Attendance

The resurgence of Kongo's existential myth

image1

(mu kongo your tuka, ku mbanza kongo i kuenda)

From September 8 to 19, 2025, the Bantu-Kongo Dimensions Study Group in Africa and in the Diaspora promotes in UFRGS the Cycle of Conferences "The Resurgence of Kongo Existential Myth", bringing together researchers and researchers from different areas of the arts and humanities.

The event will feature debates about the Bantu presence in Brazil, especially in Rio Grande do Sul, and will feature the four conference classes taught by Adrien Ngudiankama, coordinator of the Kongo Academy Study and Research Network.

The initiative is an extension action of UFRGS, held with the support of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH), the Graduate Program in Music (PPGMUS), the Faculty of Education (FACED) and the UFRGS Cultural Center.

Certification: The participants registered who get a minimum presence of 75% will receive certificate.
Registration: On site, on the first day of the event.

 

Full Programming

Bantu-kong presence in the Americas

Araucaria Auditorium, UFRGS Cultural Center - ENG. Luiz Englert Street, 333, Central Campus

  • 08/09, 19h-The Kongo Cultural Space and the black-African diaspora
    with Felipe Merker Castellani and José Rivair Macedo
    <>

  • 09/09, 19h-Bantu sounds in the Afro-Riograndense Diaspora
    with Luciana Prass and Pâmela Amaro
    <> </>

  • 10/09, 19h-Afro-Catholicism and Bantu-Kongo culture in Rio Grande do Sul
    with Francisca Dias and iosvaldyr Bittencourt Jr.
    <>

  • 11/09, 19h-Bantu-Kongo cosmologies and Afro-Riograndens religions
    with Taata Aislan Rodrigues and Duan Kissonde
    <>

  • 12/09, 19h - Bantu and Pretiguês traditions: dialogues between education and linguistic contributions
    with Evangelist Lazarus and Ramon Arend Paranhos
    <>

 

Conference Cycle with Adrien Ngudiankama

Room 102, UFRGS Faculty of Education - Av. Paulo Gama, 110, Central Campus

  • 15/09, 19h-Political-religious movements and claims of Kongo's physical and cultural space
    <> </>

  • 17/09, 19h - narratives about the ancestral Kongo in the western world
    <> </>

  • 18/09, 19h - lasting transatlantic continuities and resonance of Kongo in the new world
    <> </>

  • 19/09, 19h - paradigms and symbolism of cultural continuity Kongo