Udløbet Foredrag Torsdag 11. apr. 2024 - 17:00-19:00 Nellikerevolutionen. Portugal 1974 Hjem // Arrangementer // Nellikerevolutionen. Portugal 1974 Commemorating 50 years of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution. Foto: Jorge da Silva Horta On April 25, 1974, a military coup put an end to Europe’s longest dictatorship. It marked the end of 48 years of fascism, plunging Portuguese society into a turbulent transition before stability was restored under the new democracy. Thursday, April 11th, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Price: DKK 50 per person (ticket does not include museum admission) Doors open 15 minutes before. TICKETS » Program: Welcome by Britta Thomsen, cand. mag Speech: Opening words – João Maria Cabral, Ambassador of Portugal Talk: Personal account of how it was to be in Lisboa in 1974 – by Hans Peter Houlberg, diplomat at the Embassy of Danmark in Lisbon in 1974 Moment of music by Paulo Duarte (guitar) and Daniel Sousa (saxofone) Talk: Pedro Aires Oliveira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Moment of music Short break Talk: The relationship between Denmark and Portugal by Britta Thomsen Q&A Moment of music – we sing together Experience insights from Portuguese history Come and learn about what the Carnation Revolution meant for Portugal and the world, and how Portugal is doing 50 years later. Experience insights from Portuguese history professor Pedro Aires Oliveira, Portugal expert and politician Britta Thomsen, former diplomat Hans Peter Houlberg, and Portuguese Ambassador João Maria Cabral. While enjoying a glass of Portuguese wine kindly sponsored by Vinho.dk, we’ll also sing along to the famous protest songs from that era. The event is organized in collaboration with the Portuguese Embassy in Copenhagen and with the support of Instituto Camões. The event will be conducted in English. Pedro Aires Oliveira is Associate Professor at the History Department of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main research interests are the History of International Relations, Colonialism and Decolonization, as well as the political history of Portugal’s 20th century, areas about which he has published extensively. In 2007 he was the winner of the Contemporary History Prize from the Mário Soares Foundation. He is an integrated member of the Institute of Contemporary History, a research unit that he coordinated between 2015 and 2021. Info about the talk: Portugal’s Carnation Revolution of 1974 and its global impact. This talk will discuss the historical context of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, a military coup d’État turned popular revolution on the 25th of April 1974. The coup d’État was masterminded, and executed, by a group of disaffected mid-ranking army officers, unhappy with the stalemate of the colonial wars waged by the Estado Novo regime in Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique. The ensuing events put an end to Western Europe’s oldest dictatorship and paved the way for the decolonization of five African countries. The Carnation Revolution had a significant impact on the Cold War’s détente and attracted many leftwing idealists, who saw it as the last hope for a social revolution in Western Europe. The talk will review these events and reflect upon the promises and legacies of Portugal’s 25th of April.