Memories of the Slavery and African Heritage: Brazil and Cuba
On November 4, 2014, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), represented by the Afro Digital Museum Rio de Janeiro and the House of África Museum, located in Havana, Cuba. The project intends to discuss the memory of slavery and the patrimony policies that have been developed in this sector, based on a comparative work between Cuba and Brazil.
The first joint activity of the agreement was the holding of the Symposium on Slavery and African Heritage: Brazil and Cuba, held on June 3 and 9, 2014, at the House of África Museum, in the Historic Center of Old Havana and in the city of Matanzas.
Symposium organizers:
Alberto Granado Duque – Director of House of Africa Museum
André Cicalo – Marie Curie Fellow – King’s College of London & Universidade Federal Fluminense.
Myrian S. Santos – Associate Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (PPCIS/UERJ) & AfroDigital Museum Coordinator.
Symposium Texts
Cooperation Agreement UERJ and House of Africa Museum
Symposium Program Memories of the Slavery and African Heritage: Brazil and Cuba
Texts:
For a public history of Africans enslaved in Brazil – Hebe Mattos e Martha Abreu
La suma y las diferencias: narrar la nación – Antonio Motta
Patrimoine culturel immatériel : quels concepts pour quels enjeux politiques? – Christine Douxami
Migratory Modernisms, Literature, Africa and Power – Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro
The Bulol Chains: Contemporary Representations of Slavery in Africa – Maurício Barros de Castro
Slavery and the politics of the memory: the brazilian case – Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos
