Suggested Workshop Themes and Presentations

The Lusophone World in Progression: Historical Legacy, Transnationalism
& Development in Globalized Contexts
A Lusofonia em Progressão: Legado histórico, transnacionalismo e
Desenvolvimento em Contextos Globalizados
Mount Saint Vincent University & Saint Mary’s University
June 28 – July 1, 2015
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lusophone Studies Assocation Conference
(Full Panel Schedule)
Sunday, June 28 at Saint Mary’s University
Held in the Sobey building on the 4th floor - http://www.smu.ca/webfiles/campus-map-1.pdf
5:00 – 6:00 pm Registration
6:00 – 7:00 pm Reception & Welcome (located in Sobey building 4th Floor)
Formal Opening & Welcome by President and possibly AVP, Dean, etc
7:00 – 8:00 pm Keynote Address (located in Sobey building 260): Professor Rosana Barbosa
Title: A Historical Look at the Relations between Brazil
and Canada/Um Olhar Histórico sobre as Relações entre
o Brasil e o Canadá
Monday, June 29 at Mount Saint Vincent University
Campus location to be announced - http://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/campusmap.pdf
8:30 – 9:00 am Morning Registration & Breakfast – coffee, croissants, muffins
9:00 – 9:30 am Shorter Formal Opening & Welcome by President and possibly AVP, Dean,
1) 9:30 – 10:45 am Panel 1 – Lusophone Atlantic Migrations
Chair: Rosana Barbosa
a) Burton, Emily: "Early Immigration: Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Settlement
Attempts..."
b) Junior, Reinaldo Barroso: “O Atlântico Equatorial e os Trabalhadores de Guiné.”
c) Reznik, Luís: "A Hospedaria de Imigrantes da Ilha das Flores (Rio de Janeiro/Brasil)"
d) Rocha, G., & Mendes, D.: "Jovens açorianos e a recente crise económica: emigrar é
solução?
10:45 – 11:00 am Break: Coffee & Muffins
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2) 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Panel 2 – Lusophony Theatre, Music, and the CPLP
Chair: Fernando Nunes
a) Valente, Rita M.: Rufino: "Critiques of Lusophony in Theatre Festivals"
b) Varela, Odair B.: "Comunidade “Lusófona” ou Imaginária?"
c) Cahen, Michel: "La CPLP, une organisation pour quoi faire?"
d) Caufriez, Anne: "Atlantic Roots and Routes in Portuguese Traditional Music"
12:15 – 1:00 pm Lunch: In Faculty Lounge, Seton or Rosaria Cafeteria
3) 1:00 – 2:15 pm Panel 3 – International Development and Political Culture in the
Lusophone World
Chair: Robert Kenedy
a) Cordeiro, Ana Paula – “Portugal’s contribution to the economic growth and social
development of Angola in last the decade”
b) Khan, Sheila: "O Conhecimento nas Relações 'Norte-Sul'"
c) Coulombe, G.L., & Figueiredo, R.: "International development economic policies
between Brazil..."
d) Bragues, George: "Portugal's Lessons to the World about Politics and Democracy"
e) Nascimento, Augusto: "História e Culturas Políticas nos Países Africanos de Língua
Portuguesa"
2:15 – 2:30 pm Break: Coffee & Muffins
4) 2:30 – 3:45 pm Panel 4 – Portuguese Language, Ethnicity, and Linguistics
Chair: Maria Joao Dodman
a) Farneda, Eliete Sampaio, & Nédio, Marina: " O Projeto Cultural de PLE como agente da
interculturalidade num contexto de não-imersão"
b) Lee, Alexander F.: " Ethnic and linguistic negotiation in Lusophone service encounters"
c) Scetti, F.: "The evolution of the Portuguese language in the particular context of the..."
d) Silva, Gláucia: "Teaching Portuguese as a Heritage Language..."
5) 3:45 – 5:00 pm Panel 5 – Brazil and Social Inequality: Contextualizing Difference
Chair: Rosana Barbosa
a) Auerbach, Jess: “The smell of the middle: social mobility and changing environments..."
b) Bijos, Leila: "Cultural Diplomacy And Domination"
c) DaSilva, Simone C.: " Contemporary Brazilian Film: New Representations in pursuit of
Human Rights"
d) Gillam, Cintia: "Class Differences and Racism - Social, Ethnic and Economic
Inequalities..."
