Conference                                           

Archives of Silence: Secret Alliances of Portuguese Colonial War

November 29th, 2011, 10h00, Room 1, CES-Coimbra

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Session 1 10h00 Presentation 10h15 Aniceto Afonso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Alcora – a project for Southern Africa 10h40 Amélia Souto (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane) Relations between Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia and the ‘ALCORA Exercise’: fundamental elements for the conduction and strategy of war – 1960-1974 11h10 Coffee Break 11h30 Carlos Matos Gomes  Local troops and other collaborators – the role of villains in the winds of history 12h00 Discussion 12h30 Lunch Break Sessão 2 14h15 Fernando Rosas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)  ‘Estado Novo’ and Portuguese Colonial War 15h45 Miguel Cardina (CES/Universidade de Coimbra; U. Nova de Lisboa) Violence, Testimony and Society: strains and silences around the memory of dictatotship 16h05 Maria Paula Meneses (CES/Universidade de Coimbra) Cold War / Colonial War / Nationalist War / To whom concepts concern? 16h30 Discussion 17h00 Coffee Break Sessão 3 17h15 Bruno Sena Martins (CES/Universidade de Coimbra) Welcoming the Ghost: disabled veterans and Colonial War (movie) 17h50 Round Table: A conversation about Colonial War in the context of the Cold War. 18h30 Closing session