April 4 – 6, 2024 Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Organizers
Paula C. G. Noversa, UMass Dartmouth
Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen’s University (Belfast)
Daniela Melo, Boston University
The year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a seminal event in Portuguese history.
The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture in coordination with the Ferreira-Mendes PortugueseAmerican Archives is pleased to announce that it is hosting an international conference on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of April 2024. The theme is “The Carnation Revolution: Global Perspectives”. This conference will explore the global cause and impact of the Carnation Revolution reflecting scholarship on the metropole, the empire, and the diaspora. The goal of the conference is to bring together individuals from a variety of academic fields to discuss the multifaceted aspects of the revolution throughout the Lusophone world.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1 - 1:30pm
1:30 - 2pm
CIE Lobby: Coffee & Registration
CIE, CR4A: Welcome Address
Dr. Paula C. G. Noversa, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
2 - 3:15pm
Panel 1: The Carnation Revolution: Reaction in the Diaspora
Panelists:
Paula Noversa, UMassD, chair
Daniela Melo, Boston University, “The Revolution Comes to the U.S.: Portuguese Diasporic Activism in New England”
Gilberto Fernandes, York University (Toronto), “No More Yearning: Revolutionary Tremors in Canada’s Portuguese Community”
3:15 - 3:30pm
3:30 - 5pm
5 - 5:15pm
5:15 - 6:45pm
Lobby, break
Panel 2: Black Carnation I: The Revolution in the African Diaspora
Panelists:
Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen’s University, Belfast, chair
Victor Barros, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Cape Verdean Diaspora in Lisbon and the Carnation Revolution”
Aurora Almada e Santos, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “The United Nations, the End of the Estado Novo”
Iolanda Maria Alves Évora, ISEG, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Telling our Stories, Challenging Narratives. The Carnation Revolution from the Perspective of People of African Descent”
Lobby, break
Panel 3: Luso-American Relations and the Carnation Revolution
Panelists:
Lily Havstad, Harvard University, “Lessons from the Carnation Revolution: Armed Resistance and Nonviolent Direct Action in Global Perspective”
Christianna Leahy, McDaniel College, “International Entanglements in the Portuguese Revolution”
Frédéric Heurtebize, Université Paris Nanterre, “US Labor and the Carnation Revolution”
Miguel Moniz, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, “Estado Novo Cultural Diplomacy and Political Influence Operations in the United States. A Context for Immigrant Community Responses to the 1974, 25 de Abril Revolution”
Friday, April 5, 2024
New Bedford Whaling Museum
9 - 9:45am
9:45 - 10am
10 - 11:30am
Jacobs Family Gallery: Coffee & Registration
Cook Memorial Theatre: Welcome Dr. Paula C. G. Noversa, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Panel 4: The Carnation Revolution through the Prism of Literature
Panelists:
Valeria H. Monteagudo de Campos, SESI and Universidade de São Paulo, “Morte e Vida: Antitheses pré e pós Revolução dos Cravos na poesia de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen”
Ana Margarida Fonseca, ILCML Universidade de Porto, “Filhas da Revolução: a (in)visibilidade da Escrita Ficcional de Autoras Afrodescendentes”
Conceição Brandão, ILCML Universidade de Porto, “Sacrifice, Freedom and Memory of the Carnation Revolution: Between The Day of the Prodigies and The Memorables of Lídia Jorge”
Dora Gago, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Voices and Silences of April in The Memorables by Lídia Jorge: Ernesto Salamida, “the invisible messenger”
11:30am - 12:30pm
12:45 - 2:30pm
2:30 - 2:45pm
2:45 - 4:15pm
Harbor View Gallery: Lunch
Film Screening “O Que Podem as Palavras” (2022, 77 minutes) Collaborators: Luísa Marinho and Luisa Sequeira. A film about the creation and the impact of the book “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (1972) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. This documentary features exclusive interviews with the three authors of Novas Cartas Portuguesas and includes archival footage from the time, reflecting the period of the April 25th Revolution.
Break
Panel 5: The Carnation Revolution: Women & Gender
Panelists:
Daniela Melo, Boston University, chair
Patrícia Calca, ISCTE Lisbon, “Portuguese Women’s Legislative Behavior in the Democratic Era (post-1974)”
Joana Matias, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Pink Carnations: Notes on the Place of Gender and Sexuality in the History of the Revolution”
Isabel Freire, Independent Scholar, “Was Sexuality the Elephant in the Room in the Aftermath of the Carnation Revolution”
4:15 - 4:30pm
4:30 - 5:45pm
7 - 9pm
Break Panel 6: Black Carnation II: Africa’s Role in the Revolution
Panelists:
Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen’s University, Belfast, “Mozambique and the Carnation Revolution”
Marçal de Menezes Paredes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, “Carnation Revolution and the Global Cold War Connections: a Southern Perspective”
Jean-Miachael Mabeko-Tali, Howard University, “Angolan Armed Struggle in 1974-75: How the Metropolitan Struggles for Political Position Impacted an Already Complex Anticolonial War”
Cocktail hour & dinner
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Charlton College of Business (UMass Dartmouth)
10 - 10:30am
10:30am - 12pm
12 - 1pm
1 - 2pm
2:15 - 5pm
CCB Lobby: Coffee & Registration
Panel 7: The Carnation Revolution: Global Ideological Impact
Panelists:
Warjio, Universitas Sumatera Utara (Medan, Indonesia), “The Impact of the Carnation Revolution For Indonesia”
Madhu, Miranda House, University of Delhi, “Nationalism, Democracy and Identity: The Case of Goa”
Reinaldo I. Lohn, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Between Revolution and Transition: The Influence of the Portuguese Revolution on debates about the Brazilian political transition (1974-1979
Rui Graça Feijo, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Wayfarers & Pathways: Public Sphere, Agency and Indeterminacy in the Portuguese Carnation Revolution”
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives Exhibit
Claire T. Carney Library, Grand Reading Room, Lunch
CCB, 149: Roundtable Discussion: The Carnation Revolution: Community Voices
Registration
Pre-registration is preferred.
Send your name, affiliation (if any), and the dates of attendance to Robin Couto at rcouto@umassd.edu with the subject heading “CPSC CONFERENCE REGISTRATION”.
Please also indicate if you will be joining us for lunch and dinner on day 2 and/or lunch on day 3.
Lodging
If you are planning to stay in the New Bedford area, we recommend:
Fairfield by Marriott International
185 Macarthur Drive New Bedford, MA 02740
New Bedford Harbor Hotel
222 Union Street New Bedford, MA 02740
Parking
Thursday: Ample parking is provided at the UMassD Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (151 Martine St. Fall River)
Friday: Guests at the NB Whaling Museum should use the Elm Street Parking Garage (51 Elm Street, NB)
Saturday: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (285 Old Westport Road) use Parking Lot #14.
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