​New Directions in Lusophone African Studies

Dorfman Room, Saint Peter’s College, Oxford

Oxford, 26 Novembro 2016. Entrada livre.

A conferência tem o apoio do Camões, I.P., o Saint Peter’s College de Oxford e a secção de Português da Universidade de Oxford.

Comissão organizadora: Raquel Ribeiro, Alexandra Reza e Phillip Rothwell
 

Programa

9.15am-9.30am: Welcome
Raquel Ribeiro (Edinburgh) and Phillip Rothwell (Oxford)

9.30am-10am: Chair Alexandra Reza (Oxford)

Maria Paula Meneses (Coimbra, CES)
“What is ‘post’ in a post-colonial Mozambique? Some inconvenient questions to stimulate a debate”

10am-11.15am: Chair Tom Stennett (Oxford)

Maria Tavares (QUB)
“Of Hippopotamuses and Mad Women: New Cartographies of the City in A Minha Maputo é...”

Hilary Owen (Oxford)
“The Garden of so Many Men. New Women and New Liberation in Virgem Margarida and O Jardim de Outro Homen”

Kamila Rodrigues (Leiden)
“Urban Nightscapes in Hélder Faife's Contos de Fuga”

11.15am-11.30am Break

11.30am-12.20pm: Chair Rafael Martins (Oxford)

Luís Madureira (Wisconsin)
“Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva”

José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol)
“Evidence in Demand of a Verdict: Lourenço da Silva de Mendonça, An Early Lusophone African Abolitionist 17th-Century”

12.20pm-1pm: Chair Raquel Ribeiro (Edinburgh)

Joana Gorjão Henriques (journalist)
“Portuguese Colonialism and Racism: African Voices Unpack the Myth of the Good Colonizer”

1.00-1.45pm: Lunch

1.45pm-3.30pm: Chair Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Oxford)

Katy Stewart (Sheffield)
“A Displaced Film/A Film of Displacement: The Not-Quite-Frenchness of Pocas Pascoal’s Alda e Maria - Por Aqui Tudo Bem”

Alexandra Reza (Oxford)
“Quando a tua palhota arde, de nada serve tocar o tam- tam’: the place of 'utterances' in the African anti-colonial struggle”

Dorothee Boulanger (KCL)
“Literature and History: What past for Angolan writers?”

Afonso Ramos (UCL)
“Screening Angola's History: Reinventing Photography at a Transnational Age”

3.30pm-3.40pm: Break

3.40pm-5.15pm: Chair Phillip Rothwell (Oxford)

David Brookshaw (Bristol)
“Translating Lusophone African Literatures: History, Challenges, Joys”

Lara Pawson (writer and journalist)
“Non Correspondence: Writing through Violence, Race, Class and Sexuality to Erupt the Every Day”

Pires Laranjeira (Coimbra)
“Poetizar as origens, narrar a nação, criticar o Estado e mudar o género”

5.15pm Concluding remarks

Para mais informações, contacte​ phillip.rothwell@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.