Conversation with filmmaker, artist, and researcher Luísa Sequeira at Harvard
This conversation with Luísa Sequeira invites us to revisit the journey of New Portuguese Letters, the groundbreaking work published in 1972 by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, and to reflect on the role played by Harvard University (Cambridge) in its international dissemination and impact, particularly throug the First International Feminist Planning Conference, organised by the National Organization for Women (NOW) Taking this pivotal episode as its starting point, the cine-conversation revisits the political, literary, and artistic force of the work by the so-called “Three Marias”, exploring how their words crossed borders and took on new meanings, readings, and resonances across different cultural and political contexts. The conversation with filmmaker, artist, and researcher Luísa Sequeira will unfold alongside ascreening of What Can Words Do (O Que Podem as Palavras), by Luísa Sequeira and Luísa Marinho, opening a space of dialogue between literature, cinema, memory, and resistance. The conversation with artist and researcher Luísa Sequeira, moderated by Catarina Lins.














