Comissão Nacional de Cabo Verde
para a UNESCO
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
Cabo Verde National Commission
for UNESCO
Ministério do Ensino Superior, Ciência e Inovação
International Colloquium
Stakes of Scientific Research on Slavery and Challenges of the International
Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024)
Date: 28 October 2015 (Morning and Afternoon)
Uni-CV Rectorate Auditorium
Framework
The University of Cape Verde, in the scope of its mission, as a center of creation, dissemination and
promotion of culture, science and technology, by establishing the straight link between study and
research, in order to promote human development, as a strategic factor of sustainable development
of the country, promotes, in partnership with the Cabo Verde National Commission for UNESCO,
the International Colloquium: Stakes of Scientifc Research on Slavery and Challenges of the
International Decade for People of African Descent. With the implementation of this event one
seeks also to bring to Uni-CV, researchers from various national and linguistic backgrounds and realizing its mission of internationality as well.
That's the way how it has been assumed in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanity, the
challenge of organizing this International Conference, also understood as an academic outreach
activity, basically an educational, cultural and scientific process that articulates teaching and
research, for the production and dissemination of universal knowledge.
Thus, Uni-CV and researchers involved in the event will be contributing to spread out, within the
academy and the society itself, the duty of the reconciliation with historical memory and the recognition of common heritages.
This is the ambitious plan, at this juncture, of the project the Slave Route, a joint project UNESCO
and the University of Cabo Verde, which on the one hand, reflects the purpose of breaking the silence
on the slave trade and slavery in different regions of the world, involving, specially, several African
nations and, on the other, deals with the wish to change the attitudes within the African descents,
understanding that the concealment of major historical events that have shaped our modern societies
is, in itself, an obstacle to dialogue and to reconciliation with the historical memory. The key issues
and challenges related to the implementation of the African descent Decade should be enhanced by
each lecturer by taking into account the presented theme.
Comissão Nacional de Cabo Verde
para a UNESCO
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
Cabo Verde National Commission
for UNESCO
Ministério do Ensino Superior, Ciência e Inovação
Scientific Committee
Prof. João Lopes Filho (President)
Prof. Irene Santos Cruz
Prof. Carlos Belino Sacadura
Prof. Ana cristina Pires Ferreira
Prof. Lourenço Gomes
Prof. Baltazar Neves
Prof. Adilson Semedo
Executive Committee
Prof. Lourenço Gomes
Prof. Nélida Brito
Prof. Alfred Moreno
Prof. Elter Carlos
Prof. João Octávio Nascimento
Prof. Osvaldino Barros
Support elements:
Dr. Salif Silva – GCI/Uni-CV
Dra Susana Duarte – Assessora de Imagem Uni-CV
Dra Ana Bela- Sec DCT/ DSCSH
Dra Carmen Paris – Sec Equipa Reitoral
Comissão Nacional de Cabo Verde
para a UNESCO
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
Cabo Verde National Commission
for UNESCO
Ministério do Ensino Superior, Ciência e Inovação
International Colloquium
Stakes of Scientifc Research on Slavery and Challenges of the International
Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024)
Date: 28 October 2015 (Morning and Afternoon)
Uni-CV Rectorate Auditorium
Provisional Agenda
08:30
09:00
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09:00
09:05
Reception of members of the Scientific Committee of “The Slave Route” Project, invited
personalities and participants at the colloquium
Opening session (speeches)
Mrs. Judite Nascimento - Rector ofUniversity of Cabo Verde- Speech of
welcome
09:05
President of the Scientific Committee of the Colloquium– Mr. João Lopes Filho –
09:10
(colloquium Framework)
09:10
09:20
09:20
09:30
09:30
09:45
09:45
10:00
10:00
President Pedro Pires(Pedro Pires Institute– Cabo Verde)
Coordinator of The Slave Route Project, Mr. Ali Moussa Iye (UNESCO/Paris)
