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The fifth session of the Series of Talks and Round Tables “Interpelos a partir d’ O Silêncio da Terra. (Post)colonial visualities intersected by the Diamang archive” will be held on next friday, June 18, at 3 p.m. The session “Unity and Struggle: What has been, what is left?”, will have the participation of Aurora Almada (IHC/FCSH), Fabrício Rocha (CES), Vasco Martins (CES), Catarina Simão (artist, independent researcher and Culture Past & Present team), José Augusto Pereira (IHC/FCSH) and Raquel Ribeiro (University of Edinburgh). The session will be moderated by Bruno Madeira (CITCEM) and Rita Lucas Navarra (IHC/FCSH).

The session will be held in a hybrid format: face-to-face in the Main Hall/Salão Nobre of the Rectory of the University of Minho, and online on Zoom and YouTube.

The Series of Talks and Round Tables comprises 7 sessions, between May 14th and June 25th, each subordinate to a particular theme, namely: archives, speeches and languages; work: domination and resistance; race and gender; emancipatory movements; culture and interactions; cinematographic languages: aesthetics and politics (2 sessions).

The cycle is organized by the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), by the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), by the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS. NOVA.UMinho), by the Center for Research Network in Anthropology (CRIA-UMinho) and by the Cultures Past & Present Project.

The fourth session of the Series of Talks and Round Tables “Interpellations from the Silence of the Earth. (Post) colonial visualities intersected by the Diamang archive ”will take place Friday, June 4, 2021, starting at 3 pm. Within the theme “On the intersectionality of segregated bodies: race and gender”, at 3 pm, the session will be held in a hybrid format (face-to-face and online) and will include the participation of Filipa Vicente, Emiliano Dantas, Cristina Sá Valentim, Ana Balona de Oliveira e Sheila Khan, moderated by Fátima Moura Ferreira (Lab2PT) e Alexandra Esteves (Lab2PT). moderated by Francisco Ferreira (Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho).

The fourth session will take place in the Main Hall/Salão Nobre of the Rectory of the University of Minho, on Zoom and YouTube.

The Series of Talks and Round Tables comprises 7 sessions, each subordinate to a particular theme, namely: archives, speeches and languages; work: domination and resistance; race and gender; emancipatory movements; culture and interactions; cinematographic languages: aesthetics and politics (2 sessions).

The event is organized by the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), by the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), by the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS. NOVA.UMinho), by the Center for Research Network in Anthropology (CRIA-UMinho) and by the Cultures Past & Present Project.

The second session of the Series of Talks and Round Tables “Interpellations from the Silence of the Earth. (Post) colonial visualities intersected by the Diamang archive ”will take place next Friday, May 21, 2021, starting at 3 pm. Entitled “Aesthetics, politics and cinematographic languages I”, the session will be held in a hybrid format (face-to-face and online) and will include the participation of Ana Cristina Pereira (CES, University of Coimbra), Rosa Cabecinhas (CECS, University of Minho), researchers from the Cultures Past & Present project, and Kiluanje Liberdade (director and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies), moderated by Francisco Ferreira (Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho).

The critical itinerary of this cycle is designed under the horizon of the exhibition The Silence of the Earth. It aims to promote extended interdisciplinary questionings and reflections on the experience of late Portuguese colonialism, from the perspective of the coexistence of times or of intertwined times. The cycle comprises 7 sessions, each subordinate to a particular theme, namely: archives, speeches and languages; work: domination and resistance; race and gender; emancipatory movements; culture and interactions; cinematographic languages: aesthetics and politics (2 sessions).

The second session will take place in the Main Hall/Salão Nobre of the Rectory of the University of Minho, on Zoom and YouTube.

The debate will be held after viewing the films:

Uma festa para viver, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, 35’, 1975 Documentário – Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

Deixem-me ao Menos Subir às Palmeiras…, 67’, 1975, Ficção – Joaquim Lopes Barbosa

Ana Cristina Pereira holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, from the University of Minho, with the thesis ‘Alteridade e identidade na ficção cinematográfica em Portugal e em Moçambique’. She has as main research interests: racism, social identity, social representations and cultural memory in cinema, from a post-colonial and intersectional perspective, on which she has edited several scientific articles in national and international publications. She has been part of the team of scientific projects and, at the moment, she is an investigator of the (THE) OTHERING project. She is a member of the Non-Governmental Organization NARP-Núcleo Antirrista de Porto.

