2022
MEMORY AND POST-COLONIALISM
5th to 10th of July, 2021
Brotéria, Bairro Alto, Lisbon
The summer course Memory and Post-Colonialism resulted from a partnership between the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and Brotéria, in the scope of its extension and dissemination activities. The course aimed at analysing and critically thinking about the post-colonial question in Portugal, Europe and the world from several topics that have been filling and questioning our present day 21st century and its relations with the social, the political, time and space. Through the project Memoirs - Sons of Empire and European Post-Memories, funded by the European Research Council and coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, the Centre for Social Studies has developed pioneering research into the impact of colonial legacies and decolonisation processes on subsequent generations. These are subjects who did not live through these processes, but through family memories and public memories inherited and thereafter questioned them, often transforming this inheritance into artistic legacies. These questions are diversifying the European debate, their foundation cosmopolitan and democratic, the artistic gestures arising therein renewing European art and densifying the forms of individual and collective intervention. In dialogue with Brotéria, this course aimed to present some concepts and contexts in which this work was developed and thus contributes to enrich the ongoing public, plural, informed and democratic discussion in Portugal, Europe and the world.
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ALONG AND AGAINST ARCHIVAL GRAINS
26th to 29th of June, 2018
ICS, Lisbon
Ann Laura Stoler
The summer course Along and against archival grains, arose from the partnership between two projects awarded ERC grants: Memoirs - Sons of Empire and European Post-Memories (coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, CES-UC), and the project Colour - The Colour of Labour - The racialized lives of migrants (coordinated by Cristiana Bastos, ICS-UL). The course was developed by Ann Laura Stoler (New School University, NY), and aimed to offer a unique methodological and analytical view to the records of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of mediations on the nature of nineteenth-century Dutch East India colonial documents, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic social ontologies of this complex epistemic space.
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