Programme

September 24, 2019

09h30 Introduction
António Aleixo Martins (Mayor)
Alexander Keese (Genève), Studying post-independence periods as a multiple experience: a historical challenge
José Silva Évora (Praia),The postcolonial experience between the local and the transnational

10h15–10h30 Break

10h30 - Keynote 1
Françoise Blum (Paris I), Revolts and revolutions in French-speaking Africa of independence
Moderator: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES, Coimbra)

11h45 Session I – Desafios pós-coloniais nas transições locais (exemplos da Guiné e do Moçambique)
Andreas Zeman (Berne), "What they galvanise is not what they do": political propaganda and social realities in northern Mozambique in the early years after independence

Pedro Cerdeira (Genève), From the county administrator to the regional committee president: the impact of decolonisation on the composition of Cacheu regional administration

Moderator: Beatriz Valverde Contreras (Lisbon)

13h00–14h15m Break

14h15–16h00 Session II – The (post) colonial cultures
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES, Coimbra), The policy(ies) of patrimonialisation in late colonialism

Lucia Weiss (FU Berlin), “Mozambicanity","Africanity","nationality"- expressions of art around Independence in Mozambique in the Lotus newspaper

Joana Brites (Coimbra), Public Architecture in Colonial Mozambique (1945–1975): Circuits of and Arenas of Significance

Francisca Pires (Mindelo), Portuguese decolonisation in secondary education curricula in Cape Verde: some reflections
Moderator: Cláudio Furtado (Praia)

Break 16h00 –16h30

16h30 – Keynote 2
Boaventura Rodrigues Santy (Bissau), State and society in the postcolonial period in Guinea-Bissau: conflicts, resistances and convergences
Moderator: José Silva Évora (Praia)

September 25, 2019

10h00 – Keynote 3
Kouadio Guessan (Abidjan),The Ivorian political regime of Felix Houphouet-Boigny proofed by national and regional opposition (1960-1980)
Moderator: Alexander Keese (Genève)

11h15 –13h00 Sessão III – Repertórios de resistência comparados
Alexander Keese (Genève), “Good freedom” revisited: hesitations and reflections on contestation in Lusophone Africa and the African continent

Cláudio Furtado (Praia), Cape Verde: independence, autonomy and decolonization - ideological pitfalls in historical-sociological approaches

Meike de Goede (Amsterdam), L’héritage des vérités coloniales et la promesse des histoires des minorités: le cas du Congo-Brazzaville
Moderator: José Pedro Monteiro (CES, Coimbra)

Break: 13h00–14h00

14h15 –16h00 Session IV – As terras de Cabo Verde
José Évora (Praia), Land inequalities and social asymmetries in independent Cape Verde: the case of Tarrafal de Monte Trigo in Santo Antão island

José Pedro Monteiro (CES, Coimbra), Labour and labour policies in late colonialism: stories and legacies (1961-1975)

Carla Carvalho (Praia), No woman's land ... Or how to conquer land on Santiago Island (Cape Verde)

Moderator: José Maria Borges Tavares (Praia)
 

16h15 Closing Discussion

Moderators: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, José Silva Évora and Alexander Keese