ROUND TABLE

22nd of September – Colégio Almada Negreiros (CAN), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campolide Campus, 2nd floor, room 209.

Liberalism, colonial press, public spheres and circulation of ideas in debate

Coordinator: José Luís Garcia (ICS)

17.15-18.45

Coordinated by José Luís Garcia, the Round Table concludes the congress with the aim of debating some of the themes that the organizers of the event proposed to be explored, and which, in different ways, are approached by the researchers that join the seven panels. As a starting point, the debate will be open with short talks of the invited speakers, in their field of speciality, with which it will be articulated the problematization of the ideas of the press, colonial, colonial press, political culture, public spheres, public opinions, liberalism-democracy, the functions of the press (education, debate, and circulation of ideas…), and the mediatization of the communication. The talks will be held in Portuguese, while the debate with the public will be held in both Portuguese and English.

José Luís Garcia (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa)

The importance of mediatization to History

Alda Saúte Saíde (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Filosóficas, Universidade Pedagógica, Maputo)

Liberalism, education and press in Mozambique

Isabel Lustosa (CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, FCSH NOVA)

The fear of recolonization in the context of the independence of Brazil


João Pedro da Cunha Lourenço (Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação, Luanda)

The republican and independentist ideas in the press of Angola between 1866 and 1923

Sandra Ataíde Lobo (CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, FCSH NOVA)

The ideas of colonial periodical press and of imperial circulation at the IGSCP-PE. The case of Goan press.

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Author’s bionotes

Alda Romão Saúte Saide is Full Professor at the Pedagogic University (Maputo, Mozambique), she holds a PhD in African History from the University of Minnesota, USA. Saíde has taught at Pedagogic University for over 26 years, where she is training undergraduate and graduate students in African History. She published 2 books on the history of education, Christian missions and colonialism (2004 and 2005), two books as co-author O Reassentamento Populacional, Governação Autárquica, Trabalho Migratório (2012) and Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa (2020), and several articles. Her major research has focused on Southern Africa, looking at governance, migration, education, liberation struggles, and gender.

Isabel Lustosa is an integrated researcher at the Humanities Center (CHAM) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was a researcher at FCRB for 30 years. She also worked at the Museum of the Republic and at the IPHAN. In 1997 she had a PhD in Political Science from the former IUPERJ and current IESP-UERJ. She is also a member of the Brazil Pen Club and a full partner of IHGB. She held the Simon Bolivar Chair at IHEAL Sorbonne Nouvelle between 2010 and 2011, and was also the holder of the Sérgio Buarque Chair of The Netherlands/ Maison des Sciences de l´Homme/Paris for the period 2012-2015, acting as visiting professor at the University of Rennes-2, and as a senior visiting professor at CHAM/University Nova of Lisbon between 2019 and 2020. She is the author, among others, of “Insultos impressos: a guerra dos jornalistas na Independência” (Cia das Letras, 2000); “D. Pedro I: um Herói sem nenhum caráter” (Cia das Letras, 2009); “Lampião: esperteza e violência” (Claro enigma, 2011) and “O jornalista que imaginou o Brasil – tempo, vida de pensamento de Hipólito da Costa – 1774-1823″ (Unicamp Publishing House, 2019). She also organized: “Imprensa, humor e caricatura: a questão dos estereótipos culturais” (EdUFMG, 2011); “Imprensa, história e literatura”, (FCRB Editor, 2008); “Agostini: o italiano que desenhou o Brasil” (FCRB editor, 2014) and, together with Alberto Dines, she organized and published a fac-similar edition of “Correio Brasiliense de Hipólito da Costa”, published in 31 volumes by the Official Press of the State of São Paulo, between 2002 and 2003.

João Pedro da Cunha Lourenço was born in Angola (1976) and is graduated in Sciences of Education in the field of History, from the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação (ISCED.Luanda); Master in History and Post-graduated in Contemporary History from the Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona. As a Librarian, worked at the Cinemateca Nacional de Angola, and as the Director of the Museu Nacional da Escravatura (2008-2012) and of the Biblioteca Nacional de Angola (2012-2019). Since 2017, he is Professor of History of Angola at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação, in Luanda. He has presented and published the following works, among others: “Nós também queremos a independência. O papel do desporto no período de transição: uma análise a partir da imprensa” (2021); “Lutar também com a palavra. Um olhar à imprensa do Movimento de Libertação Nacional” (2019); “Mas Elas estiveram lá. A (in)visibilidade da mulher na imprensa dos Movimentos de Libertação Nacional: 1961-1975” (2019): “Entre a transição para a independência e a oficialização do monopartidarismo: controlo e clandestinidade na imprensa em Angola: 1974-1978”; “Angola and the Liberation of South Africa” (2014); “O discurso contestatário dos africanos na imprensa: reflexões à volta da “Carta Aberta ao Bacharel Balthazar Britto Rocha d’Aguiam” (2007); “La prensa de la independencia, la independencia de la prensa: El Diário de Luanda en el proceso de transición e independencia de Angola: abril/1974-noviembre/1975 (2006); “Realidade, dificuldades e experiências: a problemática do acesso e uso das fontes para o estudo da luta anti-colonial em Angola” (2005); “A presença e a imagem do processo político de independência de Angola na imprensa espanhola através dos jornais ABC e La Vanguardia Española.” (2005); “A dinâmica e o estatuto dos jornalistas em Angola no período da imprensa livre: 1866-1923” (2004); (2003). “A imprensa e a problemática da liberdade de imprensa em Angola: 1866-1923”.

José Luís Garcia (Lisbon, 1955) is a senior researcher at the Institut of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and PhD in Social Sciences from the same university, having done postdoctoral studies at the London School of Economics. His academic work develops mainly around communication, media and journalism studies and social studies on science and technology, crossing, in both fields, historical and sociological perspectives. He has taught at several Portuguese higher education schools and universities, including ISCTE, UCP, ESCS-IPL and ESEC-IPC, and was visiting professor/researcher at USP and UNESP, Brasil, and Iowa University, USA. In 2018 he was awarded the Science Prize in Social Sciences by the University of Lisbon. He was a member of the National Committee for Ethical Clinical Research (CEIC, January 2009 – January 2011), President of the Ethical Council of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2010-2012) and of the Portuguese Observatory for Cultural Activities (2009-2015). Presently, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the Cybersecurity Observatory, National Centre of Cybersecurity, and director of the Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. In the current year, he published Mário Domingues: A afirmação negra e a questão colonial” – Textos, 1919-1928 (Ed. Tinta-da-china), a selection of articles, preceded by an extensive historical-biographical essay, of this journalist and writer, a pioneer in the fight for the emancipation of the blacks and a critic of colonialism. Other recent works that he has directed, coedited or published, include O Choque Tecno-liberal, os Media e o Jornalismo, 2020; Lições de Sociologia Clássica, 2019; Media and Portuguese Empire, 2017; Salazar, o Estado Novo e os Media, 2017; Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet, 2016; Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in 21st Century, 2013. 

Sandra Ataíde Lobo is a contracted researcher at NOVA-FCSH with the project “The Home and the World: the Goan Intellectual elite and colonial periodical press”, developing her activity at CHAM – Centre for Humanities, where she is an integrated researcher. Doctor in History and Theory of Ideas, speciality Thought, Culture and Politics, by NOVA-FCSH. Co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the International Group for Studies of Colonial periodical press of the Portuguese empire (IGSCP-IP). Advisor of the project PortAsia:  Asian Writing in Portuguese: mapping literary and intellectual archives in Lisbon and Macau (1820-1955), funded by FCT . Since 1994, she is a member of the Free Seminary of History of Ideas (CHC, CHAM), having participated in several projects of this collective, related to the history of Portuguese liberalism and republicanism, intellectual history and history of magazines, namely the project Magazines of Ideas and Culture.  Since 2014, member of the project/studies group Thinking Goa: a peculiar library of Portuguese language (USP). Since 2015, member of the project Portuguese Orientalism. XIX-XX Centuries (ORION) (CEC-FLUL). She is moved by the interest in the theorization and practice of cosmopolitan historiography, strongly linked to the idea of Academia as an international democratic community committed to the reduction of inequalities, namely academic and patrimonial, and to a dialogic approach of conflictual memories about common pasts. Training and professional experience in libraries and archives (Portugal, India, 1988-2005). She has a vast experience of teamwork since 1994, and in contributing to the concept of research projects funded by Portuguese (FCT) and foreign agencies (FAPESP). Among other publishing projects, she is co-editing lately the following books, to be published in the collection Routledge Studies in Cultural History: The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions; Creating and Opposing Empire: The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press; The Built Environment Through The Colonial Periodical Press; The Colonial Periodical Press in the Portuguese Empire: Theorizing Approaches. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3263-836X