- Publications and activities

Throughout our projects, we have been noticing this new world that emerges through multiple academic activities and international partnerships: the Newsletter Memoirs, published from May 2018 to December 2021, scientific articles, book chapters, and books that allow quick access to our most innovative findings.

Eduardo Lourenço. Uma geopolítica do pensamento
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro | Roberto Vecchi
2023 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

Slamizando nas periferias. A pós-memória colonial em Paris, Lisboa e Bruxelas
Fernanda Vilar
2022 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

Passados reapropriados: pós-memória e literatura
Felipe Cammaert
2022 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

Enfants d’Empires coloniaux et postmémoires européennes
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro | Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues
2022 | Paris : Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre Collection « La langue portugaise en cultures »

Des-cobrir a Europa – Filhos de Impérios e Pós-memórias Europeias
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro | Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues
2022 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

A cena da pós-memória. O presente do passado na Europa pós-colonial
António Sousa Ribeiro
2021 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

Novo Mundo - Arte Contemporânea no Tempo da Pós-Memória
António Pinto Ribeiro
2021 | Porto : Edições Afrontamento | Memoirs

Throughout 2024, 5 more books will be published in the Memoirs/Afrontamento collection.


- Cultural programme and Europa Oxalá exhibition

Throughout the project, we carried out our own intense cultural programme with different partners: participation in the PortoPosDoc film festival, participation in the Marseille Biennale, collaboration with Lilian Thuram and his Foundation for Education against Racism, Culturgest in Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and Paris, the University of Paris-Nanterre and Oxford University, among others. The final colloquium "Constellations of post-memory in post-colonial Europe", held in November 2022 at Culturgest in Lisbon, was attended by academics, artists, programmers and directors of institutions with whom, over the past few years, we have worked on the international exhibition Europa Oxalá.

This exhibition shows 60 works by 21 artists whose family origins are in the former colonies in Africa. Born and raised in a post-colonial context, they are artists whose work is creating its own space in contemporary European art, proposing a reflection on their heritages, their memories and their identities.

Through the Memoirs project, Europa Oxalá is a co-production of the Centre for Social Studies with the MUCEM in Marseille, the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This exhibition was curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli and Aimé Mpane. Europa Oxalá, already displayed in Marseille at the MUCEM and in Lisbon at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, will now travel to Belgium, where it can be visited from 7 October to 5 March 2023 at the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren. A catalogue and a book have been produced from this exhibition.


- Database Artists and Artworks

Reimagining Europe is the first dynamic open-access digital platform which integrates a database of artists and works that address European postcolonial memory in five areas - performing arts, visual arts, film, literature and music. The platform brings together more than 400 international contemporary artists, more than 1000 works and thousands of critical and bibliographical references in various digital media, accompanied by search engines. The artists, musicians and writers present in this platform are people who, despite not having necessarily lived through colonial times, namely Belgian, French and Portuguese colonialism in territories such as Algeria, Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, S. Tomé and Príncipe or Cape Verde, manifest themselves as heirs of family and public memories. From their works, these artists reflect and question their heritages in contemporary European time and space, offering us an urgent and inevitable reinterpretation for the imagination of a contemporary and future Europe.

- Podcast

« En mémoire de la mémoire : questionnements et témoignages post-impériaux » explore les réflexions d'universitaires, d'artistes et d'activistes sur l'Europe post-impériale. Cette série de podcasts met en valeur les histoires des personnes dont les expériences sont moulées par les héritages coloniaux et les processus de décolonisation en Portugal, Belgique et France. C'est une initiative qui prétend promouvoir un dialogue critique sur les questions fondamentales de la société contemporaine, contribuant à redéfinir la notion de la citoyenneté dans l'Europe contemporaine. La réalisation est de la chercheuse  du CES, Inês Nascimento Rodrigues, l'édition de José Gomes, l'image graphique de Márcio de Carvalho et la musique indicative de XEXA. Ce travail est financé par des fonds nationaux de la FCT - Fondation pour la Science et Technologie, I.P, dans le cadre du projet MAPS (réf. PTDC/LLT-OUT/7036/2020), coordonnée par Margarida Calafate Ribeiro.

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