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Lusophone Studies Association Annual General Meeting
A light meal will be served
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at Saint Mary’s University
Held in room 260 Sobey building - http://www.smu.ca/webfiles/campus-map-1.pdf
9:00 – 9:30 am Morning Breakfast: Coffee, Croissants, & Muffins
6) 9:30 – 10:45 am Panel 6 – Lusophone Literature
Chair: Ana Paula Beja Horta
a) Rabelo, Adriano: "O Reacionário Revolucionário: Nelson Rodrigues e a Censura"
b) Almeida, Pedro: “Visions of the early Atlantic space in Fernando Pessoa and António
Sérgio"
c) Gonçalves, M.: "“Brasileiros para norte-americano ver”: história, política e memória no
Ano..."
d) Nunes, Lélia Pereira da Silva: “O imaginário Bruxólico da Ilha de Santa Catarina – o
legado açoriano do realismo fantástico na literatura e na arte”
10:45 – 11:00 am Break: Coffee & Muffins
7) 11:00 – 12:15 pm Panel 7 – Portuguese-Speaking Immigrants in Canada
Chair: Robert Kenedy
a) Horta, Ana Paula Beja: "Bonding and Bridging in Times of Crises?
b) Sega, Rodrigo Fessel & Truzzi, Mario: "Brazilian Immigrants in Toronto, Canada"
c) Esra, Ari: "Comparing the Civic Engagement of Two Immigrant Groups...”
d) De Paiva, Wilson: “The Brazilian and the Portuguese in Canada: a case study of
education and cultural identity”
12:15 pm -1:00 pm Lunch - In Faculty lounge, …cafeteria
8) 1:00 – 2:15 pm Panel 8 – Lusophone Diaspora, Migration, Religion, and Ethnicity
Chair: Ivana Elbl
a) Antunes, Ana: “On Recognizing One’s Own Whiteness: Struggles of a new Person of
Color”
b) Lanza, Fabio & Patrocino, Gustavo: “ESCOLA E RELIGIOSIDADES: Estudo sobre
desdobramentos das práticas religiosas no ambiente escolar e suas interfaces com a
disciplina de Ensino Religioso”
c) Baker, Katherine: “The Weight of the Hyphen” – Translating “O Peso do Hífen,” Dr.
Onésimo T. Almeida’s book of essays about Lusophone migration to North America, into
English.
2:15 – 2:30 pm Break: Coffee & Muffins
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9) 2:30 – 3:45 pm Panel 9 – Portuguese-Canadian Academic (Under) Achievement
Chair: Maria Joao Dodman
a) Nunes, Fernando & Greencorn, Michelle: Schooling Experiences and Community
Involvement Amongst Youth..."
b) Pereira, D. / Gomes, F.: "Negotiating the Multiple Forms of Marginalization in
Academia"
c) Kenedy, R.: "Organizational Approaches to Luso-Canadian Mentoring and Tutoring
Programs...”
10) 3:45 – 5:15 pm Panel 10 – Lusophones, War Memory, Ethnicity, and Histories
Chair: Fernando Nunes
a) Fernandes, G.: " The Blood of the Fallen: War Memory, Ethnic Nationalism, and the
Portuguese..."
b) Okihiro, Norman R.: "The Comparative Wartime Treatment of the Nikkei in Brazil
c) Elbl, I: “Trans-nationality in the Service of a Nation: Portuguese Power-brokers in Italy,
1420-1444”
d) Webster, David: "Timor-Leste and Decolonization in a Lusophone World Space” (Skype
presentation)
e) Abreu Ferreira, J.: "Portuguese Diaspora and literature in Canada: Charting the Past,
Measuring the Present" (Skype presentation)
6:30 – 9:30 pm Gala Dinner at the Cambridge Suites Hotel
Wednesday, July 1 (Free Day)
Since Canada Day is a holiday, we’d like to offer guests the possibility of taking a bus tour of
Halifax and/or its surroundings. Depending on the state of our finances, this would be paid
wholly, in part, or not at all by the conference.
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