THURSDAY, MAY 22nd
9:00-11:15
PANEL 1: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
“Last Hopes: the Portuguese Revolution and the crisis of the left in the 1970s”, Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge)
“The Portuguese Revolution and the European Left: Between Eurocommunism and Eurosocialism”, Michele Di Donato (London School of Economics)
“The German Democratic Republic and the Carnation Revolution”, Thomas Weißmann (Technische Universität Chemnitz)
14:00-15:00
"The Embassy", film screening with Filipa César
11:15
Coffee break
11:30-12:30
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Odd Arne Westad (LSE)
"The Portuguese Revolution and Global Change in the 1970s"
12:30
Lunch break
19:30
Performance: Joana Craveiro
"Invisible Archives of Portuguese Dictatorship and Revolution"
17:30-19:30
PANEL 3: ANTICOLONIALISM
“The struggle for national liberation in Guinea-Bissau and the revolution in Portugal”, John Woollacott (Independent Scholar)
“The memory of the liberation/colonial war in Guinea-Bissau”, Catarina Laranjeiro (CES, Universidade de Coimbra)
“‘The Ultimate Test:’ The Portuguese Revolution and the Road to Independence in the Portuguese Colonies.”, Natalia Telepneva (London School of Economics)
17:15
Coffee break
12:30
Lunch break
11:30-12:30
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Hilary Owen (University of Manchester)
“‘As Armas e os Varões Assimilados’ – Feminism and Revolution beyond the ‘Three Marias’”
11:15
Coffee break
9:00-11:15
PANEL 1: RECONFIGURING SUBJECTIVITIES
“Women and Revolution in Portugal: Structure, Strategy, and Ideology”, Daniela F. Melo (University of Connecticut)
“Portuguese media coverage of affective and sexual intimacy between 1968 and 1978”, Isabel Freire (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa)
“Domestic materiality, daily routines and the practice of the Revolution”, Marta Vilar Rosales (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa)
“From trauma to retrieval: human resources managers and the revolution”, José Nuno Matos (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa)
FRIDAY, MAY 23rd
PROGRAMME.
15:00-17:15
PANEL 2: REPRESENTING THE REVOLUTION
“‘The State of Things’: Histories, Images and Sounds of the Carnation Revolution, Anticolonial Struggle and Post-Independence Nation Building in Contemporary Art”, Ana Balona de Oliveira (CEC, Universidade de Lisboa, IHA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Courtauld, University of London)
“The Grin Without a Cat: Revolution, Film, Memory and Contradiction”, Érica Valente (Birkbeck, University of London)
“Manta Banter – the openings of Portugal in the aftermath of the 1974 revolution”, Francisco Sousa Lobo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“Class Suicide: Becoming Revolutionary on Film”, Ros Gray (Goldsmiths, University of London)
14:00-16:15
PANEL 2: GRASSROOTS
“Student mobilization and political radicalization at the end of the Portuguese Estado Novo. The role of the opposition to the colonial war”, Guya Accornero (Universidade de Lisboa)
“The strike wave in 1969 and its impact on the Carnation Revolution”, Jörg Nowak (Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai)
“‘A real state of exception': class composition and social conflict during the Portuguese Revolution (1974-75)”, Ricardo Noronha (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
“From the list of demands to occupation: labor movement in the Portuguese revolution (1974-75)”, Miguel Pérez (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
16:15
Coffee break
16:30-18:30
PANEL 3: MODULATION
“Did they make a difference? Exile networks in the last years of Portugal's 'New State'”, Pedro Aires Oliveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
“The Carnation Revolution and the rhetoric of the cold war on the Italian press”, Marco Gomes (University of Coimbra)
“The revolution one can go by car”, Rita Luís (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
“French Peregrination on the Revolutionary Process in Course”, Victor Pereira (Université de Pau)
18:30
Performance: Joana Craveiro
"When did the Revolution End?"