Coordination: Ângela Fernandes 

Sponsors, preferably in joint ventures with other institutions, lectures and seminars by invited scholars, both from Portugal and abroad. To this deliberate policy of opening up the space and the results of research to a wider audience a pedagogic component is added, so that a series of short seminars geared towards post-graduate students is privileged.

• "Exilic Time"
  Seminar: Maria DiBattista (Princeton University) 
  - 18 December 2007, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
  
• "Understanding the U.S. Addiction to Prisons: Racism, Neoliberalism, and Empire" 
  Seminar: Ruth Wilson Gilmore (University of Western California)
  - 19 June 2007, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Schakspeare* in France: Translation and British Cultural Expansion"
  Seminar: Karen Newman (New York University)
  - 12 April 2007, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "A Viagem como Lugar de Encontro: Peregrinação de F. Mendes Pinto e Modernidades"
  Seminar: Maria Alzira Seixo (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
  - 13 February 2007, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "A Literatura diante da Lei: o Testemunho como Encontro-de-Palavras"
  Seminar: Márcio Seligmann-Silva (Unicamp)
  - 24 October 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Putting Words to Music"
  Seminar: Françoise Meltzer (Univ. Chicago)
  - 28 January 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Response: The Pragmatics of Translator"
  Seminar: Ian Mason (Centre for Translataion &
  Interpreting Studies in Scotland, Heriot Watt University)
  - 27 January 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Transitivity and Institutional Norms of Translating"
  Seminar: Ian Mason (Centre for Translataion & Interpreting Studies in Scotland, Heriot Watt University)
  - 26 January 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes and Post-Colonialism: The Case of Brazil"
  Seminar: Claus Clüver (Univ. Indiana/Bloomington)
  - 23 January 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Staging the Secrecy of Encounters: Pirandello and Michael Frayn" 
  Seminar: Laura Caretti (Univ. Siena)
  - 21 January 2006, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "The model in the arts as an encounter"
  Seminar: Wendy Steiner (Univ. Pennsylvania)
  - 4 January 2005, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• “A poesia de Alandalus em português: abordagem em poética e tradutologia”
  Conference delivered by Michel Sleiman (Universidade de São Paulo)
  - 12 November 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
  
• "Narrating the State of Corruption”
  Conference delivered by Akhil Gupta (Stanford Univ.)
  - 10 November 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• “The Living Poetic: Irish-European Literary Relationships in the Twentieth Century”
  Conference delivered by Michael Cronin (Dublin City Univ.)
  - 8 November 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Sobre George Sand e Alfred de Musset"
  Gilbert Chaitin, Universidade de Indiana (Bloomington)
  - 3 February 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Amor pelo que não somos: Frank O'Hara traduz Aimé Césaire"
  Conference delivered by Luiza Franco Moreira (Universidade de Binghamton)
  - 15 January 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
  
• "La passion amoureuse chez Stendhal"
  Seminar: Patrizia Lombardo (Universidade de Genève)
  - 6 January 2004, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Ajax e algumas das suas manifestações contemporâneas"
  SEminar: Massimo Fusilli (Univ. L'Aquila, Roma)
  - 18 November 2003, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Found in Translation: The two Lives of E. M. Cioran or How to be a Comparatist", Ilinca Johnston (Univ Indiana/Bloomington)
• "Translation as Empire", Jonathan Hart (Univ. Edmonton),
  - 12 May 2003, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "Testimony and Attestation. On Differences in Bearing Witness between historical, juridical and literary discourses in Post-Holocoust Culture", Sigrid Weigel.
  In colaboration with the project "Enciclopédia e Hipertexto", supervised by the Philosophy Centre of the Faculty of Letters (University of Lisbon) and coordinated by Olga Pombo.
  - 8 May 2002, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.
• "The Genius of Influence", Harold Bloom
  - 23 May 2001, Faculty of Letters - University of Lisbon.