Memory from the Avenues
Dec 7, 2018 | Papers, Publications
Memory from the Avenues: A collaborative strategy towards local history and heritage
- Inês Castaño, Inês Queiroz, Luísa Seixas, Maria Fernanda Rollo & Filipe Silva
- 2018
- MEMORIAMEDIA Review
- Issue 3
- 11 p.
- Language: English
- DOI: —
- ISSN: 2183‐3753
This paper intends to present the project Memória das Avenidas and the collaborative strategies undertook, regarding local history, heritage and memory. The project Memória das Avenidas (developed since 2015) has been recording and collecting oral testimonies and memorabilia from the elder inhabitants of Avenidas Novas (Lisbon), following a collaborative strategy with the involvement of local citizens, NGOs and institutions, in order to understand the historical processes by which the city has been developed, occupied, transformed and lived. One of its main goals has been to build an open platform for raising awareness towards critical ways of dealing with local heritage in its various forms as a means to foster community building and identity.
Keywords:
memory, local history, collaborative research, open science, community building
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Conference that aims to debate the experience, representation and remembrance of violence, emerging both from the Portuguese colonial past and the decolonisation process. War, Revolution and Return: 50
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Conference that aims to debate the experience, representation and remembrance of violence, emerging both from the Portuguese colonial past and the decolonisation process.
War, Revolution and Return:
50 years later, the memory of a European, democratic – and decolonised? – Portugal
The fiftieth anniversary of the last democratic transitions in Western Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece) comes at a present time characterised by an unprecedented, at least for many decades, anti-democratic wave and by the systematic challenge of some of the social, political and economic assumptions that characterised democracy since the end of the World War II amongst which were the effective recognition of the right to self-determination and the political and moral demand for decolonisation. The public discussion, with an inevitable political dimension, which presently surrounds the significance of the 25 April 1974, attests that the passage of time alone does not translate into a consensual interpretation of historical change. On the other hand, it emphasises how relevant a rigorous academic debate is, supported by broader historiographical research and critical analysis.
Such debate and research are the more urgent, considering that simplistic narratives are still dominating and influencing the present-day political discussion as we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. Such narratives have been incapable of a more profound and long-term analysis of what were, are, and will remain in the future, the significant transformations unleashed by the military movement put forward by the Movement of the Armed Forces (MFA) in 1974. By 2024, much of the public debate remains focused on commemorative or depreciative arguments, ignoring much of how today’s democratic Portugal was and is shaped by the violence of what has been described as a different (“lusotropical”) colonisation; the violence of thirteen years of Colonial War, with its profound consequences; a biennium (1974-1976) of unprecedented transformations in the Portuguese contemporary history (social, political and economic revolution, and the end of colonial rule); a complex decolonisation, generating new nations and returns; the effective end of five centuries of imperial history; the return of thousands of settlers and veterans, and their processes of social and economic (re)integration; and, finally the individual, collective and political memory – a disputed memory of April, the Estado Novo regime [New State], colonialism and the democratic anti-fascist resistance.
Keynote speakers:
Julião Soares Sousa and Elsa Peralta
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Call for papers
Starting from the need to reflect on the uses of the past, this conference aims to debate the experience, representation and remembrance of violence, emerging both from the Portuguese colonial past and the decolonisation process. Thus, the Colonial War and its crucial role in unleashing the Revolution will be at the centre of the debate by analysing its nature as a disruptive event or a structural continuity and evaluating its interpretation and influence in the former colonial power and former colonies. Finally, the conference intends to discuss the place of the Carnation Revolution in these histories, not only as the catalyser of change but also as the direct consequence of colonial violence and as the foundation of a post-colonial democratic society in permanent tension with its past.
Therefore, we welcome papers in the scope of this conference in line with one or more of the following topics:
– The Portuguese late colonialism of the 1960s and 1970s, the swan song of the “Civilizing Mission”: economic transformation and “conquering” the population;
– Violence as a legacy: the enduring impact of colonial violence in the Por-tuguese and African political developments, during and after the Revolu-tion and self-determination;
– The relationship between the Colonial War, the end of the Estado Novo and the Carnation Revolution;
– 25 April 1974, from Africa to Carmo: the prominence of Africa and coloni-al past in Portuguese affairs;
– Colonial legacies and memories for the democratic posterity: veterans, re-turnees. Social, economic and political (re)integration in a revolutionary context;
– Three parallel dimensions of memory: memory of the War, memory of the Revolution, and memory of decolonisation and self-determination;
– The political and historical narratives of the Portuguese democratic re-gime, namely regarding colonialism, the end of the empire and the end of the Estado Novo;
– The end of empire and Europe: Portuguese European integration and new national identities;
– Portugal viewed from Africa: the former colonies’ perspective;
– The relationship with the independent countries: colonial legacy in Por-tugal and Africa;
Paper submission and presentations:
The paper proposals (in Portuguese, English or Spanish) should be submitted by email to congressohistoriaflup@gmail.com with a title, an abstract (350 words max.) and a short biography by 6 October 2024.
