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One Minute Older  – South Talks

One Minute Older  – South Talks

In February and March, Rezidența9 (I.L. Caragiale street, no 32) and the French Institute (Dacia Boulevard, no 77) will host the One Minute Older  – South Talks, a series of conversations about climate migration with guests from countries from the Global South. The meetings will be held in English, and are being organized by the University of Bucharest (CNFIS-FDI-2022-0367 Project and French-Romanian Master’s degree Politique à l’âge global, FSPUB – EHESS Paris), South Talks, Fundația9, Camões Institute — Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I. P., Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, University of Copenhagen, Divergente, French Institute of Bucharest.

PROGRAM:

February 3rd, from 19:00 at Rezidența9 (I.L Caragiale street, no. 32 and online, zia Zoom. Please send an email to contact@fundatia9.ro): Lourenço Galvão Diniz Faria (Brazil). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Lourenço Faria will talk about the implementation of the circular economy in the Global South as a way to mitigate climate migration.

February 6th, from 20:00 at the French Institute (Dacia Boulevard, no 77): screening of the documentary film Land of plenty, land but of few (Portugal – Mozambique, 2018, 53′), followed by a debate with journalists Sofia da Palma Rodrigues and Luciana Maruta (Divergent, Portugal).

March 2nd, from 19:00 at Residența9 (I.L Caragiale street, no. 32): Yara Nakahanda Monteiro (writer, Angola).  Starting from the concepts of ecofeminism, gender, and memory, Yara will hold a performance of her own poetry and text titled Cartographies of the Body, followed by a discussion interview about migration, literature and feminism with Iolanda Vasile.

GUESTS:

Lourenço Galvão Diniz Faria is a researcher and consultant who studies the process of global transition to a circular economy and the role of ecological innovation of companies.

He has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in economics obtained at Federal University of Uberlandia/São Paolo State University and a PhD in technology and innovation management from the Danish Technical University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen where he works with Kenya’s circular industrial parks and extended producer responsibility.

Sofia da Palma Rodrigues is a journalist with experience in reporting in various countries in Europe, Africa and South America. Author of large-scale investigative reports, which can be situated at the crossroads of journalism, documentary, and academia. In 2014 she co-founded Divergente, a digital narrative journalism magazine that tests new formats for the presentation of journalistic stories. Sofia has a PhD in Post Colonialism and Global Citizenship from the University of Coimbra. PRIX EUROPA, „Por ti, Portugal, eu juro!” (2022).

Luciana Maruta is a journalist with experience in radio, television and press, who has dedicated herself to the fields of health, migration and sports. At Divergente she crosses through the worlds of journalistic investigation and documentary and, at the moment, she coordinates a major story on absenteeism at the polls in the European Union. PRIX EUROPA, „Por ti, Portugal, eu juro!” (2022).    

Yara Nakahanda Monteiro was born in Huambo, Angola, in 1979. Her first novel Essa dama bate bué!  is translated into English, German, Chinese, and Italian. She studied in several universities around the world. In 2022, her poetry book Memórias, Apariões, Arritmias received the Glória de Sant’Anna literary prize. Her essays, short stories and poems are available in various publications. Yara co-authored the screenplay for the feature short films Path to the Stars and The Island.  In her own words: she is the great-great-granddaughter of slavery, the great-granddaughter of metisage, the granddaughter of independence and the daughter of the diaspora.

Land of Plenty, Land but of few

(dir. Diogo Cardoso, Sofia da Palma Rodrigues, Portugal-Mozambique, 2018, 53 min)

Trailer: HERE

Awards: Selection for the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) in the Journalism category, nomination for the Prix Europa in the category TV Current Affair (2019), the Gazeta Multimedia Award, the most important journalistic distinction in Portugal (2019) and distinction with the International Journalism Award King of Spain in the category of Environmental Journalism and Sustainable Development (2020).

ORGANIZERS:

The debates are part of the One Minute Older project developed by Fundația9, winner of a grant from the Climate of Change programme, a European programme sponsored by a consortium that brings together 23 countries and 26 partner organisations and funded by the European Commission’s Education and Development Awareness Programme (DEAR).

These latest meetings mark the beginning of a new series of conversations and events – South Talks.  Being at the crossroads of several fields (anthropology, literature, music, political science, history, museum studies, art), South Talks aims to bring to the Romanian public researchers, intellectuals, and activists from the Global South. Initiated by Damiana Oțoiu (University of Bucharest) and Iolanda Vasile (South Talks/ University of Coimbra), this series benefits from an institutional partnership with research centers with solid experience in the field of postcolonial, Latin American and Africanist studies, with civil society actors and with a Franco-Romanian educational program: the master’s program Politique à l’âge global. Etats, frontières et sociétés.

Rezidența9 is a center of contemporary culture created by BRD – Groupe Société Générale, in a building declared a historical monument on Ion Luca Caragiale street, no. 32. Currently, together with Fundația9, the team at Rezidența9 develops programs in this space where relevant thinkers and creators meet with the public and use the arts, culture and dialogue to better understand the world we live in.

CONVENORS: 

Damiana Oțoiu is an anthropologist, a professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches political anthropology and museum studies. Her research topics include: the history of museum collections in colonial and postcolonial context (France, Belgium, South Africa and DR Congo), the social and political life of museum objects and collections of physical anthropology, the anthropology of genetics and genomic laboratories, respectively urban policies and memorial practices in South Africa, DR Congo and Romania. Most recent publication: Bodenstein, F., Oțoiu, D., Troelenberg, E-M. (eds), Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return, Berghahn Books, 2022.

Iolanda Vasile is a specialist in post-colonial studies, co-coordinator of the course Art, activism and memoirs: archives of peoples’ histories, within the specialization program and the international course Epistemologies of the South, Latin American Council of Social Sciences. Among her research interests are the post-colonial literatures of Portuguese expression and the relations of socialist Romania with the states of Southern Africa. The recent publication: Vasile, I.; C. Almada e Santos, A.; Tornimbeni, (eds.) (2019), What solidarity? Networks of Cooperation with the Liberation Movements from Portuguese colonies. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais nº 118/2019. Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

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