Programme | Programme | Programa
LPAZ FORUM
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC BRIDGES: Culture, Politics and Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 1st – 3rd, 2025 | SANTA MARIA, AZORES, PORTUGAL
Sunday, August 31st | dimanche 31 août
20h00 – Dinner | Dîner
Monday, September 1st | lundi 1 septembre
Vila do Porto’s Municipal Library | Bibliothèque municipale de Vila do Porto
09h00 – Opening Session | Ouverture
09h30 – Session 1 – Rewriting the Atlantic: Fiction, Power, and Passage
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
José Domingues Almeida, L’Atlantique (et autres mers) inversé : l’uchronie comme dédommagement des Histoires
UP-ILC-APEF
Florence Fix, Le paquebot transatlantique : passagers clandestins et aventuriers romanesques
Université de Rouen Normandie
Dominique Faria, Îles atlantiques, territoires d’élite ? Représentations littéraires de la gentrification chez Serge Joncour et Nicolas Mathieu
Université des Açores, CHAM-Açores/NOVA
10h30 – Coffee Break | Pause-café
11h00 – Session 2 – Reimagining the Azores, from poetry to politics
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Maria de Lurdes Sampaio, Enigmas, death and beauty: the Azorean islands in the poetry and fiction of Francisco José Viegas
ILCML
Daniela F. Melo, “No, this is not my revolution!” – Natália Correia’s Anarchist Praxis
Boston University
Leonor Martins Coelho, Les Açores et l’Atlantique dans A viagem de Juno de Pedro Almeida Maia - un nouveau monde océanique et une différente géopolitique planétaire
Universidade da Madeira e Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Universidade de Lisboa
Onésimo Teotónio de Almeida, Thomas De Freitas - an immigrant from Flores (1873-1951), a published author in Idaho and Oregon
Brown University
12h30 – Lunch | Déjeuner
14h00 – Session 3 – Transatlantic Crossroads: Mobility, Knowledge, and Power in the Atlantic World
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Yves Laberge, Sociological Theories, Trans-Atlantic Studies, Atlantic Studies: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Université d'Ottawa
Timothy D. Walker, Acquisition and Practices (c. 1682-1825): Evidence from the Hospital Real Militar da Nossa Senhora da Boa Nova (Terceira, Azores)”
UMass Datmouth
Edgardo Silva, Entangled in the Geopolitics of the Age: The Azores, or Western Islands, and the Anglo-American War of 1812
CEAUL/ULICES, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and ISCSP, University of Lisbon
Estelle Amilien, « Essor de l’aviation péruvienne : importance des relations avec la France »
ILCEA4 - CERHIS, Université Grenoble Alpes
15h30 – Coffee Break | Pause-café
15h45 – Session 4 – Atlantic Transfers: Science, Strategy, and Memory in Transoceanic Perspective
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Alessio Rocci, When the Solvay Conferences crossed the Atlantic: Chemistry and Politics behind the meeting held in Washington, DC (1980)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and International Solvay Institutes
Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Portugal and NATO: Strategic Convergence and Authoritarian Endurance in the Early Cold War
CEI-Iscte
Catarina Sales Oliveira, The airport island: mobilities and memories
UBI / CIES-Iscte
Pedro Cordeiro da Ponte, África como antecâmara da correlação entre História Atlântica e Pós-Colonialismo: o caso das ex-colónias portuguesas no pós-74, na perspectiva de Eduardo Lourenço
FCSH-NOVA
17h15 – Coffee Break | Pause-café
17h30 - Book Presentation | Présentation de livre
Collaborative Book Publication Project:
Burchett, Wilfred, The Captains’ Coup: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal
(1974-1976) (first English edition) Daniela F. Melo & Timothy D. Walker, eds.
(London, U.K.: Verso Books, 2025).
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3224-the-captains-coup
Daniela F. Melo & Timothy D. Walker The Captain’s Coup: Reviving Wilfred Burchett's Activist Journalism about the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and its Significance for the Azores.
