INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: GOA 1961 AND BEYOND An Intellectual Appreciation and Celebration of Fifty Years of the Liberation of Goa
Co-organised by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla India Goa University Goa, India Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Goa University, Goa, India 18-20 December, 2011 Conference Hall - Faculty of Social Science Goa University Registration: 9.00 to 9.35 am INAUGURATION 9.45 - 10.45 am Inaugural Session * Welcome Address: Prof. Dileep N. Deobagkar (Vice Chancellor, Goa University). * Introducing the Conference: Prof. Peter R. De Souza (Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla). * Address of the Guest of Honour: Prof. Basudev Chatterji (Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi). * Keynote Address: Prof. Boaventura de Souza Santos (Director, Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal). Title: Development of Self-determination: How to decolonize the past without recolonizing the future? * Vote of Thanks: Parag D. Parobo (Department of History, Goa University) 10.45 to 11.00 am Tea Break 11.00 to 12.15 pm Plenary Session I C: Prof. Basudev Chatterji * A. Shahid Amin, ‘Making the Nation Habitable’ * B. Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ‘The Goa That Never Was: Jose Saramago’s Counterfactual Narrative’ 12.15 to 1.15 pm Lunch Break ---------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Changes in the schedule if any will be displayed on a white board at the entrance. Note: The Inaugural Function, the Plenary Sessions (for the two days, 18-19th December, 2011) and the Session on Day 3 (9.30-10.30 am) shall be held in the Conference Hall, Faculty of Social Science, Goa University. All the Academic Session will be held simultaneously in the Halls 01, 02 & 03 at the Dept. of Management Studies, Goa University. Transport will be available to carry delegates and other participants to the Dept. of Management Studies, Goa University. IMPORTANT: Please confirm the programme against the PDF version, which has been text-converted here. More details from Parag Parobo goa1...@gmail.com --FN C: Chairman D: Discussant ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1.15 to 2.45 pm session I Hall 01 C: Manish Thakur D: Seema Risbud THE BEGINNING OF THE END (OPERATION VIJAY AND THE END OF COLONIZATION) * Dalila Cabrita Mateus, ‘Goa and Satyagraha’ * Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, ‘Dr. Salazar’s Attempt to Recover Goa’ * Nishtha Desai, ‘Liberation vs Armed Aggression the Media Response to Operation Vijay Hall 02 C: Savio Abreu D: Madhavan K. Palat PUBLIC LIFE OF HISTORY * Maria Paula Meneses, ‘A Kind of a Low Silence: Narratives of Nationalist Struggle in 1961 Mozambique’ * Ângela Xavier, ‘Past is Always Present. History and Identity in post-colonial Goa’ * Sidh Mendiratta, ‘New and Old ideas for Old Goa: The Gracias/Vassalo e Silva Conservation and Musealization Plan of 1960 and its Aftermath’ Hall 03 C: Pamela de Mello D: R. Benedito Ferrao QUESTIONING GOA'S DEVELOPMENT * Shaila de Souza, ‘Dynamics of Tourism Development and the Status of Women in Goa’ * Janet A. Rubinoff, ‘Fisheries Development in Goa: Transformation of Traditional Fishing Communities over 50 Years’ * Blanche Mascarenhas, ‘Evolution and Growth of Trade Unions in Goa during the post-Liberation Period’ Questioning Goa’s Development Hall 03 Public Life of History 2.45 to 3.00 pm Tea Break 3.00 to 5.00 pm Session II Hall 01 C: Amitav Gosh D: Madhavi Sardessai LITERATURE, POWER AND 'OTHERNESS' * Vishram Gupte, ‘Absence of an ‘Exile’ at the Centre of Goan Literature: Some Problematic Issues’ * Everton V. Machado, ‘Postcolonial Studies and Goan Literature in Portuguese: Limits and Challenges’ * Victor Rangel-Ribeirio, ‘The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa, and the Literature that is Flowing from It’ * Damodar Mouzo, ‘How Liberated is Goan Literature?’ C: Alberto Gomes D: Gopal Guru Hall 02 I. IDENTITY & HEGEMONY AND II. GENDER * Parag D. Parobo, ‘Rise of the Little Selves: Bahujan Samaj and the Political Space in Postcolonial Goa, 1961-2011’ * Cláudia Pereira, ‘Caste and post Colonialism – Comparing the Gaudde in Contemporary Goa and in “Signo da Ira”’ * Priyanka Velip, ‘Does Goa Listen to Tribal Women’s Voices?’ D: Jason Keith Fernandes Sachin Savio Moraes, 'Negotiating Male Migration: The Experience of Women in Goa'. C: Albertina Almeida D: Robert Newman Hall 03: VOICES FROM THE DIASPORA * Michelle Cahill, ‘From Silence to Rhetoric: The Poet As Ethnographer’ * R. Benedito Ferrao, ‘The Many Africa’s of Goa: Liberation and Literature in the Making of Subjectivity’ * Shubhro Michael Gomes, ‘The Forgotten Portuguese of Mirpur, A Study on their ‘Paribartan’ (transformation)’ * Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, ‘The Role of Portuguese and British Colonialism in the Migration and Settlement of Goans in Britain. ---------------------------------------------------------- 6.30 to 8.00 pm Programme In Panaji THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION ASPIRATIONS AND TESTIMONIES Poetry recital. Book release: Goa's Liberation and Thereafter: Chronicles of a Fragmented Life by Suresh Kanekar (to be released by Alvaro Pereira, freedom fighter). Testimonies by Gurunath Kelekar, Prabhakar Sinari, Sharda Savaikar, Silvia Braganca and Prof Boaventura de Sousa Santos. ---------------------------------------------------------- Day 2 9.30 to 10.30 am C: Remy Dias Plenary Session II * A. Aurora Couto, ‘Politics of Erasure’ * B. Madhavan K. Palat, ‘The Europes that Goa and the rest of India saw’ 10.30 to 10.45 am Tea Break 10.45 to 12.15 pm C Victor Rangel Ribeirio D: Everton Machado Hall 01 RE-IMAGING AND RE-POSITIONING GOA * Filipa Lowndes Vicente, ‘Writing from many Frontiers: José Gerson da Cunha’s Historical and Journalistic Approaches to Past and Present Colonialisms (1870-1900)’ * Savia Viegas, ‘Angelo da Fonseca: The Making of the Indigene Artist’ C: Stella Mascarenhas Keyes D: Anjali Arondekar Hall 02 LIBERATION OF GOA AND BEYOND * Arthur Rubinoff, ‘How Different are Goa’s Politics?’ * Margret Frenz, ‘East African Goan Perspectives on ‘Goa 1961’ * Miguel Cardina, ‘1961: The Year that Shook the Portuguese dictatorship’ C: Koshy Tharakan D: Shahid Amin Hall 03 POSTCOLONIALITY, IDENTITY POLITICS * Alberto G Gomes, ‘Soiled Blood: Hybridity and the Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia’ * Alexander Henn, ‘Moving the Self through Post--Colonial Spaces: The Gaude Jagor’ * Cristiana Bastos, ‘Beyond Predicaments: Goan writings on Identity and History’ 12.15 to 1.15 pm Lunch Break C: Sharon Braganca Sousa D: Fernando Elgar Noronha Hall 01 LAND, LAW AND VILLAGE 1.15 to 2.45 pm * Pamela D’Mello, ‘Changing Markets in Land, its Impact on Politics and the idea of Village and Belonging’ * Remy Dias, ‘The Story of Goa’s Land Reforms since Liberation: 1961’ * Cajetan Raposo, ‘Jurisdiction and Ownership of Communidade lands: Threats and Challenges’ C: Anabel Mendes D: Alexander Henn Hall 02 RELIGION, INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION * Savio Abreu, ‘Spatial Contestations: Emergence of Fundamentalist Forms of Christianity in Post-colonial Goa’ * Sharon Bragança Sousa, ‘Politico–Ecclesiastical Metamorphosis of the Church in Goa after Liberation’ * Venisha Fernandes, ‘Displacement and the Sacred: The Re-Membered Village’ Session IV C: Alberto Gomes D: Lynn Menezes de Sousa Hall 03 LANGUAGE, GENDER, POWER Hall 03 * Delfim