Culture as Resistance in the Lusophone World. Legacies and Challenges - Oxford, 8 June 2019
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Culture as Resistance in the Lusophone World. Legacies and Challenges
8 June 2019 | 9.30am – 5.30
University of Oxford - St Peter’s College – Dorfman Room
All Welcome.
9.30am- 10am Welcome
10am – 11.30am A History of resistance? Fighting slavery in the Atlantic world.
Chair: ANDRZEJ STUART-THOMPSON
- Angolan Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça’s Court Case, Vatican 1684-1686: Atlantic Slavery a Crime Against Natural, Human, Divine, and Civil Laws. JOSÉ LINGNA NAFAFÉ (Bristol)
- A Black Brazilian in Boston: Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu and the Atlantic sphere of anti-slavery (1830-1863). LLOYD BELTON (Leeds)
11:30 – 12:45pm Contemporary Brazil: oppressive legacies, resistance strategies
Chair: GEORGIA NASSEH
- Popular song, resistance and authoritarianism in contemporary Brazil. DAVID TREECE (KCL)
- Decolonialism and the classroom: how to teach humanities in Brazilian universities in the 21stcentury. CAROLIN OVERHOFF FERREIRA (Unifesp-TORCH)
12:45 pm – 2pm Lunch in St Peter’s
2pm – 3.30pm Portuguese-Speaking Africa: From resisting colonial rule to resisting the coloniality of power
Chair: OLIVIA GLAZE
- Revolutionary Women/Women of the Revolution: reflections on female heroism and anti-heroism in Mozambique. MARIA TAVARES (QMUB)
- Translating Resistance, Resisting Translation: Michael Wolfers and the 1978 English Translation of José Luandino Vieira's A Vida Verdadeira de Domingos Xavier.GEORGIA NASSEH (Oxford)
- Popular Music, Urban Disorder and Political Memory in Luanda. CHLOÉ BUIRE (LAM)
3.30pm – 4pm Break
4pm – 5.15 Roundtable andfilm projection about prophetic movements as resistance in Lusophone Africa
Chair: JOSÉ LINGNA NAFAFÉ
Prophecy as resistance on the coast of Africa: a comparative approach. MARINA TEMUDO (Lisbon University) and RAMON SARRO (Oxford)
5.15pm Concluding Remarks
This is event is generously supported by the Instituto Camões, St Peter’s College, Oxford, and the Sub-faculty of Portuguese, University of Oxford.
Organisation : Dorothée Boulanger. For further details, please contact dorothee.boulanger@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Fonte H-Net.org