International Conference “A Luta Continua, 40 Years Later”: Entangled Histories and Legacies of Empire in Southern Africa
Venue: French Institute of South Africa, Juta Street 62, Johannesburg
Programme
5 November
9h15-9h50. Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks.
9h50-10h. Welcome remarks. Caio Simões de Araújo, Pamila Gupta, and Adrien Delmas.
10h00-11h00. Opening Address Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of South Africa): Colonialism(s), Nationalisms and Decolonization in Southern Africa
11h00-12h30 Panel. Southern Africa and the World: international organizations and networks
Aurora Almada e Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): The Portuguese Colonial Issue in the United Nations and the Southern African Regional Context
Daniel Kaiser (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany): Legacies of Empire: Frelimo and its Socialization in Transnational Fields of Anticolonial Resistance
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal) and José Pedro Monteiro (IHEID, Switzerland): Labour on the move: internationalism and colonialism in Southern Africa (1947-1974)
12h30-13h30. Lunch Break 13h30-15h00. Panel. Southern Connections: regional decolonization between Second and Third Worlds
Vanicléia Silva Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil): Brazilian Diplomatic Policy in the 1970s for Eastern Africa in the context of Apartheid
Caio Simões de Araújo (IHEID, Switzerland): From Afro-Asia, with love: global decolonization and the “Indian question” in Mozambique
Myra Ann Houser (Ouachita Baptis University, US): Decolonizing Which Atlantic? South Africa, Namibia, and El Salvador during the 1980s
15h10-16h30. Roundtable. Perspectives on Southern African Decolonization
Giorgio Miescher (Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland): Thinking with Empire: a view from Namibia
Sue Onslow (School of Advanced Studies, University of London, UK): Decolonisation as a process: Ruptures and Continuities
16h30-16h50. Coffee Break
16h50-18h00. Visual Workshop: Screening of the film “Effects of Wording,” followed by a debate with the author Catarina Simão (independent researcher and film curator)
19h00-21h00. Conference Dinner
6 November
9h00-10h30. Panel. Peoples on the move: displacement, migration and decolonization
Eric Allina (University of Ottawa, Canada/Humboldt University, Germany): Labour on the Frontlines: an entangled history of Southern Africa and Central Europe
Joanna Tague (Denison University, US): Refugee Power: Contestations over the Displaced during Mozambique's War for Liberation, 1960-1974
Pamila Gupta (WiSER, Wits University, South Africa): Decolonization and Dispossession in Lusophone Africa
10h30-12h. Panel. Red Entanglements: international communism and decolonization
Adrien Delmas (French Institute of South Africa): Cuba and Apartheid
Kelly Araújo (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil): The involvement of Moscow in the war against insurgency in Angola, seen through the eyes of former combatants (1975-1991)
Chris Saunders (University of Cape Town, South Africa): The Soviets, Cubans and the Last Phase of Decolonization of Namibia
12h-13h. Lunch Break
13h-14h30. Panel. The politics of space and heritage in Southern Africa
Pedro Pombo (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India): Narrating Ruins: Landscapes of belonging and the remains of history in a southern Mozambican district
Albino Jopela (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique): Liberation heritage and the politics of heritage in postcolonial Mozambique
Walter Rossa (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal): Urbanistic heritage and urban resilience for the future of African societies
14h30-16h. Panel. The Aesthetics of Liberation
Ana Balona de Oliveira (University of London, UK): The aesthetics of liberation: Southern Africa in Contemporary Artistic practices from Mozambique, South Africa, Angola and Portugal
Afonso Ramos (University College London, UK): Imagining struggles between Luanda and New York: on Stan Douglas’ project Disco Angola
Jessica Stephenson (Kennesaw State University, US): Military Migration and Memory: Angolan Flechas Four Decades on
16h-16h30. Coffee break
16h30-18h. Roundtable. Colonialism, Decolonization and Post-coloniality in Lusophone Africa
Benedito Machava (University of Michigan, US): The Road not Taken: Political Imagination and the Realm of the Possible in Decolonizing Mozambique
António Tomás (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa): Decolonizing the “undecolonizable”? Portugal and the independence of Lusophone Africa
18h-18h40. Closing Table. The future of research on Southern Africa Sue Onslow Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo Chris Saunders
18h40. Closing Cocktail