Thursday, 25 May 2023

14.00 Welcome and Introduction

14.30 Section 1

Mariana Armond Dias Paes (Frankfurt am Main) Court Cases and Legal Pluralism in Portuguese Colonial Africa

Luíz Cabral de Oliveira (Lisbon) Law in Books vs Law in Action: Félix Correia de Araújo, a Remarkable Angolan Judge in the Late 18th Century

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Section 2

João Figueiredo (Münster) The Records of “Trials of Gentilic Cases” in the National Archive of Angola (AHA)

Cristina Nogueira da Silva (Lisbon) Colonial Justice in Mozambique (1915-1954): Preserving and Changing Indigenous Customary Law

18.30 Dinner

Friday, 26 May 2023

10.30 Keynote

Benedetta Rossi (London) Rethinking the Abolition of Slavery in Africa’s Legal History

12.00 Lunch in the Kolleg

13.00 Section 3

Esteban Salas (London) Freedom and Portuguese Legal Anxieties in Benguela at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Matheus Pereira (Lisbon) Legal Processes of Assimilation from below: African Experiences in Mozambique during Portuguese Colonial Exploitation (c. 1900-1960)

14.40 Coffee break

15.00 Section 4

Fernanda Thomaz (Juiz de Fora, Brazil) Power, Discourse and Matrimonial Conflicts in the Production of Court Cases in Northern Mozambique (1930-1950)

Sophie Kotanyi (Berlin) Contemporary Audio-Visual Archive of Palaver and Treating a Case of Involuntary Kindoki ‘Witchcraft’ by Neutralizing it

16.30 Final Remarks

17.00 Farewell and Outlook