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Apresenta&#231;&#227;oA reorienta&#231;&#227;o te&#243;rica dos estudos liter&#225;rios no sentido da sua renovada aproxima&#231;&#227;o ao &#8220;real&#8221;, identificada mais tarde por alguns como o &#8220;spatial turn&#8221; (Soja, 1989) come&#231;a a desenhar-se no panorama te&#243;rico-liter&#225;rio a partir de meados do s&#233;culo XX, no momento em que te&#243;ricos de refer&#234;ncia no campo estruturalista concedem largo espa&#231;o da sua reflex&#227;o ao relacionamento entre &#8220;a literatura e a realidade&#8221;, com o objetivo de denunciar, insistentemente, qualquer &#8220;ilus&#227;o referencial&#8221; (Barthes et al., 1982) e de remeter o espa&#231;o liter&#225;rio &#224; sua especularidade intratextual (D&#228;llenbach, 1977). &#201; incontest&#225;vel por&#233;m que a rela&#231;&#227;o do homem com o mundo constituiu, desde sempre, uma das tem&#225;ticas preponderantes da hist&#243;ria da literatura, estimulada, a partir dos s&#233;culos XIV e XV, pelas viagens que marcam a viragem da modernidade (Westphal, 2011), pela pr&#243;pria pr&#225;tica e escrita de escritores &#8220;viajantes&#8221; ao longo dos s&#233;culos XVIII e XIX, e consequente ascens&#227;o da &#8220;literatura de viagens&#8221; &#224; categoria de g&#233;nero liter&#225;rio.Assistimos hoje a mudan&#231;as de paradigma, em que se desenham novas territorialidades liter&#225;rias, em que se interrogam as fronteiras entre o real e a fic&#231;&#227;o (Lavocat, 2016) e se erguem novas formas de abordagem do espa&#231;o liter&#225;rio. Mudan&#231;as de paradigma que decorrem desde logo da pr&#225;tica da viagem, cujas motiva&#231;&#245;es antropol&#243;gicas se alteraram profundamente (Debaene, 2010), com particular incid&#234;ncia no campo liter&#225;rio, em que &#8220;mundos&#8221; e &#8220;textos&#8221; poss&#237;veis (Lavocat, 2010; Escola (&#233;d.) 2012) conjeturam novos territ&#243;rios a explorar para al&#233;m da &#8220;letra&#8221; do texto, em que um &#8220;mundo plaus&#237;vel&#8221; pode ser desenhado para al&#233;m da vis&#227;o cartogr&#225;fica euroc&#234;ntrica do mundo (Westphal, 2011), em que novas pr&#225;ticas de mobilidade suscitam novas formas de escrita e outros suportes de express&#227;o, bem como novas formas de ler, ancoradas numa geografia f&#237;sica mas tamb&#233;m humana (Bouvet, 2015). Perspetivamos hoje a produ&#231;&#227;o liter&#225;ria em contextos e abordagens mundiais, indelimit&#225;veis, marcados pelo triunfo da tradu&#231;&#227;o (Damrosch, 2003). Ora mais centrado sobre o observador, determinando uma perce&#231;&#227;o do mundo egocentrada, ora valorizando o espa&#231;o representado atrav&#233;s de abordagens multifocalizadas e geocentradas, o estudo da literatura demanda, presentemente, outros instrumentos operat&#243;rios para a compreens&#227;o da sua rela&#231;&#227;o com o real. Abre-se assim vasto campo &#224;s indaga&#231;&#245;es de uma Geopo&#233;tica que se torna necess&#225;rio interrogar, no sentido de nela se destacarem as suas principais orienta&#231;&#245;es te&#243;ricas e propostas metodol&#243;gicas na atualidade. Quer no sentido restrito do termo, divulgado por Kenneth White a partir de finais da d&#233;cada de 1970 para exprimir a consci&#234;ncia do mundo subjacente &#224; cria&#231;&#227;o po&#233;tica, quer no seu sentido mais lato, englobando a reflex&#227;o te&#243;rica suscitada pela aten&#231;&#227;o que a literatura concede ao relacionamento entre o homem e o espa&#231;o, a Geopo&#233;tica anuncia-se como um campo de investiga&#231;&#227;o que volta a questionar os pressupostos te&#243;ricos da referencialidade espacial e da cria&#231;&#227;o liter&#225;ria no quadro da p&#243;s-modernidade, no qual os espa&#231;os de fronteira, de passagem, ou as configura&#231;&#245;es territoriais que novos mapeamentos dos espa&#231;os humanos proporcionam, em fun&#231;&#227;o de novas mobilidades, se constituem como valores