What costume got to do with terms? Terminologia e património do vestuário na língua portuguesa

Terminology and Heritage of Clothing in the Portuguese Language

 

Registration: https://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/atividades-detalhe.php?p=5710

Date: April 7-8, 2026

Location: NOVA FCSH – Lisbon

Clothing has always been part of everyday life. As objects that accompany and identify us, it is only recently that they have been collected and exhibited in museums.

What’s costume got to do with terms? Terminology and clothing heritage in the Portuguese language aims to contribute to the state of the art of research in Portuguese on clothing and its terminology – presenting the results of projects that have been developed at NOVA FCSH (TERMVEST, VESTE, DRESS) and at the Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro (with the Clothing Terminology Extension Project, and research carried out in the postgraduate programme in Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts, under the guidance of Maria Cristina Volpi) –, stimulate the development of collaborative networks between the various participants, in a multi- and transdisciplinary environment, and encourage the creation and development of new projects, while also seeking to align research on the history, cultures and terminology of clothing in Portuguese with ongoing international debates.

#centroCHAM #CHAMinvestiga #CHAMresearch #VESTE #DRESS #CLUNL #TERMVEST #ICOMCostume #ICOMPortugal #MuseuNacionalDoTraje

 

Programme

Opening session

9 a.m. – Alexandra Curvelo (Director of NOVA FCSH) / João Lisboa (Director of CHAM) / Susana Correia (President of CLUNL – to be confirmed) / Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset (Outgoing President of ICOM) / David Felismino (President of ICOM Portugal – to be confirmed if there is a change in leadership) / Dóris Santos (Director of the National Costume Museum) / João Neves (Executive Director of IILP-CPLP – awaiting confirmation)

 

Opening conference – morning

Moderator: Susana Duarte Martins

9:45-10:30 a.m. – Ana Salgado (Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Linguistics Centre of the University of Porto – Portugal), Clothing terminology in the Academy’s dictionary: diagnosis, challenges and proposal for expansion

10:30-11:00 – Coffee break

I. ICOM-VBT vocabulary (Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume) and clothing terminology in Portuguese

Moderator: Carla Alferes Pinto

11:00 – Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset (Outgoing President of ICOM, Scientific Collaborator at the National Museum of the Palace of Versailles – France), VBT: The Vocabulary of Basic Terms – A long-lasting project by ICOM Costume

11:30 a.m. – Maria Cristina Volpi (School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ), Preparation of the Brazilian version of the Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume

11:45 a.m. – Susana Duarte Martins (NOVA CLUNL/NOVA FCSH), TERMVEST Project: methodologies for organising glossaries and harmonising the designation of costume items in Portuguese

12 p.m. – Final discussion.

 

II. Application of the ICOM-VBT vocabulary to research (1)

Moderator: Maria Cristina Volpi

12:15 p.m. – Filipa Baptista (NOVA CLUNL), TERMVEST Project: the ICOM Vocabulary and the study of 16th-century clothing in Portugal

12:30pm – Madson Oliveira (School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ), Imperial costumes in the Sophia Jobim/MHN Collection: the Baroness’s mantelette and the dragon tunic (ONLINE)

12:45 p.m. – Final discussion

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Lunch break*

 

Opening conference – afternoon 

Moderator: Susana Duarte Martins

2:30 p.m. – Alexandre Timbane (University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony – Brazil), Clothing terminology in Mozambican Portuguese: marks of socio-historical memory (ONLINE)

II. Application of ICOM-VBT vocabulary to research (2)

Moderator: Carla Alferes Pinto

3:15 p.m. – Carolina Morgado & Fuviane Galdino (Technical School Support Foundation – FAETEC-RJ & Federal University of Espírito Santo – UFES), Marian vestments: definition and choice of terminology for the garments in the sculpture collection of the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Penha, in Vila Velha – ES (Brazil) (ONLINE)

3:30 p.m. – Hellen Alves Cabral (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ), Rethinking the terminology of textile artefacts created by Aldo Bonadei (ONLINE)

3:45 p.m. – Final discussion

 

III. Costume and its terminology: transdisciplinary applications

Moderator: Maria Cristina Volpi

4:00 p.m. – Carla Alferes Pinto (CHAM/NOVA FCSH), Naming things and images. Thinking about clothing heritage in a transdisciplinary way

4:15 p.m. – Carolina Casarin (Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo – USP), The clothing syntax of Mário de Andrade (ONLINE)

4:30pm – Carla Alferes Pinto & Susana Duarte Martins (CHAM/NOVA CLUNL/NOVA FCSH), Costume research at NOVA FCSH: Past, present and future

4:45pm – Final discussion

5pm-5:30pm – Coffee break

 

Closing conference

Moderator: Maria Cristina Volpi

5:30 p.m. – Rita Andrade (Federal University of Goiás – Brazil), Intertwining dressing and existing: terminological challenges of indigenous clothing oriented towards non-colonial coexistence (ONLINE)

6:15 p.m. – Closing of proceedings