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PROGRAMME
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| WEDNESDAY,
24 SEPTEMBER 2003 |
| 10.00-12.00 |
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| 10.00 |
Beatrix Heintze and Achim von Oppen: Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.45-11.15 |
Wyatt MacGaffey: Crossing the River: Myth and Movement in Central
Africa |
| 11.15-12.00 |
Discussion |
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Additional Paper (for Circulation). Jan Vansina: Communication between Angola
and East Central Africa before c. 1700
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| 14.00-15.45 |
Session 2
The
Modernisation of Transport and its Contradictions
Chair: José C. Curto |
| 14.00-14.20 |
Rosa Cruz e Silva: O tráfego no corredor
do Kwanza secs. XVI-XIX. Continuidade e ruptura |
| 14.20-14.40 |
Maria Emília Madeira Santos: Em busca dos
sítios do poder na África Central Ocidental: Homens e caminhos, exércitos
e estradas (1483-1915) |
| 14.40-15.00 |
David Birmingham: Wagon
Technology, Transport and Long-distance Communication in Angola 1885-1908 |
| 15.00-15.45 |
Discussion
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| 16.15-18.00 |
Session 3
Transport
Routes and the Transformation of Rural Livelihoods
Chair: Lukonde Luansi |
| 16.15-16.35 |
Mariana Candido: Demography, Epidemics, and Trade Routes: the Case of Caconda, 1830-1870 |
| 16.35-16.55 |
Emmanuel Esteves: As vias de comunicação e meios de transporte
como factores de globalização, de estabilidade política
e de transformação económica e social: Caso do Caminho
de ferro de Bengela (Benguela) (1889-1950) |
| 16.55-17.15 |
Maria da Conceição Neto: Nas malhas da rede: o impacto económico e social
do transporte rodoviário na região do Huambo c.1920-c.1960 |
| 17.15-18.00 |
Discussion |
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Additional Paper (for Circulation). Jelmer Vos: The Economics of the Kwango
Rubber Trade, ca. 1900
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| THURSDAY,
25 SEPTEMBER 2003 |
| 9.00-10.15 |
Session 4
Transport
and Violence under Foreign Impact
Chair: John K. Thornton |
| 9.00-9.20 |
Roquinaldo Ferreira: Warfare in Southern Angola: Horses,
Soldiers and the Development of Slaving in Benguela between 1670 and 1730 |
| 9.20-9.40 |
José C. Curto: Movers
of Slaves: The Brazilian Community in Benguela (Angola), c. 1722-1832 |
| 9.40-10.15 |
Discussion
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| 10.45-12.15 |
Session 5
Building
Spaces of Communication
Chair: David Birmingham |
| 10.45-11.05 |
Beatrix Heintze: Long-Distance Caravans
and Communications beyond the Kwango (c. 1850-1890) |
| 11.05-11.25 |
Ana Paula Tavares: A escrita em Angola. Comunicação e ruído
entre as diferentes sociedades em presença |
| 11.25-11.45 |
Aurora
da Fonseca Ferreira: Do passado ao presente: tráfego comercial e redes de
comunicação, factores privilegiados de ‘modernidade’ |
| 11.45-12.15 |
Discussion |
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Additional Paper (for Circulation). Catarina Madeira Santos: "Escrever o poder".
Os autos de vassalagem e a vulgarização da escrita entre os africanos:
O caso dos Ndembu em Angola (séculos XVII-XX)
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| 15.00-17.30 |
Excursion
The
West Central African Collections at the “Ethnologisches
Museum” (Preussischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin-Dahlem |
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Visit, presentation by the Curator,
and discussion; opportunity to see the exhibition by the Angolan artist
António Ole “township wall - Margem da Zona Limite” |
| 17.00-17.30 |
At the Museum: Presentation
by Jean-Luc Vellut on Western Congo: the Far East of Angola. Its Echo in the 2005 Tervuren Exhibition
‘Congo:
the Colonial Time’ |
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| FRIDAY,
26 SEPTEMBER 2003 |
| 9.00-10.15 |
Session 6
Routes
and Barriers: Constructions of Space on the Move
Chair: Wyatt MacGaffey |
| 9.00-9.20 |
Achim von Oppen: Moving along, Moving across. Linear Geographies and
Translocal Practices on the Upper Zambezi, 19th to
20th Century |
| 9.20-9.40 |
Inge Brinkman: Refugees on Routes. Congo/Zaire and the War in Northern
Angola (1961-1974) |
| 9.40-10.15 |
Discussion
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| 10.45-12.00 |
Session 7
Communicating across
the Atlantic
Chair: Maria Emília Madeira Santos |
| 10.45-11.05 |
Linda M. Heywood: Memory through Space and Time: Queen Njinga and Remembrance
in Angola and Brazil |
| 11.05-11.25 |
John K. Thornton: The Transportation of African Christianity to America:
The Eighteenth Century |
| 11.25-12.00 |
Discussion
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| 14.00-17.00 |
Session 8
Angola,
Central Africa, and the World
Chair: Maria da Conceição Neto |
| 14.00-14.20 |
Manfred Schmitz: Angola - A Country on the Margin of Global Media Society |
| 14.20-14.40 |
Lukonde Luansi: Angola: movimentos migratórios
e Estados precoloniais - identidade nacional e autonomia regional |
| 14.40-15.30 |
Discussion |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Joseph C. Miller: Communication and Commercialization in Central Africa:
Angola in the Context of World-Historical
Processes of Modernity |
16.30-17.00
17.00-17.15 |
Discussion
Personal Address
by H.E. the Ambassador of the Republic of Angola in Germany, Dipl. Ing.
Alberto Bento Ribeiro
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| 17.15-18.00 |
Concluding Comments and Discussion
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