fundamentais.Face &#224; diversidade e complexidade de quest&#245;es que o texto liter&#225;rio convoca, os contributos oferecidos pela Geopo&#233;tica ganham com o di&#225;logo com outras reflex&#245;es e instrumentos conceptuais avan&#231;ados, por exemplo, por Yi-Fu Tuan ou por Wolfgang Welsch. Na verdade, usados j&#225; por Bachelard ou Yi-Fu Tuan, os conceitos de "Topofilia" e "Topofobia" evidenciam hoje, num contexto transdisciplinar, os la&#231;os afetivos entre o homem e o espa&#231;o. O espa&#231;o &#233; delimitado pelo indiv&#237;duo que o observa, por uma vis&#227;o aberta ou fechada da identidade cultural, e justifica as pol&#237;ticas de inclus&#227;o ou exclus&#227;o do outro. Percecionar um espa&#231;o condiciona as atitudes, os valores e a linguagem dos homens que o habitam, percorrem ou imaginam.&#160;Perceber um espa&#231;o obriga pois, desde logo, ao di&#225;logo entre a po&#233;tica, a ret&#243;rica, a &#233;tica e a geografia. Tamb&#233;m o conceito de &#8220;transculturalidade&#8221;, baseado no postulado euf&#243;rico da mobilidade e da porosidade entre fronteiras, fundado numa reorganiza&#231;&#227;o democr&#225;tica das assimetrias de poder, convida a um novo olhar sobre o espa&#231;o, que se compreende din&#226;mico, tanto nas suas componentes pol&#237;tico-sociais como nas dimens&#245;es culturais e liter&#225;rias.Assim, dentro dos paradigmas te&#243;ricos acima enunciados, convidam-se todos os interessados que estas quest&#245;es interpelam a proporem interven&#231;&#245;es, em torno dos seguintes eixos tem&#225;ticos:Geopo&#233;tica e geocr&#237;tica: quest&#245;es de transdisciplinaridadeSpatial turn e novas territorialidades liter&#225;riasLiminaridades e transfronteirasGeopo&#233;tica e perce&#231;&#227;o do espa&#231;o pela literaturaGeopo&#233;tica: fic&#231;&#227;o e referencialidadeGeopo&#233;tica: topofilia e topofobiaGeopo&#233;tica: espa&#231;o e transculturalidadesBibliografia citadaBarthes, R. et al., Litt&#233;rature et r&#233;alit&#233;, Paris, Seuil, 1982.Bouvet, R., &#160;Vers une approche g&#233;opo&#233;tique : Lectures de Kenneth White, Victor Segalen, J.-M. G. Le Cl&#233;zio, Presses Universitaires&#160; du Qu&#233;bec, 2015.D&#228;llenbach, L., Le r&#233;cit sp&#233;culaire&#160;: essai sur la mise en ab&#238;me, Paris, Seuil, 1977.Damrosch, D., What is World Literature?, Princeton University Press, 2003.Debaene, V., L&#8217;adieu au voyage: l&#8217;ethnologie fran&#231;aise entre science et litt&#233;rature, Paris, Gallimard, 2010.Escola, M. (&#233;d.), Th&#233;orie des textes possibles, Rodopi, coll. C.R.I.N., 2012.Lavocat, F., La th&#233;orie litt&#233;raire des mondes possibles, &#201;ditions du CNRS, 2010.Lavocat, F., Fait et fiction&#160;: pour une fronti&#232;re, Paris, Seuil, 2016.Soja, E., Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, London, Verso, 1989.Tuan, Yi-Fu, Space and Place. The Perspective of Experience [1977], Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Welsch, Wolfgang &#8220;Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today&#8221;, in Mike Featherstone / Scott Lash (ed.), Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by, London, Sage 1999, 194-213&#160;http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/papers/W_Wlelsch_Transculturality.html).Westphal, B., Le monde plausible&#160;: espace, lieu, carte, Paris, Les &#201;ditions de Minuit, 2011.L&#237;nguas de Comunica&#231;&#227;oAs l&#237;nguas de apresenta&#231;&#227;o das comunica&#231;&#245;es ser&#227;o&#160;: o portugu&#234;s, o espanhol, o franc&#234;s e o ingl&#234;s.Envio das propostas de comunica&#231;&#227;oTodas as propostas de comunica&#231;&#227;o ser&#227;o submetidas a avalia&#231;&#227;o pela Comiss&#227;o Cient&#237;fica do col&#243;quio. Pede-se o favor de indicarem o eixo de trabalho escolhido. As comunica&#231;&#245;es admitidas n&#227;o dever&#227;o ultrapassar os 20 minutos.A submiss&#227;o de propostas (resumo entre 250 a 300 