III Congress
O Porto Romântico
23rd e 24th Oct
Ordem Terceira de São Francisco do Porto e Universidade Católica Portuguesa
23rd de October
Auditório Dr. António Pedro Pinto de Mesquita
Ordem de São Francisco do Porto
9:00—9:30
Reception of participants
9:30—9:40
Opening Session
Cultural and Musical Studies (Chair: Conceição Meireles)
9:40–10:05
From the Invicta City to the World: iconography of the ambassador and neo-Garrettian poet Alberto de Oliveira (1873–1940)
– Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa
10:05—10:30
Luso-Galician literary ties at the Fin-de-Siècle: Junqueiro and Curros Enríquez
– Henrique Manuel Pereira and Lourdes Maceiras
10:30—10:55
ADSPECTUS 19’20: Mapping sound and images in portraits of music and dance in Romantic Porto
– Sónia Duarte
10:55–11:20
Writers and Bathhouses: Literary Culture and Health Culture in Galicia and Northern Portugal (19th–20th centuries)
– Lourdes Maceiras and Henrique Manuel Pereira
11:20–11:50 Coffee Break
Cultural and Musical Studies (Chair: Henrique Manuel Pereira)
11:50–12:15
Popular journalism in Porto under the sign of Camões
– Conceição Meireles Pereira
12:15–12:40
António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos, one of the most illustrious and notable Portuguese journalists, one of the most elegant and witty writers…
– Fátima Teixeira
12:40—13:05
"To debase the class and punish virtue": rape in O Sino das Duas Horas by the Barbeiro dos Pobres
– Carlos Silva
13:05–13:30
Camilo and the contemporary neo-romantic fascination with his biographical memoirs
– Pedro Vilas Boas Tavares
13:30–14:30 Lunch
Economic and Social Studies (Chair: Laura Castro)
14:30–14:55
The “Rats of Pantana Customs” – Satire of Romantic Porto
– António Barros Cardoso
14:55–15:20
Scandal and discretion: a house in the heart of Romantic Porto
– Jorge Ricardo Pinto
15:20–15:45
Fin-de-Siècle Porto. The sociocultural life of the British elites living in the city
– Jorge Martins Ribeiro
15:45–16:10
Judge Teixeira de Queiroz and the Count of Bolhão: revisiting an episode of corruption in Romantic Porto
– J. A. Gonçalves Guimarães
16:10–16:35
Eduardo da Costa Santos, editor and firefighter – the versatility of a man of Porto in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries
– Isilda Monteiro
16:35–17:05 Coffee Break
Economic and Social Studies (Chair: António Barros Cardoso)
17:05–17:30
From remote sensing to on-site survey of the industrial units marked on the so-called Emperor’s Map, Porto, 1832
– Mário Bruno Pastor
17:30–17:55
Bernardo de Almeida Lucas: multifaceted expression of Porto’s romantic legacy
– Eva Baptista
17:55–18:20
The 2nd Generation of the Nicolau de Almeida family: the social and commercial affirmation of a family from Vila Nova de Gaia in 19th-century Porto
– Licínio Santos
18:20–18:45
Porto in 1877 by Júlio de Castilho. Account of a city between eras
– Tiago Borges Lourenço and Raquel Seixas
October 24
Carvalho Guerra Auditorium
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Historical-Artistic Studies (Chair: Francisco Queiroz)
9:40–10:05
Reconstructing and mapping traces of romantic sociability in Porto through Cartes-de-Visite: poses, gestures, and settings in studio portrait photography (~1860–1890)
– Nuno Resende
9:55–10:20
Miguel de Novaes, a painter and photographer from Porto (1854–1870)
– Nuno Borges de Araújo
10:20–10:45
A double romantic gaze: Jean Laurent and Carlos Relvas in Porto
– Catarina Cortes Pereira
10:45–11:10
Beyond the nineteenth century: the romantic genius in Portuguese Modernism
– Rui Miguel Almeida Maia
11:10–11:40 Coffee Break
Historical-Artistic Studies (Chair: Laura Castro)
11:40–12:05
The mansion of Custódio José da Costa, on Rua do Bonjardim
– Francisco Queiroz
12:05–12:30
The painter-decorators of the Palácio da Bolsa
– Miguel Montez Leal
12:30–12:55
The Palácio dos Carrancas and its adaptation into the Royal Palace of Porto
– António Cota Fevereiro and Francisco Queiroz
12:55–13:20
From the station to the mansion: land strategies and urban transformation on Rua da Palma (1875–1901)
– Jorge Ricardo Pinto
13:20–14:20 Lunch
Historical-Artistic Studies (Chair: Pedro Vilas Boas Tavares)
14:20–14:45
José and Manuel Rodrigues Teixeira: two generations in Porto silverwork (19th and 20th centuries)
– Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa
14:45–15:10
Out of gratitude from Porto artists: a model of the Monument to King Pedro V in the collection of the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda
– Sérgio Monteiro Abrantes
15:10–15:35
Fashion as an urban and international phenomenon
– Maria da Glória Rosas Brandão
15:35–16:00
Digging in cinematic ruins: survivals of a Romantic Porto in the first decades of cinema in Portugal
– Hugo Barreira
16:00–16:25
Filming the Past: architecture as a visual representation of the 19th century in Mysteries of Lisbon by Raúl Ruiz
– Susana Cruz
16:25–16:55 Coffee Break
Political and Institutional Studies (Chair: Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa)
16:55–17:20
Between the Junta and the Crown: The City of Porto in the Civil War of 1846–1847
– Sérgio Alexandre Veludo Coelho
17:20–17:45
The drive of the Porto Police Agency [1865–1867] in the early stages of Portuguese civil policing
– Eurico Gomes Dias
17:45–18:10
Between sea and spa bathing – potentialities of 19th-century studies in Porto, through the archive of the Third Order of St. Francis
– Joana Lencart and Alexandra Vidal
18:10–18:35
Porto, Liberal city! Historical reality or fallacious construction?
– João Paulo Luz
