Congress Politics and Culture in the Colonial Periodical Press, 22-25 May 2017
The First IGSCP-PE's International Congress Politics and Culture in the Colonial Periodical Press was held in Lisbon from the 22nd to the 25th of May 2017, being attended by more than one hundred researchers from different parts of the world.
The conference was promoted by GIEIPC-IP and the international project Pensando Goa, and organised with the an initial partnership between three research centres: CHAM - Centro de Humanidades, NOVA-FCSH (coordenação), CEI - Centro de Estudos Internacionais, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa e CEC - Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, FLUL.
There were also other partners who actively participated in its configuration, dissemination, and financing, namely: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, CPLP - Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, CeSa - Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina, MAO - Memórias d’África e d’Oriente, RGPLRJ - Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, DGLAB – Torre do Tombo, Fundação Mário Soares – Casa Comum, CD25 A - Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, Fundação Oriente, FCG - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, newspaper Público.
The CPLP has honoured the event with his High Patronage, having shared at its youtube channel a small video and several photos at flickr:
17.05. Congresso Internacional “Política e Cultura na Imprensa Periódica Colonial” | Flickr;
17.05. Congresso Internacional (CIP&C-IPC) Mesa-redonda: Bibliotecas, Arquivos e Investigadores| Flickr.
Among other initiatives, it launched the Virtual Common Expo, which, in addition to involving the collaborative efforts of many researchers, also benefited from the fundamental contribution of the following institutions and projects: AHM – Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, AHNSTP – Arquivo Histórico Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe, ANA – Arquivo Nacional de Angola, ANTT – Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, BCFLUP – Biblioteca Central da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, BGUC – Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, BNP – Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, CD25A – Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, Universidade de Coimbra, FMS – Fundação Mário Soares, HML – Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa, MAO – Memórias de África e do Oriente, SLHI – Seminário Livre de História das Ideias, CHAM – FCSH/NOVA-UAC, XCHR – Xavier Centre of Historical Research
. Opened to the realities of different Colonial Empires, the event worked as a laboratory of the IGSCP-PE, being built around two moments:
1. Politics and Culture in the Colonial Periodical Press: theoretical approaches and research horizons, 22-24 June, at ISCTE, FLUL and NOVA-FCSH
2. Meeting of Libraries, Archives, and Researchers: an international debate, 25 June, BNP
The structure and associated initiatives of the congress addressed the academic concerns and forms of action that IGSCP-PE aims to stimulate:
a) by emphasizing the place of the periodical press in the creation of the “colonial world” that connects the diverse spaces that integrated it and in the contemporary history of each country that arise this world;
b) by inviting to look at the parts and the whole, stimulating to think interdisciplinary how national narratives can be enriched by the incorporation of the narratives of the “others” and in their connection to the “others”, who to a large extent are “the other” because they are fixed as such in the present as in the past;
c) by promoting national and international collaboration between researchers, projects and representative institutions aiming to coordinate the advance of academic knowledge with preservation and dissemination policies;
d) by bringing together researchers working in this field of study and encouraging knowledge of their work.
As a result we have already published three books at the series Routledge Studies in Cultural History:
(2023). Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Falconi, Jessica; Dias, Remy; Smith, D.A. (eds). The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. New York & London: Routledge.
(2023). Faria, Alice Santiago; Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Shelley, Anne. (eds). The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press. New York & London: Routledge.
(2022). Fonseca, Isadora Ataíde; Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Machado, Adelaide, Vieira; Newman, Robert. (eds). Creating and Opposing Empire. The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press. New York & London: Routledge.
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The conference was promoted by GIEIPC-IP and the international project Pensando Goa, and organised with the an initial partnership between three research centres: CHAM - Centro de Humanidades, NOVA-FCSH (coordenação), CEI - Centro de Estudos Internacionais, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa e CEC - Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, FLUL.
There were also other partners who actively participated in its configuration, dissemination, and financing, namely: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, CPLP - Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, CeSa - Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina, MAO - Memórias d’África e d’Oriente, RGPLRJ - Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, DGLAB – Torre do Tombo, Fundação Mário Soares – Casa Comum, CD25 A - Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, Fundação Oriente, FCG - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, newspaper Público.
The CPLP has honoured the event with his High Patronage, having shared at its youtube channel a small video and several photos at flickr:
17.05. Congresso Internacional “Política e Cultura na Imprensa Periódica Colonial” | Flickr;
17.05. Congresso Internacional (CIP&C-IPC) Mesa-redonda: Bibliotecas, Arquivos e Investigadores| Flickr.
Among other initiatives, it launched the Virtual Common Expo, which, in addition to involving the collaborative efforts of many researchers, also benefited from the fundamental contribution of the following institutions and projects: AHM – Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, AHNSTP – Arquivo Histórico Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe, ANA – Arquivo Nacional de Angola, ANTT – Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, BCFLUP – Biblioteca Central da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, BGUC – Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, BNP – Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, CD25A – Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril, Universidade de Coimbra, FMS – Fundação Mário Soares, HML – Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa, MAO – Memórias de África e do Oriente, SLHI – Seminário Livre de História das Ideias, CHAM – FCSH/NOVA-UAC, XCHR – Xavier Centre of Historical Research
. Opened to the realities of different Colonial Empires, the event worked as a laboratory of the IGSCP-PE, being built around two moments:
1. Politics and Culture in the Colonial Periodical Press: theoretical approaches and research horizons, 22-24 June, at ISCTE, FLUL and NOVA-FCSH
2. Meeting of Libraries, Archives, and Researchers: an international debate, 25 June, BNP
The structure and associated initiatives of the congress addressed the academic concerns and forms of action that IGSCP-PE aims to stimulate:
a) by emphasizing the place of the periodical press in the creation of the “colonial world” that connects the diverse spaces that integrated it and in the contemporary history of each country that arise this world;
b) by inviting to look at the parts and the whole, stimulating to think interdisciplinary how national narratives can be enriched by the incorporation of the narratives of the “others” and in their connection to the “others”, who to a large extent are “the other” because they are fixed as such in the present as in the past;
c) by promoting national and international collaboration between researchers, projects and representative institutions aiming to coordinate the advance of academic knowledge with preservation and dissemination policies;
d) by bringing together researchers working in this field of study and encouraging knowledge of their work.
As a result we have already published three books at the series Routledge Studies in Cultural History:
(2023). Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Falconi, Jessica; Dias, Remy; Smith, D.A. (eds). The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions. New York & London: Routledge.
(2023). Faria, Alice Santiago; Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Shelley, Anne. (eds). The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press. New York & London: Routledge.
(2022). Fonseca, Isadora Ataíde; Lobo, Sandra Ataíde; Machado, Adelaide, Vieira; Newman, Robert. (eds). Creating and Opposing Empire. The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press. New York & London: Routledge.
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