palavras), acompanhada de um breve CV, dever&#225; ser feita no seguinte endere&#231;o:&#160;geopoeticas2017@gmail.comNota bene&#160;: os textos das comunica&#231;&#245;es ser&#227;o objeto de publica&#231;&#227;o, ap&#243;s parecer de uma comiss&#227;o cient&#237;fica de leitura e sob o compromisso de envio do texto de acordo com as normas de publica&#231;&#227;o, a indicar. &#160;&#160;Calend&#225;rio31 janeiro 2017&#160;:data limite para envio de propostas de comunica&#231;&#227;o &#160;28 fevereiro 2017: data limite para envio da resposta da comiss&#227;o cient&#237;fica8 a 15 maio 2017&#160;: inscri&#231;&#227;o no col&#243;quio1 junho 2017&#160;:&#160;publica&#231;&#227;o do programa do col&#243;quio29, 30 de junho e 1 de julho de 2017 :&#160;&#160;col&#243;quio&#160;Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do PortoConselho cient&#237;ficoAlain MontandonClaude ReichlerHelena BuescuJean-Yves PuyoLionel DupuyNathalie RoelensOrganiza&#231;&#227;o&#160;Ana Paula CoutinhoGon&#231;alo Vilas BoasJorge Bastos da SilvaJos&#233; Domingues de AlmeidaMaria de F&#225;tima OuteirinhoMaria Herm&#237;nia Amado LaurelMaria Lu&#237;sa MalatoMaria Teresa OliveiraOrganismo Respons&#225;vel :&#160;ILC Margarida LosaInscri&#231;&#227;o100,00&#8364; (montante relativo &#224; inscri&#231;&#227;o, dossier, certificado, coffee-break e almo&#231;os do col&#243;quio).120,00&#8364;&#160;(de 16 de maio a 31 maio 2017)Est&#225; previsto um jantar do col&#243;quio sob inscri&#231;&#227;o.Forma de pagamento :&#160;Por favor, entrar em: https://www.letras.up.pt/gi/por/eventos.asp&#160; &#160; &#160;ArgumentaireLa r&#233;orientation th&#233;orique des &#233;tudes litt&#233;raires dans le sens de son approche renouvel&#233;e du &#8220;r&#233;el&#8221;, identifi&#233;e plus tard par d&#8217;aucuns comme le &#8220;tournant spatial&#8221; (Soja, 1989) commence &#224; prendre forme dans le panorama th&#233;orico-litt&#233;raire &#224; partir du milieu du XXe si&#232;cle, quand des th&#233;oriciens de renom dans le champ structuraliste accordent un vaste espace de r&#233;flexion au rapport entre &#171; la litt&#233;rature et la r&#233;alit&#233; &#187;, dans le but de d&#233;noncer avec insistance toute &#171; illusion r&#233;f&#233;rentielle &#187; (Barthes et al., 1982), et de renvoyer l&#8217;espace litt&#233;raire &#224; sa sp&#233;cularit&#233; intratextuelle (D&#228;llenbach, 1977).Il est incontestable que le rapport de l&#8217;homme au monde a, depuis toujours, constitu&#233; une des th&#233;matiques pr&#233;pond&#233;rantes de l&#8217;histoire de la litt&#233;rature, stimul&#233;e &#224; partir des XIVe et XVe si&#232;cles, par les voyages qui signalent le tournant de la modernit&#233; (Westphal, 2011), par la pratique et l&#8217;&#233;criture m&#234;mes d&#8217;&#233;crivains &#171; voyageurs &#187; au cours des XVIIIe et XIXe si&#232;cles, et par la cons&#233;quente promotion de la &#171; litt&#233;rature de voyages &#187; &#224; la cat&#233;gorie de genre litt&#233;raireNous assistons aujourd&#8217;hui &#224; des changements de paradigmes o&#249; se dessinent de nouvelles territorialit&#233;s litt&#233;raires, o&#249; l&#8217;on interroge les fronti&#232;res entre le r&#233;el et la fiction (Lavocat, 2016), et o&#249; se d&#233;gagent de nouvelles formes d&#8217;approche de l&#8217;espace litt&#233;raire. Des changements de paradigmes qui d&#233;coulent avant tout de la pratique du voyage, dont les motivations anthropologiques ont profond&#233;ment chang&#233; (Debaene, 2010), avec une incidence particuli&#232;re sur le champ litt&#233;raire o&#249; &#171; mondes &#187; et &#171; textes &#187; possibles (Lavocat, 2010; Escola (&#233;d.) 2012) pr&#233;ludent &#224; de nouveaux territoires &#224; explorer au-del&#224; du texte &#171; litt&#233;ral &#187;, o&#249; un &#171; monde plausible &#187; peut se dessiner au-del&#224; de la vision cartographique eurocentr&#233;e du monde (Westphal, 2011), o&#249; de nouvelles pratiques de