Plantation Europe: Summer School
Sponsored by The Colour of Labour (ERC AdG 695573) Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
Convener: Cristiana Bastos, PI, The Colour of Labour
Partners: Associação Terra Batida, Associação Batoto Yetu Portugal, Buala
Logistics: Mari Lo Bosco, adm. The Colour of Labour
Program
MONDAY JUNE 27 (ICS - AUDITÓRIO)
10h00 Opening Session Batoto Yetu, Terra Batida and The Colour of Labour
10h30 Plantation, labor, racializations: an historical and anthropological overview Cristiana Bastos, ICS – ULisboa, The Colour of Labour
11h00 Coffee break
11h30 African enslaved labor and Asian indentured labor: a view from Guyana and the Caribbean Marcelo Moura Mello, UFBA, The Colour of Labour
12h00 The persistence of the plantation: food circuits and migrant labor Seth Holmes, U Berkeley, The Colour of Labour, FoodCircuits
12h30 Lunch Break
14h00 Plantations and cropscapes: the case of rice Tiago Saraiva, Drexel U, The Colour of Labour 14h30 African knowledge and rice cultivation in the Sado region Pedro Varela, CES, U Coimbra Ricardo Ventura, CLEPUL / CEG-UAb
15h00 Break
15h30 The memory of malaria in the rice fields of Alcácer Moónica Saavedra, CRIA – U Coimbra
16h00 The precarious lives of rice workers in Alcácer-Comporta Pedro Prista, CRIA – ISCTE
TUESDAY JUNE 28
Guided field trip to the Sado region, Alcácer, Comporta, rice estates, and landmarks of African memory
WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 (ICS - SALA POLIVALENTE)
9h30 Guidelines for the final report Convener and enrolled students
10h00 Alentejo: An historical-anthropological approach to latifundia, class stratification and change in the Alto Alentejo José Sobral, ICS - ULisboa
10h45 Coffee Break
11h00 Raiva (Sérgio Tréfaut POR/FRA/BRA, 2018, 84 min) Film screening followed by debate
13h00 Lunch Break
14h30 Olives, almonds and water: current trends of unsustainability Pedro Prista, CRIA – ISCTE
15h00 Migrants in the greenhouses: Odemira and the global circuits of capital and labor Catarina Barata, DANT – ICS - ULisboa, Associação Terra Batida Kishor Subba Limbu, DANT- ICS - ULisboa, The Colour of Labour
15h30 Coffee break
16h00 Art and Activism in the Pantationoscene Oil Dourado (Andre Paxiuta) Superintensivo (Marta Lança) Eu nasci aqui, eu sou de cá (Fernando Antunes Amaral) Songs From Another Eden (Sohel Rahman John)
THURSDAY JUNE 30
Guided field trip to the Alentejo, visit to iconic estates and current landscape transformations, Montemor, Évora, Monsaraz, Alqueva
FRIDAY JULY 1 (ICS – SALA POLIVALENTE)
10h00 Reports from the field visits Students break into groups and produce reports on the field visits; collective discussion on the reports
12h30 Lunch break
14h00 The winescapes of Douro and the making of Port as a commodity José Sobral, ICS - ULisboa Marta Macedo, ICS - ULisboa, The Colour of Labour
15h00 The plantationoscene: an overview Tiago Saraiva, U Drexel, The Colour of Labour Marta Macedo, ICS - ULisboa, The Colour of Labour
15h30 Final discussion
All participants
Optional field trips:
FRIDAY JULY 1: departure for Porto for overnight (self-pay); alternative: departure for Odemira (self-pay)
SATURDAY JULY 2: guided field visit to Porto and Douro – optional, self-pay
