Programme

10:00 to 12:30

Round Table 1: Racism, antirracism eand national identiy in football 
Moderator: Silvia Maeso – CES

Exhibitor 1: Anderson Ribeiro Oliva
Theme: Identities in Field. Discourses on the role of intercultural players of African and Antillean origin in the French national football team

Abstract: The text aims to analyse part of the discourses produced on the participation of intercultural athletes - of African or West Indian origin - in the French national football team during the last decade. Based on the theoretical framework linked to African  and Post-Colonial Studies, and as a result of an in-depth research, we analyse how French society  with its hybrid and complex population groups fosters, interprets and rejects, in the light of images and ideas built on African/Antillean immigrants and their descendants, the understanding of their identities and intercultural and multicultural relations generated by postcolonial diasporas. We selected, for an initial reflection, reports in the French and European press about the work of intercultural athletes in the French national team after the World Championship in South Africa in 2010.

Key-Words: Identities - intercultural players - diaspora.


Exhibitor 2: Pedro Sousa Almeida  - CES
Theme: Media, football and racism: discourses of the Portuguese press during fascism and after the April Revolution
Abstract: The presentation explores the racist discourses produced by the Portuguese press in the context of football, before and after April 25. The reproduction of racist narrative in national and international football competitions followed a significant part of the texts written during Salazar’s regime, especially in its last 15 years, during which the arrival of players from the colonies to the 'mother country' increased greatly. It outlines how the language used to describe the black athletes did, at times, a strong allusion to their inferior status. The April Revolution had a predictable impact on the content and style of the texts written in football context. However, some continuities abide, particularly the implicit association with the “naiveness” and “purity” of black footballers. Notwithstanding the “old racism” disappearing in the general press, “new racism”, in the words of Van Dijk (2005), albeit assumed more democratic, is based, invariably, not only on a discourse of colonial exaltation as well as on the reproduction and reification of an image of Africans anchored in highly Eurocentric and racist views.

References: Van Dijk, Teun (2005), ‘Nuevo racismo y noticias: un enfoque discursivo’, in Mary Lash, Rosa Tello e Núria Benach (eds), Migración, Género y espacios urbanos. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 33-55.

Key-Words:  media, racism, football, Portugal

Exhibitor 3: Carlos Nolasco – CES
Theme: Football vs. Discrimination. A game of uncertain outcome.
Abstract:  Football is recurrently designed as a non-discriminatory activity, with the assumption that the various ranks promote social integration and opposed exclusion, in a process of racial harmony. However, throughout the history of the sport, discrimination has always been an element of the game, and recently, xenophobic episodes have been recurrent, besides the existence of a conservative and biased interpretation of many elements of the game. This paper aims to reflect on the discrimination processes in contemporary football, devoting special attention to the criteria for the recruitment of  foreign players by national clubs.

Palavras-chave: football; racism; discrimination

14:30 to 17:00

Round Table 2: O Ensino de História da África e das Diásporas em Perspetiva Comparada Brasil Portugal
Moderator: Marta Araújo – CES.

Exhibitor 1: Anderson Ribeiro Oliva (PUC/SP; CES)
Theme: Among masks and mirrors. Reflections on the Identity and teaching of African History in Brazilian schools
Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the possible impact, in the construction of individual and collective identities of students, the contents of approaches on African History in Brazilian education. Based on the theoretical references related to Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies, the main intention of the study was to analyse how the treatment of the topic can foster, interdict and justify the existence of multicultural identity reflexes, with the presence of African masks for the recognition of the other and also self-recognition, in our schools. At the same time, the text intends to discuss the meaning of national identity in a society made up of hybrid and complex population groups marked by intercultural and multicultural relations generated throughout its more recent historical composition.

Key-Words:  Identities, Teaching of African History; Cultural Studies.


Exhibitor 2:  Benjamin Xavier de Paula ( CES; UFU)

Theme: The training of teachers of African history and its diasporas in Brazil and Portugal

Abstract: In this research work we approach the training of teachers for the study of History and Africa and its diasporas in Brazil and Portugal. The focus lies in the study of current teacher training activities in both countries (comparative study) with a view to the building of a positive education for ethnic-racial relations (anti-racist education), through the study of African history and its diasporas (African-Brazilian diaspora and African-Portuguese diaspora). The research involved: a) consulting the main bibliographic databases and indexation of the national scientific production; b) documentary survey of government agencies and educational and research institutions; c) interviews with teachers, social movement activists, managers of teacher education, and researchers. The results show: a) in Brazil, some progress with regard to the object of research, among which a solid education legislation with a view to inclusion of studies on the History of Africa and its diasporas in all levels and teaching modalities, however, limits to the implementation of these actions; b) in the Portuguese case, an invisibility of our object of study, either within the public educational policies, in teacher training initiatives implemented by educational and research institutions and government; the actions of the anti-racist movement, the actions of teachers, or in the context of scientific research on the subject in the latter case - scientific research - with a single action in a Portuguese research institution.

Key-Words: Education, teacher training, African history,  African-Brazilian diaspora, African-Portuguese Diaspora

Exhibitor 3: Amailton Magno de Azevedo
Theme: Diaspora and African cultural identity through music.
Abstract: The author aims to explore the musical polyphony in the Black Atlantic. I seek to investigate the rhythmic and melodic movements between musicians from Brazil and Nigeria. It is not a comparative study, but rather an observation on how, in the Atlantic space, there has been  and there is a transfusion of rhythmic information. I observe a connection of musical memories that intersect as the musicians unveil what they hold as equity: Afrobeat, Tropicalismos, Sambas, Bossas, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Samba-Reggae, Samba-Soul, Blues, Jazz and Salsas connect and confuse in a chaotic web of aesthetic and musical possibilities.The results suggest a musical movement in the Black Atlantic, born of a complex web of sound languages. Flows and ebbs of endless musicality anchored in ancestral memories, the backlands and cities, writing and orality, melody and percussion, technology and acoustics. Connections that promote the multiple instead of the unique, polyphony instead of unison.

Comments:  Bruno Sena Martins - CES