Universidade do Minho. Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (CEHUM)
Abstract
It has been the main concern of CEHUM, as a Research Centre within the
Humanities which operates in an inter and transdisciplinary structure to listen
attentively to the “noise of the world” and attempt a global interpretation
of the signs of the times issuing from the world around us, as vibrant echoes
of many social and cultural pressing issues. Every year each new Colóquio de
Outono attempts to give evidence of that concern through the topic chosen
for debate, ample enough and challenging enough to trigger a lively multidisciplinary
dialogue amongst the diff erent research groups that compose this
centre, the participants and our invited guest speakers. Throughout the three days of this 16th Colóquio de Outono we had the
privilege to debate the propositions of a vast number of national and international
specialists in the manifold fi elds of inquiry here represented, engaging
keynote speakers, project advisors, members of research teams and external
researchers attached to the various research projects currently running in
CEHUM, in the fi elds of literature, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, visual arts,
cultural studies, music and performance. Each specifi c fi eld of studies was
however never seen isolated, but always embodied in a geo-cultural context
and within the scope of a wide variety of critical debates and current theories
of knowledge, as a signal of our understanding of the Humanities as a rich and
plural territory which engages us all, scholars, researchers, students.FCT, QREN, COMPETE, U
