The 2nd International Seminar "Architectures of the Soul" aims to promote the scientific study and discussion of architecture associated with spiritual practices centred on the search for the wilderness and the experience of solitude. A multidisciplinary approach will be favoured at the crossroads between different fields of knowledge and perspectives - history, architecture, landscape architecture, […]
Speaker: Etelvina Fernández González In the context of present-day Europe, in which women increasingly occupy a leading role in various fields - such as science, art, literary and political activities -, having achieved progressive levels of independence at all levels, the example of Cristina de Pisano anticipates this situation by several centuries. In this sense, […]
The Conference "D. Lourenço Vicente: Memória(s) e Representações" (Lourenço Vicente Conference: Memory(s) and Representations) completes the itinerary that began around the figure of Archbishop Lourenço Vicente in 2017, completing the study of the itinerary of this prelate from Braga and royal counsellor, with various diversions along this path for which we constituted different memories and […]
The Sea in Religious Imaginary: Cults, Spaces, Representations Throughout history, the oceans and seas have always provoked different reactions in the human imagination. They were environments of mystery, fear and the unknown. Invading peoples arrived, pirates and corsairs, floods and storms, spreading destruction and chaos. Whoever dared challenge the sea faced other dangers, such […]