NEW POWERS
Chief curator: António Pinto Ribeiro
Coorganised by: Associação Cultural Unipop
8 Feb 2014 - 15:00 – 24 May 2014 - 15:00
Auditorium 3 of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Free admission
4th Observatory of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
The aim of this cycle of debates is to discuss historical and present-day experiences that can help us to form an inventory of the different types of power relations. It is a programme that cuts not only across the fields of art and culture, but also across politics and economics. It involves the discussion of political events, aesthetic movements and theoretical debates, and focuses on such diverse subjects as literary texts, political actions, film images, academic currents of thought and even trade flows.
Special attention will be devoted to the dynamics of territorialisation that are involved in power relations, ranging from colonial expansion to the globalisation process, from the formation of metropolises to the transformation of nature.
The inspiration for this programme is the critique that will be made of colonial domination in African, Asian and South American territories and societies, looking at the alternatives being developed in these same contexts, both to the new forms of western domination and to the powers that have since established themselves in the post-colonial world.
Diogo Duarte, Inês Galvão and José Neves (Coordinators)
(Photo by: James Bey, "Future Next Exit Highway Road Sign", 2010)
Admission is free and enrolments should be made by e-mail at: [email protected]
PROGRAME
1st Session | 8 February
THE ECONOMICS OF URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Protest and Rebellion in Present-Day Maputo and Rio de Janeiro
Speakers:
Giuseppe Cocco, Sociologist, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Paulo Granjo, Anthropologist, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Commentator: José Nuno Matos, Sociologist, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
2nd Session | 1 March [Simultaneous translation: EN-PT]
THE ART OF THE ORDINARY AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE
Anti-colonialism, from the Militant Image to the War of Writings
Speakers:
Ros Gray, Critical Studies, Goldsmith College, University of London
Maria-Benedita Basto, Literary Studies, University of Paris IV
Commentator: Luís Trindade, Historian, Birkbeck College – University of London
3rd Session | 29 March
A HISTORY OF POPULAR PROTESTS AND ANTI-COLONIAL STRUGGLES
Politics in Portugal and the Portuguese Empire from the 19th century to 25 April
Speakers:
Diego Palacios Cerezales, Historian, University of Stirling
José Neves, Historian, Institute of Contemporary History, New University of Lisbon
Commentator: Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira, Historian, ISCTE-IUL
4th Session | 26 April [Simultaneous translation: EN-PT]
FROM THE THEORY OF DEPENDENCE TO THE RIGHT TO ESCAPE
The Circulation of Goods and People in the World
Speakers:
Sandro Mezzadra, Sociologist, University of Bologna and University of Western Sidney
Nuno Teles, Economist, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Commentator: José Mapril, Anthropologist, Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA)
5th Session | 24 May [Simultaneous translation: FR-PT]
SOCIETY AGAINST STATE AND THE CARE OF THE SELF
Emancipation, Amerindian Perspectivism and Post-colonialism
Speakers:
Orazio Irrera, Philosophy, University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Davide Scarso, Philosophy, Center for the History of Science and Technology
Commentator: Bruno Peixe Dias, Philosophy, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon