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PORTUGUESE EVENTS IN OXFORD Language – History – Literature – Culture – Current Affairs

Michaelmas Term 2007

1 - Portuguese Graduate Seminar

The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. in 47 Wellington Square , Room T11.

Wednesday 10 October Prof. T. F. Earle (St Peter’s) ‘National identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Portuguese and foreign perceptions’

Wednesday 24 October Mariana de Castro (King’s College London) ‘Fernando Pessoa’ (title to be confirmed)

Wednesday 7 November Maria Luísa Coelho (Reading University) ‘An analysis of Helena Almeida’s process of self-representation’

Wednesday 21 November Dr Lúcia Villares ‘Two Victorias: two female characters in Graciliano Ramos’s fiction’

2. Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar

Venue: Old Seminar Room, Wadham College

18 October A open start-of-year discussion meeting

1 November Reading Group Discussion: Leela Gandhi, “Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Friendship”, chapter 2 of Affective Communities (Duke UP, 2006)

15 November Nandini Gooptu (South Asian Studies, Oxford), “Youth, Enterprise Culture and Politics in Globalized India”

29 November David Lambert (Geography, RHUL), “Taken captive by the mustery of the Great River”: Geography, Atlantic slavery and the culture of West African exploration”.

Co-convenors: Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson, Oxford) Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford)

3. Oxford Workshop on History, Society and Politics in Portugal and East Timor

Provisional Programme Convenors: Professor Nancy Bermeo (Nuffield College); Dr Peter Carey (Trinity College); Dr Rui Feijó (Porto and St Antony’s College) and Dr David B. Goldey (Lincoln College)

Friday 16 November 2007 Chester Room, Nuffield College

20:30 – 22:00 ‘A Timorese Political Paradox? The 2007 Electoral Cycle & the Question of a Semi- Presidential Regime’ Presenter: Dr Rui Feijó (sometime UN advisor to the President of Timor, Porto, St Antony’s College) Comment: Dr Peter Carey (Trinity College) Chair: Mr Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College)

Saturday 17 November 2007 Seminar room A, Manor Road Building

9:15 - 10:45 ‘Western Appeasement of Indonesia: How a Western Policy Consensus from the 1960s facilitated Jakarta’s Invasion of East Timor in 1975’ Presenter: Dr Moisés Fernandes (Instituto de Ciências Sociais [ICS] University of Lisbon) Comment: Dr Oisín Tansey (Department of Politics, University of Reading)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 ‘From “Politics as a Profession” to the Professionalization of Politics and its Political and Social Consequences’ Presenter: Dr Ana Paula Gil Garcés (Catholic University, Lisbon and St Antony’s College) Comment: Mr Ricardo Borges de Castro

12:45 - 14:00 Break

14:00 - 15:30 ‘Weak Societal Roots, Strong Individual Patrons? Patronage & Party Organization in Portugal (a research outline)’ Presenter: Dr Carlos Jalali (ICS, University of Aveiro, Pembroke College) Comment: Dr João Cravinho, Sr, (former Minister and a Director of the EBRD)

15:30 - 15:45 Tea

15:45 - 17:15 ‘The Current State of Portuguese Politics’ Panel: Workshop presenters and convenors Opening Remarks: Dr João Cravinho Chair: Dr David Goldey

Acknowledgement: The workshop is funded by the Faculty of History, University of Oxford; the Instituto Camões Center for Portuguese Studies; the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; the Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy (OCSID); and Nuffield College

4. The Politics of Nations and Nationalism in Lusophone Africa

An OreNGA conference organised by Eric Morier-Genoud and Gavin Williams with the support of the British Academy, African Studies UK, the Department of Politics and International Relations and University of Oxford's African Studies.

6 December 2007, 9am-12am. What's Particular about Nationalism in Lusophone Africa? - Michel Cahen (CEAN, Bordeaux), - Georgi Derluguian (Northwestern University), “What Placed FRELIMO on the Global Left? - David Birmingham (Kent University), “Is 'nationalism' a feature of Angola's cultural heritage?” Discussants: Jan-Georg Deutsch

6 December 2007, 2pm-5pm. Lusophone Cultures of Nationalism - Marissa Moorman (Indiana University), music in Angola -- Jason Sumich (LSE, London), on modernity in Mozambique Discussants: Alcinda Honwana

7 December 2007, 9am-12am. Non-dominant and marginal Nationalisms - Joel das Neves (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique), “Diaspora and Nationalism: A look on Mozambican experiences in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1950s-1960s” - Fernando Pimenta (University of Florence, Italy), "Angola's Euro-African Nationalism: the United Angolan Front (FUA)" - Didier Peclard (Swiss Peace, Bern), on UNITA Discussants: Jocelyn Alexander

