 2024
• Submission of abstracts – until September 1, 2024
• Disclosure of acceptance – until September 15, 2024
• Registration – from September 15, 2024
• Submission of papers for publication – until November 30, 2024

Between immanence and transcendence, the literary text knew, throughout its diachronic path, to incorporate readings of the empirical and the dream, the real and the imaginary, creating unusual, singular or enchanting worlds and times. The exercise of difference, in the Fantastic and the Marvelous, carried out between horizons of imagination, the absurd or the (un)likely, has seen inter-art dialogues that have included literature, cinema, painting or music, allowing exchanges, influences and contaminations in the universe of Lusofonia. With Comparative Literature as a reference, the International Congress of Contemporary Lusophone Culture invites teachers and researchers to its fifth edition, to be held at the Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, in a hybrid format, on the 26th and 27th of September 2024.

Thematic Lines within the scope of Lusofonia

1. From oral histories to literary writing
2. The language of the marvelous and the fantastic
3. Memory and re-reading of wonderful tales in contemporary children’s literature: versions, adaptations and rewriting
4. The Fantastic and the Unusual in contemporary children’s and youth literature
5. Wonderful tales in the Portuguese language classroom
6. The Fantastic and the Marvelous in inter-art and intermedia dialogues

Each proposal must include:

Proposals must follow the most recent version of the APA standards, as well as the following guidelines:

• title
• name(s) of author(s)
• affiliation
• thematic line in which you subscribe
• abstract up to 300 words
• up to 5 keywords
• up to 5 bibliographic references

Each proponent may submit a maximum of one individual proposal and one co-authored proposal or two co-authored proposals. Presentations must not exceed 20 minutes each. The language of the Congress is Portuguese.

Submission of proposals through the system

Publication

Summaries and communications will be published in book form, with ISBN.