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	"title": "CHDR Presents: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo",
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	"description": "\u003Cp\u003EThe Politics of the Image: Documenting \u0022Civilised Savagery\u0022 in Portuguese Africa (1900s\u0026ndash\u003B1920s)\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003EThe growing internationalisation of African affairs from the late nineteenth century onwards was accompanied by an intensification of critical scrutiny of European colonial rule, both within Africa and beyond. \u0022Civilised savagery\u0022 came under increasing examination, and the production, circulation, and strategic use of photographic images played a central role in this process. As both document and evidence, photography became a crucial means of \u0022authenticating outrage\u0022 in response to imperial inequalities and colonial abuses, particularly those associated with new forms of slavery and coercive labour\u0026mdash\u003Boften described as \u0022modern slavery.\u0022 Photography thus became a powerful political, social, economic, and \u0022moral\u0022 instrument, mobilised by a wide range of actors for different, and sometimes competing, purposes.\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003EIn the early twentieth century, the plantations of S\u0026atilde\u003Bo Tom\u0026eacute\u003B and Pr\u0026iacute\u003Bncipe\u0026mdash\u003Band, in particular, the international controversy over \u0022slave cocoa\u0022\u0026mdash\u003Bbecame one of the most revealing episodes in this broader history. This presentation examines how photographic evidence acquired such political and moral force, how it was produced and mobilised by different actors, and what the S\u0026atilde\u003Bo Tom\u0026eacute\u003B controversy reveals about the relationship between visual politics, humanitarian critique, and the transformation of colonial governance.\u003C/p\u003E",
	"location": "Center for Humanities and Digital Research: TCH 325",
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	"starts": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:30:00 -0400",
	"ends": "Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0400",
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	"category": "Speaker/Lecture/Seminar",
	"tags": ["Digital Humanities"],
	"contact_name": "CHDR",
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	"contact_email": "chdr@ucf.edu",
	"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/event/4220300/chdr-presents-miguel-bandeira-jeronimo/"
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