The José Saramago Extraordinary Chair of UNAM, the João Guimarães Rosa Chair, the Department of Portuguese Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM and the Camões Institute of Cooperation and Language invite researchers and students to submit proposals for presentations at the First International Afro-Luso-Brazilian Sessions which, this year, will be dedicated to the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1998, José Saramago, as part of the centennial celebrations. As invited lecturers, the Sessions will be attended by the Portuguese writer Paulo José Miranda, winner of the first José Saramago Literary Prize (1999), and Prof. Doctor Burghard Baltrusch, President of the first José Saramago International Chair at the University of Vigo.

The Sessions will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM, on December 5, 6 and 7, 2022, with the objective of bringing together researchers, students and teachers whose focus is the Portuguese language, in its different cultural and literary manifestations, in order to foster dialogue and enrich reflection among the different approaches and institutions.