Atlantic Triangles: Lusophone Colonial and Postcolonial Crossings

Description

This workshop gathered a number of prominent international scholars in the Humanities and the Social Sciences for conceptualising new ways of addressing the relationships between Europe, South America and Africa. The workshop aimed at advancing and reformulating current research focused on Atlantic crossovers and exchanges, enlarging its Anglophone scope. Even though the focus was on the triangulation between Portugal, Brazil and Angola, the workshop also established a dialogue between scholars centered on North Atlantic studies and on South Atlantic crossings. At the center of this triangulation was an innovative focus on Brazil that brings into attention a nation currently in a transition phase; and, by calling attention to the relations between Africa and Brazil, it shifts Eurocentric ways of relating to Brazil. As a result, the perception of Europe was also under scrutiny. As such, the goals of the workshop were innovative and ambitious, clearly centered on cultural issues but always intrinsically linked to pressing social and political ones.

Period	10 May 2012 → 11 May 2012
Event type	Other