This is a past event.
Memoirs
Memoirs
Memoirs – Children of Empires and European Postmemories, a pioneering project in the development of research into the impact of colonial legacies on the following generations in Portugal, France and Belgium, is now presenting its results. The questioning of these legacies is diversifying the European debate, renewing European literature and art, museography and curatorship and strengthening and diversifying the forms of individual and collective intervention.
PROGRAM
MORNING
10:00AM OPENING
10:30AM-11:30AM POST-MEMORIES: THE COLONIAL PAST IN THE EUROPEAN PRESENT
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC)
11:30AM-12:30AM PRESENTATION OF THE DIGITAL PLATFORM OF ARTISTS AND WORKS IN THE CONDITION OF POST-MEMORY
Fernando Cabral (Sistemas do Futuro)
12:30AM-1:00PM BOOK LAUNCH MEMOIRS COLLECTION
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
2:30PM-3:30PM ROUND TABLE - TRANSMITTING MEMORY
António Sousa Ribeiro (Director of CES-UC), Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues (CES-UC), Graça dos Santos (University of Paris-Nanterre), Hélia Santos (CES-UC), Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC)
Moderation: Sandra Inês Cruz
3:30PM-4:30PM ROUND TABLE - REPRESENTING MEMORY
Katia Kameli (visual artist), Aimé Mpane (visual artist), Paulo Faria (writer), Zia Soares (actress and director), António Pinto Ribeiro (CES-UC and cultural programmer)
Moderation: Vitor Belanciano
BREAK
5:00PM-6:00PM ROUND TABLE - EXPOSING THE MEMORY
António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli, Aimé Mpane; Guido Gryseels (Director of the Royal Museum of Central Africa/ AfricaMuseum, Tervuren); Miguel Magalhães (Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon); Jean François Chougnet (President of MUCEM, Marseille)
Moderation: Liliana Coutinho
6:00PM-7:30PM CLOSING CONFERENCE AND DEBATE - CITIZENSHIP OF MEMORY: CONTROVERSIAL LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE
Michael Rothberg (UCLA-University of California, Los Angeles)
04 NOV 2021
THU 10:00–20:00
Free entry*
*with ticket pickup 30 min. before the session starts (subject to room capacity)
The colloquium will be spoken in Portuguese, French and English.
Simultaneous translation from Portuguese - French and French - Portuguese will be available.
Michael Rothberg's lecture in English, without simultaneous translation.
CURATORSHIP
Project MEMOIRS — Children of Empires and European Postmemories (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
MEMOIRS is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (no. 648624) and is hosted at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra.
