Colloquium + Exhibition

The Third Democratic Opposition Congress: 50 Years Later

April 19 and 20, 2023

Centro Cultural de Belém

Programme

19th April, Wednesday

14H30 -15H00 – Opening Session and inauguration of the exhibition

15H00 -16H30 – Testemonies I and Debate
Carlos Carvalhas, Maria Emília Brederode e António Neto Brandão
Moderator: Aniceto Afonso

16H30 -16H45 – Break

16H45 -19H00 – Interventions I and Debate
Fernando Rosas – «The Aveiro Congress: in times of eves»
Francisco Seixas da Costa – «1973 – A Uniformed Look»
José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro – «Aveiro, 1973: an Opposition on the margins of the Opposition Congress»
Luísa Tiago Oliveira – «From the Conclusions of the Aveiro Congress to the MFA Programme»
Moderator: Irene Flunser Pimentel


April 20th, Thursday

14H30 -16H00 – Testemonies II and Debate
Helena Pato, Mário Simões Teles e João Soares

Moderator: Delfim Sardo

16H00 -16H15 – Break

16H15 -18H30 – Interventions II and Debate
José Pacheco Pereira – «What the III Congress revealed about the state of the Opposition»
Luís Trindade – «"Havemos de ser mais eu bem sei". Sounds, images and utopia in 1973»
Manuela Tavares – «Women in the democratic opposition and the slow path for their rights»
Miguel Cardina – «April 1973: A portrait of the anti-war oppositions»
Moderação: Rui Bebiano

18H30 -18H45 – Closing session