Messengers from the Stars. Episode IV
2017; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.21066/carcl.libri.2017-06(01).0015
ISSN1848-5871
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Architectural Studies
Resumoorganised by the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)), Mensageiros das estrelas/Messengers from the Stars.Launched in 2010, the biannual and bilingual conference (Portuguese and English being the official languages) brought together more than eighty participants, who presented their research in eight sessions, each including three to four panels (a total of four panels were entirely in Portuguese).Spread across two Conference days, there were eighty-four stimulating presentations on a wide variety of topics, from hit-series such as Game of Thrones (José Malheiro Magalhães), The Simpsons (I-Hsuan Lee), Xena the Warrior Princess (Ana Durão), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joana Sevilha), to phantasmagoria in short stories by J.L. Borges (Alia Soliman), queer subtext in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (David Klein Martins), the social power of fandom and LGBT communities (Francisca Alvarenga), dystopias, corporality, and zombies (entire panels were dedicated to each of the last three topics).Readers of Libri & Liberi will be pleased to know that childrenʼs and young adult fiction assumed a prominent place within the Conference.In addition to numerous individual presentations dedicated to popular authors of fantasy for children/young adults, such as C.S. Lewis (Mariza da Silva Martins), Neil Gaiman (Diogo Almeida), and J
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