Organization and concept: Assoz. Prof. Dr. Markus Ebenhoch, Dr. Cláudia Fernandes, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christopher F. Laferl (University of Salzburg)

2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, which ended a long period of authoritarianism that began with a military dictatorship in a 1926 coup and continued through the repressive regime of the Estado Novo, which was founded in 1933 and is associated with the name of António de Oliveira Salazar and continued even after his incapacity to hold office due to an accident (1968) and his death (1970) for another four years under his successor Marcello Caetano. A widespread sense of the country’s backwardness and, above all, the great burdens resulting from increasingly futile military action against independence efforts in Portugal’s African colonies, especially in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, led to broad resistance against the regime that culminated in the almost completely non-violent revolution of April 25, 1974. The colloquium will focus on the wider political context of the Carnation Revolution, its consequences for Angola, and its place in popular art and music, as well as Portugal’s political development in the following decades.

Program:

14:00 – 14:30 h: Welcome Address & Introduction

Werner Michler (Head of the Program ‘Figurations of Transition’)
Miguel Almeida e Sousa (Ambassador of Portugal in Austria)
Matthias Heinz (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Bernhard Pöll (Head of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)

14:30 – 16:30 h: The Portuguese Carnation Revolution: Context and Evaluation
Moderation: Markus Ebenhoch (Universität Salzburg)

Gregorio Sabater Navarro (Universidad de Sevilla): Paths to Democracy: Revolution and Reform in the Iberian Peninsula (1974-1982)
Raquel Vaz Pinto (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa): 50 Years of Portuguese Foreign Policy: A Critical Appraisal

16:30 – 17:00 h: Coffee break

17:00 – 19:30 h: The Portuguese Carnation Revolution in Literature, Art and Music
Moderation: Christopher F. Laferl (Universität Salzburg)

Johannes Hofer-Bindeus (Universität Salzburg): The Carnation Revolution in Angolan Fiction
Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa): The Artistic Performativity of the Carnation Revolution and the Wall Painting
Cláudia Fernandes (Universität Salzburg/Wien – Camões, I.P.): The Portuguese Song Contest (1964-74), the Feminine Role and the Revolution

19:30 h: Exposition ‘The Legacy of a Carnation’ (O legado de um cravo)
Hildegard Fraueneder (Head of the Program ‘Figurations of Transition’)
Christopher F. Laferl

Further information:
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