Encountering the Lusophone World: Transcultural and Intersectional Perspectives / Exploring the Lusophone World: Through Transcultural and Intersectional Perspectives

June 25-27 / June, 25-27, 2025

Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto – Via Panorâmica, s/n (Neighborhood Campo Alegre / Boavista), 4150-564 Porto

Meeting Room 1 (^2nd floor) – https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404

Meeting Room 2^(2nd floor) – https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542

 

Wednesday June 25

 

9:30-11:00 – Reception and coffee / Registration & Coffee

11:00-12:30 – Session 1

Experiences of Motherhood of Enslaved Women in Africa and the Diaspora / Experiences of Motherhood of Enslaved Women in Africa and the Diaspora

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Robert Kenedy

• • Vanessa Oliveira – Experiences of Enslaved Mothers in Luanda, 1840-1865
  • Suzanne Schwarz – Family Structure and “Othermothering” in Freetown, Sierra Leone, c. 1787-1815
  • Ana Paula Mendes – Mothers in Darkness: Black Women in Abolitionist Narratives in Brazil and Mozambique
  • Catherine Boyle – The Dār in a “Motherful” World: Stambeli and Enslaved Women’s Experiences of Motherhood in Early-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Tunis (Online)

 

Arts & Culture of Resistance in Late Colonial Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence / Arts & Culture of Resistance in Late Colonial Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Susannah Ferreira

• • Lurdes Macedo & Nuno Bessa Moreira – Jorge Barbosa’s contribution to recognizing the emergence of anti-colonial literature in Cape Verde: Jorge de Sena’s critical reception of “Ambiente”
  • Francisco Topa – “Pictura poema silens?” Bertina Lopes and José Craveirinha
  • Elísio Macamo – Accepting Freedom: “Bad Faith” and anti-colonial Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (Online)

 

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

13:30 -15:00 – Session 2

Europeans and Portuguese Africa, 1448-1682: Claims, Diplomacy, Persistence / Europeans and Portuguese Africa, 1448-1682: Claims, Diplomacy, Persistence

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Fernando Nunes

• • Ernst Pijning – Before the Siege of Porto: Miguelist warnings from the Netherlands, 1828-1834
  • Carlos Martins & Susannah Ferreira – Breaching the Treaty of Alcaçovas: Plans for an Anglo-Spanish fleet to Guinea 1481-82 (Online / in person)
  • Ivana Elbl – The Advice of Infante Dom Henrique on the Priorities of Afonso V of Portugal: When, Why, How? (Online)
  • Martin Elbl – The March of Souls: Fragmentary Parish Registers of Portuguese and English Tangier (Morocco), c. 1582-1682 (Online)

 

Culture and Politics in Angola: Colonialism and Independence / Culture and Politics in Angola: Colonialism and Independence

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Vanessa Oliveira

• • Andrelise Santorum – Theatre in Angola and the colonization of artistic practice (1930-1950)
  • Marçal de Menezes Paredes – Angola: the diplomacy of the Liberation Movements and the international scenario of independence (1974-1975)
  • Sérgio Neto – “Fourteen times the length…” Some (post)colonial readings of Angola
  • Francisco Soares – The “Memory” of António Francisco das Necessidades: digitization of sources, contexts, purposes

 

15:00-15:15 – Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 – Session 3

History: Slavery, Servitude, and Religion / History: Slavery, Servitude, and Religion

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Ernst Pijning

• • Mariana Muaze – Portraying the Enslaved Wet Nurses: Slavery, Photography and Family in Brazil, ^19th Century
  • Fernando Tavares Pimenta – The Lusophone “archipelago” in 19th century India: the Luso-Indian Catholic communities of the Portuguese Padroado do Oriente and the action of Archbishop-Priest Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos (1874-1880)
  • Tracy Lopes – ServicaisRegisters.org: A Digital Database and the “Ango-lan” Serviçais Shipped to São Tomé and Príncipe from 1876 to 1896 (Online)

 

Brazil and Portugal: Popular Music and Historical Instruments in the Lusophone World / Brazil and Portugal: Popular Music and Historical Instruments in the Lusophone World

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Robert Kenedy

• • Felipe Barão – Revisiting the historical repertoire for the viola: a perspective for the “toeira” viola in the 21st century
  • Samuel André Pompeo – Choro hodierno: innovation of musical performances in research developed in Portugal
  • Thomas Garcia – “Fado”: A Brazilian Musical Genre?

 

16:45-17:00 – Coffee Break

17:00 – Welcome session / Welcoming Remarks

17:15 – Plenary lecture by / Keynote Address by Hugo Ribeiro da Silva

Going beyond Lusophony: Cultural Exchanges in the Atlantic during the Transatlantic Slave Trade Era

 

18:15-19:30 – Reception at Bar do Tio (ground floor) with the Guitar Trio – Thomas George Caracas Garcia, Samuel André Pompeo, & Felipe Barão

 

Thursday June 26

 

9:30-11:00 – Session 4

Literature, Representations, Migration, & Diasporas / Literature, Representations, Migration, & Diasporas

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Francisco Topa

• • Maria João Mariel Jorge – Migration, Transnational Topics, and Cliches in Diasporic Representations of Portugeseness
  • Irene Marques – “God” is in the Body: A Reading of Adélia Prado’s Poetry through Luce Irigaray’s Phenomenology of Presence
  • Susete Albino – Dystopian representations of post-independence in “Kikia Matcho” by Filinto de Barros
  • Michael Baptista – Agustina Bessa-Luís Through the Relatives of Josefa

 

