gender, empire and postcolony: intersections in luso-afro

3:45–
5:00
women writing post / colony
Chair: Anna M. Klobucka
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa”
Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos
(Universidade de Coimbra)
“Uma leitura pós-colonial de A Continuação do Fim do Mundo de Adília Lopes: o parto dos gémeos Hércules e Íficles”
Ana Bela Almeida (Universidade da Coruña)
“Ocupar terras, ocupar corpos: de uma imagem de A Costa dos Murmúrios até os versos de Ana Paula Tavares”
Livia Apa (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)
5–6
reception
sunday, 11 october 2009
9:30–
visualizing gender politics in brazilian and
10:45 am portuguese art
Chair: Cristina Mehrtens
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“A Turma do Pererê: Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian
Children’s Comic”
Elise Dietrich (Tulane University)
“Not Your Mother’s Milk: The Wet Nurse Revisited”
Kimberly Cleveland (Georgia State University)
“Salazar’s Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the
Work of Paula Rego”
Memory Holloway (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
gender, empire and postcolony:
intersections in luso-afro-brazilian studies
9-11 october 2009
university of massachusetts dartmouth
organizers
anna m. klobucka
university of massachusetts dartmouth
hilary owen
university of manchester
gina m. reis, associate organizer
university of massachusetts dartmouth
11–12:15 deconstructing fictions of gender Chair: Christopher Larkosh
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“Gendered Creolity and Luso-Tropical Paternity in José Eduardo Agualusa’s As mulheres do meu pai”
Malcolm McNee (Smith College)
“A heterossexualidade como estratégia autodesculpabilizadora em
A Esmorga de Eduardo Blanco-Amor”
Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián (Universidade da Coruña)
“Complex Categories: Female Figures in Os Lusíadas”
Denise Saive (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
sponsors
umd center for portuguese studies & culture
umd college of arts & sciences
instituto cames, lisbon
umd college of visual & performing arts
umd women's studies program
umd african & african-american studies program
umd center for indic studies
umd office of faculty development
friday, 9 october 2009
break
9 am
conference opening
5–6
performing sex and race in brazil and beyond
“Performing White Negritude in Brazil of the 1930s”
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“The Bi-Cultural Sex Symbol: Sônia Braga in Brazilian and American Popular Cultures”
Benjamin Legg (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
saturday, 10 october 2009
Chancellor Jean F. MacCormack, UMD
Dr. Magali Carrera, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Dean William Hogan, College of Arts and Sciences
Frank F. Sousa, UMD Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture
Anna M. Klobucka, UMD Department of Portuguese
Hilary Owen, University of Manchester
9:30–11 woman, nation and the struggle for independence
Chair: Kathleen Sheldon (UCLA)
“Guerra, testemunhos e memórias em femininas travessias”
Laura Cavalcante Padilha (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
“Our Space: Womanhood, Nation-Building and Citizenship in Alda Espírito Santo”
Deolinda Maria Adão (University of California, Berkeley)
Chair: Dário Borim (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
9:30– empire of the lenses: reflections on
10:45 am portuguese post / colonial cinema
Chair: Victor K. Mendes
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“Deolinda Rodrigues, da ‘família metodista’ à ‘família MPLA’:
O papel da cultura na política”
Margarida Paredes (ISCTE)
“Women in the Colonies: Creating an Image of the Portuguese Empire through Propaganda Films”
Patrícia Vieira (Georgetown University)
“Karingana Wa Karingana: Representations of the
Heroic Female in Mozambique”
Maria Tavares (University of Manchester)
“Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos Murmúrios and the
Reviewing of Colonial Masculinities”
Mark Sabine (University of Nottingham)
break
“Making War on the Isle of Love in Manoel de Oliveira’s
Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar”
Hilary Owen (University of Manchester)
break
11:30– gendering the orders of knowledge and power
12:45
Chair: João Cesar de Castro Rocha (University of Manchester and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“Gender, Sexuality, and Revolutionary Masculinity during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship”
James Green (Brown University)
“Gendered Ideology in Pepetela’s Postcolony”
Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University)
“Restelo Redux: The Return of the Repressed Paternal Voice in António Lobo Antunes’ As Naus”
Steven Gonzagowski (Rutgers University)
lunch
2–3 keynote lecture
11:15–
colony and metropolis: sexing the encounter
12:45
Chair: José Ornelas (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Women Writing ‘the Colonial Form’ in Postcolonial Portugal”
Ana Paula Ferreira (University of Minnesota)
“An Abiding Affair: Notes on a Post-Imperial Relationship (Portugal-Cape Verde)”
Ellen Sapega (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
“The Sophisticated and the Popular Reconciled: A Look at
Postcolonial Literary Value Through the Work of Paulina
Chiziane and Lídia Jorge”
Ana Margarida Dias Martins (University of Manchester)
Introduction: Hilary Owen (University of Manchester)
lunch
“A Labour of Love: Some Notes on Belle époque
Socialist Antimaterialism”
Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
2:15–
3:15
Chair: Isabel Rodrigues
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
3:15–
4:45 reading paulina chiziane
“Género, colonialismo e o depois: continuidades e
descontinuidades no trabalho da memória”
Maria José Mascarenhas (ISEG)
“Paulina Chiziane: Gender Between Tradition and Modernity”
Luís Manuel Dias Martins (Universidade de Lisboa)
“Alternative Crossings to Portugal Cove”
Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“Itinerários do corpo feminino em
Balada de Amor ao Vento de Paulina Chiziane”
Joana de Medeiros Mota Pimentel (Universidade da Coruña)
“A Nova Raça Revisited: Mytho-Historical Miscegenation in Paulina Chiziane’s O Alegre Canto da Perdiz”
Melissa Schindler (SUNY Buffalo)
Chair: Hilary Owen (University of Manchester)
diasporic crossings
break