7 December 2007, 2pm-5pm. Contemporary Politics of Nationalism - Luis de Brito (IESE, Mozambique), Re-building Frelimo's political hegemony: the politics of a presidential succession - Philip Havick (IICT, Lisbon), “Nationalism and nationhood in Guinea Bissau: invention, myth or fetish?” Discussants: Patrick Chabal (King's college)

7 December, 5pm-6pm

Conclusion Rapporteur: Terence Ranger

The Conference is funded by the African Studies Departmental Funding, OReNGA, Department of Politics and International Relations, QEH Department, Instituto Camoes Center for Portuguese Studies, UK African Studies Association, St Cross College

5. Wednesday 28 November 2007

Instituto Camoes Centre for Portuguese Studies 5:00pm – 6:00pm

“Meet Ercole Pignatelli” The italian painter Ercole Pignatelli will be at the Centre. The Centre will have an exhibition of Pignatelli's work next spring, produced and organized by the New Renaissance Art Gallery.

Hilary Term 2008

St.John’s College and the Instituto Camões Centre present the world premiére of the play “Man of a Thousand Faces and One Muse” / “Fernando Mil Pessoas Uma Musa e…” by Mario Fedele, starring Leonor Alcácer, António Abernú, Zi Plátano and Ana Rá, directed by Mário Fedele Wednesday 27 February, 6:00pm, at St.John’s College Auditorium, St.Giles, Oxford

Sponsored by the New Renaissance Art Gallery, Herdade da Comporta, S.A. and Municipio de Alcácer do Sal. Produced by Nuno Pinto Teixeira. Presented by Leonor Alcácer Produções

Instituto Camões Centre Seminars The Instituto Camões Centre and The Oxford University Foreign Service Programme Wednesday, 23 January, 6:00pm, North Lecture Room of St.John’s College, St.Giles. Armando Marques Guedes “European Neighbourhood Policy East and South revisited: is ENP a stepping stone for accession, an application of Kantian Democratic Peace theory, or the drawing of a’ cordon sanitaire’?”

Instituto Camões Centre and the Oxford Research Network on Government in Africa/OReNGA Tuesday 12 February, 5:00 pm, Seminar Room, Instituto Camões Centre Lorenzo Macagno (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) “The Place of Muslims in the Portuguese Colonial Narrative”

African History, Politics and Geography Seminar Monday 3 March, 5:00 pm, Seminar Room, History Faculty, George Street Armando Marques Guedes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Diplomático) “The Political Evolution of Angola since Savimbi”

Portuguese Graduate Seminar Thursday 17 January, in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College, at 5:15 pm Paulo de Medeiros (University of Utrecht) “Impure Islands: Europe and a Post-Imperial Polity”

Tuesday 12 February, in Room T11, 47 Wellington Sqaure, at 2:15 pm Zoltán Biedermann (King’s College London) “Barros, Portuguese Classicism, and the wider context of Renaissance cosmographical writing, 1520- 1560”

Tuesday 26 February, in Room T11, 47 Wellington Sqaure, at 2:15 pm Charlotte Liddell “Between ‘founding text’ and ‘literary prank’: How to read Nisia Floresta’s ‘Direitos das Mulheres e Injustiça dos Homens’.”

Anglo-Portuguese Workshop on Intellectual Relations between Portugal and Northern Europe 11 and 12 April, Dorfamn Room, St.Peter’s College, Oxford

Trinity Term 2008

Celebrating the 25th of April The Portuguese Sub-Faculty and OUPS invite you to a poetry reading by Ana Luísa Amaral Friday, 25 April, at the Taylorian Institution, Room 3, 5:00 pm Afterwards, as a celebration of the 25th of April, revolution songs will be performed by the Portuguese Students Tuna.

Linking Portuguese Music to the World Circuits: Miso Music Portugal at the Oxford Contemporary Music Festival, Jacqueline du Pres Music Building Miso Emsemble, April 25th , at 8:00pm The Smith Quartet, April 26th, at 8:00pm Sponsored by the British Council and Instituto Camões For more information see http://www.misomusic.com/ingl/internatio/circuits.html

Journeys of (Self)Discovery in Brazilian Cinema. Friday May 2nd, at the McKenna Room, Christ Church College, Oxford A one day conference on road movies and travel narratives, organized by Sara Brandellero. Please contact [email protected] Programme and abstracts at http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/portuguese

Instituto Camões Centre Seminars Instituto Camões Centre and the Oxford Centre For the Study Of Inequality And Democracy Monday, 5 May, at Clay Room, Nuffield College, 5:00 pm António Costa Pinto (University of Lisbon) “The End of the Portuguese Empire. Dealing with Simultaneous Democratization and Decolonization”.

Workshop Echoes of Imperialism: Re-thinking European Colonialisms Friday 9 and saturday 10 May 2008 at the History Faculty, the maison Francaise d'Oxford and the European Studies Centre University of Oxford