Events Events: The Carnation Revolution: Global Perspectives April 4-6, 2024

Explores the global cause and impact of the Carnation Revolution reflecting scholarship on the metropole, the empire and the diaspora.

Organizers

Paula C. G. Noversa, UMass Dartmouth
Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen's University (Belfast)
Daniela Melo, Boston University

The Carnation Revolution

The year 2024 marks the 50^th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a seminal event in Portuguese history.  The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture in coordination with the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives is pleased to announce that it is hosting an international conference on the 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th  of April 2024. The theme is “The Carnation Revolution: Global Perspectives”.  This conference will explore the global cause and impact of the Carnation Revolution reflecting scholarship on the metropole, the empire and the diaspora.  The goal of the conference is to bring together individuals from a variety of academic fields to discuss the multifaceted aspects of the revolution throughout the Lusophone world.

Thursday, April 4

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)
UMass Dartmouth

1 - 1:30pm CIE lobby: Coffee and registration

1:30 - 2pm CIE, CR4A: Welcome Address by Dr. Paula C. G. Noversa, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture

2 - 3:15pm: Panel 1:  The Carnation Revolution:  Reaction in the Diaspora

Panelists:

• Paula Noversa, UMassD, chair
• Daniela Melo, Boston University, “The Revolution Comes to the U.S.: Portuguese Diasporic Activism in New England”
• Gilberto Fernandes, York University (Toronto), “No More Yearning: Revolutionary Tremors in Canada’s Portuguese Community"

3:15 - 3:30pm Lobby: Break

3:30 - 5pm: Panel 2:  Black Carnation I:  the Revolution in the African Diaspora

Panelists:

• Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen’s University, Belfast , chair
• Victor Barros, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Cape Verdean Diaspora in Lisbon and the Carnation Revolution”
• Aurora Almada e Santos, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “The United Nations, the End of the Estado Novo”
• Iolanda Maria Alves Évora, ISEG, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Telling our Stories, Challenging Narratives. The Carnation Revolution from the Perspective of People of African Descent”

5 - 5:15pm Lobby: Break

5:15 - 6:45pm: Panel 3:  Luso-American Relations and the Carnation Revolution

Panelists:

• Lily Havstad, Harvard University, “Lessons from the Carnation Revolution:  Armed Resistance and Nonviolent Direct Action in Global Persepective."
• Christianna Leahy, McDaniel College, “International Entanglements in the Portuguese Revolution”
• Frédéric Heurtebize, Université Paris Nanterre, “US Labor and the Carnation Revolution”
• Miguel Moniz, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, “Estado Novo Cultural Diplomacy and Political Influence Operations in the United States. A Context for Immigrant Community Responses to the 1974, 25 de Abril Revolution”

Friday, April 5

New Bedford Whaling Museum

9:15 - 9:45am Jacobs Family Gallery (JFG): Coffee and registration

9:45 - 10am Cook Memorial Theatre (CMT): Welcome, Dr. Paula C. G. Noversa, Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture

10am - 11:30am Cook Memorial Theatre (CMT): Panel 4: The Carnation Revolution through the Prism of Literature

Panelists: 

• Valeria H. Monteagudo de Campos, SESI and Universidade de São Paulo, “Morte e Vida:  Antitheses pré e pós Revolução dos Cravos na poesia de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen”
• Ana Margarida Fonseca, ILCML Universidade de Porto, “Filhas da Revolução: a (in)visibilidade da Escrita Ficcional de Autoras Afrodescendentes”
• Conceição Brandão, ILCML Universidade de Porto, “Sacrifice, Freedom and Memory of the Carnation Revolution:  Between The Day of the Prodigies and The Memorables of Lídia Jorge”
• Dora Gago, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Voices and Silences of April in The Memorables by Lídia Jorge: Ernesto Salamida, “the invisible messenger”                                    

11:30am - 12:30pm Harbor View Gallery (HVG): Lunch   

12:45pm - 2:30pm Cook Memorial Theatre (CMT): Film Screening “O Que Podem as Palavras” (2022, 77 minutes)

Collaborators, Luísa Marinho and Luisa Sequeira. A film about the creation and the impact of the book "Novas Cartas Portuguesas" (1972) by  Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. This documentary features exclusive interviews with the three authors of Novas Cartas Portuguesas and includes archival footage from the time, reflecting the period of the April 25th Revolution.

2:30 - 2:45pm Jacobs Family Gallery (JFG): Break

2:45- 4:15pm Cook Memorial Theatre (CMT): Panel 5:  The Carnation Revolution: Women & Gender

Panelists:        

• Daniela Melo, Boston University, chair
• Patrícia Calca, ISCTE Lisbon, “Portuguese Women's Legislative Behavior in the Democratic Era (post-1974)"
• Joana Matias, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Pink Carnations: Notes on the Place of Gender and Sexuality in the History of the Revolution”
• Isabel Freire, Independent Scholar, "Was Sexuality the Elephant in the Room in the Aftermath of the Carnation Revolution"

4:15 - 4:30pm Jacobs Family Gallery (JFG): Break                            

4:30 - 5:45pm  Cook Memorial Theatre (CMT): Panel 6: Black Carnation II:  Africa’s Role in the Revolution

Panelists: 

• Eric Morier-Genoud, Queen’s University, Belfast, “Mozambique and the Carnation Revolution”
• Marçal de Menezes Paredes,  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, “Carnation Revolution and the Global Cold War Connections: a Southern Perspective"
• Jean-Miachael Mabeko-Tali, Howard University, “Angolan Armed Struggle in 1974-75: How the Metropolitan Struggles for Political Position Impacted an Already Complex Anticolonial War”                               

7 - 9pm Harbor View Gallery (HVG): Cocktail hour and dinner                                                        

Saturday, April 6

Charlton College of Business (CCB)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

10 - 10:30am CCB Lobby: Coffee and registration

10:30am - 12pm  CCB, 149: Panel 7: The Carnation Revolution:  Global Ideological Impact

Panelists:

• Warjio, Universitas Sumatera Utara (Medan, Indonesia), “The Impact of the Carnation Revolution For Indonesia”
• Madhu, Miranda House, University of Delhi, “Nationalism, Democracy and Identity:  the Case of Goa”
• Reinaldo I. Lohn, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Between Revolution and Transition:  the Influence of the Portuguese Revolution on debates about the Brazilian political transition (1974-1979)
• Rui Graça Feijo, NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, “Wayfarers & Pathways:  Public Sphere, Agency and Indeterminacy in the Portuguese Carnation Revolution”

12 -1pm: Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives Exhibit

1 - 2pm Claire T. Carney Library, Grand Reading Room: Lunch

2:15 - 5pm CCB, 149: Roundtable Discussion:  The Carnation Revolution: Community Voices

Panelists:

• Onésimo Almeida, Brown University
• Tony Cabral, MA State Representative
• Otélia Ferreira
• Odete Amarelo, Bristol Community College

Registration

Pre-registration is preferred. 

Send your name, affiliation (if any), and the dates of attendance to Robin Couto at rcouto@umassd.edu with the subject heading “CPSC CONFERENCE REGISTRATION”.

Please also indicate if you will be joining us for lunch and dinner on day 2 and/or lunch on day 3.

Lodging

If you are planning to stay in the New Bedford area, we recommend:

• Fairfield by Marriott International New Bedford
  185 Macarthur Drive, New Bedford, MA
  Call 774.634.2008 or go to fairfield.marriott.com
• New Bedford Harbor Hotel
  222 Union Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
  choicehotels.com

Parking

• Thursday, ample Parking is provided at the UMassD Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (151 Martine St. Fall River)
• Friday, guests at the NB Whaling Museum should use the Elm Street Parking Garage (51 Elm Street, NB)
• Saturday, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (285 Old Westport Road) use Parking Lot #14.