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CONFERENCES
Re/siting the 'luso' and the 'tropical': theories and practices of Portuguese postcolonialism
15/16/17th March 2007
Venue: University of Manchester
We are only allowing selected people the rights to actually join in the sessions virtually by asking questions etc., but anyone with an interest in the meeting may watch the sessions over the three days. Please join as a guest when you get onto the site, once the meeting starts you will see a video stream and the presentations (hopefully!). Key presentations will be recorded for you to revisit and powerpoints will go online after the meeting. It would be really helpful to us if you email lupor@wun.ac.uk to tell us if you plan to join in this way.
This conference seeks to set out a series of enquiries into the status of lusophone postcolonial studies’ interdisciplinary and theoretical methods. Furthermore, it intends to question and expand the semantic and interpretive analysis of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism, of the ‘luso’ in lusophone and of the ‘luso’ and the ‘tropical’ in lusotropical, also in terms of their ramifications beyond the borders of the Universityersity. In order to do this, we aim to bring together well-established academics, young academics and non-academics who are, in some way, involved in the field of lusophone postcolonial studies. Some of the questions we seek to answer are these: to what extent are scholars writing to their readers? Who are these readers and what do they think about what is being written? How are these readers imagined by scholars? What new routes of thinking and new meanings are emerging from readings by younger researchers?
This conference will form the basis of a project that intends to map out relationships between theories (on migration and diaspora, transnationalism, race, gender and sexuality, the Portuguese geo-political position in the world system, memories, life and identity narratives, conceptions of place, space and temporality), and practices (where the issues previously mentioned are experienced on a daily-basis). The conference may, thus, be perceived as a challenge to bring forward innovative theories that question single terms such as ‘postcolonialism’, ‘lusophone’, and so on. It is also a forum whereby provision is made for a much needed space to reflect on the advantages and inadequacies of the conceptual frameworks of contemporary lusophone postcolonial epistemology.
Speakers have been invited from Portugal, UK, USA, Brazil and the Netherlands. The Conference also has specific sessions for invited postgraduates and members of migrant community groups.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
- Registration: Whitworth Council Chamber, Whitworth Building
- Lunch: HerbiVores Vegetarian Café, Burlington Room. (For all 3 lunches)
- Conference Dinner: Small World Café, International Society.
Organisers:
- Sheila Pereira Khan and Ana Margarida Dias Martins (School of Modern Languages, University of Manchester)
- Carmen Ramos Villar (University of Sheffield)
- Utrecht University
Sponsors:
Registration
Please complete and submit a registration form.
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Thursday 15th March
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08:45 - 09:50
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Registration - Whitworth Council Chamber, Whitworth Building
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09:50 - 10:00
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Welcome address
Professor Hilary Owen (University of Manchester)
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10:00 - 12:15
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1st Session: Lusophone Communities in the Diaspora
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Chair: Dr. Joana Passos (Uiversity of Manchester)
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10:00 - 10:25
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Dr Anthony Soares (Queens University, Belfast)
"Imagining the Nation from Afar: Independence and the Timorese Diaspora"
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10:25 - 10:50
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Dr José Carlos Almeida (University College London)
“Citizens of the World. The mobility of Portuguese students in the UK”
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10:50 - 11:00
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Discussion
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11:00 - 11.15
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Coffee Break
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11:15 - 11:40
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Professor Kathryn Sánchez (University of Wisconsin-Madison )
“Camp Sites : Diasporic Stakes and Luso-Tropical Splinters in Carmen Miranda’s Image"
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11:40 - 12:05
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Professor João Cézar de Castro Rocha (University of Manchester)
“How cordial was the Brazilian ‘homem cordial’?"
