Keynote Speakers

Stuart Price

Stuart Price is Professor of Media and Political Discourse in the Leicester Media School of De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is Director of that unit’s Media Discourse Centre. Stuart’s research interests include investigative journalism, conceptions of state power, masculinity and film, news discourses, and the Catalan crisis. His published work includes Brute Reality, a study of the ‘war on terror’ (Pluto Press, 2010), and Discourse Power Address, a study of ideology and public rhetoric (Ashgate, 2007, and Routledge, 2017). Popular Media and Communication, a collection of papers edited with Professor Karen Ross of Northumbria University, appeared in 2008. Recent and forthcoming work includes Journalism, Power and Investigation (Routledge, 2019) and Corbyn and the Media (Routledge, forthcoming), he is co-Editor of the online, peer-reviewed, open-access Journal IJMD, co-Editor of the book series ‘Protest, Media and Culture’ and the author of a number of monographs, book chapters and articles on Media, Communication and Politics.
Stuart’s earlier publications include Communication Studies (1996, Longman), the A-Z Media and Communication Handbook (1997, Hodder and Stoughton) and the first comprehensive student textbook in the field, Media Studies (1993/98, Longman). Stuart is a member of the Meccsa Social Movements Network, and the Media Communication and Cultural Studies Association.
In the «Treacherous Words: Fake News, Censorship and the Unsayable» Conference in Aveiro, Stuart Price will be presenting a plenary lecture entitled «Systemic Democracy, Social Categories, and the ‘Insurgent’ Truth».

 

Helder Macedo

Helder Macedo is an important figure of Portuguese contemporary culture. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of London, King’s College, where he was Head of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and holder, from 1982 to 2004, of the Camões Chair. He is also a Research Fellow at Oxford University. He has been Visiting Scholar at several prestigious universities: the École de Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Harvard University and the University of California, Berkley, where he was Visiting Scholar and Resident Writer.

As a poet and novelist, he wrote several works, of which we can highlight the novels Parts of Africa, published in 1991, and Pedro and Paula, published in 1998, and his recent book of poetry, There is Still The Face, published in 2015. His novel of 2005, titled Unnamed, won the Portuguese PEN Club Award.

As an essayist, he had written seminal texts of Portuguese Literary Studies, for instance, The Hidden Meaning of Menina e Moça, in 1977, or, more recently, Camões and Other Contemporary, in 2017. This last work was distinguished with the Dom Diniz Literary Prize and with the Eduardo Prado Coelho Grand Prix for Essay. Helder Macedo received the William Haytor Award in 1975 and was awarded with the degree of Commander of the Order of Santiago de Espada in 1993, by the Portuguese State.

In the late fifities, he was an element of the surrealist literary group of the Café do Gelo, and, during the Estado Novo, he was an opponent of the Salazar regime and saw several of his works censored and banned. At the Congress “Treacherous Words: Fake News, Censorship and the Unspeakable”, he will present a conference entitled “The Voluble History”.

 

Paulo Alexandre Pereira

Paulo Alexandre Pereira was Lecturer at King´s College, in London, and has been, since 2005, Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages ​​and Cultures of the University of Aveiro, where he has held various functions and has taught several subjects of ​​Portuguese Literature. He is a researcher at the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, where he coordinates the research project «Between Genres: Literature and Hybridism». He made part of the research team of the projects «Theography: Literature and Religion» and «The Fable in Portuguese Literature: Catalog and Critical History». He is a Collaborating Researcher at the Institute of Studies of Literature and Tradition of FCSH-UNL and he was also part of the Pedagogical Council of the University of Aveiro.

He has a vast work published in the field of Literary Studies. His PhD Thesis in Portuguese Literature was published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda and is entitled The Immortal Beauty of The Cathedrals. Afonso Lopes Vieira and the Medievalist Imagination. He has written several essays about medievalism in contemporary Portuguese authors, such as Natália Correia, Augusto Abelaira and Válter Hugo Mãe, among others. He also studies and writes about queer and gender issues in Portuguese Literature. At the “Treacherous Words: Fake News, Censorship and the Unsayable” Congress, he will present a conference entitled “What’s in a name? AIDS in the contemporary Portuguese narrative, between inscription and silence ».