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“Summer with Science” initiative has two summer schools under the project

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the “Summer With Science” contest was created through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the General Directorate of Higher Education (DGES) for oriented support to Summer Schools in Polytechnics and Universities. The activities are within the scope of the development of innovative solutions associated with the Economic and Social Stabilization Program (PEES). Two projects sent by researchers from the Cultures Past & Present project were contemplated: Africas: mobility, violence, memory, and creativity, coordinated by professor João Sarmento, and Communication and Culture for Development, coordinated by researcher Lurdes Macedo, both from the Center for Studies in Communication and Society (CECS / UMinho).

This support, financed by FCT and DGES, offers scholarships and integrated R&D training plans to encourage classroom activities by students, teachers and researchers. In total there are 25 students selected for a research scholarship with activities until October.

Africas summer school: mobility, violence, memory and creativity

Africas intends to stimulate a multidisciplinary look from the social sciences, humanities, and arts too, on and from the African continent, and to provide specific training on this territory. The objectives are the training of students for critical thinking, and strategies, methods, objects, and research topics. Knowledge and skills are developed to enable the design and continuation of an autonomous research project, allowing candidates to acquire skills in research, analysis, interpretation, and criticism of sources, mainly from digital archives and resources. present at the university and at the research center. The training course has three blocks held in the months of July, August, and September. More information here.

Summer School in Communication and Culture for Development

The problematization of the social functions of communication and culture in a post-industrial world will provide fertile ground for further reflection on the practices undertaken in strategic planning projects for development. Communication and culture can be used at various levels in these contexts, most of the time, more for their instrumental nature than for their transformative nature in the face of intervention processes and change objectives. The same is to say that the effects of persuasion are far more explored than the virtues of training when planning the social functions of communication and culture in development projects. In fact, both in the North and in the South, great communication and cultural programming campaigns are privileged with persuasive objectives with traditional communities or excluded from the communication and power circuits, with a view to their behavioral change, to the detriment of the use of techniques capable of involving and committing these communities to build their future. Experiences and critical reflections on this type of intervention will be shared by several of the trainers of the seminars of this Summer School.

Call for papers to II International Conference on Culture and Society Which kind of Literacy (s) for an Economic and Social Justice?

Open call for submission of papers to the II International Conference on Culture and Society Which kind of Literacy (s) for an Economic and Social Justice? until December 15, 2020. The conference will be held at Zambeze University – Mozambique, on 27th and 28th of May, 2021, in partnership with the Cultures Past & Present project and the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) at the University of Minho.

This scientific event sets up a space for dialogue and for the construction of international networks, addressing contemporary themes that are transversal to various areas of knowledge. From linguistic to legal-economic and socio-cultural policies in the Portuguese-speaking countries to the critical problematization of the concept of Lusophony, from the press, intellectual history, books and culture, publishing, the arts to the impact of female writing on the understanding of the thought expressed in the Portuguese language. The conference also aims to pay tribute to Heliodoro Baptista (poet) and Romualdo Johnam (musician).

The conference is organized in the following thematic groups: Literature, Language, Cultures and Communication; Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Intercultural Communication; Justice, Human Rights, Democracy and Citizenship; and, Culture, Economy and Human Development. Details of the submission can be checked here.

This conference was scheduled for 17th and 18th of September, 2020, due to restrictions related to COVID-19, the Organizing Committee decided to postpone it to the 27th and 28th of May, 2021.

Published issue of Vista magazine nº6 co-edited by project members

The new issue of VISTA Journal is the dossier entitled (In) Visibilities: image and racism, co-edited by Ana Cristina Pereira, Michelle Sales, and Rosa Cabecinhas. VISTA Journal, number 6 – intends to reflect on the relationship between image and racism over time.
In the introduction, the authors justify the theme of the edition: “The images reflect or defy” old “abyssal cleavages, forged during European colonialism and are, at the same time, an expression of the oppression and resistance that has been made to it. Above all, in what refers to invisibility. The proposed reflections reveal the implication, denounce naturalized offenses, question silences, and, finally, propose new visualities for black bodies, not necessarily in that order. More than giving visibility, we try to show how invisible a substantial part of the visible remains – making invisibility itself visible, in the impossibility of recovering what has been systematically and long erased. “

Ana Cristina Pereira and Rosa Cabecinhas are researchers of the project Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?”. The VISTA Journal – Revista de Cultura Visual is a publication of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM).

Cover of Vista Journal nº6 . Image of the artist Aline Motta

International Congress online: Mediation in times of crisis: for dialogue, diversity and development

On the World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, May 21, next Thursday, the Cultures Past & Present project is a partner in the holding of the IV Mediation in Dialogue Colloquium in an online meeting. The theme of this edition is Mediation in times of crisis: for dialogue, diversity, and development, and will be held from the Zoom platform, at 2:30 pm (Lisbon time).