Corriea da Silva, ‘Does Goa has the Potential to Become the Future Excellence Hub in Asia for Learning and Teaching Portuguese’ * Edith Melo Furtado, ‘Women’s Voices after 1961’ D. Jason Keith Fernandes * Frederick Noronha: 'Goa and its Elites: New and Old -- Media and Elite Perceptions' C: Shiv Vishvanathan D: Susana Sardo Hall 01 RESISTANCE AND RECOVERY * Anjali Arondekar, ‘Margins of Desire: Sexuality, Historiography, Goa’ * Gitika Gupta, ‘Goa em 1956: Colonial Resi-stances and Contrapuntal De/colonization Hi/story (In absentia to be read by R. Beneditto Ferrao)’ * Paul Melo e Castro, ‘The Portuguese Soldier’s Return” by Lambert Mascarenhas and “Um Português em Baga” by Epitácio Pais’ * Joana Passos, ‘Goan Literature in Portuguese: Consolidation, Resistance, Activism and Contaminations’ C: Lynn Menezes de Sousa D: Boaventura Sousa Santos Hall 02 HISTORY AND ITS RESIDUE * Jason Keith Fernandes, ‘Spices, not Christians’ * Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, ‘The Portuguese Past in Contemporary Mumbai Heritage Villages and Futuristic Slums: A Perspective from Urban Planning’ * Victor Rangel-Ribeirio, ‘The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa: Promise and Fulfillment, a View from the Outside’ * Constantino Xavier, ‘Into the Mainstream: “Goa Lusophona”’ 3.00 to 5.00 pm C: Madhavi Sardessai D: Cristiana Bastos Hall 03 AFTERLIFE OF COLONIALISM AND GOAN SOCIETY * Anjali D’Souza, ‘Conversion, Trauma and Memory Loss: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Goa’ * Victor Ferrao, ‘The Afterlife of Colonialism and the Condition of Inter-Religious Harmony in Goa’ * Carmo D’Souza, ‘Buried Heritage of Civil Law Traditions in Goa: Vision for 2011 and Beyond’ * Albertina Almeida, ‘Vistas on the Road From Portuguese Civil Code to Family Laws of Goa’ Day 3 9.30 to 10.30 am Plenary Session III 20-12-2011 * Keki Daruwalla, ‘For Pepper and Christ: A Novel’ Historical fiction around Vasco da Gama's voyage to "discover" India * Book Release - Colonialism, Migration and the International Catholic Goan Community by Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes 10.30 to 10.45 Tea Break 10.45 to 12.15 pm C: Celsa Pinto D: Manish Thakur Hall 01 Language, Education and Politics * Madhavi Sardesai, ‘The Konkani - Marathi Conflict and its Impact on the Standardization of Konkani’ * Giri Suzuki, ‘The Language Issue in post-Colonial Goa: From the Standpoint of Modern Japanese Experience’ * Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza, ‘Lazy Reasoning and the Waste of Experience: Apprehending Indigenous Dissensus in Educational and Language Policy in Brazil’ C: Rahul Tripathi D: Savia Viegas Hall 02 MEMORY, CULTURE AND DISLOCATION * Manisha Pal, ‘Goa and Portugal: Their Musical Links (during Twentieth Century)’ * Susana Sardo, ‘Music, Conflict and Conciliation: Rethinking some Postcolonial Approaches through the Case of Music in Goa’ * Anabela Mendes, ‘Recreation and Memory: Goa, an Inexpugnable Place’ Memory, Culture and Dislocation Session 10.45 to 12.15 pm Session VI Hall 03 C: Rahul Srivastava D: Arindam Das Gupta TRANSFORMATIONS: CONSUMING IN GOA AND CONSUMPTION OF GOA * Amitha Shanbhogue, Vishal Chari, Aparna Lolayekar and Pranab Mukhopadhyay, ‘Economic Transitions – Financial Growth and Consumption Outcomes’ * Raghuraman S. Trichur, ‘Articulating Tourism: State Formation in post-Liberation Goa’ 12.30 to 1.30 pm: Valedictory Function Chairperson: Prof. Maria Paula Meneses Valedictory Address: Prof. Shiv Vishvanathan Vote of Thanks: Dr. Rahul Tripathi 1.30 to 2.30 pm: Lunch Conference closed e&oe -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Saligao Goa IN http://fn.goa-india.org Skype: fredericknoronha --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------