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The interactive seminar cycle ‘Memory, Culture and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Nations’ is pleased to invite you to its fifth edition. This time, the organisers from CITCOM’s sub-group Legacies of Empires welcome two historians, Miguel Cardina (CES, Universidade de Coimbra), and Víctor Barros (IHC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) in order to discuss colonialism, liberation wars and commemorations in Lusophone Africa.
Moderated by anthropologist Elsa Peralta (CeComp, FLUL), this session will be held in Portuguese.
Organization: CITCOM, Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective, and “Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering” (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021)

Location: Room B112.B, FLUL Library
Date: 12 April 2023, 4-6 PM

More info: https://cecomp.letras.ulisboa.pt/citcom-projectos.php?p=361

Nation states and self-acclaimed ‘global cities’ increasingly come under pressure to decolonise their commemorative landscapes. Civil society actors and social movements are facing-up to a difficult colonial past that appears strangely absent and yet omni-present.
The CITCOM sub-group Legacies of Empire of the Center for Comparative Studies (Faculty of Art and Humanities, University of Lisbon) is organising a new and interactive seminar cycle entitled ‘Memory, Culture and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Nations’, which will run until the end of the academic year in May, 2023. 
Thought of as an open space for discussion, we invite scholars, city planners, artists and campaigners to examine urban public space, migration experiences, transculturality and contemporary art through a critical postcolonial lens. The series’ trans-disciplinary case-studies reach across Portugal, Europe, Brazil and Luso-Africa.
This first session, “Gentrification and Coloniality of Space in Lisbon”, welcomes António Brito Guterres (Dinâmia-CET, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and Eduardo Ascensão (CEG, Universidade de Lisboa) to discuss informal settlements, segregation and post-colonial urbanism in Lisbon. It will be moderated by Ana Rita Alves (CES, Universidade de Coimbra).”