Among the guests, in addition to professors and researchers from the Institute of Education and the Center for Communication and Society Studies at the University of Minho, and from EMMI in Braga and Universidade Lusófona do Porto, in Portugal, are speakers from France (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Économique, LISE Cnam-CNRS, and the AFPAD Association), Spain (Sevilla Acoge and Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Italy (Centro Mediazione di Torino).

May 21, 2020, at 2:30 pm (Lisbon). Free participation. Please register until May 20 at here. Zoom room: The link will be sent on the 20th after registration. More information here.

Seminar postponed

In the current circumstances of suspension of activities at the University of Minho and closure of the ICS building, due to the new coronavirus COVID-19, we inform the postponement of the Interdisciplinary Seminar Interculturalities and historical awareness: current challenges for citizenship.
The new date will be defined later.

Call for papers: Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies about Colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial museums, collections and exhibitions

A Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais / Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies opens a call for papers for volume 7, no. 2, with theme Colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial museums, collections and exhibitions. The editors are professors Moisés de Lemos Martins (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal), João Sarmento (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal) & Alda Costa (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique) members of the Cultures Pas & Present project team.

The encounter between audiences and art objects, in a specific space, has a long and complex history. It is a hermeneutical challenge, which changes over time, in accordance with the needs of the epoch and the objectives of each society and culture. In this encounter between art, time and audiences – which is both complex and fleeting – museums, collections and exhibitions project different representations of the world and narratives of the lives of human communities, which observe the standards of a wide array of different, and often conflicting, curatorial strategies.

Museums, collections and exhibitions are always regulated by political and programmatic objectives and are therefore open to multiple interpretations. Museums, collections and exhibitions always observe a regime of truth, regardless of whether they are founded by nation states, or by revolutionary or counter-revolutionary forces, and whether they are in support of the established regimes, or aim to alter the established order. This regime of truth is the core condition for the possibility of representations that a specific community makes of itself and its epoch, while also formulating possibilities of meaning in order to help us understand what it means to be human.

In the case of exhibitions, which are organised for pre-defined periods of time and which generate more or less strong memories, of pacification and connection, or of rupture and withdrawal, the study of surviving materials – whether memories, artefacts, catalogues, news or posters – although unable to reproduce the actual experience of the exhibitions, make it possible to create records of their underlying discourses.

This issue of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais / Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies aims to explore all these dimensions of museums, collections and exhibitions – their representations, narratives and memories, how they intersect with colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial dimensions, i.e. related to the retrieval, denunciation and representation of the subordinate status, and also with the legitimation of social movements.

We aim to present studies that take into account the analysis of museums, and also of collections and exhibitions of colonial states, which also extends to contemporary post-colonial museums and exhibitions. We thereby seek to analyse both large-scale state projects, in important official sites, as well as more or less alternative exhibition in small private galleries, involving a highly diversified range of public, private or non-governmental agents.

For this issue of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais / Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies we will accept contributions on museums, collections and exhibitions that question colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial identities and memories.

Full article submission deadline: ~~May 6, 2020~~ extended to May 20
Editor’s decision on full articles: July 27, 2020
Deadline for sending the full version and translated version: September 21, 2020
Issue publication date: December 2020

More informations: here.

The Project organizes an interdisciplinary seminar to discuss interculturality and historical awareness

The Interdisciplinary Seminar Interculturalities and historical awareness: current challenges for citizenship will be held on March 20, 2020, and brings together several researchers to share experiences around studies on historical awareness, social representations, narrative, identity, cultural memory and practices and experiences in the system educational, thinking about the current intercultural, transnational and global dimensions. The Seminar will be held in the Sala de Atos (at ICS), at the University of Minho, from 2 pm to 5 pm.

This activity is organized by the Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?, by the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) and the Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory (LAB2PT).

Entry is free subject to registration by: cultures_past_present@ics.uminho.pt

The seminar will include the participation of Alberto Sá, Francisco Mendes, Isabel Macedo, Jacob Cupata, Marília Gago, Moisés de Lemos Martins and Rosa Cabecinhas and Sheila Khan and Alice Balbé as moderators.

Alberto Sá: Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, where he is deputy director and teaches in the areas of audiovisual, multimedia, communication design and digital publishing. Graduated in History and Social Sciences (Teaching) and with a Master’s Degree in Medieval Urban History, he is a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho. He is a researcher at CECS where he has developed research work on memory studies, in particular the technological mediation of memory in the digital age. He is a member of the research team of the AUDIRE project (Audio Repository: saving sound memories) and is part of the Moda (Monitoring Online Discourse Activity) project. He was co-leader of Working Group 2 of the e-COST Action project IS1205 (“Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union”). He is the coordinator of a scientific-cultural event CURTAS CC (Exhibition of Audiovisual and Multimedia works by undergraduate and master students of Communication Sciences – University of Minho). Currently, he participates in a collective study on colonialism and the liberation struggles present in the history manuals of Mozambique, from a diachronic perspective.