Kiluanje Liberdade (Director)
Born in Benguela – Angola, in 1976, he lives between Braga and Luanda. Degree in Communication and Culture Sciences (2003). Postgraduate in African Studies, ISCTE (2005). Currently studying for a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. Author of the documentary “O RAP É UMA ARMA”, First Prize for Best Documentary Work, at the Amascultura Documentary Encounters (1996). Co-author of 6 documentaries, in which “OUTROS BAIRROS” (1998), “OXALÁ CRESÇAM PITANGAS” (2004) and “LUANDA, A FÁBRICA DA MÚSICA” (2006) stand out. He was a television director for 9 years at TVZimbo (the first private television channel in Angola).

Rosa Cabecinhas is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences and a researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies. She is director of the Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho and coordinator of the Permanent Seminar on Communication and Diversity. She has developed interdisciplinary research and integrates several national and international associations in the areas of communication, psychology, education and cultural studies. His main research interests combine the areas of intercultural communication, social memory, social representations, social identities, social discrimination and diversity. Among her publications, the book “Black and White: The naturalization of racial discrimination” (2017, 2nd edition) stands out. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1491-3420

The cycle is organized by the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), by the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), by the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Sciences (CICS. NOVA.UMinho), by the Center for Research Network in Anthropology (CRIA-UMinho) and by the Cultures Past & Present Project.

On Friday, May 14, 2021, the Cycle of Conferences and Round Tables Interpellations begins from the ‘Silence of the Earth’. (Post)colonial visualities intersected by the Diamang archive”. With a hybrid format (face-to-face and online), the first session will feature the participation of Francisco Azevedo Mendes and Patrícia Leal.

The critical itinerary of this cycle departs from the exhibition The Silence of the Earth. It aims to promote extended reflections and an interdisciplinary questioning of the experience of Portugal’s late colonial period, from the perspective of the coexistence of times or intertwined times.

The cycle includes 7 sessions, 14 may to 25 june, weekly at Fridays, 3h00 p.m.-6h00p.m., each subordinated to a particular issue, namely: archives; discourses and languages; labor: domination and resistance; race and gender; emancipatory movements; culture and interactions; cinematographic languages: aesthetics and politics (2 sessions).

Cycle Coordinators:
Fátima Moura Ferreira (Lab2PT)
Moisés Lemos Martins (CECS)
Fernando Bessa (CICS.NOVA. UMinho)
Luís Cunha (CRIA. UMinho)

This cycle is organised by the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT.UMinho), the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Centre (CICS. UMinho) and the Research Network Centre in Anthropology (CRIA. UMinho) and Project Cultures Past & Present.

The first session will take place in the Sala de Atos of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, on Zoom  and on YouTube.

Program:
Dos arquivos contemporâneos às performances disciplinares – May, 14 (at 3p.m.)
Francisco Azevedo Mendes(Lab2PT) & Patrícia Leal

Estética, política e linguagens cinematográficas I – May, 21
Isabel Macedo (CECS) & Francisco Ferreira (Lab2PT) & Tiago Silva (CECS)

Trabalho, dominações e resistências – May, 28
Fernando Bessa (CICS.NOVA. UMinho) & Sheila Khan (CECS)

Da interseccionalidade dos corpos segregados: raça e género – June, 4
Fátima Moura Ferreira (Lab2PT) & Alexandra Esteves (Lab2PT)

Poder e movimentos emancipatórios– June, 18
Bruno Madeira (CITCEM) & Rita Lucas Narra (IHC/FCSH)

Cruzamentos: cultura, literatura e museus– June, 25
Luís Cunha (CRIA. UMinho) & João Sarmento (CECS)

Estética, política e linguagens cinematográficas II – June, 25 (at 9p.m.-11p.m.)
Isabel Macedo(CECS) & Francisco Ferreira (Lab2PT) & Tiago Silva (CECS)

In 2019, the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference decided to proclaim 5 May of each year as “World Portuguese Language Day”. The choice of the day is linked to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), officially established in 2009, o celebrate the Portuguese language and Lusophone cultures.

