International Colloquium: Heritage(s) of Portuguese Influence: Histories, Spaces, Texts, and Objects

Events

New Bedford Whaling Museum & University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Wednesday 3 & Friday 5 April 2019

Local: New Bedford Whaling Museum & University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Date: Wednesday 3 & Friday 5 April 2019

Co-organization: Anna M. Klobucka (UMass Dartmouth), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra, CES), Walter Rossa (University of Coimbra, CES)

Partners: UMass Dartmouth; PhD Program Heritages(s) of Portuguese Influence, and Chair UNESCO, III, CES, University of Coimbra; Camões Institute; Gulbenkian Foundation

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Harbor View Gallery, New Bedford Whaling Museum

Exhibition: Portuguese Heritage around the World
(A Ação da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian no Mundo)

5:15-5:30 pm: Opening Remarks

Professor Rui Vieira Nery, Gulbenkian Foundation

5:30-6 pm: Exhibition presentation by Mariana Portas, Gulbenkian International Affairs Officer: Portuguese Heritage around the World

6-7 pm: Keynote Lecture by Rui Vieira Nery, Music in the Portuguese Atlantic Empire: Conflict and Negotiation

7-7:15 pm: Refreshment break (hors d’oeuvres, fruit, warm buffett choices, and beverages wil be available throughout the evening)

7:15-8:30 pm: Roundtable: Patrimony of Portuguese Influence: Past, Present, and Future, moderated by Victor K. Mendes (UMass Dartmouth)

Shelley Pires Tracy (Consul of Portugal in New Bedford)
Maria Glória de Sá (UMass Dartmouth)
João Neves (Camões Institute)
Onésimo Teotónio de Almeida (Brown University)
Walter Rossa (University of Coimbra)
João Caixinha (Camões Institute)
Mariana Portas (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)

Friday, April 5, 2019

Woodland Commons, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Heritage(s) of Portuguese Influence: Histories, Spaces, Texts, and Objects

Co-organization: Anna Klobucka (UMass-Dartmouth), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES-UC), Walter Rossa (CES-UC)

Date: Friday, 5 April 2019
Place: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth

Colloquium Program

9:30-9:45: Opening Remarks

9:45-11:15: Histories and Legacies of Empire

Chair: Victor K. Mendes (UMass Dartmouth)

Abel Djassi Amado (Simmons University), The União Nacional in Cabo Verde, 1937-1945: Local Politics in an Imperial Political Party
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (UMass Dartmouth/CES-University of Coimbra), Worlds of (Under)development: Portuguese Late Colonialism in Africa
António Costa Pinto (ICS-University of Lisbon), Cultures of Heritage and Eruptions of Memory of Colonialism in Portuguese Democracy
Elsa Peralta (CEC-University of Lisbon), The Heritagization of the Empire in Postcolonial Portugal: Identity Politics and the Commodification of History

11:15-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:45: Spaces/Landscapes

Chair: Cristina Mehrtens (UMass Dartmouth)

Joana Brites (University of Coimbra), O sistema de obras públicas em Moçambique durante o Estado Novo: orgânica, protagonistas e agendas
Walter Rossa (III/CES-University of Coimbra), Goa: The Myth as Driver of the Heritage Process
Timothy Walker (UMass Dartmouth), Contesting Sacred Space in the Portuguese Estado da Índia: Asserting Cultural and Political Dominance over Religious Sites during the Conquest of Goa

12:45-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:45: Diasporas

Chair: Mario Pereira (UMass Dartmouth)

Graça Índias Cordeiro (UMass Lowell/ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Em busca de um território esquecido: O sabor português de East Cambridge, MA
Sílvia Oliveira (Rhode Island College), Portuguese-American Cultural Commons and Politics of Heritage in Rhode Island
Christopher Larkosh (UMass Dartmouth), Reimagining Lusodiasporic Cultures: “State of the Art” or Just More Status Quo?

2:45-4: Echoes

Chair: Dário Borim (UMass Dartmouth)

Renata Araújo (University of Algarve), Os vários nós do nós. Brasileiros e índios no labirinto da memória
Pedro Schacht Pereira (Ohio State University), Lusotropicalism as Pre-Freyrean Heritage: Jaime Cortesão, Hegel and Henry Koster
Leonor Simas-Almeida (Brown University), Angola em Portugal nos ruídos da escrita de António Lobo Antunes em Até que as pedras se tornem mais leves que a água

4-4:15: Coffee Break

4:15-5:30: Arts/Objects

Chair: Memory Holloway (UMass Dartmouth)

Miriam Tavares (University of Algarve), Das ruínas como discurso: o dispositivo cinema a serviço da (re) construção identitária
Kimberly DaCosta Holton (Rutgers University-Newark), Fadocore: Post-Punk Lament in California’s Central Valley
Ana Balona de Oliveira (IHA-FCSH-NOVA), Decolonial Imagination and the Unmaking of (Post)Colonial Cities and Tongues: History, Memory and Futurity in the Work of Mozambican, Angolan, São Tomean, Cape Verdean and Portuguese Contemporary Artists

5:30-6: Closing Remarks