Journeys International Conference on Portuguese-speaking Cultures Studies

Two-day conference dedicated to the presentation of scientific research on Portuguese-speaking cultures and critical debate around the works presented. The event will bring together researchers from Portugal, Brazil, England and Mozambique, who will present research on Portuguese-speaking cultures across different countries through the lens of decoloniality.

The scientific-cultural programme is part of the project ‘Malangatana, 90 Years: Practice, Memory and Catharsis’. The conference is aimed at researchers at different stages of their academic careers.

Programme

Scientific-Cultural Programme | May 8

• Venue: Room 1.6

9:00 AM | Participant Reception

9:15 AM | Opening Session

• Moderator: Maria José Brites | Coordinator of CICANT/ULusófona

9:30 AM | Opening Lecture: “The Question of Colonial Memory in Portuguese-speaking Cultures: Reflections on the Monument to the Discoveries”

• Moderation: Luca Fazzini & Inocência Mata | FLUL/CEComp

10:15 AM | Coffee Break

10:45 AM | Panel 1

• Colonial Appropriation and Decolonial Reappropriation of National Space in ‘Museum of the Revolution’
  Moderation: Nuno Bessa Moreira | ULusófona/CITCEM & Nazaré Torrão | UNIGE


• From Colonial to Postcolonial: The Imagination of the Hero
  Speaker: Luís Cunha | UMinho/CRIA

11:30 AM | Panel 2

• Colonial Writing and Dissent: Notes for a Comparative Reading of Castro Soromenho and Ennio Flaiano
  Moderation: Fernando Chicumule | UniZambeze & Luca Fazzini | FLUL/CEComp


• ‘Uaná: African Narrative’: Colonial, Anti-colonial or Decolonial?
  Speaker: Susana Pimenta | UTAD/CICANT

12:15 PM | Early-Career Researchers Panel

• ‘Threads of Hope’: Cultural Resistance to the Colonial War in the RTP Song Festival
  Moderation: Lurdes Macedo | ULusófona/CICANT & Gil Duarte Ribeiro | UPorto/IS & Tiago Sousa Cruz | UNESP


• Cultural Mediations in the Reading of African Literatures in Portuguese
  Speaker: Sara Miranda | ULusófona


• ‘Children of Tuga’: Silenced Memories of the Colonial War

1:15 PM | Lunch Break

• Venue: ULusófona Cafeteria

2:45 PM | Panel 3

• Colonial, Paracolonial and Postcolonial Justice: An Approach Through Literature
  Moderation: Ana Costa | UniZambeze & Francisco Topa | FLUP/CITCEM


• Jorge de Sena Looking Towards Africa
  Speaker: Lurdes Macedo | ULusófona/CICANT


• Malangatana and the Struggle for Independence: Six Essential Works
  Speaker: Richard Gray | University of London/SOAS

3:45 PM | Panel 4

• Counter-visualities and Images of Otherness in Contemporary Portuguese Short Films
  Moderation: Arthur Fachini | UFBA & Isabel Macedo | UMinho/CECS & Sheila Khan | ULusófona/CICANT


• Decolonising or De-colonising: Exposing the Wound in ‘Foi o Preto’ by Ângelo Delgado

4:30 PM | Coffee Break

5:00 PM | Closing Lecture

• Portuguese-speaking Cultures: What Should Be Done with Colonial Legacies?
  Moderation: Susana Pimenta & Fernando Moreira | UTAD/CICANT

5:45 PM | Summary of the Day’s Proceedings

• Moderation: Luca Fazzini, Lurdes Macedo and Susana Pimenta

Scientific-Cultural Programme | May 9

11:00 AM | Espaço Mira – ‘Mozambican Twilight’ Exhibition: Guided Tour by the Curators

12:30 PM | Tia Orlanda Restaurant: Mozambican Gastronomy

3:00 PM | Mira Fórum – Launch of the Book ‘Malangatana: The Eye of the Crocodile’, by Richard Gray, Followed by a Debate with Artists and Researchers