Alice Balbé: Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre and the project “Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?”. Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, her research interests include representations, Portuguese speaking, environmental communication, and digital social networks.

Francisco Mendes: Professor of Theory of History in the Department of History of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho. Researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT). Currently, it is part of an international curriculum reform project for Basic Education in Guinea-Bissau (RECEB), in a partnership between the National Institute for the Development of Education in Guinea-Bissau (INDE) and the University of Minho.

Isabel Macedo holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of Minho and University of Aveiro, in the area of Communication and Culture. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “Migrations, cultural memory and identity representations: film literacy in promoting intercultural dialogue”. She is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre and integrates several national and international associations in the area of communication, education and visual culture. She co-edited the Comunicação e Sociedade, journal 34, dedicated to the theme “Communication Sciences and Lusophone Studies” and Vista – Visual Culture Journal, 2, entitled “Cultural Memory, Image, Archive”. Some of his main works are: “Representations of Dictatorship in Portuguese Cinema” (2017), in co-authorship; “Interwoven migration narratives: identity and social representations in the Lusophone world” (2016), in co-authorship, and “Young people and Portuguese cinema: a (de) colonization of the imaginary? ” (2016).

Jacob Lussento Cupata: Degree in Educational Sciences in the option of Teaching History at the Agostinho Neto University, Master in Intercultural Relations at the Open University of Lisbon, assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Cuanza Sul (ISCED / CS) at the Katyavala University Bwila (UKB), teaching the subjects of African History, Pedagogical Practices and Cultural Anthropology. He is developing the doctoral research project in Cultural Studies, under the theme “Social representations of the History of Africa in the Angolan educational system”.

Marília Gago: Professor of Methodology in the teaching of History and Professional Internship in the Master of History Teaching at the Department of Integrated Studies in Literacy, Didactics and Supervision at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho. Researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM-Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. Currently, she is part of an international project for the curricular reform of Basic Education in Guinea-Bissau (RECEB), in a partnership between the National Institute for the Development of Education of Guinea-Bissau (INDE) and the University of Minho. Ph.D. in Education, Teaching Methodology of History and Social Sciences and Master’s and post-doctorate under the Historical Consciousness Research Project: theory and practices II, financed by FCT.

Moisés de Lemos Martins: Full Professor at the University of Minho, he is the Director of the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho, which he founded in 2001. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg, in 1984. Teaches and investigates social semiotics, sociology of communication and culture, intercultural communication, Portuguese-speaking studies. He is the Director of the magazine Comunicação e Sociedade and also of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais. In associative terms, he was President of Sopcom, Confibercom, and Lusocom. Among his works are Crisis in the Castle of Culture (2011); L’imaginaire des mediums (with Michel Maffesoli, 2011), Portugal Illustrated in Postcards (with Madalena Oliveira, 2011); Paths in Social Sciences (2010); Communication and Lusophony (with Helena Sousa and Rosa Cabecinhas, 2006); Language, Truth and Power (2002); The Eye of God in Salazar’s Discourse (1990).

Rosa Cabecinhas: Director of the Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. She is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences and researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre. She has developed research of an interdisciplinary nature and integrates several national and international associations in the areas of communication, psychology, education and cultural studies. Her main research interests combine the areas of intercultural communication, social memory, social representations, social identities, social discrimination, and diversity. Among her works, the following books stand out: Preto e Branco: The naturalization of racial discrimination (2017, 2nd edition) and, in co-authorship Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas, and Challenges (2017, 2nd edition).

Sheila Khan: Sociologist, a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. Ph.D. in Ethnic and Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick, in her academic career she has focused her attention on post-colonial studies, with a special focus on relations between Mozambique and Portugal, including the issue of Mozambican immigrants in Portugal. Among the themes, she has worked on are contemporary Mozambican and Portuguese history and literature, narratives of life and identity from the global South, authorities of memory and post-memory. It is worth mentioning her recent books, Portugal in Colored Pencil: South of a post-coloniality (Almedina, 2015); Visits to João Paulo Borges Coelho: readings, dialogues and futures (et al., 2017, Colibri); Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections (with Paula Meneses and Bjorn Bertelsen, Brill, 2018). Currently, Ph.D. researcher of the project funded by the European Research Council, EXCHANGE and member of the research team of the FCT / Aga Khan project on intercultural relations between Mozambique and Portugal.

