International Conference
DATES :
11-13 December 2019
VENUE :
– December 11 – 18.00 – CULTURGEST
– December 12 and 13 – 9.00-18.00 – School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Room B1/B2)
Within the scope of the projects MEMORIALIST DISCOURSES AND THE BUILDING OF HISTORY, based at the Center for Comparative Studies (CEC)/ School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, and AFRO-PORT : Afro-descendance in Portugal : Sociability, Representations and Sociopolitical and Cultural Dynamics (FCT, PTDC/SOC-ANT/30651/2017), based at the Center for African and Development Studies (CEsA)/ Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon, we are organizing an international conference (11-13 December, 2019), with the objective of identifying memories and perceptions of subjects who have lived either the process of struggle for independence (mainly in the Portuguese-speaking countries, but not only) or the colonial war.
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Os projectos "AFRO-PORT : Afrodescendência em Portugal : sociabilidades, representações e dinâmicas sociopolíticas e culturais. Um estudo na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa" (CEsA/ISEG) e "Discursos Memorialistas e a Construção da História" (CEC/CEC/FLUL) estão a organizar a conferência internacional "Oral Memories by Africans and People African Descent".
Esta conferência visa reflectir em torno das memórias e percepções de sujeitos que viveram, por um lado, o processo das lutas pela independência e, por outro, pela guerra colonial. Os oradores confirmados são : Hamady Bocoum (Director of the Musée des Civilizations Noires, Dakar), Isabel Castro Henriques (FLUL/CEsA-ISEG), Ananya Kabir (Department of English, King’s College London) e Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho (Brazil Institute, King’s College London).