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12:05 - 12:15
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Discussion
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12:15 - 14:00
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Lunch - HerbiVores Vegetarian Café, Burlington Room
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14:00 - 16:00
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Luso-African Week
Round Table I: Contact Between Cultures: Postcolonial Experiences
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Chair: Dr Paula Meneses (CES, Coimbra University)
- Gisela Gonçalves (Moçambicana, Londres)
- Francisco Vidal (Português, Portugal)
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16:00 - 16:15
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Tea Break
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16:15 - 17:15
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht University) Professor of Portuguese Literature
“Silent Migrants”
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Network meeting
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Friday 16th March
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10:00 - 12:15
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2nd Session: The gender question and postcolonialism
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Chair: Dr Charlotte Liddell (University of Manchester)
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10:00 - 10:25
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Dr Sheila Pereira Khan ( University of Manchester )
“Lessons from the margins: African Mozambican immigrants’ perceptions of a postcolonial Portugal”
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10:25 - 10:50
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Eugenia Correia (Coimbra University)
“O discurso de Paulina Chiziane no feminino: por uma religião da escrita”
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10:50 - 11:00
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Discussion
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11:00 - 11:15
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Coffee break
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11:15 - 11:40
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Dr. Paula de Meneses (CES, Coimbra University)
“Bodies of Violence, Languages of Resistance”
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11:40 - 12:05
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Maria Tavares (University of Manchester)
“A reinvenção da nação na obra de Dina Salústio”
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12:05 - 12:15
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Discussion
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12:15 - 13:30
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Lunch - HerbiVores Vegetarian Café, Burlington Room
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13:30 - 15:30
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Luso-African Week
Round Table II: The gender question and postcolonialism
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Chair: Dr Sheila Pereira Khan ( University of Manchester )
- Emanuela da Silva (Angolana, Londres)
- Margarida Paredes (Portuguesa, Portugal)
- Mary Ellen Cacheado (Brasileira, Sheffield)
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15:30 - 17:55
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3rd Session: The role of cultural production in the postcolonial lusophone world
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Chair: Professor Hilary Owen (University of Manchester) and Dr Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Oxford University)
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15:30 - 15:55
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Professor Carmen Tindó Secco (UFRJ, Brasil)
“A Importância do Amor, do Sonho e do Erotismo no Contexto da Poesia Moçambicana ‘Pós-Colonial’”
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15:55 - 16:20
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Elena Brugioni (Universidade do Minho, Braga)
“Português e Literacia. Configurações problemáticas nos/dos contextos Lusófonos Pós-coloniais”
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16:20 - 16:40
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Discussion
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16:40 - 16:55
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Tea break
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16:55 - 17:20
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Professor Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
“Postcolonial Futures in a Lusotropical Utopia”
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17:20 - 17:45
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Vanessa Pereira (University of Manchester)
“‘O rosto com que fita não é Portugal’ O Portugal ausente de Luísa Costa Gomes”
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17:45 - 17:55
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Discussion
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18:00 - 19:00
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Miguel Vale de Almeida (ISCTE, Lisbon)
“After the ‘Big Sweep’: Colonial Narratives and Second-Class Citizens in Contemporary Portugal”
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20:00
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Conference dinner - Small World Café, International Society
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Saturday 17th March
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10:15 - 10:30
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Coffee
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10:30 - 12:30
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4th Session: Migrating people, migrating ideas
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Chair: Dr Carmen Ramos (Sheffield University)
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10:30 - 10:55
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Professor David Brookshaw (Bristol University)
“Between Southern Portugal and Southern China: the Poetry of Fernanda Dias”
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10:55 - 11:20
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João Cosme (Bristol University)
“Recycling discourses and cultural practices: colonial links in the postcolonial literary field”
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11:20 - 11:30
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Discussion
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11:30 - 11:55
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Professor Ana Paula Ferreira (Minnesota University)
“Caliban's Travels'.”
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11:55 - 12:20
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Ana Margarida Dias Martins (University of Manchester)
“Re-situando o exótico na obra de Paulina Chiziane”
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12:20 - 12:30
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Discussion
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12:30 - 14.00
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Lunch - HerbiVores Vegetarian Café, Burlington Room
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14:00 - 15:00
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Ellen Sapega (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Re/membering the Lusotropical: deterritorialization, reterritorialization and the politics of memory”
Concluding remarks
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15:30 - 15:45
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Tea
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