Researchers from the project organize the panel “An African contemporary art, a global art?” with an open call for papers

The call for papers is open for the panel “Contemporary African Art, a Global Art?” proposed by researchers José Carlos Venâncio and Filimone Meigos, team members of the project Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal? The panel is part of the program of the 11th Iberian Congress of African Studies, which will be held on July 2-4 at the University of Lisbon.

The panel proposes to bring together “researchers, critics, curators, journalists and other actors concerned with the reception and appreciation of African art with their makers, based in Africa or the Diaspora, to reflect together on the State of Arts of contemporary art. Africa in the context of globalization.”

Submission of communication proposals to this panel must be made on the congress website until 24 February 2020.

Debate around documentary Mozambique. Lucid Dreams

Next Saturday, November 23, there will be a debate around documentary Mozambique. Lucid Dreams of directors João Campos and Fernando Almeida. The session will begin with the screening of the documentary followed by the debate, with the mediation of the researchers Sheila Khan and Rosa Cabecinhas, both are part of the project’s research team. The activity will take place at the Nogueira da Silva Museum, in Braga, at 4 pm.

The achievement is a partnership of the Cultures Past & Present project, Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Master of Sociology, Permanent Seminars of Communication and Diversity and the Post-Cultural Studies Group.

João Campos was born in Braga in 1951, having lived and studied in this city, in Mozambique, in Coimbra and in Porto. He graduated in Civil Engineering having taught in preparatory, secondary and university education. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Cine-Clube de Braga and has been dedicated to photography since 1973. He has participated in several solo and group photographic exhibitions. Makes documentaries in video format.

Fernando Almeida was born in Braga in 1950, having lived and studied in this city, in Coimbra and Porto. He graduated in Electrical Engineering having been a teacher of preparatory education. He has been vice president of the Cine-Clube de Braga and has been a photographer since 1973. He has participated in several solo and group photographic exhibitions. He has published photographs in various magazines and books. Makes documentaries in video format.

Rosa Cabecinhas is the director of the Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho and co-Pi of Cultures Past & Present project. She is a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences and a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Racism and Ethnicity in Portugal: A Psychosociological Analysis of the Homogenization of Minorities”, was awarded by the High Commissioner for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities. Her main research interests combine the areas of intercultural communication, social memory, social representations, social identities, and social discrimination. His works include the following books: “Black and White: The Naturalization of Racial Discrimination” (2017, 2nd Edition) and, in co-authorship, “Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas, and Challenges” (2017, 2nd Edition). edition).

Sheila Khan is a sociologist, currently a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. Ph.D. in Ethnic and Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick, in her academic career, she has focused her attention on postcolonial studies, with special focus on relations between Mozambique and Portugal, including the issue of Mozambican immigrants in Portugal. The themes she has worked on include contemporary Mozambican and Portuguese history and literature, life and identity narratives from the global South, memory and post-memory authorities. Noteworthy are his recent books, “Portugal with Colored Pencils: A South of a Postcoloniality” (Almedina, 2015); “Visits to João Paulo Borges Coelho: readings, dialogues and futures” (et al., 2017, Colibri); Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections (with Paula Meneses and Bjorn Bertelsen, Brill, 2018). She is currently a Ph.D. researcher of the project funded by the European Research Council, EXCHANGE and member of the FCT / Aga Khan project research team on intercultural relations between Mozambique and Portugal.

Researchers presented papers at V Congress of Cultures

The 5th International Congress of Cultures: What Culture (s) for the 21st Century? It was held on November 6-8, 2019 at the University of Beira Interior, in Covilhã. Several members of the Cultures Past & Present project research team – Memories, cultures, and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal? – participated in the activities like guest speakers, table coordinators and communications by proposal submission.

Professor Moisés de Lemos Martins was responsible for the communication The narratives and digital culture in the plenary session “Culture in the digital age”. The Professor Martins Mapera integrated the plenary session “Culture, creativity and tradition” with the communication untitled The Healer and the New Testament in Paulina Chiziane’s work.

The session “Arts, cultures, and education in Mozambique” was composed by researchers Alda Costa, Eliseu Mabasso, Celestino Joanguete, Edson Mugabe with the mediation of Professor Moisés de Lemos Martins. The researchers Rosa Cabecinhas, Ana Cristina Pereira, Lurdes Macedo, Alice Balbé, Luis Camanho, Isabel Macedo, Tiago Vieira, and Vítor de Sousa presented papers on thematic panels, distributed during the Congress.

The 5th International Congress of Cultures is a scientific partnership between the University of Beira Interior, the University of Minho, the Federal University of Bahia and the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and was partnered by the Cultures Past & Present project – Memories, cultures and identities: the past and present of intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal.

On November 5, the International Seminar on Memory, Diversity, and Identities: Challenges to Intercultural Relations in the 21st Century was organized by the project, which was part of the Congress program as a pre-congress.