Workshop that seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of revolution in and between Africa and Latin America.

Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the independence of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe from Portuguese colonial rule, following the independence of Guinea-Bissau two years’ prior. The violent struggles for the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa were articulated with the broader project of the African revolution, decolonisation on the continent and the wider struggle for the liberation of the Third World. More-than-national politics were variously expressed in the forms of négritude, pan-Africanism, the anti-apartheid movement, Afro-Asian solidarity, the global workers’ movement and tri-continentalism.

This workshop seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of revolution in and between Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990. We posit that this period was characterised by an energetic, if flawed, search for a theory and practice of liberation adequate to the project of revolution and decolonisation in the Third World. Our approach proposes to consider the critical exchanges of ideas, themes and concepts that informed and underpinned the projects of liberation in Africa and beyond.

Our aim is to explore how these interactions can nuance our historical understanding of revolutionary exchange and shape our present conceptions of revolution and liberation on the continent and beyond.

For online access to the workshop, please contact Tom Stennett via tomstennett2@gmail.com

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Organisation:

Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge)
Giulia Dickmans (Freie Universität Berlin)
Raquel Ribeiro (NOVA FCSH)
Tom Stennett (Investigador independente)

The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month.

RESONANCE Reading Group

Session #1: There is no Unhappy Revolution, by Marcello Tarì

The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE – a vibrant group of colleagues, friends, and contemporary cultural history aficionados invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month, or indeed, just that one key text or book, that one time on a sunny Monday or a rainy Wednesday. The reading group takes place either in-person (at NOVA University Lisbon) or online, over the lunch hour on a weekday. This is a bring-your-own-lunch event and, when in-person, the coffee and cookies are provided by the RESONANCE project.

The very first session of the RESONANCE Reading Group centres Marcello Tarì’s There is no Unhappy Revolution. This book traces the revolt to insurrection to revolution pipeline, proposing affective landscapes based on emotion, love, and friendship as essential instigators of revolutionary efforts – as if, as Fred Moten suggests, “revolution [was] the only happiness we might pursue.”

Join us on 15 December, 12 PM, at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Room B201), for this inaugural event.

Register by sending an email to Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive more details and a PDF copy of the book.

Picture: Passion fruit, axial view, Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)