Moderator: Sílvia Portugal (FEUC/CES)

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In the context of Teatrão's next creation (premiering December 9^th)  based on the work «da familia» [of family] by Valério Romão, Teatrão organizes, in collaboration with CES, a series of talks about different aspects of the contemporary family universe.

of family is a collection of twelve short stories written by Valério Romão. With a dramaturgy created by him, based on five of these stories, Teatrão will perform them starting in December. The five familiar episodes have a fabulist, mythical and fantastic structure, although paradoxically mundane. The episodes are not exactly located in this or that era, they are not part of the past although they are also there, nor are they contemporary, although recognizable in everyday life. Without having any essayistic, or formal, pretensions, the melodramatic treatment, in the best sense of the word, has an epic structure that inadvertently or deliberately, who knows, unsettles the receiver.

Bio notes

Rosalina Costa
Sociologist and professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Évora (Portugal). She received her PhD in 2011 from the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. She was awarded a scholarship by the Fundation for Science and Technology and a Visiting Student at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life/ University of Manchester with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded the Early Stage Family Scholar Award by the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, participates regularly in major national and international scientific meetings and since 2014 is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the series Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research (SCOPUS).

António Marujo*
António Marujo was born in Águeda in 1961.  He has a degree in Social Communication and has been a journalist since 1985. He has worked in the editorial staff of Expresso, Cáritas magazine and Diário de Lisboa. He collaborated with the programmes "Toda a gente é pessoa" (Antena 1) and "Setenta Vezes Sete" (RTP). In September 1989 he joined the founding core of Público, where he remained until January 2013, being responsible for religious information. He won the European Prize for Religious Journalism in the non-denominational press (Conference of European Churches and Templeton Foundation) in 1995 and 2006. He has published, among others, Papa Francisco – A Revolução Imparável (Manuscript, co-authored with Joaquim Franco), Lugares do Infinito (Paulinas), A Lista do Padre Carreira (Vogais), Deus Vem a Público (Pedra Angular), Diálogos com Deus em Fundo (Gradiva, translated in Spain) and Vidas de Deus na Terra dos Homens (Círculo de Leitores). With Julieta Dias, he has organised five anthologies of texts by Friar Bento Domingues (Temas e Debates/Círculo de Leitores).

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