mobilit&#233; suscitent de nouvelles formes d&#8217;&#233;criture et d&#8217;autres supports d&#8217;expression, ainsi que de nouvelles mani&#232;res de lire, ancr&#233;es sur une g&#233;ographie physique, mais &#233;galement humaine (Bouvet, 2015).Nous pointons aujourd&#8217;hui la production litt&#233;raire en des contextes et des approches mondiales, non-d&#233;limitables, marqu&#233;s par le triomphe de la traduction (Damrosch, 2003). Tant&#244;t davantage centr&#233;e sur l&#8217;observateur &#8211; ce qui implique une perception du monde &#233;gocentr&#233;e &#8211;, tant&#244;t valorisant l&#8217;espace repr&#233;sent&#233; par le biais d&#8217;approches multifocalis&#233;es et g&#233;ocentr&#233;es, l&#8217;&#233;tude de la litt&#233;rature requiert de nos jours d&#8217;autres outils op&#233;ratoires en vue de la compr&#233;hension de son rapport au r&#233;el. S&#8217;ouvre ainsi un vaste domaine pour la recherche d&#8217;une G&#233;opo&#233;tique, qu&#8217;il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;interroger afin d&#8217;y signaler ses principales orientations th&#233;oriques et propositions m&#233;thodologiques actuelles.Aussi bien au sens strict du terme, mis en orbite par Kenneth White &#224; partir de la fin des ann&#233;es 1970 pour rendre la conscience du monde sous-jacente &#224; la cr&#233;ation po&#233;tique, qu&#8217;au sens plus large, englobant la r&#233;flexion th&#233;orique suscit&#233;e par l&#8217;attention que la litt&#233;rature accorde au rapport de l&#8217;homme &#224; l&#8217;espace, la G&#233;opo&#233;tique pointe un domaine de recherche qui interroge &#224; nouveau les fondements th&#233;oriques de la r&#233;f&#233;rentialit&#233; spatiale et de la cr&#233;ation litt&#233;raire dans le cadre de la postmodernit&#233;, o&#249; les espaces frontaliers, de passage, ou les configurations territoriales que de nouvelles cartographies des espaces humains procurent en fonction de nouvelles mobilit&#233;s, s&#8217;imposent comme valeurs fondamentales. Face &#224; la diversit&#233; et &#224; la complexit&#233; de questions que le texte litt&#233;raire soul&#232;ve, les apports fournis par la G&#233;opo&#233;tique gagnent &#224; &#234;tre confront&#233;s avec d&#8217;autres r&#233;flexions et outils conceptuels avanc&#233;s, par exemple, par Yi-Fu Tuan ou par Wolfgang Welsch. En fait, mis en usage de leur temps d&#233;j&#224; par Bachelard ou Yi-Fu Tuan, les concepts&#160;de &#171; Topophilie &#187; et de &#171; Topophobie &#187; mettent aujourd&#8217;hui en &#233;vidence, dans un contexte transdisciplinaire, les liens affectifs entre l&#8217;homme et l&#8217;espace. L&#8217;espace est d&#233;limit&#233; par l&#8217;individu qui l&#8217;observe, par une vision ouverte ou ferm&#233;e de l&#8217;identit&#233; culturelle, et cautionne les politiques d&#8217;inclusion ou d&#8217;exclusion de l&#8217;Autre. La perception spatiale conditionne les attitudes, les valeurs et le langage des hommes qui l&#8217;habitent, le parcourent ou l&#8217;imaginent. Elle oblige, d&#232;s lors, au dialogue entre la po&#233;tique, la rh&#233;torique, l&#8217;&#233;thique et la g&#233;ographie.De m&#234;me, le concept de &#171; transculturalit&#233; &#187;, fond&#233; sur le postulat euphorique de la mobilit&#233; et de la porosit&#233; entre les fronti&#232;res, &#233;tay&#233; sur une r&#233;organisation d&#233;mocratique des asym&#233;tries de pouvoir, invite &#224; un nouveau regard sur l&#8217;espace, lequel se veut dynamique, aussi bien dans ses composantes politico-sociales que dans ses dimensions culturelles et litt&#233;raires.Aussi, suivant les paradigmes th&#233;oriques &#233;nonc&#233;s plus haut, nous invitons tous les int&#233;ress&#233;s que ces questions interpellent &#224; proposer des interventions autour des axes th&#233;matiques suivants :G&#233;opo&#233;tique et g&#233;ocritique: questions de transdisciplinarit&#233; ;Le Tournant spatial et les nouvelles territorialit&#233;s litt&#233;raires ;Liminalit&#233;s et espaces transfrontaliers ;G&#233;opo&#233;tique et perception de l&#8217;espace par la litt&#233;rature ;G&#233;opo&#233;tique: fiction et r&#233;f&#233;rentialit&#233; ;G&#233;opo&#233;tique: topofiphilie et topofophobie ;Geopo&#233;tique: espace et transculturalit&#233;s.Conf&#233;renciers confirm&#233;sBertrand Westphal (Universit&#233; de Limoges)Robert Tally (Texas State University)&#193;lvaro Domingues (Universidade do Porto)Bibliographie cit&#233;eBarthes, R. et al., Litt&#233;rature et r&#233;alit&#233;, Paris, Seuil, 1982.Bouvet, R., Vers une approche g&#233;opo&#233;tique : Lectures de Kenneth White, Victor Segalen,J.-M. G. Le Cl&#233;zio, Presses Universitaires du Qu&#233;bec, 2015.D&#228;llenbach, L., Le r&#233;cit sp&#233;culaire : essai sur la mise en ab&#238;me, Paris, Seuil, 1977.Damrosch, D., What is World Literature?, Princeton University Press, 2003.Debaene, V., L&#8217;adieu au voyage: l&#8217;ethnologie fran&#231;aise entre science et litt&#233;rature, Paris, Gallimard, 2010.Escola, M. (&#233;d.), Th&#233;orie des textes possibles, Rodopi, coll. C.R.I.N., 2012.Lavocat, F., La th&#233;orie litt&#233;raire des mondes possibles, &#201;ditions du CNRS, 2010.Lavocat, F., Fait et fiction : pour une fronti&#232;re, Paris, Seuil, 2016.Soja, E., Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, London, Verso, 1989.Tuan, Yi-Fu, Space and Place. The Perspective of Experience [1977], Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Welsch, Wolfgang &#8220;Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today&#8221;, in MikeFeatherstone / Scott Lash (ed.), Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by, London, Sage 1999, 194-213http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/papers/W_Wlelsch_Transculturality.html).Westphal, B., Le monde plausible : espace, lieu, carte, Paris, Les &#201;ditions de Minuit, 2011.Langues de communicationLes langues de communication sont le portugais, l&#8217;espagnol, le fran&#231;ais et l&#8217;anglais.Soumission des propositionsToutes les propositions de communication doivent &#234;tre soumises &#224; l&#8217;&#233;valuation du Comit&#233; Scientifique du colloque. Merci de signaler l&#8217;axe d&#8217;approche retenu. Les communications retenues ne pourront d&#233;passer les 20 minutes.La soumission de proposition (r&#233;sum&#233; entre 250 et 300 mots), accompagn&#233;e d&#8217;une br&#232;ve notice biobibliographique, est &#224; envoyer au courriel suivant: geopoeticas2017@gmail.comNB : les textes des communications feront l&#8217;objet d&#8217;une publication sur avis favorable d&#8217;un comit&#233; de lecture et sur engagement de remise du texte selon le protocole de r&#233;daction &#224; signaler.Calendrier31 janvier 2017 : date-butoir pour la soumission de propositions de communication.28 f&#233;vrier 2017: date-butoir pour la r&#233;ponse du comit&#233; scientifique.8 au 15 mai 2017 : inscription au colloque.1er juin 2017 : publication du programme du colloque.29, 30 juin et 1er juillet 2017 : colloque, Facult&#233; des Lettres de l&#8217;Universit&#233; de PortoComit&#233; scientifiqueAlain MontandonClaude ReichlerHelena BuescuJean-Yves PuyoLionel DupuyNathalie RoelensOrganisationAna Paula CoutinhoGon&#231;alo Vilas BoasJorge Bastos da SilvaJos&#233; Domingues de AlmeidaMaria de F&#225;tima OuteirinhoMaria Herm&#237;nia Amado LaurelMaria Lu&#237;sa MalatoMaria Teresa OliveiraOrganisme responsable : ILC Margarida LosaInscription100,00&#8364; (montant qui assure l&#8217;inscription, le dossier, le certificat, les pause-caf&#233; et les d&#233;jeuners du colloque).120,00&#8364; (du 16 mai au 31 mai 2017)Un d&#238;ner du colloque est pr&#233;vu sur inscription.Modalit&#233;s de paiementMerci d&#8217;entrer sur: https://www.letras.up.pt/gi/por/eventos.aspArgumentThe theoretical reorientation of literary studies towards their renewed convergence with the &#8220;real&#8221;, later identified by some as the &#8220;spatial