Agenda de l'ENS de Lyon

Unwritten Conversations: Stories in the Making is a joint initiative between the University of Lisbon, the École normale supérieure de Lyon and the University of Madeira, organised by Elena Bollinger, Margarida Martins and Vanessa Guignery. We invite writers, readers, and book lovers to engage in conversation about the art of writing and storytelling. This series aims to delve into the captivating world of story-making, offering a unique opportunity to hear from writers about their creative process. Each session will feature a talk between a writer and a moderator, either in person or virtually, creating a welcoming atmosphere for questions, reflections, and ideas to motivate aspiring writers and students of creative writing or languages and literature in the audience.

 The first session will take place on Wednesday, March 26th at 12pm (Paris time) and will feature a conversation between Zuzanna Zarebska, a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English and American Studies and Emanuel Melo, a Torontonian Azorean writer who immigrated to Canada at age nine. His writing has been published in anthologies of Luso-Canadian writers, in Cleaver Magazine, Gávea-Brown, and Filamentos. Some of his most recent publications include “A Journey of Promise” in Filamentos, Arts and Letters in the Azorean Diaspora (2023) and “Tia Catarina" in Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies (2021). The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes to one hour followed by 30 minutes questions from the audience.

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Time: March 26, 2025, 12:00 (Paris time)