the IntermIdia project was represented by a keynote speech and a panel at the international conference "Europe and the Colonial Empires of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries in Literature and Film". The conference was held in Faro (Portugal) and organised by the Research Centre on Arts and Communication (CIAC) of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade do Algarve, and the Centre of Literature and Lusophon and European Cultures (CLEPUL) of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universidade de Lisboa.