Format: In-person
- Organized by IRL2034 Worlds in Transition and the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Symposium will open with the conference Repairing the Irreparable? given by Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington DC, United States, and commented on by Zacarias Chambe, Professor of History at USP.
- The opening conference will address how slavery has been remembered and commemorated in the public sphere of Atlantic societies in Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the creation of monuments, memorials, and exhibitions—initiatives that, to a large extent, have been considered forms of symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It will then focus on the history of demands for financial and material reparations, which have evolved from the late 18th century to the present day, gaining new momentum during the second decade of the 21st century, although the descendants of slavery victims have not yet received any form of material or financial compensation.
- Two roundtables will follow the opening conference.
The first, “Heritage in Dispute: Restitution as a Form of Historical Reparation,” with the participation of Daniela Alarcón (National Museum/UFRJ), Mário Chagas (UNIRIO), and Mariana Ramos de Morais (National Museum/UFRJ), will be moderated by Stefania Capone (CNRS).
The second, “Reparation in the Present: The Social and Political Impact of Affirmative Action in Brazil,” with the participation of Márcia Lima (USP), Andrea Lopes (UNIRIO), and Flávia Rios (USP), will be moderated by Paulo Neves (UFABC) and with comments by Antônio Sérgio Guimarães (USP).
The event will conclude with a lecture by Glicéria Tupinambá (National Museum/UFRJ), “Indigenous Heritage Outside the Showcases: Diplomacy, Archives, and Tupinambá ‘Rematriation’ Among Museums.”