turn&#8221; (Soja, 1989), started to develop in the literary-theoretical landscape in the middle of the twentieth century, at the moment when key theoreticians in the field of structuralism paid significant attention to the relationship between &#8220;literature and reality&#8221;, with the aim of insistently denouncing any &#8220;referential illusion&#8221; (Barthes et al., 1982) and of committing the space of literature to intratextual specularity (D&#228;llenbach, 1977). It is undeniable, however, that the relationship between man and the world has always been a prevailing topic in the history of literature, stimulated, since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, by the voyages that marked the turn of modernity (Westphal, 2011), by the practices and writing of travelling authors themselves in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and by the ensuing rise of &#8220;travel literature&#8221; to the category of a literary genre.Today we are witness to paradigm changes that point to new literary territories in which the borders between the real and fiction are questioned (Lavocat, 2016) and new forms of approach to literary space emerge. Paradigm changes which result from the practice of travelling, the anthropological motivations of which have thoroughly changed (Debaene, 2010), with particular impact in the field of literature, where possible &#8220;worlds&#8221; and &#8220;texts&#8221; (Lavocat, 2010; Escola (&#233;d.) 2012) conjecture new territories to be explored beyond the &#8220;letter&#8221; of the text, in which a &#8220;plausible world&#8221; may be charted beyond the cartographic Eurocentric vision of the world (Westphal, 2011), in which new practices of mobility call forth new forms of writing and other media, as well as new ways of reading, founded on a particular human as well as physical geography (Bouvet, 2015). Today we picture literary production in a global context and global approaches, unsusceptible of being delimited, marked by the triumph of translation (Damrosch, 2003). Whether more&#160;directly focused on the observer, determining an egocentred perception of the world, or valuing the depicted space by means of multifocused and geocentred approaches, the study of literature at present calls for other conceptual tools for the understanding of its relation to reality. A wide field is therefore opened to the inquiries of a Geopoetics which it becomes necessary to question, in order to bring forward its main theoretical orientations and current methodological proposals. Both in the strict sense of the term, advocated by Kenneth White from the late 1970s to express the awareness of the world underlying poetic creation, and in the wider sense, encompassing the theoretical reflection elicited by the attention paid by literature to the relationship between man and space, Geopoetics presents itself as a field of research which once again challenges the theoretical assumptions of spatial referentiality and literary creation in the context of postmodernity, in which the spaces of frontier, of passage, or the territorial configurations&#160;resulting from new cartographies of human spaces, taking new mobilities into account, become fundamental values.In the face of the diversity and complexity of issues posed by the literary text, the contributions of Geopoetics benefit from a dialogue with other reflections and conceptual tools such as those put forward by Yi-Fu Tuan and Wolfgang Welsch. Indeed, the concepts of &#8220;topophilia&#8221; and &#8220;topophobia&#8221; evince today, in a transdisciplinary context, the affective ties linking man and space. Space is demarcated by the subject who observes it, by either an open or closed outlook on cultural identity, and justifies the politics of inclusion or exclusion of the other. The perception of a space conditions the attitudes, the values and the language of those who inhabit, traverse or imagine it. To perceive a space