New Firections of the Historiography of the Palop – International Seminar

In the last twenty years, the history of Portugal’s relationship with Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has received great attention from both Portuguese and foreign scholars and has led to the publication and translation of a considerable number of important works. This scholarly work has been vast and distinct in the themes that it has focused on, which include the history of culture and science in the tropical world, the recognition of biodiversity, the knowledge and practices of traditional medicine, the experiences of European science in Africa and the Americas, the role of cocoa and chocolate in the issue of the “development of the third world,” the heated debates concerning the memories of slavery, slavery, abolitionism and forced labour, the controversy surrounding the slave trade in the Indian Ocean and in the “Muslim world,” the study of languages and the phenomena of creolization, as well as the new questions concerning African resistance to colonial rule and the processes of decolonization.

This comprehensive and seminal body of works of a scientific, literary, and philosophical nature has raised numerous questions which, in essence, encompass many of the concerns that are present in today’s Lusophone African nations. For this reason, the Organizing Committee of the workshop “New Directions of the Historiography of the PALOP,” an initiative of the Center for History of the IICT and the Program of Global Development of IICT, in collaboration with York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute (Toronto, Canada), as well as with the Center for African Studies of the University of Porto, has deemed that the time has arrived to present some of the new research that is being done in the field of social sciences with respect to Lusophone African countries.

Organization

Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Centro de História e Programa de Desenvolvimento Global)

Partners

Harriet Tubman Institute – York University, Toronto, Department of History

McMaster University, Ontario

Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto

Scientific Committee

Ana Cristina Roque (IICT, Lisboa)

Catarina Madeira Santos (EHESS, Paris)

José Curto (York University, Toronto)

José Maciel (CEA, Universidade do Porto)

Maria Manuel Torrão (IICT, Lisboa)

Victor Rodrigues (IICT, Lisboa)

Organizing Committee

Ana Cristina Roque (IICT, Lisboa)

José Curto (York University, Toronto)

Luís Frederico Antunes (IICT, Lisboa)

Maria Manuel Torrão (IICT, Lisboa)

Victor Rodrigues (IICT, Lisboa)

Secretariat

Lívia Ferrão

Teresa Vilela

Collaboration

Centro de Documentação e Informação do IICT

Centro de Actividades de Preservação e Acesso do IICT (K)

Projecto FCT “A Pequena Nobreza e a ‘Nobreza da Terra’ na construção do Império: os arquipélagos atlânticos” (PTDC/HAH/661072006)

Collaborators

António Portugal

Branca Moriés

Carolina Bastos

Edite Nunes

Filomena Rita

Eugénia Moreira

Helena Passo

Laura Moura

Tiago Ribeiro

Participating Institutions

Harriet Tubman Institute -York University, Toronto

Capa (K), Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisboa

Centro de Estudos Africanos/Universidade do Porto

Centro de Geo-Informação para o Desenvolvimento, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisboa

Centro de História, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisboa

Centro de História de Além-Mar, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Departamento de Geografia, Faculdade de Letras/ Universidade do Porto

Departamento de História, Faculdade de Letras/ Universidade de Lisboa

Departamento de Sociologia/ Universidade de Évora

Department of History, McMaster University, Ontario

Department of History, York University, Toronto

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Instituto de Ciências Sociais/ Universidade de Lisboa

Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas/Univ. Técnica de Lisboa

Programa de Desenvolvimento Global. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisboa

Universidade de Virgínia, Charlottesville

Wesleyan University, Middletown

Programme and More Information

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