Colóquio Camões 500 e uns

The Colloquium A Day of Camões, hosted at the Institute of Letters of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), has been held since 2012, on an annual basis, with two editions in partnership with the University of São Paulo (USP) and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). In 2022, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the publication of Os Lusíadas, the Colloquium won its first international edition, in cooperation with the Interuniversity Center for Camonian Studies of the University of Coimbra. 

The event, which, for more than a decade, has been bringing together Brazilian and foreign research professors around the poetry of Luís de Camões, invests its efforts in confirming the contemporaneity of Camões' work. A present Camões is one in whose poetry we recognize not only as a meeting place for multiple knowledges, but, above all, as a very singular affirmation of thought that continually instigates us. Considering its various facets – epic, lyrical and dramatic, and also the testimony of the letters – we note how Camões' poetry responds to a yearning of humanity that, in tension with various worldviews, has always sought the concert of many differences, resulting in a heterogeneous perspective of the world that, despite his unfortunate personal destiny, the poet has always known how to embrace.

Our main objective is, with the support of the Mission Structure for the Commemorations of the 500th Birthday of Luís de Camões, to promote a special edition of the Colloquium A Day of Camões. The event becomes an opportunity to hold an event that further expands the relationship between Camões practitioners from Brazil and Portugal, strengthening the ties between researchers who, on both sides of the Atlantic, unite around a common object. In view of the renewed interest that Camões' poetry has been arousing in young undergraduate and graduate students, the Colloquium meets a legitimate demand for scientific dissemination and dialogue about Camões' work.