Joint International Workshop para incentivar o diálogo entre investigadores anglófonos e lusófonos que trabalham sobre o colonialismo e o anti-colonialismo no período contemporâneo.

Anti-Colonial History, Postcolonial Legacies and the Futures of the 20th Century

Joint International Workshop IHC & Goldsmiths, University of London

In the last years, the IHC and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, from Goldsmiths, University of London, have been working together on different research projects. The Joint International Workshop Anti-Colonial History and Postcolonial Legacies will take place twice a year and aims to consolidate and develop the connections between researchers from both institutions. The goal is to encourage dialogue between Anglophone and Lusophone historians, social scientists and political theorists doing research on colonialism and anti-colonialism in the late modern period. At the same time, the Joint International Workshop will acknowledge the development of Postcolonial Studies in both the English and the Portuguese speaking-worlds and the challenges they pose to History and Social Sciences. In this edition our discussions will extend to the history and memory of Russia, as we will also benefit from the presence of historian Yuri Slezkine among us.

Schedule

10h45 | Opening remarks
Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Luís Trindade (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

11h00 | Session 1: Decolonisation and Liberation

Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths, University of London), Decolonisation, metrology and the nation-state
Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), The Go-Between: Basil Davidson and the African Liberation Struggles (1950s-1970s)
Rita Lucas Narra (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), The “Fourth National Liberation Movement”? The MFA and third-worldism in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-75

13h00 | Lunch break

14h30 | Session 2: Representation and Uses of the Past

Mariana Pinto dos Santos (IHA — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Primitivism, colonialism, anti-colonialism: a view from the Portuguese art history
Rui Lopes (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), From Orientalism to Maoism: The Fight for the Third World in European Spy Cinema
Afonso Ramos (IHA — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Sanitised Monuments and Explicit Images: Visual Culture and Public History in the Postcolonial Present

16h30 | Coffee break

16h45 | Session 3: What will the 20th century be like?

A conversation on the current state of affairs on the Global South, Palestine, the BRICs, Ukraine, Russia and its implications for the writing of the history of the 20th century and its memory.
With José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Raquel Ribeiro (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Yuri Slezkine (University of California, Berkeley).

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Picture: Amílcar Cabral and Vítor Saúde Maria laying a wreath at Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square (1966-1970). (Source: Mário Soares Foundation / DAC – Amílcar Cabral’s Documents)