http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/images/docs/programa_definitiv_act27goa.pdf A *rough*, machine translation of some of the sessions coming up this weekend
Portuguese and Post-Colonial Goa: THURSDAY, MAY 24 10:00 Opening Session Helena C. Buescu (CEC / FLUL) Ana Paula Laborinho (CEC / FLUL) Everton V. Machado (CEC / FLUL) Duarte D. Braga (CEC / FLUL) 10:30 Opening Plenary Session Chair: Helen C. Buescu K. David Jackson (Yale U., USA) Goa and Orientalism. 11:30 to 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 First Session Poesia em língua portuguesa / Poetry in Portuguese Chair: Everton V Machado (CEC / FLUL) Joana Passos (CEHUM): Goan Poetry in Portuguese and the theme of the dancers: projections, mythologies and chauvinism of the exotic romantic. Duarte D. Braga (CEC / FLUL): Shiva, Marx and Vasco da Gama: cultural affiliations and "hybridity" in *No Pais de Suria* by Paulino Dias. 12:45 Lunch Break / Lunch Break 13:50 Second Session Literature and institutional practice Chair: Ana Paula Avelar (Open U.) Rochelle Pinto (Delhi U.): Writing, Rebellion and spies - questions of truth in nineteenth century Goa Luis Cabral de Oliveira (IP Leiria / UNL) Breda and Coimbra: paths to the law? Cristiana Bastos (ICS): Grey literature with a psychedelic core: the social commentary in the medical reports from nineteenth century India. 15:00 Third Session Travel, empires and writing Chair: Duarte D. Braga (CEC / FLUL) Ana Paula Avelar (Open U.): The view of Goa in the 'East ...' of Adolfo Loureiro. Everton V. Machado: Westernization / Orientalization in Tomas Ribeiro's *Jornadas* (1874). Filipa Lowdnes Vicente (ICS): Writing on The Other India: British women travel narratives on Goa in the 1870s. Rogério Miguel Puga (CETAPS, / FCSH): Goa in Ruins: Echoes and intertextual reading of British and Portuguese India in *Goa and the Blue Mountains* (1851), Sir Richard Francis Burton. 18:30 Tribute to Orlando da Costa (Casa Fernando Pessoa) Chair: Everton V Machado (CEC / FLUL) Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Maria Barroso, Mario de Carvalho and written testimony of Jose Manuel Mendes. *** FRIDAY, MAY 25 10:00 Fourth Session Orientalism and Hinduism Chair: Filippa Lowdnes Vicente (ICS) Jason Keith Fernandes (ISCTE): The curious case of Goan orientalism. Sandra Lobo Ataíde (CHC / FCSH): Eulogy on the work of Vasconcelos: Orientalism in the Hindu and nineteenth-century Portuguese colonialism. Rui Lopo (CFUL / UL): *A India* of Adeodato Barreto: universality, exemplary and pioneering. 11:20 to 11:40 Coffee Break / Coffee break 11:40 Fifth Session Colonialism and the cultural-religious identity Chair: Christopher Larkosh (UMass Dartmouth, USA) Claudia Pereira (ISCTE): 'O Ultimo Olhar de Manu Miranda'. Portuguese Goa of Orlando da Costa and contemporary Goa: Christianity and Hinduism. Helder Garmes (U. Sao Paulo, Brazil): Colonialism and cultural conflict in 'O signo da ira' by Orlando da Costa Susana Sardo (U. Aveiro): Hosts of the East. The image of the East in Goan folklore and literature music in the twentieth century 13:00 Lunch Break / Lunch Break 14:00 Sixth Session Goa and post-coloniality / 1 Chair: Helder Garmes (U. Sao Paulo, Brazil) Sheila Khan (CICS-Minho): So this is the metropolis. Thinking Goa in Portuguese postcoloniality Paul Melo e Castro (U. Leeds, RU): Attitudes That Wind: *Os Contos* of Eduardo de Sousa and a Post-1961 View of an Elite in a Sunset. 16:00 Coffee Break / Coffee Break 16:30 Seventh Session Goa and post-coloniality and postcoloniality / 2 Chair: Paul Melo e Castro (U. Leeds, RU) Gitika Gupta (FLUC): *Moncao*: Calibrations and contrapuntal mo(o)de Benedito Ferrao (Birkbeck College, U. London, RU): Blue Jesus is a Muslim: The postcolonial Goan in Salman Rushdie's *Midnight's Children* Christopher Larkosh (UmassDartmouth, USA): On Luso-Asian texts and the Possibilities for postcolonial reading. 16:30 to 17:00 Coffee Break / Coffee Break 17:00 Closing Plenary Session / Closing Plenary Session Chair: Everton V Machado (CEC / FLUL) Rosa Perez (ISCTE): Orientalism the Orient. http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/images/docs/programa_definitiv_act27goa.pdf [Please excuse errors in translation, or post corrections to goa...@goanet.org ] -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings