Arroz Africano no Mundo Atlântico
Conference
March
2025
Sat
22
Sinopse
Most people identify slavery with sugar and few associate it with rice—enslaved Africans cultivated it in the Sado estuary (Portugal), Brazil, the Caribbean and the southern United States. The conference tells the story of African rice in the Atlantic world: how did a species domesticated independently in West Africa over three thousand years ago reach the plantations of the New World? What role did enslaved women play in establishing this vital African food in the Americas?
rice
slavery
© Lentim Nhabaly
Info sobre horário e bilhetes
Sat
22.03
14:30
RivoliSmall Auditorium
Aditional info
- Price
Free entry (upon collection of the ticket on the day of the conference from 11:00)
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Duration
2h30
- Age rating
To be defined by CCE
- Additional information
Spoken in Portuguese and English
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Text
No subtitling in Portuguese
Author's bio text
PROGRAMME
14h30 – 14h40
Screening of the motion portrait Bu simentera i di nundé? [Where Does Your Seed] by António Castelo and Lentim Nhabaly
14h40 – 14h55
Introduction by the moderator Erikson Mendonça
14h55 – 15h50
Judith Carney and José Filipe Fonseca
15h50 – 16h30
Discussion open to the public
16h30 – 17h00
Socialising moment
José Filipe Fonseca (Guinea-Bissau) is an agronomist. He has studied biodiversity, society and human health, the history of enslaved Africans and their universal legacy, and the history, culture and art of goombay (traditional Guinean urban music). He translated the book Black Rice. The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas, by Judith Carney, to both Portuguese and French. In 2023, he created the blog Bentem.
Judith Carney (USA) is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on African ecology and development, food safety, gender and agrarian change, and African contributions to the environmental history of the New World. She received the Melville Herskovits Book Award and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Association of American Geographers.
Moderator:
Erikson Mendonça (Guinea-Bissau) has a degree in law and is a member of Tiniguena, Esta Terra é Nossa!, where he coordinates various projects—it is a Guinean NGO founded in 1991, which aims to promote participatory and lasting development, based on the conservation of natural and cultural resources and on the practice of citizenship, focusing on environmental issues, food and nutrition sovereignty and safety, community organisation and mobilisation, the influence of public policies, and female empowerment.
14h30 – 14h40
Screening of the motion portrait Bu simentera i di nundé? [Where Does Your Seed] by António Castelo and Lentim Nhabaly
14h40 – 14h55
Introduction by the moderator Erikson Mendonça
14h55 – 15h50
Judith Carney and José Filipe Fonseca
15h50 – 16h30
Discussion open to the public
16h30 – 17h00
Socialising moment
José Filipe Fonseca (Guinea-Bissau) is an agronomist. He has studied biodiversity, society and human health, the history of enslaved Africans and their universal legacy, and the history, culture and art of goombay (traditional Guinean urban music). He translated the book Black Rice. The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas, by Judith Carney, to both Portuguese and French. In 2023, he created the blog Bentem.
Judith Carney (USA) is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on African ecology and development, food safety, gender and agrarian change, and African contributions to the environmental history of the New World. She received the Melville Herskovits Book Award and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Association of American Geographers.
Moderator:
Erikson Mendonça (Guinea-Bissau) has a degree in law and is a member of Tiniguena, Esta Terra é Nossa!, where he coordinates various projects—it is a Guinean NGO founded in 1991, which aims to promote participatory and lasting development, based on the conservation of natural and cultural resources and on the practice of citizenship, focusing on environmental issues, food and nutrition sovereignty and safety, community organisation and mobilisation, the influence of public policies, and female empowerment.
Ficha Técnica
- Co-organized by
Sowing_arts, TINIGUENA
Support
apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, Centrale Fies, GROWTH, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Station service for contemporary dance, Teatro Municipal do Porto
- This project has the financial support of the Portuguese Republic – Culture I Directorate-General for the Arts.
Conference within the scope of the ARUS FEMIA project by Zia Soares.
