Sumários

Are Europe-Africa Relations changing? A critical review of the history of EU-Africa agreements and summits

15 Novembro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos


Are Europe-Africa Relations changing? Can Africa be looked at as one?

1. Myths and realities about Africa

2. Major Dynamics in the two first decades of the 21st Century in Africa: the role of the EU

3. May Africa be treated as a politically coherent entity?

4. Ongoing dynamics at the dawn of the 3rd decade of this Century: any significant change in the EU-Africa relationship?




Readings:


Carlos Lopes; George Kararach (2021). Structural Change in Africa: Misperceptions, New Narratives and Development in the 21st Century, Routledge

Cardoso, Fernando Jorge (2017). O Desenvolvimento sem Norte nem Sul, imvf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/imvfpolicypaper7jun2018.pdf

Cooperation Europa-Africa - case study: academic mobility

8 Novembro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos

Cooperation Europa-Africa - academic mobility and migratory flows.

Case study: African students in Portugal, evolution and present-day situation.
Invited lecturer: Prof. Clara Carvalho (CEI-ISCTE)

The afterlives of development in Eastern Africa

25 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos


The afterlives of development interventions: Retracing theK enya-Finland Cooperation (Kefinco) Project in western Kenya

Since the end of colonialism, cooperation between African and Europeanc ountries has given rise to countless and varied internationald evelopment projects, which in turn left contested and often unexpectedl egacies. Drawing on the Iscte-based European Research Council (ERC)p roject AfDevLives, in this lecture we will discuss a cases-tudy involving such a Euro-African development collaboration - namely, a large-scale waterp roject called Kefinco, which was implemented in Kakamega, western Kenya, in the 1980s and 1990s. This session will feature four speakers, three of whom will join us remotely, and willf ocus on the retracing of such afterlives and on them ethods used for their ongoing exploration, and in particular on thec onvergence of ethnographic and archival material."

Guest speaker: Yonatan Gez (CEI-IUL) and the team of AfDevLives

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Trabalho autónomo:

Readings:

Ferguson&Lohmann (1994) The anti-politics machine: "Development" and bureaucracy power in Lesotho. The ecologist, 24, 5

Gez&Fouere&Bulugu (2022) Telling ruins -The afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in lake Victoria, tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies.

Vuori (1986) Water for a million. World Health.

Portugal after 1974: the birth pangs of a post-colonial nation

18 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos


Nearly 50 year after the 'loss' of its overseas empire, Portugal is still struggling to come to terms with its postcolonial condition - just as many other former European powers, by the way. Those who have studied the post-colonial trajectory of the country are usually struck by the persistence of an unreconstructed imperial imagery in public discourses, as well as many subtle (or not so subtle) expressions of racism. In this talk, we will attempt to give some context to this situation and see how history can help us to make sense of Portugal's lack of a thorough imperial reckoning.


Readings:

Bruno C. Reis & Pedro A. Oliveira (2017): The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role, The International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2016.1253599

Pinto, A. C., Jerónimo, M. B. (2015). Ideologies of exceptionality and the legacies of empire in Portugal. In Dietmar Rothermund (Ed.), Memories of post-imperial nations: the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013 (pp. 97-119). Delhi: Cambridge University Press

History of Africa and of European-African Relations

11 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos

Lecture:

European-African relations in the Early Modern Era

From previous images of Africa to the first contacts: expectations and reciprocal representationsA frican responses and European adaptations in the dawn of the Atlantic World

The evolution of the Euro-African relationship. The case of the Luso-African communities in Western Africa.

Guest speaker: José Silva Horta (CH-UL)

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Readings:

Brooks, George E., 2003. Eurafricans in Western Africa. Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Athens, Ohio University Press, Oxford, James Currey.

Horta, José da Silva, MARK, Peter, 2018, « A "Racial" Approach to the History of Early Afro-Portuguese Relationships? The Case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries », em Sina Rauschenbach; Jonathan Schorsch (ed.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-84.

Tymovski Michał , 2020. Europeans and Africans. Mutual Discoveries and First Encounters, Leiden/Boston, Brill.