ANNALS

2018

Studies of cultural processes in global contexts

using Euro-Brazilian relations as a frame of reference

The year 2018 was marked by major cycles of international studies conducted in the Azores, the Mediterranean islands, South Africa, Northern South America, Central America/Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Attention was directed to the significance of these contexts in the history and present of transnational relations: the Azorean islands in the Atlantic space, the Mediterranean islands in relations between the Near East and the West, the Cape of Storms/Good Hope in the history of the Discoveries, Cartagena de las Indias and the Panama Canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific, Caribbean islands in their significance for transatlantic-inter-American interactions, concluding with activities in Southeast Asia, with particular attention to Singapore. Euro-Brazilian studies in Europe were conducted at the headquarters of the Brazil-Europe Academy in North Rhine-Westphalia, at its study center in Bavaria, in other regions and cities, as well as in Northern Italy.

Azores in the study of cultural processes in international relations. São Miguel, São Jorge, Pico and Faial

São Miguel

Emigration, Immigration and Re-immigration. Museology of emigration | Historical sources and empirical cultural studies - rereading Gaspar Frutuoso's "Saudades da Terra" | Images in traditional narratives: the giant Almourol | O Antiphons. From Rorate to Rogate in traditional expressions | Franciscanism in cultural processes: Teresa da Anunciada | Missionary history in Azores-Brazil cultural relations. The Baroque and the Sea: José de Anchieta and Antonio Vieira | Visual language and instruments: the angel with the violin | 19th century - testimonies of Austrian Navy officers | The Antarctic expedition of 1911 

Faial

The Atlantic islands in geographical and ethnographic literature | Intercontinental air communications. The transatlantic crossing in 1919 

São Jorge

Santo Cristo dos Milagres and its presence in São Paulo

Pico

The Azores in global ecclesiastical processes of the 19th and 20th centuries | Study of cultural processes in daily life and handicrafts in Brazil and the Azores | Identity/sustainability | From local to global: MiratecArts - communicating through artistic language

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Insular Mediterranean: Malta, Sicily, Mallorca. Euro-Brazilian studies for the celebration of Valletta as European Capital of Culture" 

Malta

The Order of the Knights of St. John | The Inquisition in cultural processes | Missionary actions of the past and their effects - Holy Week | Revitalization of traditions during the Catholic Restoration of the 19th and 20th centuries 

Sicily

Foundations of cultural processes in the Mediterranean: Taormina Theatre Museum | Islamic-Christian syntheses and symbioses? The "Norman-Arab-Byzantine style" | The biblical narrative in the mosaics of Monreale

Mallorca

The Reconquista in medieval Christian expansion. Raimundus Lullus OFM | The submerged chapel of the Palma de Mallorca cathedral

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South Africa & Brazil: Crossing borders and spheres in two continents, exploring their different perspectives and challenges 

Cape Town

Voices for Human Rights. The Cape Cultural Collective (CCC) | Transforming ourselves as we transform the World. The "rainbow" city | Bo-Kaap. Colors, crossings and gentrification | Music and musical instruments in cultural interactions: I) Characterizing attributes of the South African "native" in street musicians | II) The debate on the marimba in São Paulo's Congadas | Hemeliggaam or The attempt to be here now. Man/Environment and Skies | Transplantations and acclimatizations in colonial space | From the Cape of Storms to the Cape of Good Hope 

Port Elizabeth

The "St. Gregory's Standard" in Port Elizabeth. The memory of Bartolomeu Dias (ca. 1450-1500) 

Mossel Bay

"Cowboy Beach" in São Brás Bay - Mossel Bay. First records of native South Africans

Swellendam

The Reformed Church of the Netherlands in colonial processes | Huguenots in the Cape region | Missions of the Brethren or Herrnhuter in the Bohemian and Moravian tradition: I) Georg Schmidt (1709-1785) in South Africa | II) Theophilus Salomo Schumann (1719-1760) among the Arawaks

Pretoria

Pioneer movements in colonial expansions. The Voortrekker in southern Africa | De-Europeanizations exemplified by Pretoria 

Johannesburg

Overcoming racial divisions in parallels with America and the Caribbean 

Knysna

Urban bankruptcies in different contexts

Transvaal

Caracol State Park and the Blyde River Canyon | The tragedy of species extinction. Kruger National Park and Mozambique

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Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica & Brazil. From the "Kingdom of the Terra Firme" to the present. Analyses of cultural conditioning and Enlightenment - rethinking the relationship between man and nature. Colombia

Colombia

The image of the desert in the Augustinian hermit tradition in Hispanic America | The Nunc dimittis in the language of images, festivals and dances - the cumbia | Witchcraft combated by the Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias: the "cabrón" | Science and philosophy in the language of images: Saint Catherine of Alexandria | "Being at home" in worn-out urban situations 

Panama

Colón and Santos - sister cities | Portuguese knowledge of the world and the first attempts to cross the isthmus | The "altar of gold": visual language in the Augustinian tradition | Pluriethnicity and multiculturalism in urban developments: gentrification and heritage recovery | Heart and lyre. The nativity scene in the Oratory of San Felipe Neri

Costa Rica

Costa Rica/Brazil Studies - Culture/Nature relations | Tortuguero - the "Amazon of Costa Rica" | Costa Rican bananas in the current context of Brazilian interest in Chiquita | Parallels between Puerto Limón and Porto Velho | Urbanism and architecture. Puerto Limón

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Caribbean & Brazil. Cultural analyses and studies of traditions of Christmas, Epiphany, and Carnival in  processes between Europe, Africa, and the New World

Dominican Republic

Dominican Academy of Sciences | Dominicans in Caribbean cultural studies | The Magnificat and the visual language of traditional festivities | Merengue and Dominican identity

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Kitts and Nevis & Brazil in cultural processes | Agriculture and cultural processes in the Antilles and North America in parallel with Brazil | French vs. English in the history of the Antilles | Masquerades in St. Kitts, U.S. Virgin Islands and Reisados in Brazil 

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua & Brazil in the study of architecture and cities | Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) remembered in Antigua | From the "Old Time Christmas Festival" to Carnival. The steel drums of Trinidad to Antigua

Guadeloupe

The recovery of the socio-critical sense of Carnival and the "satin" Carnival | Poetry, diplomacy and music | Memorial to the Slave Trade and Slavery

Jamaica

Debates with Olive Lewin (1927-2013), the "cultural ambassador" | The house of the "white witch", Montego Bay

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Review

Religious tolerance: creation of “English cemeteries” in Colonial Brazil