INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE An Intellectual Appreciation and Celebration of Fifty Years of the Liberation of Goa Goa University, Goa, India December, 2011 Conference Hall - Faculty of Social Science Goa University Registration: 9.00 to 9.35 am INAUGURATION Inaugural Session am Welcome Address: Prof. Dileep N. Deobagkar (Vice Chancellor, Goa University) Introducing the Conference: Prof. Peter R. De Souza (Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla) Address of the Guest of Honour: Prof. Basudev Chatterji (Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi) Keynote Address: Prof. Boaventura de Souza Santos (Director, Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal) Title: Development of Self-determination: How to decolonize the past without recolonizing the future? Vote of Thanks: Shri Parag D. Parobo (Department of History, Goa University) Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla India Co-organised by Goa University Goa, India Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal i

2 Schedule to am Tea Break to pm Plenary Session I C: Prof. Basudev A. Shahid Amin, Making the Nation Habitable Chatterji B. Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Goa That Never Was: Jose Saramago s Counterfactual Narrative to 1.15 pm Lunch Break Note: Changes in the schedule if any will be displayed on a White Board at the entrance Note: The Inaugural Function, the Plenary Sessions (for the two days, th December, 2011) and the Session on Day 3 ( am) shall be held in the Conference Hall, Faculty of Social Science, Goa University. All the Academic Session will be held simultaneously in the Halls 01, 02 & 03 at the Dept. of Management Studies, Goa University. Transport will be available to carry delegates and other participants to the Dept. of Management Studies, Goa University. C: Chairman D: Discussant ii

3 1.15 to 2.45 pm Session I Hall 01 C: Manish Thakur The Beginning of the End (Operation Vijay and the D: Seema Risbud End of Colonization) Dalila Cabrita Mateus, Goa and Satyagraha Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, Dr. Salazar s Attempt to Recover Goa Nishtha Desai, Liberation vs Armed Aggression the Media Response to Operation Vijay, Hall 02 C: Savio Abreu Public Life of History D: Madhavan K. Palat Maria Paula Meneses, A Kind of a Low Silence: Narratives of Nationalist Struggle in 1961 Mozambique Ângela Xavier, Past is Always Present. History and Identity in post-colonial Goa Sidh Mendiratta, New and Old ideas for Old Goa: The Gracias / Vassalo e Silva Conservation and Musealization Plan of 1960 and its Aftermath C: Pamela de Mello Questioning Goa s Development Hall 03 D: R. Benedito Ferrao Shaila de Souza, Dynamics of Tourism Development and the Status of Women in Goa Janet A. Rubinoff, Fisheries Development in Goa: Transformation of Traditional Fishing Communities over 50 Years Blanche Mascarenhas, Evolution and Growth of Trade Unions in Goa during the post-liberation Period iii

4 2.45 to 3.00 pm Tea Break 3.00 to 5.00 pm Session II Hall 01 C: Amitav Gosh D: Madhavi Sardessai Literature, Power and Otherness Vishram Gupte, Absence of an Exile at the Centre of Goan Literature: Some Problematic Issues Everton V. Machado, Postcolonial Studies and Goan Literature in Portuguese: Limits and Challenges Victor Rangel-Ribeirio, The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa, and the Literature that is Flowing from It C: Alberto Gomes D: Gopal Guru D: Jason Keith Fernandes C: Albertina Almeida D: Robert Newman Damodar Mouzo, How Liberated is Goan Literature? I. Identity & Hegemony Hall 02 And II. Gender Parag D. Parobo, Rise of the Little Selves: Bahujan Samaj and the Political Space in Postcolonial Goa, Cláudia Pereira, Caste and post Colonialism Comparing the Gaudde in Contemporary Goa and in Signo da Ira Priyanka Velip, Does Goa Listen to Tribal Women s Voices? Sachin Savio Moraes, Negotiating Male Migration: The Experience of Women in Goa, Voices from the Diaspora Hall 03 Michelle Cahill, From Silence to Rhetoric: The Poet As Ethnographer R. Benedito Ferrao, The Many Africa s of Goa: Liberation and Literature in the Making of Subjectivity iv

5 Shubhro Michael Gomes, The Forgotten Portuguese of Mirpur, A Study on their Paribartan (transformation) Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, The Role of Portuguese and British Colonialism in the Migration and Settlement of Goans in Britain to 8.00 pm Programme In Panaji THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION ASPIRATIONS AND TESTIMONIES Day to am Plenary Session II C: Remy Dias A. Aurora Couto, Politics of Erasure B. Madhavan K. Palat, The Europes that Goa and the rest of India saw to am Tea Break to pm Session III Hall 01 C: Victor Rangel- Ribeirio D: Everton Machado C: Stella Mascarenhas Keyes D: Anjali Arondekar Re-Imaging and Re-Positioning Goa Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Writing from many Frontiers: José Gerson da Cunha s Historical and Journalistic Approaches to Past and Present Colonialisms ( ) Savia Viegas, Angelo da Fonseca: The Making of the Indigene Artist Liberation of Goa and beyond Hall 02 Arthur Rubinoff, How Different are Goa s Politics? Margret Frenz, East African Goan Perspectives on Goa 1961 Miguel Cardina, 1961: The Year that Shook the Portuguese dictatorship v

6 Hall 03 C: Koshy Tharakan Postcoloniality, Identity Politics D: Shahid Amin Alberto G Gomes, Soiled Blood: Hybridity and the Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia Alexander Henn, Moving the Self through Post--Colonial Spaces: The Gaude Jagor Cristiana Bastos, Beyond Predicaments: Goan writings on Identity and History to 1.15 pm Lunch Break 1.15 to 2.45 pm Session IV Hall 01 C: Sharon Braganca Land, Law and Village Sousa D: Fernando Elgar Noronha Pamela D Mello, Changing Markets in Land, its Impact on Politics and the idea of Village and Belonging Remy Dias, The Story of Goa s Land Reforms since Liberation: 1961 Cajetan Raposo, Jurisdiction and Ownership of Communidade lands: Threats and Challenges Hall 02 C: Anabel Mendes Religion, Integration and Social Transformation D: Alexander Henn Savio Abreu, Spatial Contestations: Emergence of Fundamentalist Forms of Christianity in Post-colonial Goa Sharon Bragança Sousa, Politico Ecclesiastical Metamorphosis of the Church in Goa after Liberation Venisha Fernandes, Displacement and the Sacred: The Re-Membered Village vi

7 Session IV Hall 03 C: Alberto Gomes Language, Gender, Power D: Lynn Menezes de Sousa Delfim Corriea da Silva, Does Goa has the Potential to Become the Future Excellence Hub in Asia for Learning and Teaching Portuguese Edith Melo Furtado, Women s Voices after 1961 D. Jason Keith Frederick Noronha, Goa and its Elites: New and Old -- Fernandes A Look at how the Media has Built and Unbuilt Elite Perceptions in the Last Five Decades 2.45 to 3.00 pm Tea Break 3.00 to 5.00 pm Session V Hall 01 C: Shiv Resistance and Recovery Vishvanathan D: Susana Sardo Anjali Arondekar, Margins of Desire: Sexuality, Historiography, Goa Gitika Gupta, Goa em 1956: Colonial Resi-stances and Contrapuntal De/colonization Hi/story (In absentia to be read by R. Beneditto Ferrao) Paul Melo e Castro, The Portuguese Soldier s Return by Lambert Mascarenhas and Um Português em Baga by Epitácio Pais Joana Passos, Goan Literature in Portuguese: Consolidation, Resistance, Activism and Contaminations vii

8 Hall 02 C: Lynn Menezes de History and its Residue Sousa D: Boaventura Sousa Santos Jason Keith Fernandes, Spices, not Christians Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, The Portuguese Past in Contemporary Mumbai Heritage Villages and Futuristic Slums: A Perspective from Urban Planning Victor Rangel-Ribeirio, The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa: Promise and Fulfillment, a View from the Outside Constantino Xavier, Into the Mainstream: Goa Lusophona 3.00 to 5.00 pm Session V Hall 03 C: Madhavi Afterlife of Colonialism and Goan Society Sardessai D: Cristiana Bastos Anjali D Souza, Conversion, Trauma and Memory Loss: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Goa Victor Ferrao, The Afterlife of Colonialism and the Condition of Inter-Religious Harmony in Goa Carmo D Souza, Buried Heritage of Civil Law Traditions in Goa: Vision for 2011 and Beyond Albertina Almeida, Vistas on the Road From Portuguese Civil Code to Family Laws of Goa viii

9 Day to am Plenary Session III Keki Daruwalla, For Pepper and Christ: A Novel Historical fiction around Vasco da Gama's voyage to "discover" India Book Release - Colonialism, Migration and the International Catholic Goan Community by Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes to Tea Break to pm Session VI Hall 01 C: Celsa Pinto Language, Education and Politics D: Manish Thakur Madhavi Sardesai, The Konkani - Marathi Conflict and its Impact on the Standardization of Konkani Giri Suzuki, The Language Issue in post-colonial Goa: From the Standpoint of Modern Japanese Experience Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza, Lazy Reasoning and the Waste of Experience: Apprehending Indigenous Dissensus in Educational and Language Policy in Brazil Hall 02 C: Rahul Tripathi Memory, Culture and Dislocation D: Savia Viegas Manisha Pal, Goa and Portugal: Their Musical Links (during Twentieth Century) Susana Sardo, Music, Conflict and Conciliation: Rethinking some Postcolonial Approaches through the Case of Music in Goa Anabela Mendes, Recreation and Memory: Goa, an Inexpugnable Place ix

10 10.45 to pm Session VI Hall 03 C: Rahul Srivastava D: Arindam Das Transformations: Consuming in Goa and Consumption of Goa Gupta Amitha Shanbhogue, Vishal Chari, Aparna Lolayekar and Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Economic Transitions Financial Growth and Consumption Outcomes Raghuraman S. Trichur, Articulating Tourism: State Formation in post-liberation Goa to 1.30 pm Valedictory Function Chairperson: Prof. Maria Paula Meneses Valedictory Address: Prof. Shiv Vishvanathan Vote of Thanks: Dr. Rahul Tripathi 1.30 to 2.30 pm Lunch Conference closed x