About

Isabel Simões, Inês Nascimento Rodrigues, Júlia Garraio e Vasco Martins talk with Maria José Canelo and Raquel Lima about the role of the arts in the anti-racist struggle.

Thirteenth show of a partnership between Radio Universidade de Coimbra and the Centre for Social Studies (CES).  The collaboration shall continue in the show  “Há Vida(s) Nesta Cidade!”  taking place during the last saturday of each month, from 2 pm. 

The show can be heard live at  https://www.ruc.pt.


Bio note 

Maria José Canelo is researcher (since 2002) at the Center for Social Studies, integrating the research group Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies. She is Assistant Professor in the Anglo-American Studies Section of the Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra. She got her PhD in American Studies at New York University with a thesis titled "Carey McWilliams and the question of cultural citizenship in the 1940s". She got her Masters (Anglo-American Studies) and BA degrees (English and German Studies) at the University of Coimbra. She teaches in the BA in Modern Languages, the MA programs in English Teaching and Studies in Culture, Literature and Modern Languages, and in the PhD in Modern Languages: Literature, Culture, Translation. She also coordinates the MA in Studies in Culture, Literature and Modern Languages, at FLUC. She has been part of several research projects in the NHUMEP, for instance, "The representation of violence and the violence of representation" and "Memory, violence, identity: new comparative perspectives on modernism". Her current research interests include American and interamerican studies; literary and cultural studies; questions of national identity and immigration; cultural citizenship; modernism and literary magazines; interculturality; visual studies.

Raquel Lima is currently a PhD Candidate in Post-colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies at Coimbra University with a FCT Scholarship. Her research interest focus on Orature, Slavery and afrodiasporic movements. She has been collaborating with the project ALICE - South Epistemologies of CES since 2016. She holds a BA in Artistic Studies - Performative Arts from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2008). She made two international internships, firstly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009) with a grant INOV-ART from DGArtes/Ministry of Culture and secondly in Paris, France (2010) with a Leonardo Da Vinci's grant. She published her poetry in several languages as a spokenword performance artist and have been organizing poetry workshops, highlighting the 'Workshop Poetry, Race and Gender: for an intersectional poetic writing'. She is member of the advisory board of the research project "(DE)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes" (2020-2021) at CES. In 2019 she co-coordinated the 7th Afroeuropeans Conference: "Black In/Visibilities Contested" and published her poetry book Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância (BOCA and Animal Sentimental).