Check the schedule for May 5, 2021:

World Portuguese Language Day Seminar, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães. Organization: Guimarães City Council, University of Minho and Instituto Camões. From 9am (GMT + 1, Portugal)

Moisés de Lemos Martins was invited to the panel Language as a living heritage (coordination: Vítor Ramalho – UCCLA), at 3pm.

• O papel das organizações da Sociedade Civil, Nazim Ahmad – Fundação Aga Khan
• O Museu da Língua de S. Paulo – Brasil – Secretário de Estado da Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo Diretora do Museu da Língua de São Paulo
• O Museu Virtual da Lusofonia da Universidade do Minho – Moisés Martins (Universidade do Minho)

Debate Cycle “Promotion and Dissemination of the Portuguese Language: Global Strategies and National Policies”. Organization Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries. Formal sitting at 10 am followed by the Panel (GMT + 1, Portugal).

Sheila Khan was invited to the panel: Portuguese, language of culture, science and innovation.

Opening formal sitting: Francisco Ribeiro Telles, Secretário Executivo da CPLP, Eurico Monteiro, Presidência cabo-verdiana em exercício da CPLP, Delivery of the Fernão Mendes Pinto Prize (intervention by AULP and the winner), Delivery of the UCCLA Prize (intervention by the UCCLA Secretary-General and the winner), and Music moment, with Angolan singer Paulo Flores.

• Panel «Português, língua de cultura, ciência e inovação» Coordination: João Ima-Panzo, Diretor de Ação Cultural e Língua Portuguesa
• António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Embaixador de Portugal junto da UNESCO
• Amélia Dalomba, escritora angolana
• Marco Lucchesi, Presidente da Academia Brasileira de Letras
• José Luís Hopffer Almada, jurista, poeta e ensaísta cabo-verdiano
• Sheila Khan, Profª Universitária/investigadora moçambicana

The Portuguese language in Astronomy – International Portuguese language day. Organization: PLOAD, Portuguese Language Office of Astronomy for Development/Grupo Lusófono de Astronomia para o Desenvolvimento, established by the International Astronomical Union and its Development Astronomy Office. (GMT + 1, Portugal). Coordination: Alan Brito, Gustavo Rojas e Sara Anjos. Live streaming via Facebook on the PLOAD page:  https://www.facebook.com/PLOAD.IAU

Vítor de Sousa is the guest speaker : “Identidades transnacionais e transculturais. Pós-colonialidade, lusofonias e interculturalidade. O caso do Museu Virtual da Lusofonia. O português como língua de ciência”, in the panel, at 2pm.

• Hélio Rocha, presidente da Sociedade Astronómica Brasileira e Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
• Eliana Inge Pritsch, professora da UNISINOS, doutorada em Literatura Brasileira, Literatura Portuguesa e Literaturas Luso-Africanas, pela UFRGS;
• Paulino Lima Fortes, Universidade de Cabo Verde
• Teresa Manjate, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique
• Vítor Sousa – investigador CECS, Projeto Cultures Past&Present e Museu Virtual da Lusofonia.

The II International Conference on Culture and Society – What literacy (s) for Economic and Social Justice? will be held on May 27 and 28, 2021, through the Zoom platform.

Researchers on the Cultures Past & Present Martins Mapera, FCSH / Universidade Zambeze and Moisés de Lemos Martins, CECS / Universidade do Minho, are the keynote speakers of the first day.

The Conference is a joint realization of CHAM – Humanities Center / NOVA FCSH-UAc; CIJES – Center for Legal, Economic and Social Research/Zambezi University, Mozambique; Center for Multidisciplinary Studies (CEM) Eduardo Augusto Kambwa of the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Luanda (ISCED-Luanda); Lev’Arte Literary and Artistic Movement, ISCTAC, Alberto Chipande Higher Institute of Sciences and Technologies, Mozambique, Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS/UM) and Cultures Past &Present Project.

On the 12th of March, Interdisciplinary Seminar Interculturalities and historical awareness: current challenges for citizenship, brought together several researchers to share experiences around studies on historical awareness, social representations, narrative, identity, cultural memory, practices and experiences in the education system, thinking about the current intercultural, transnational and global dimensions.

Review the Seminar here.

See the full program here. Free event, with mandatory registration until March 10th by the Form. The session will also be broadcast on the CECS Facebook page.

Organization: “Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?”, Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal), Lab2PT – Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, Permanent Seminar on Communication and Diversity, and Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies.