Program

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AfroLab International Colloquium 2022

November 10/11, 2022

Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon

rooms B112.B and B112.C

 

 

November 10th

 

9:30 am / 10:45 am

plenary conference

 

Doris Wieser (University of Coimbra)

The place of Portuguese-speaking African Literatures in European higher education institutions

 

10:45 am / 11:30 am

coffee break

 

11:30 am / 1:00 pm

table 1

build canons/1

moderator: Marco Bucaioni

 

Debora Leite David (CLEPUL/Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon)

Boletim Cultura: national conscience in the construction of the Angolan literary canon

 

João-Manuel Neves (CEComparatists/Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon)

Sá da Bandeira and the constitution of the field of literacy related to Mozambique

 

Helena González Do Val (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Mozambican literary canon: what(s) does it respond to?

 

13:00/15:00

lunch

 

15:00/16:30

table 2

build canons/2 (online session)

moderator: Denis Silva

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Lola Geraldes Xavier & Yu Meng (Polytechnic University of Macau/Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra)

For the construction of a canon: three decades of Sleepwalking Earth

 

Rannyelle Rocha Teixeira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)

The African intellectual generation of the 1950s, the generation of utopia: a history made by letters and bodies

 

Jacqueline Kaczorowski (University of São Paulo)

Notes on the study of Portuguese-speaking African literature in Brazil

 

16:30/17:00

coffee break

 

17:00/18:30

table 3

institutions outside Africa

moderator: Rosa Maria Fina

 

Marco Bucaioni (CLEPUL/Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon)

Post-revolutionary euphoria. The role of Portuguese publishers in the institution of African Literature after independence

 

Wellington Marçal de Carvalho (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Biography of an anti-library: the formation of the collection of the African Studies Center of the Federal University of Minas Gerais

 

Jorge Vicente Valentim (UFSCar)

Portuguese-speaking African literatures in the contemporary Brazilian scenario: affirmations and resistances

 

November 11th

 

09:30/11:00

table 4

build canons/3

moderator: Marisa Mourinha

 

Jessica Falconi (CEsA-ISEG, University of Lisbon)

Interviews, testimonies, meetings: canonization and construction of knowledge in African literature in Portuguese

 

Francesco Genovesi (CLEPUL/Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon)

Recanonize, decolonize: The canon or canons of African literatures in Portuguese?

 

Salvador Bonifácio Tito (Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon)

Canon of Portuguese-speaking African literature: fallacies, digressions or realizations?

 

11:00 am / 11:30 am

coffee break

 

11:30 am / 1:00 pm

table 5:

transits/circulation/worlds 1 (online session)

moderator: Marco Bucaioni

 

Elena Brugioni (State University of Campinas)

Awards, consecrations and world-literary-system. Reflections on "international forms of literary dependency" and "canon" in African literatures: notes for a conceptual review

 

Marta Banasiak (State University of Campinas)

In the world of theory(s) – the new paths for the analysis of Portuguese-speaking African Literatures

 

Noemi Alfieri (CLEPUL/Faculty of Letters of the U. Lisboa/Africa Multiple - U. Bayreuth)

Nouvelle somme de poésie du monde noir:How did African poetry circulate in the 60s?

 

13:00/15:00

lunch

 

15:00/16:30

table 6:

transits/circulation/worlds 2

Moderator: Francesco Genovesi

 

Marisa Mourinha (CEComparatistas/Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon)

And the poetry, mere paragraph? –The circulation of Portuguese-speaking African poetry from the 1960s onwards

 

Denis Silva (CLEPUL/Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon)

Horizontal literary transit Africa/Brazil: the case ofThe last tragedyby Abdulai Sulla

 

16:30/17:00

coffee break

 

17:00/18:30

closure: Pires Laranjeira

Literary (con)federations in Portuguese and other languages: civil wars, class struggles and global empires

moderator: Ana Paula Tavares

 

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