The faculty was delighted to host the launch of the latest collaboration between Professor TF Earle and Professor Helder Macedo: a bilingual edition of the sixteenth-century text "Menina e Moça". Written by Bernardim Ribeiro, "A Young Girl's Story" is a lengthy monologue in the voice of a female narrator, that fuses psychological, political and religious dimensions.

Professor Simon Park chaired a conversation between Professors Earle and Macedo, in which the modern and postmodern nature of the text, the challenges of pinning down a definitive manuscript of a work that circulated transnationally in its time, and the ageing of translations were discussed.