Brown's Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies announces a two-day colloquium entitled "The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond."

Keynote Lecture: “World War One and the Arts in the Lusophone World,” by Ellen W. Sapega

 

Colloquium Schedule

Friday, 18 March 2016

9:45am Coffee

10:00am Proceedings open

• Welcome address. (Onésimo T. Almeida)
• Introduction to the Workshop. (Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses)

10:30am Session 1. Diplomatic and military considerations
[Chair: Marta Rosales]

• Different Approaches to War: Portugal and Brazil, 1916-1918. (Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses)
• Portuguese America at war. (Paula Rioux)

12:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Session 2. The Colonial Dimension
[Chair: Roquinaldo Ferreira]

• Portuguese Africa at War: Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean (1914-1918). (Ana Paula Pires)
• Macau between Republics: Neither War nor Peace (1914-1918). (Luís Cunha)

3:30pm Coffee

4:00pm Session 3. Social Dimensions
[Chair: Timothy Dale]

• Women and the war. (Alice Samara)

6:00pm Keynote Lecture by Ellen W. Sapega

World War One and the Arts in the Lusophone World.

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Saturday, 19 March 2016

8:45am Breakfast

9:00am Session 4. The War's Consequences
[Chair: Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses]

• Portugal’s Empire in the wake of WWI: Coping with the Pan -African Movement and the League of Nations. (Pedro Aires Oliveira)
• War, Memory and Commemoration. (Sílvia Correia)

10:30am Coffee

11:00am Concluding Session
[Chair: Stewart Lloyd-Jones]

• The Great War and the Origins of Authoritarian Thought in the Lusophone World. (Francisco Carlos Palomanes Martinho)
• General Discussion: New paths for the historiography of the Lusophone World.
  

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The colloquium has been featured on the Portuguese American Journal page.

This event made possible with generous support from FLAD.