Conferências e Colóquios

Inteligência Artificial e Big Data: Quotidianos, Direitos Humanos, Democracia

As questões relacionadas com inteligência artificial e big data suscitam transformações e dilemas no quotidiano das sociedades, nos direitos humanos, na democracia e na própria investigação científica. O carácter transversal dos temas reforça a importância de estimular a reflexão e o debate, contribuindo assim para a compreensão destas questões e do seu impacto na sociedade.

Modern sex / Traditional pills - Enhancing men's sexual performance in Dhaka

Na quinta-feira, dia 17 de outubro, das 15h00 às 17h30, na sala 2, realiza-se a primeira EXCEL DISTINGUISHED LECTURE do novo ano letivo, no âmbito do projeto "EXCEL. The Pursuit of Excellence". O convidado de honra será o Professor Mujibul Anam – Associate Professor of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University Dhaka, Bangladesh – que irá apresentar uma comunicação do título: «Modern sex / Traditional pills - Enhancing men's sexual performance in Dhaka»

"No distinction in favour of or against race and colour": the differing shipboard experiences of European emigrants and Indian and Chinese indentured labour in the British Empire 1807-1916

The abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and of slavery in the British colonies in 1833 could have been disastrous for the supply of cheap labour and for the shipping companies that had built their wealth on the slave trade. The transport of emigrants to North America and Australasia proved a lucrative replacement for the old triangular slave trade and the transportation of convicts to Australia, and the shipping of indentured labour from India, China and Polynesia after 1834 to the West Indies, Mauritius and South America offered a solution to the colonial labour problem.

O ATLÂNTICO IBERO-AMERICANO (SÉCULOS XVI-XX): RESISTÊNCIAS: DESAFIOS DE UMA AGENDA HISTORIOGRÁFICA – 2019

É já no dia 13 de setembro a próxima edição do ciclo de conferências «O Atlântico Ibero-Americano (sécs. XVI-XX) com  Alfredo J. Flores, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, dedicada ao tema ”Política e administração militar na Banda Oriental do Uruguai (segunda metade do séc. XVIII): a presença portuguesa nas relações entre o ‘Cabildo’ de Maldonado e a 'Comandância militar' de San Carlos”.

Black at the Bone: Race as a Semaphore Language for Assessing Moral Order

Guinier and Torres (2002) treated the miner’s canary as a metaphor for political race and, earlier, Copeland (1939) had investigated Negro as a moral contrast conception. Building on these insights, I argue that within the Atlantic World and its circuits of influence, race-as-blackness-descended-from-slavery-indentureship-conquest is a syncategorematic in semaphore language by which the social order’s morality is assessed.

The changing face of labour between Hawai'i, Japan, and colonial Taiwan

This paper examines one of the most iconic images of the first Japanese sugar labourers to Hawai‘i, painted by Joseph D. Strong in 1885. Now preserved in a private collection in Tokyo, the painting is a window into the world of transplanted lives in the late- nineteenth century, in particular the way these labourers became a contested site of imagination for different constituencies catering to their arrival--the Japanese government, the Hawaiian king, the sugar plantation owners, and the local press.