The Others in Me, 25 years on. What others, what selves?

12 March 2025 | 2H30 PM   
Mariano Gago Auditorium | i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto

The conference ‘The Others in Me, 25 years on. What others, what selves?', organised by Rui Mota Cardoso and coordinated by António Guerreiro, will take place on the 12th of March at 2.30pm in the Mariano Gago auditorium at i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, Porto, Portugal).

Inspired by the idea of cancer as a metaphor for all the ‘strange others in me’, the conference refers simultaneously to a series of talks ‘The Others in Me’ that took place 25 years ago as part of Porto Capital of Culture, and to the exhibition ‘The Strange Terrible Other’ by Agostinho Santos. 

Entrance is free. 

The conference will be in Portuguese. 

Organisation: Rui Mota Cardoso | Coordination: António Guerreiro
 

PROGRAM

2.30 pm Welcome
Claudio Sunkel, Manuel Sobrinho Simões

2.35 pm Introduction and Table ‘Illiteracy’
António Bracinha Vieira, António Guerreiro and moderated by Rui Mota Cardoso

4.30 pm Coffee

5.00 pm  Table ‘(Im)possibility of Dream and Revelation’
Pedro Bismarck, Rui Pereira and moderated by António Guerreiro

6.30 pm Guided tour of the exhibition by curator Felícia de Sousa

António Bracinha Vieira, psychiatrist, anthropologist and university professor; founder of the Portuguese Society of Ethology and its first president; author of ‘Elogio da Descrença’ and ‘Ensaios sobre a Evolução do Homem e da Linguagem’;

António Guerreiro, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, literary critic and editor of Elektra magazine and columnist for Público;

Pedro Bismarck, architect, critic and essayist, researcher at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto;

Rui Pereira, philosopher, university lecturer and former EXPRESSO journalist, author of the book ‘Pensar em Tempos de Não-Pensamento’;