thus requires a dialogue between poetics, rhetorics, ethics and geography. The concept of &#8220;transculturality&#8221; too, based on the euphoric premise of mobility and porosity between frontiers, founded on a democratic reorganization of the asymmetries of power, asks for a new look on space, which is understood to be dynamic in its political and social&#160;dimensions as well as in its cultural and literary aspects.Thus, under the abovementioned theoretical paradigms, we invite all interested scholars to propose contributions around the following thematic axes:Geopoetics&#160;and geocriticism: issues of transdisciplinaritySpatial turn and the new literary territoriesLiminalities and transfrontiersGeopoetics and the perception of space through literatureGeopoetics: fiction and referentialityGeopoetics: topophilia and topophobiaGeopoetics: space and transculturalitiesWorks citedBarthes, R. et al., Litt&#233;rature et r&#233;alit&#233;, Paris, Seuil, 1982.Bouvet, R., Vers une approche g&#233;opo&#233;tique : Lectures de Kenneth White, Victor Segalen,J.-M. G. Le Cl&#233;zio, Presses Universitaires du Qu&#233;bec, 2015.D&#228;llenbach, L., Le r&#233;cit sp&#233;culaire : essai sur la mise en ab&#238;me, Paris, Seuil, 1977.Damrosch, D., What is World Literature?, Princeton University Press, 2003.Debaene, V., L&#8217;adieu au voyage: l&#8217;ethnologie fran&#231;aise entre science et litt&#233;rature, Paris, Gallimard, 2010.Escola, M. (&#233;d.), Th&#233;orie des textes possibles, Rodopi, coll. C.R.I.N., 2012.Lavocat, F., La th&#233;orie litt&#233;raire des mondes possibles, &#201;ditions du CNRS, 2010.Lavocat, F., Fait et fiction : pour une fronti&#232;re, Paris, Seuil, 2016.Soja, E., Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, London, Verso, 1989.Tuan, Yi-Fu, Space and Place. The Perspective of Experience [1977], Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.Welsch, Wolfgang &#8220;Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today&#8221;, in MikeFeatherstone / Scott Lash (ed.), Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by, London, Sage 1999, 194-213http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/papers/W_Wlelsch_Transculturality.html).Westphal, B., Le monde plausible : espace, lieu, carte, Paris, Les &#201;ditions de Minuit, 2011.Languages of communicationLanguages for the presentation of papers are Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.Submission guidelinesPaper proposals will be submitted to assessment by the conference Scientific Committee.Authors are requested to specify the thematic axis of their choice. Accepted papers should be no longer than 20 minutes.Submission of proposals (abstract of 250 to 300 words), together with a short CV, should be made to the following address: geopoeticas2017@gmail.comNota bene: Papers will be published following assessment by a committee of reviewers, and with the understanding that texts will be sent in accordance with publication rules (to be specified).Calendar31 January 2017: deadline for paper proposals28 February 2017: deadline for notification of acceptance by the organizing committee8 to 15 May 2017: conference registration1 June 2017: publication of conference programme29, 30 June and 1 July 2017 : symposium Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of PortoScientific committeeAlain MontandonClaude ReichlerHelena BuescuJean-Yves PuyoLionel DupuyNathalie RoelensOrganizationAna Paula CoutinhoGon&#231;alo Vilas BoasJorge Bastos da SilvaJos&#233; Domingues de AlmeidaMaria de F&#225;tima OuteirinhoMaria Herm&#237;nia Amado LaurelMaria Lu&#237;sa MalatoMaria Teresa OliveiraOrganizing institution : ILC Margarida LosaRegistration Fee100.00&#8364; (the amount covers registration, folder, certificate, coffee-breaks and conference lunches).120.00&#8364; (from 16 May to 31 May 2017) A conference dinner is planned as a ticketed even.Form of payment: &#160;Please go to: https://www.letras.up.pt/gi/por/eventos.asp