Identity and Alterity: recognizing without identifying

Abstract

In this interview, professors and researchers of Universidade Aberta de Portugal [Open University of Portugal] Maria do Rosário Leitão Lupi Bello and Paula Mendes Coelho talk about the importance of the notion of alterity in the context of comparative studies. The complex relations among alterity, memory and identity, history-making and practice are discussed from the point of view of comparative studies and of the beautiful metaphor approoaching the comparativist to a traveler.

Maria do Rosário Leitão Lupi Bello holds a doctor’s degree in Literary Studies (the relationship between Literature and Cinema) and since 1989 has been teaching in the areas of Theory of Literature, Portuguese Literature and Portuguese Cinema at the Universidade Aberta de Portugal.

Paula Mendes Coelho is an assistant professor in the Humanities Department of Universidade Aberta de Portugal. A comparativist by formation, she integrates as a researcher the Comparative Studies Center and collaborates with the Instituto de Literatura e Tradução [Literature and Tradition Studies Institute].

Edition: Ana Paula Rodrigues da Silva, Thiago Fonseca (TV-PUC)
Soundtrack: PIPA estúdio