Online lecture series | Sounds of Independence

SOUNDS OF INDEPENDENCE

Angola | Cpe Verde | Guinea-Bissau | Mozambique | São Tomé and Principe

online lecture series

Marco Roque Freitas, integrated researcher at INET-md and Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Musical Sciences at NOVA FCSH, and responsible for the course on ‘Music and Postcolonial Studies’, organises this summer a series of lectures on the 50^th anniversary of the independence of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.

This series is free to attend and features five sessions led by a range of experts, each dedicated to a national context. The lectures will be held in Portuguese.

Every Monday, from 16 of June 16 to 14 of July, 2025 | Online - Free Entrance | Full program

LISBOA | LUANDA: 4-6 p.m.
PRAIA: 2-4 p.m.
BISSAU | SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE: 3-5 p.m.
MAPUTO: 5-7 p.m.

Zoom room: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/87623177170

Full program (available in .pdf):

16 June | As construções sonoras de Angola no pós-independência
André Castro Soares | CRIA / Iscte-IUL

23 June | Sons da resistência: Música, anticolonialismo e memória sonora
Inês Nascimento Rodrigues | CES - UC

30 June | São Tomé e Príncipe: Sons das ilhas
Magdalena B. Chambel | CH-ULisboa

07 July | Das cantigas de "mandjuandadi" à música de intervenção: Percursos e trajetórias da produção musical na Guiné-Bissau
Miguel Barros | CESAC - Centro de Estudos Sociais Amílcar Cabral

14 July | A construção sonora de Moçambique: Política cultural, radiodifusão e indústrias da música no processo de formação da nação

Marco Roque de Freitas | INET-md / NOVA FCSH

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Online lecture series | Sounds of Independence