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Cabo Verde National Commissionfor UNESCO

Ministério do Ensino Superior, Ciência e Inovação

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 real-izing 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 recogni-tion 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.

International ColloquiumStakes of Scienti�c 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

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Cultural Organization

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Ministério do Ensino Superior, Ciência e Inovação

Scientific CommitteeProf. João Lopes Filho (President)Prof. Irene Santos CruzProf. Carlos Belino SacaduraProf. Ana cristina Pires FerreiraProf. Lourenço GomesProf. Baltazar NevesProf. Adilson Semedo

Executive CommitteeProf. Lourenço GomesProf. Nélida BritoProf. Alfred MorenoProf. Elter CarlosProf. João Octávio NascimentoProf. Osvaldino Barros

Support elements:Dr. Salif Silva – GCI/Uni-CVDra Susana Duarte – Assessora de Imagem Uni-CVDra Ana Bela- Sec DCT/ DSCSHDra Carmen Paris – Sec Equipa Reitoral

United NationsEducational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

Comissão Nacional de Cabo Verdepara a UNESCO

Cabo Verde National Commissionfor 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

Reception of members of the Scientific Committee of “The Slave Route” Project, invited personalities and participants at the colloquium

09:00

10:00 Opening session (speeches)

09:00

09:05

Mrs. Judite Nascimento - Rector ofUniversity of Cabo Verde- Speech of welcome

09:05

09:10

President of the Scientific Committee of the Colloquium– Mr. João Lopes Filho –

(colloquium Framework)

09:10

09:20 President Pedro Pires(Pedro Pires Institute– Cabo Verde)

09:20

09:30 Coordinator of The Slave Route Project, Mr. Ali Moussa Iye (UNESCO/Paris)

09:30

09:45

Brazilian Minister of Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights Prof. Nilma Lino Gomes

09:45

10:00

Minister for Higher Education Science and Innovation and President of the Cabo Verde National Commission for UNESCO Mr. António Correia e Silva (opening speech)

10:00

10:10

Pause

10:10

11:30

Panel I - Challenges s of the International Decade -Moderator : Mr. Baltazar Neves (Uni-CV)

10:15

10:30 Mr. Ali Moussa Iye (UNESCO/Paris)– General observations on the Decade

10:30

10:35 Mr. Doudou Diène (France): Opportunities, challenges and constraints of the Decade

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10:35

10:40

Mrs. Maria Elisa Velazquez (Mexico) - Retos del Decenio Internacional de las

Personas Afrodescendientes 2015-2024 en América Latina

10: 40

10:45

Charles Akobode (Cabo Verde): Implementation of the Decade in Cabo Verde:

actions and plans

10:45

11:25 Exchanges with the audience

11:30

12:45

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)

10:30

11:40 Rector of the University Cheickh Anta Diop- Mr. IbrahimaThioub(Senegal)

11:40

11:50 Mrs. Iva Cabral (Universidade Lusófona de Cabo Verde) - “ A Escravidão na documentação sobre Cabo Verde”

11:40

11:45

Mr. Salah Trabelsi (Tunísia) - Pour une approche critique de l'histoire et des mémoires

de l'esclavage dans le monde arabe Problèmes et méthodes

11:45

11:50

Mr. Laurent Vidal (France) Pour une histoire atlantique des hommes lents au

XIXe siècle

11:50

11:55

Mrs Nelly Schmidt (France): - Abolitionism of Slavery. Some questions,

between comparisons and confusions

11:55

12:00

Mr. Milton Guran (Universidade de Brasília - Brazil) - Falares luso-brasileiros no

Benim – fragmentos de memória

12:00

12:05

Mrs. Jane Landers (USA): Preserving the Endangered Historical Record of African

Slavery in the Americas

12:05

12:10

Mr. Samuel Regulus (Haiti): La Revolution haitienne dans l’historiographie de

l’esclavage

12:10

12:45 Exchanges with the audience

12:45

14: 30 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

14:35

Mrs. Isabel Castro Henriques (Portugal) -São Tomé e Príncipe na construção africana

do mundo atlântico: inventário de problemáticas (séculos XV - XIX)

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14:45

14:55

Mr. Elias Alfama Moniz (Universidade de Santiago) - Cabo Verde : Circuitos

Europa/África/América em tempos e histórias silenciadas

14:55

16:00 Exchanges with the audience

16:00

17:30

Panel IV:Heritage, Identities and citizenship of Afro-descendants in post

slavery societies: rupture, continuity and innovation:Moderator: Mrs. Ana

Cristina Pires Ferreira

16:00

16:10

Mrs. Gertrudes Silva Oliveira (Universidade Jean Piaget-Cabo Verde) – Que

Educação para a Cidadania Africana?

16:10

16:15

Mr. Joel Quirk (Australia) – Heritage, identities and citizenship of Afro-descentants in

post slavery societies

16:15

16:20

Mrs. Claudia Mosquera (Colombia) - Reformas que buscan atender las

desigualdades socio-raciales históricamente acumuladas en los pueblos de

ascendencia africana - el caso colombiano

16:20

16:25

Mrs. Bridget Thompson (South Africa): African cinema, a poetic way to share

knowledge and insight across the diaspora.

16:25

16:30

Mr. Abdulazziz Lodhi (Tanzania) - The spread of the African diaspora in the

coastal areas through the Swahili Culture

16:30 16:35

Mrs. Michele A. Johnson (Canada) - African descent in Canada

16:35

16:40

Mrs. Vijay Teelock (Mauritius) - People of African descent in post-emancipation

mauritius

16:40

16:45

Mr. Ignacio Telesca (Paraguay) - Afro-Descendants today in Paraguay, fighting

for their rights (Heritage, Identities and citizenship in post slavery societies

16: 45

16:50

Mr. Richard Benjamin (UK): Liverpool International Slavery Museum:

Connections and Collections

16:50

17:30 Exchange with the Audience

17:30 Closing of the Colloquium byChairman of the department of Social and Human Sciences/Uni-CV- Mrs. Irene Santos Cruz

14:35

14:45

Mr. Lourenço Gomes (Universidade de Cabo Verde) –A génese de fatos culturais

cabo-verdianos representativos da afro-descendência