Panel "The aftermath of war. Negotiating homecoming, memory, and trauma", 11th Iberian Conference on African Studies

Panel "The aftermath of war. Negotiating homecoming, memory, and trauma", 11th Iberian Conference on African Studies

Organizer
Ana Margarida Sousa Santos and Maria José Lobo Antunes (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Venue
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
Location
Lisbon
Country
Portugal
From - Until
02.07.2020 - 04.07.2020
Deadline
24.02.2020
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Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists

Recently the study of memories of wars of liberation and the end of empires in Africa have sparked renewed interest. Political narratives shifted, and the time that has elapsed created space for new analysis. The study of these memories, forms of representation, commemorative efforts, fictional and non-fiction accounts have enriched our understanding and provided further nuanced perspectives on the experiences of soldiers and their families.

Taking up historically and geographically diverse cases from post-colonial countries and former colonial powers, this panel questions how soldiers and their families navigate the post-colonial spaces in Africa and Europe. It will address the memories and legacies of war, and the way they play out in the lives of soldiers in diverse settings. By inviting inquiries into the lives of veterans on opposing sides of liberation wars, the panel probes the parallels and distinctions between combatants in different settings, the potential for networks of veterans to bring about forms of inclusion and exclusion, political demands, and shifts in understandings of war and its consequences.

Some of the questions we aim to address are:

- How do soldiers and their families navigate the changes that followed the end of the wars and the return home?
- How are war memories negotiated, commemorated or silenced in the post-colonial context?
- What bearing do processes of memorialization have in the struggle for political recognition of combatants?

By bringing diverse perspectives into discussion we hope to illuminate shared experiences of war, trauma, and memorialization, in historically and geographically distinctive contexts.

Abstracts should be submitted until 24 February 2020 at:

https://ciea11.pt/index.php/en/submission/submission-communications

The 11th Iberian Conference on African Studies African Transits in the Global World: History and Memories, Heritage and Innovation, organized by the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon (CH-ULisboa), will take place in Lisbon on July 2-4, 2020, at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, FLUL).

For more about the CIEA11, please visit the website:
https://ciea11.pt/index.php/en/

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Contact (announcement)

Ana Margarida Sousa Santos
Margarida.sousasantos@gmail.com

Maria José Lobo Antunes
mjose.antunes@ics.ulisboa.pt


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