Goa has long been a focal point for historical, artistic, and social inquiry, often viewed through narratives shaped by colonial legacies and global perspectives. However, a critical engagement with both contemporary and historical Goan perspectives reveals a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of its society, arts, and history. 

This conference aims to highlight Goan voices, methodologies, and epistemologies by bringing together scholars from various disciplines to explore Goa from within. It will feature innovative approaches that challenge dominant historiographies and methodologies, thus going beyond the traditionally Catholic-Portuguese-centric lens that is often been employed in dominant academic perspectives and in (critiques of) artistic representations. In so doing, this conference aims to center Goan knowledge-making, new scholarship on Goa, and to envision future directions for the field.

Conferência com o apoio da Cátedra UNESCO em Diálogo Intercultural de Influência Portuguesa 

Comissária Científica: Rosa Maria Perez, CRIA-ISCTE

Programação paralela | Exposição Foto Arte Ganesh  

Programa

June 5th

10:00 Official Opening

• Welcome address | João Amorim, Board of Directors Fundação Oriente
• Opening remarks - Overview of the conference theme and objectives | Rosa Maria Perez, CRIA-ISCTE

10:30 Session 1 - Beyond the Gallery: Goan Histories, Archives, and Memory

• Moderator Walter Rossa Cátedra UNESCO em Diálogo Intercultural em Patrimónios de Influência Portuguesa, Universidade de Coimbra

10:30 Parag Parobo, Department of History, Goa University

• “Ordinary lives in the early twentieth century Portuguese Goa” 

11:15 Amita Kanekar, Architect and scholar (online)

• “Architectural settings of privileged Hindu life in mid-twentieth-century Goa”     

12:00 Coffee Break

12:15 Vishvesh Prabhalkar Kandolkar, Goa College of Architecture

• “Decolonising Goa Portuguesa: Art, Architecture, and Agency in Richard Burton's Goa and the Blue Mountain”

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break 

14:30 Session 2 - Picturing Goa: Visual Narratives and Artistic Representations

• Moderator Parag Parobo, Department of History, Goa University

14:30 Maria Vanessa Desa, Artist- Architect-Urban Designer(online)

• “Framing Vamona: Art and Story in a Goan Graphic Novel”

15:15 Karishma D’Souza, Visual Artist

• “Two Zines of Contemporary Art from Goa”

16:00 R. Benedito Ferrão, William & Mary, (Virginia, USA)

• “Roots between Waters: Beyond Goa in the Canvas of Karishma D’Souza’s Inter-Oceanic Worlds”

16:45 Coffee Break

Closing Remarks Day 1 | Rosa Maria Perez & Walter Rossa, moderators

June 6th 

10:00 Brief recap and outline of the day

• Session 3 - Multidisciplinary Encounters: Collaborative dialogues in Anthropology and Heritage 

Moderator Rosa Maria Perez, CRIA-ISCTE

10:15 Inês Lourenço, CRIA-ISCTE

• “Polyphonies of Belonging: envisioning Goa through migrating heritage”

11:00 Douglas Santos da Silva, Fundação Oriente, fellow, CRIA-ISCTE

• “Sacred Sevens: Islam, Memory, and Moir Families of Goa”

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 Chiara Panizzi, FCSH & CRIA-ISCTE

• “Crossing religious boundaries: the Exposition of the Sacred Relics of Saint Francis Xavier between veneration and sense of identity.”

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 Nalini Elvino de Sousa, Ethnomusicologist & Film maker

• “Raga Rock – a Goan cinematic intersection between jazz, archives, and politics”

15:15 Roundtable Discussion - Interdisciplinary connections and future research

All participants

Moderator R. Benedito Ferrão, William & Mary, (Virginia, USA)

Official Closing | João Amorim, Board of Directors Fundação Oriente