José Afonso and José Carlos Capinam: Unsuspected poetic encounters to the sound of the guitar

On 5 December , at 5 pm (Portugal), the seminar ‘José Afonso and José Carlos Capinam: Unsuspected poetic encounters to the sound of the viola’ will be held via  Zoom platform, with the participation of Professor Edilene Matos and the moderation of Professor Moisés de Lemos Martins.

The meeting proposes a dialogue between the poetics of José Afonso and José Carlos Capinan, poets marked by a rebellious lyricism. On the one hand, the poetics of José Afonso, whose work – widely recognised throughout Portugal and beyond – is strongly associated with the political impact of his songs, which represent an essential milestone in Portuguese culture. On the other hand, Capinan’s poetic work, which moves between that of the lyricist and that of the interpreter of his land, including that musicalised, rhapsodic, giving meaning to thinking about his country. Both poets based their lives on the trinomial Poetry, Love and Revolution.

Edilene Matos, PhD in Communication and Semiotics, is a lecturer, researcher and thesis director at the Federal University of Bahia. She created the Literature Department of the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia and was its first Director. She has completed several post-doctoral internships in Brazil (USP/Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros) and abroad (Université Paris-Nanterre; Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and was a Senior Visiting Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is a permanent lecturer on the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Culture and Society at UFBA and leads the CNPQ research group Voice, Body and Memory in poetic plots. He is currently on a Scientific-Cultural Mission at the University of Minho and is Scientific Vice-President of the International Association of Cultural Researchers (InterCult). Essayist, with several books, book chapters and articles published in Brazil and abroad, she occupies the chair n.13 of the Bahia Academy of Letters.

Moisés de Lemos Martins is a retired Full Professor at the University of Minho. At this University, he was the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, having also directed the Centre for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), which he founded in 2001, and the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, which he created in 2017.
He obtained his PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg in 1984. He created and directed the magazines Comunicação e Sociedade and Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, and re-founded Vista – Revista de Cultura Visual. He co-founded Sopcom (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences), Lusocom (Lusophone Federation of Communication Sciences) and Confibercom (Ibero-American Confederation of Scientific and Academic Communication Associations), scientific associations which he chaired. He is the current President of Assibercom – Ibero-American Association of Communication Researchers.
Having retired from the University of Minho in 2023, he is now a Full Professor at Lusófona University. At this University, he heads the Faculty of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies (FCAATI) in Porto, and is the Director of the Department of Communication Sciences.

[Updated:02-12-2024]