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

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 , 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