Boston University | UMass Datmouth
19h15 – Dinner | Dîner
Tuesday, September 2nd | mardi 2 septembre
09h00 – Session 5 – The Azores in Portuguese Foreign Policy: Strategic Shifts and Atlantic Futures
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Rodrigo Vaz, The Role of the Azores in Portuguese Foreign Policy Since 1974
Catholic University Lisbon
Pedro Mendes, Os Açores e dimensão atlântica da política externa portuguesa: um novo olhar
IPRI-NOVA
Ana Cordeiro Azevedo, Redefining the Azores' Role as a Geopolitical Asset in the 21st Century
Catholic University Lisbon
Mário Pontes, The Azores Archipelago Marine Park (PMA) - Geo-economic Aspects
[affiliation tbd]
10h30 – Coffee Break | Pause-café
11h00 – Session 6 – From Ocean Depths to Outer Space: Planetary Ethics, Power, and Sustainability
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Celine Rodrigues, Blue humanities, Wet Ontology and Ice humanities
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sandra Balão, Bridging Oceans, Forging Alliances: Portugal’s Azores Archipelago as a Catalyst for Transatlantic-Artic Geostrategic Synergy
ISCSP-ULisboa
Cláudio Gomes, From the Oceans to Space: A Journey Through Boundless Realms
Okeanos-Universidade dos Açores and CFUMUP - Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto
Manuel Cabugueira, Is There Space for Economic Regulation of Space, or Is It Merely a Security Issue?
ANACOM – National Communications Authority
12h30 – Lunch | Déjeuner
14h00 – Session 7 – Security, Trade, and Information in the 21st-Century Atlantic
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Pedro Seabra, Tidal waves of informality: the G7++ FoGG and counter-piracy solutions in the Atlantic
CEI-Iscte
Carlos Amaral, Progressive Realism and the Idea of Atlantic Community in the XXI century
University of Açores
Robert Fankem, Développement du commerce international : la position centrale de l’océan atlantique l’atlantique dans les échanges mondiaux
Ecole supérieure de commerce et de gestion des entreprises (Sup de Co-Université de Yaoundé II)
Homa Azodi, Désinformation et technologies émergentes : Construire un pont atlantique résilient
[affiliation tbd]
15h30 – Coffee Break | Pause-café
16h00 – Session 8 – Atlantic Archipelagos: Cooperation, Heritage, and Strategic Insularities
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Isabel Valente & José Carlos San-Bento de Sousa, The Space of Cooperation Between the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde
Universidade de Coimbra | Universidade dos Açores
Lucía Martínez Quintana & Juan Manuel Santana Pérez, Territory and Insularity in the Atlantic Space. SEALabHaus Project
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Juan Manuel Santana Pérez, Atlantic African Islands (16th-18th centuries)
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
19h30 – Closing Dinner | Dîner de clôture
21h30 - Book Presentation | Présentation de livre
Bar do Blues, Lugar dos Anjos
Wednesday, September 3rd | mercredi 3 septembre
10h00 - 18h00 - Santa Maria Strategic Roadmap | Santa Maria - Feuille de route stratégique
10h00 – Closing Round Table | Table ronde de clôture
Moderator | Modération: [tbd].
Visit to Portuguese Space Agency; the Santa Maria Teleport, Santa Maria RAEGE Station; Pico Alto Bunkers; Santa Maria Oceanic Air Traffic Control Centre; cultural classified site “Lugar do Aeroporto”, and INCUBA+. Open to public, under inscription until September 2nd at forumlpaz@gmail.com.
Visite de la Agence spatiale portugaise ; de le téléport de Santa Maria ; de la station RAEGE de Santa Maria ; des bunkers de Pico Alto ; du centre de contrôle océanique de Santa Maria ; de la propriété classée d'intérêt public « Lugar do Aeroporto » et d'INCUBA+. Ouvert au public, l'inscription est obligatoire jusqu'au 2 septembre à forumlpaz@gmail.com.
13h30 – Lunch | Déjeuner
19h30 –Dinner | Dîner