Brazilian Minister of Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights Prof. Nilma Lino
Gomes
Minister for Higher Education Science and Innovation and President of the Cabo Verde
National Commission for UNESCO Mr. António Correia e Silva (opening speech)
Pause
10:10
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10:15
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10:35
Panel I - Challenges s of the International Decade -Moderator : Mr. Baltazar Neves
(Uni-CV)
Mr. Ali Moussa Iye (UNESCO/Paris)– General observations on the Decade
Mr. Doudou Diène (France): Opportunities, challenges and constraints of the Decade
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10:35
Mrs. Maria Elisa Velazquez (Mexico) - Retos del Decenio Internacional de las
10:40
Personas Afrodescendientes 2015-2024 en América Latina
10: 40
Charles Akobode (Cabo Verde): Implementation of the Decade in Cabo Verde:
10:45
actions and plans
10:45
11:25
11:30
12:45
10:30
11:40
11:40
Exchanges with the audience
Panel II: Problematic of sources and methods: the current trends in the
historiography of the slave trade and slavery – Moderator -Mr. Carlos
Sacadura (Uni-CV)
Rector of the University Cheickh Anta Diop- Mr. IbrahimaThioub(Senegal)
11:50
Mrs. Iva Cabral (Universidade Lusófona de Cabo Verde) - “ A Escravidão na
documentação sobre Cabo Verde”
11:40
Mr. Salah Trabelsi (Tunísia) - Pour une approche critique de l'histoire et des mémoires
11:45
de l'esclavage dans le monde arabe Problèmes et méthodes
11:45
Mr. Laurent Vidal (France) Pour une histoire atlantique des hommes lents au
11:50
XIXe siècle
11:50
Mrs Nelly Schmidt (France): - Abolitionism of Slavery. Some questions,
11:55
between comparisons and confusions
11:55
Mr. Milton Guran (Universidade de Brasília - Brazil) - Falares luso-brasileiros no
12:00
Benim – fragmentos de memória
12:00
Mrs. Jane Landers (USA): Preserving the Endangered Historical Record of African
12:05
Slavery in the Americas
12:05
Mr. Samuel Regulus (Haiti): La Revolution haitienne dans l’historiographie de
12:10
l’esclavage
12:10
12:45
12:45
14: 30
Exchanges with the audience
Lunch ( at restaurants previously specified )
14:30
16:00
Panel III – The construction of the African diaspora in the Atlantic and Indian
Ocean worlds: historical processes and new findings – Moderator: Mr. Adilson
Semedo
14:30
Mrs. Isabel Castro Henriques (Portugal) -São Tomé e Príncipe na construção africana
14:35
do mundo atlântico: inventário de problemáticas (séculos XV - XIX)
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Mr. Lourenço Gomes (Universidade de Cabo Verde) –A génese de fatos culturais
14:45
cabo-verdianos representativos da afro-descendência
14:45
Mr. Elias Alfama Moniz (Universidade de Santiago)- Cabo Verde : Circuitos
14:55
Europa/África/América em tempos e histórias silenciadas
14:55
16:00
Exchanges with the audience
16:00
Panel IV:Heritage, Identities and citizenship of Afro-descendants in post
17:30
slavery societies: rupture, continuity and innovation:Moderator: Mrs. Ana
Cristina Pires Ferreira
16:00
Mrs. Gertrudes Silva Oliveira (Universidade Jean Piaget-Cabo Verde) – Que
16:10
Educação para a Cidadania Africana?
16:10
Mr. Joel Quirk (Australia) – Heritage, identities and citizenship of Afro-descentants in
16:15
post slavery societies
16:15
Mrs. Claudia Mosquera (Colombia) - Reformas que buscan atender las
16:20
desigualdades socio-raciales históricamente acumuladas en los pueblos de
ascendencia africana - el caso colombiano
16:20
Mrs. Bridget Thompson (South Africa): African cinema, a poetic way to share
16:25
knowledge and insight across the diaspora.
16:25
Mr. Abdulazziz Lodhi (Tanzania) - The spread of the African diaspora in the
16:30
coastal areas through the Swahili Culture
16:30
16:35
Mrs. Michele A. Johnson (Canada) - African descent in Canada
16:35
Mrs. Vijay Teelock (Mauritius) - People of African descent in post-emancipation
16:40
mauritius
16:40
Mr. Ignacio Telesca (Paraguay) - Afro-Descendants today in Paraguay, fighting
16:45
for their rights (Heritage, Identities and citizenship in post slavery societies
16: 45
Mr. Richard Benjamin (UK): Liverpool International Slavery Museum:
16:50
Connections and Collections
16:50
17:30
17:30
Exchange with the Audience
Closing of the Colloquium byChairman of the department of Social and Human
Sciences/Uni-CV- Mrs. Irene Santos Cruz