Presentations should be done in person. There will be no presentations online.
Registration fees will not be charged.
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Organising Committee:
Ana Sofia Ferreira (FLUP & IS/FLUP), Bruno Madeira (UM & CITCEM), Carlos Martins (EUI), Manuel Loff (FLUP & IHC — NOVA FCSH & IN2PAST), Sérgio Neto (FLUP & CITCEM), Sílvia Correia (FLUP & IS/FLUP)
Picture: Raising of the Guinea Bissau flag after the lowering of the Portuguese flag in Canjadude, 1974 (Credit: João Carvalho / Wikimedia Commons)
Tempo
5 (Quinta-feira) 9:30 am - 6 (Sexta-feira) 5:30 pm
Localização
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto
Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso — 4150-564 Porto
Organizador
Several Institutions
Detalhes do Evento
Lecture series De Famalicão para o Mundo [From Famalicão to the World], an initiative organized by various institutions that brings together experts on the theme of Education and the 25th
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Lecture series De Famalicão para o Mundo [From Famalicão to the World], an initiative organized by various institutions that brings together experts on the theme of Education and the 25th of April.
Ciclo de Conferências
“Pensar o Futuro a partir de Abril: De Famalicão para o Mundo”
#6 A Educação: dos Desafios de Abril ao Futuro da Educação — António Sampaio da Nóvoa
António Sampaio da Nóvoa, António Gonçalves, José Pacheco Pereira, Jorge Moreira da Silva, Ricardo Noronha e Ivan Lima Cavalcanti são os nomes que vão marcar presença no Ciclo de Conferências “Pensar o Futuro a Partir de Abril – De Famalicão Para o Mundo”, que decorre entre 20 de Setembro e 6 de Dezembro, no auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Camilo Castelo Branco e no auditório do Centro de Estudos Camilianos, em Vila Nova de Famalicão. A entrada é livre e todas as conferências têm início pelas 18h30, com periocidade quinzenal, sempre às sextas-feiras.
O arranque do ciclo de conferências será dado por António Gonçalves, director artístico da galeria municipal famalicense Ala da Frente, que falará sobre “A Arte e a Revolução”, no dia 20 de setembro. Ricardo Noronha, do Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, que abordará “Reação Conservadora ao 25 de Abril (28 de Setembro de 1974 e 11 de Março de 1975)” a 4 de Outubro, e a 18 de Outubro, Pacheco Pereira, reconhecido nome da cena política portuguesa, professor, cronista e investigador de história contemporânea portuguesa, com doutoramento honoris causa pelo Iscte-IUL, vem falar sobre o “Significado do 25 de Novembro de 1975”. Segue-lhe Jorge Moreira da Silva, natural de Vila Nova de Famalicão e actual director-executivo do Escritório das Nações Unidas para Serviços de Projetos (UNOPS), que irá abordar o tema “Ambiente e Sustentabilidade” a 8 de Novembro. Ivan Lima Cavalcanti, investigador no CITCEM — FLUP, que irá explorar “O Canto de Intervenção Como Meio de Mobilização”, no dia 22 de Novembro. Sampaio da Nóvoa, antigo representante Permanente de Portugal junto da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO) (2018-2021), professor catedrático do Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa e antigo Reitor da mesma instituição (2006-2013), caberá a ‘missão’ de encerrar este ciclo de conferências com uma sessão sobre “A Educação – Dos Desafios de Abril ao Futuro da Educação”, excepcionalmente, no auditório do Centro de Estudos Camilianos, em Seide São Miguel, no dia 6 de Dezembro.
Esta iniciativa resulta de uma organização do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão, no âmbito do projeto educativo e cultural municipal “De Famalicão para o Mundo” /Comemorações municipais dos “50 Anos do 25 de Abril”, em parceria com o CITCEM – FLUP, o IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST, Universidade de Paris 8, a Associação de Professores de História (AHP) e o CFAEVNF.
O ciclo de conferências está acreditado com 15 horas, pelo Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas de Vila Nova de Famalicão (CFAEVNF), para docentes. Os interessados/as devem fazer a inscrição na plataforma do CFAEVNF para obter a acreditação na modalidade de curso de formação.
Coordenação científica
- Luís Alberto Alves (CITCEM — FLUP)
- Arminda Ferreira (CMVNF)
- Cláudia Ninhos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST / Fundação Aristides de Sousa Mendes)
- Cristina Clímaco (LER – Universidade Paris 8)
- Filipa Sousa Lopes (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
- António Gonçalves (Galeria Municipal Ala da Frente)
- Miguel Barros (APH)
- Aurora Marques (CFAEVNF)
Tempo
(Sexta-feira) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Localização
Center for Camillian Studies
Avenida de São Miguel, 758 — 4770-631 São Miguel de Seide, Vila Nova de Famalicão
Organizador
Several Institutions
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