Eduardo Sterzi, Fernando Guerreiro and Osvaldo Silvestre, together with guests, will go through the main lines of force that operate in the ideas of "ghost" and "revolution", especially in the arts and literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. A performance by Bárbara Fonte will precede the talk.

Eduardo Sterzi is a poet, essayist, professor at Unicamp and literary critic. He is a researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and also works as a curator. He has published, among others, Por que ler Dante (Globo, 2008), A prova dos nove: alguma poesia moderna e a tarefa da alegria (Lumme, 2008), Aleijão (7Letras, 2009), Cavalo sopa martelo (Dobra, 2011), Maus poemas (7Letras, 2016) and Saudades do mundo: notícias da Antropofagia (Todavia, 2022).

Fernando Guerreiro is the author of a vast body of work as a poet and essayist, having also been responsible for Black Sun Editores. He has taught at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon in the areas of French studies and cinema. His latest titles are, in poetry, Ventos Borrascosos (100cabeças, 2019) and Metal de Fusão - Uma Teoria da Imagem (Black Sun Editores/100cabeças, 2023), and, in essays, Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura (co-organised with José Bértolo, 2019) and Grãos de Pólen - Teoria do Fantasma (Língua Morta, 2022).

Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre is the coordinator of the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. He is scientifically responsible for the Carlos de Oliveira estate at the Museum of Neo-Realism. His last published book was the volume Eduardo Lourenço: um tempo brasileiro breve, mas duradouro (Eduardo Lourenço: a brief but lasting Brazilian time ) (Centro de Estudos Ibéricos, Guarda, 2024).

Bárbara Fonte is a visual artist who works primarily with drawing and video. She is one of the artists in the O Fantasma da Liberdade biennial. Her performance will consist of walking through the central corridor of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova, trying to transpose the indivisibility of the spectral figure that inhabits it and placing the body as a collector of the broad expression of the human narrative.

Partnership: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de Coimbra