The 1st International Congress of Archeology of Africa intends to be a milestone for archeology in the Portuguese language, providing a real opportunity for a discussion on the importance of African archeology. This event will be the first African archeology congress held at a Brazilian public institution. We hope that the uniqueness of the theme, associated with being the second country with the largest number of black population in the world, will result in a great participation of the public. He will have the opportunity to get to know this area that is still without expression in Brazilian research.
The videos presented in the congress will remain as a legacy for the Brazilians and other portuguese speakers, allowing a greater number of people to have access to quality and reference information on the internet, combating so much misinformation that exists in false news and conspiracy theories. The presentations are meant to presente the “State of the Art” of African archeology, bringing relevant information about the entire continent in an extensive way. We believe that these generalist presentations allow the audience to understand the different historical contexts and perspectives of human cultures in Africa. Parallel to the audiovisual material, we will also have a publication from the event.
This will be the first publication of its kind in Portuguese, as the works that exist so far are translations of research from over 30 years ago, or thematic dossiers that do not provide a general view of African archeology. We hope that with the resource of translations we have such an important integration between Portuguese-speaking researchers with their English and French-speaking peers, a situation today still very limited, and also that the public gets to know the work done by African researchers, who are often marginalized in major publications because they are far from the research centers of the global north.
We hope with this event to seal such an important and necessary partnership between Brazilian researchers with their counterparts in tropical Africa. This event will have a great international impact for students and the Portuguese-speaking general public living in Brazil, in the PALOPs (African Countries of Portuguese Official Language) and in Portugal. This event will allow continuity, notably through the dissemination of important texts by the main references on African archeology free from stereotypes. This will have an impact on the knowledge of the Brazilian population about the ancient history of Africa and on the promotion of overcoming racial discrimination in the country in relation to the Afro-descendant population.
Duration of event activities:
Seeking to have concise information, and allow the participation of a greater number of speakers, we decided to limit the presentations to videos of 15 minutes each. In addition, an opening conference with a duration of 35 minutes is planned, as well as statements from authorities and representatives of the organization. At the end, we will also have a 35-minute speech the, and the speech of completion of the organization. .
Translation:
The work of translation and insertion of subtitles will be carried out by a third-party legal entity, specialized in this field. The organizing team will be following the entire process, checking the quality of the translations, and giving an opinion on the position of the subtitle and the font to be used. Subtitle work will be in three languages (the most spoken in Africa), Portuguese, English and French. Videos that are in Portuguese will be translated and subtitled in English and French. Videos that are in French or English will be translated and subtitled in Portuguese.
Gender equity:
One of our goals is to seek to equitably present male and female researchers, bearing in mind that there is currently a great imbalance in the number of citations and female presence in African research institutions.
African Research in Africa:
We privilege to open space for African researchers who work in their countries, and today they face numerous difficulties arising from economic problems that plague the global south.
