To mark Portugal Day (10 June), the Virtual Museum of Lusophony (University of Minho) and CICANT (Lusófona University) are jointly organising the webinar “Verso e Reverso: Re-reading and Reinventing the Work of Luís de Camões”, to be held on 18 June 2025, at 17:00 (Portugal time), via the Zoom platform.
The event will feature contributions from Lurdes Macedo, integrated researcher at CICANT and Assistant Professor at Lusófona University – University Center of Porto, and Maria-Benedita Basto, Associate Professor at Sorbonne University (France), with moderation by Isabel Macedo, researcher at the University of Minho and Director of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony.
The session will open with an intervention by Lurdes Macedo, focusing on Jorge de Sena’s visit to Mozambique in 1972, interpreted as a politically charged gesture against the colonial regime and a call for a renewed reading of Camões’ work. This will be followed by a presentation by Maria-Benedita Basto on As Quybyrycas (1972), a poetic text authored by Frey Joannes Garabatus and originally published in Lourenço Marques. Conceived as a continuation of Os Lusíadas and centred on the defeat at Alcácer-Quibir, this work - prefaced by Jorge de Sena - is presented as a significant contribution to the decolonisation of the Portuguese imperial imaginary.
The webinar offers an opportunity to revisit Camões’ legacy through critical, intercultural, and postcolonial perspectives, promoting dialogue across literature, memory, and identity within the Lusophone space.
Further information is available on the Virtual Museum of Lusophony website.