Dia 10 e 11 de Dezembro durante todo o dia terá lugar na Sala Polivalente do ICS o Colóquio  Relations of power in Afro-Cuban religiosity and discourse com a participação de: Ana Stela Cunha, Diana Espirito Santo, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Emma Gobin, Jose Alberto Galvan Tudela, Katerina Kerestetzi, Martin Holbraad, Geraldine Morel-Baro, Claudia Rauhut, Lisa Maya Knauer, Grecy Perez Amores e Lioba Rossbach De Olmos. Este colóquio é organizado por Ana Stela de Almeida Cunha (ICS-UL) e Diana Espírito Santo (ICS-UL). 

At any given moment in history, a diversity of implicit and explicit relationships of power can obtain between individuals, groups, and societies, vis-à-vis each other, the state, transnational entities and networks, or even ‘imagined communities' (Anderson, 1983). But the kinds of power relations generated by and reasserted among practitioners of Afro-Cuban religions have for some time invited us to reflect more carefully on the types of discourses in which ‘power', be it as a concept, employed in ritual rhetoric, or as embedded in understandings of notions such as ‘syncretism' and ‘creollization', figures.
In Cuba, ‘power' is not simply an abstraction to be discussed by the anthropologist in a post-facto social examination of a hegemonically complex religious matrix: it is routinely and confidently employed by ritual experts, believers, and non-believers alike, who each claim a stake in what produces, legitimates, or what ultimately dissolves it.
The aim of this workshop will thus be twofold. On the hand, the objective is to identify, through a myriad of ethnographic examples pertaining to Afro-Cuban religiosity, the observable dynamics of power that underpin and determine the various forms of spiritual and ritual practice, both at a formal and informal level. On the other hand, we wish to highlight the power of words themselves, thus proposing an analysis of the discourses that themselves define and tighten these power relationships, transforming their character and efficacy simultaneously.

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