Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Biography
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is a researcher-coordinator at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. With Roberto Vecchi she is responsible for the Eduardo Lourenço Chair, Camões / University of Bologna. She is Research Fellow da Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Universidade de Oxford and Research Fellow of CRILUS, University Paris-Nanterre. Since 2024 she is a fellow of the Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. At CES she is coordinator of the research line Europe and the Global South: legacies and dialogues (with Paula Meneses and Miguel Cardina) and coordinator of the Trauma Observatory (with Luísa Sales and Inês Nascimento Rodrigues).She is a lecturer and coordinator of the PhD programme Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (CES/ FEUC) (with Patrícia Branco and José Manuel Mendes) at the University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King's College, University of London (2001), a master from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a BA from the University of Aveiro. She is a member of the scientific committee of the research laboratory "LABEX - Les passés dans le présent", University of Paris Nanterre, and of the Scientific Editorial Scientific Committee of the Secretariat of State for Communities / National Press Casa da Moeda and of the Commission for the Commemorations of the Centenary of Eduardo Lourenço. In 2015 she received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC), with the research project "MEMOIRS - Children of Empire and European Post-Memories", which she coordinated at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She is author, co-author and organiser of several books, book chapters, scientific articles and other writings.
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News
2024-11-01 Expresso [Revista E]
2024-10-30 JL - Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias
Escrever e desenhar a história
Projetos
MAPS
European Postmemories - A Postcolonial Cartography
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate (2024), Eduardo Lourenço - uma carta a Portugal, in António Pedro Pita (org.), Leituras de Eduardo Lourenço. Guarda: Centro de Estudos Ibéricos, 51-61
Book Chapter
Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate; Vecchi, Roberto (2024), 10 anos de impensados, 50 anos de democracia portuguesa, in Margarida Calafate Ribeiro; Roberto Vecchi (org.), Eduardo Lourenço. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado (ed. revista e aumentada). Lisboa: Gradiva, 13-23
Book Chapter
Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate (2024), Lutas no feminino - Memória e Reconhecimento, in Ana Paula Tavares, Rosa, Fábio Silva, Marco Bucaioni (org.), Mulheres Africans em Trânsito - Homenagem a Alda Lara. Famalicão: Húmus, 187-205
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