Until the break-up of the Soviet Union, dominant intellectual and educational cultures in Europe worked primarily with national concepts. In the twentieth century, nationalist ideologies have, of course, lost some of their glamour due to the impact of two disastrous world wars. But while leading...

Repeat crossings of the North Atlantic by European migrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were more frequent, faster-growing and had more intricate and significant impacts on the overall long-distance relocation process than previous scholarship has appreciated. This...

In this text we will consider two main topics: 1- the notion of post-colonial utopia through social, political and literary events in Angola and Moçambique namely during the 60s and the 80s; 2- the ways in which Literature in these countries has shown to be consistent with such a reality in...

Indigenous African languages are largely eliminated, and marginalized from use. Instead of investing in and using their linguistic, cultural, and human potential, African governments and the elite still continue to channel away their resources and energies into learning 'imperial' languages that...

Most of the papers in this colloquium relate to the territories which the European powers built up overseas during a period of several centuries, part of a process which some theorists of globalization have referred to as a kind of globalization avant la lettre. During the colonial period, the...

Lusofonia is a concept coined fairly recently, and in reference to the existing eight Lusophone countries, along with other Portuguese-speaking groups, such as the Portuguese communities abroad, otherwise known as the Portuguese Diaspora. The term has been controversial given its symbolic power,...

One of the heroes of this talk is Fellag, a famous Algerian humorist. In a portrait of the artist included in the published version of another of his plays, Djurdjurassique Bled, Pierre Lartigue writes that in Arabic, the name Fellag means "bûcheron, coupeur de routes. Au figuré, bandit de...

This paper examines the use of French as a political tool for colonialism during the 2nd French Colonial Empire (1830-1946), with special reference to educational policies. The term ‘colonialism’ is used in its broadest sense to include not only the colonies but also the protectorates which...

My objective today is to briefly offer a critical framework that will provide historical, geopolitical, discursive, and cultural coordinates in order to understand the emergence and development of Portuguese-speaking nations as individual entities, but also as a group of nations, varyingly...

The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...