Aspects of Work in a Transitional Society: Angola in the 19th Century / Aspects of Work in a Transitional Society: Angola in the^19th Century

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Ernst Pijning

• • José Curto – Artisanal Occupations in Luanda, 1797-1832
  • Ivan Sicca Gonçalves – “In the bush I’m in my element”: the sertanejos of Bié in the mercantile community of Benguela, s… XIX
  • Faustino Kusoka – A Black American Missionary in Early Colonial Angola: The Life and Work of Samuel Miller (Online)
  • Estevam Thompson – Vassalage and Resistance in the Backlands of Benguela, 1780-1830 (Online)

 

11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 – Session 5

Postcolonial Crossroads: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Embodiment of Bantu Cosmologies in the Lusophone World / Postcolonial Crossroads: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Embodiment of Bantu Cosmologies in the Lusophone World

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Fernando Nunes

• • Andrew Apter – Embodied Matriliny in Brazilian Capoeira? The “Bantu” Hypothesis
  • Mika Lior – Crossroads Body and Bodies at the Crossroads: Choreographies of Candomblé d’Angola in Brazil (Online)
  • Juliana Santos de Lima – The motherhood of free Africans: stories of freedom and resistance (Online)

 

Race, Diaspora, & Family Mobility / Race, Diaspora, & Family Mobility

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Susannah Ferreira

• • Milene dos Anjos – Microdata on individual and family mobility: the case of the population of the municipality of Fafe, 1834-1920
  • Márcia Chuva – Heritage in diaspora: restitution as a means of historical reparation in Brazil
  • Maria Inez Gonçalves Marques – In what colors do you see the “Negro”?

 

12:45-13:45 – Lunch

13:45-15:15 – Session 6

AI and the Lusophone World: Navigating Creativity and Identity in the Digital Age / AI and the Lusophone World: Navigating Creativity and Identity in the Digital Age

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Robert Kenedy

• • Susana Antunes – Under the weight of Artificial Intelligence: is humanity at the limit of its existence? (Online)
  • Sandra Sousa – Pandemics of the Page: AI, Human Fragility, and the Literary Reckoning (Online)
  • Robert Simon – The Talmud’s Lore, Forevermore: Issues of Plagiarism and Professionalism in Student Use of ChatGPT for Creative Writing Projects (Online)
  • Maria da Conceição Oliveira Guimarães – “The brave new world” of Artificial Intelligence: love, “fear and trembling” (Online)

Structural Racism and Racialization of the Other / Structural Racism and Racialization of the Other

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Fernando Nunes

• • Dayse Alfaia – Colorism as a form of racism: differences in social mobility in the city of São Paulo (20th century)
  • Aida Jordão – Inês de Castro in “Negra Bá”: Complicating Race and Class

 

15:15-15:30 – Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 – Session 7

Writings of the Self: Subjectivities, Affection and Politics in Literature and Arts by Black Authors / Writings of the Self: Subjectivities, Affection and Politics in Literature and Arts by Black Authors

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Francisco Topa

• • Eneida Leal Cunha – Memory, image and imagination: aesthetics and politics of black existences
  • Beatriz Resende – Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Brazil
  • Lurdes Macedo – 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis: art, feminist activism and historical reparation

 

Crime, Resistance, and Colonialism / Crime, Resistance, and Colonialism

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Maria João Maciel Jorge

• • Danielle Duque Baracho – How many fictions can history be written with? Multidirectional memory in “The Crime of Cais do Valongo”, by Eliana Alves Cruz
  • Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane – Memory and madness: narratives of resistance and identity in “Les Veilleurs de Sangomar” by Fatou Diome and “The madwoman of Serrano” by Dina Salústio
  • George Bragues – Giacomo Meyerbeer’s “L’Africaine”: An Operatic Critique of Portuguese Colonialism

17:00-17:15 – Coffee Break

17:15-18:45 – LSA Annual General Meeting (Meeting Room 1)

 

Friday, June 27 / Friday June 27

 

9:30-11:00 – Session 8

Luso-North American Experiences: Resettlement, Education, and the Media / Luso-North American Experiences: Resettlement, Education, and the Media

Meeting Room 1 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/5948351404)

President / Chair: Francisco Topa

• • Luís Aguiar, Farrah Bérubé, & Carlos Teixeira – A Future Uncertain? Portuguese Ethnic Media in Montreal
  • Fernando Nunes & Kenisha Reid – “Navigating Complexities: The Experiences of Lusophone Immigrants in Canada with Portuguese-Canadians
  • Robert Kenedy – On Your Mark Student Educational Tutoring and Mentoring Experiences Through Concentric Intersectional Spaces of Lived Experience
  • Ana Beatriz Ribeiro – Crossroads of Culture: Brazilian Women as Key Entrepreneurs and Community Connectors in Florida (Online)

 

Colonial representations, sexuality, and constructions / Colonial Representations, Sexuality, and Constructions

Meeting Room 2 (https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92191492542)

President / Chair: Susannah Ferreira

• • Ana Aires e Castro – Colonial reminiscences in the other bodies of the city of Lisbon: an analysis of the novel “O canto da moria”, by Luísa Semedo
  • Eugenio Lucotti – The case of “Nga Mutúri” in the “construction” of the Angolan 19th century
  • Karolina Válová – Representation of the city in the book “Rumo” by Natanael Santos
  • Helder Thiago Maia – Gender, sexuality and coloniality: an analysis of Brito Camacho’s travel books (Online)

 

19:00 – Closing dinner / LSA Gala Dinner (Madureira’s Campo Alegre – Rua do Campo Alegre 365)