Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Biography
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is a researcher-coordinator at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. With Roberto Vecchi she is responsible for the Eduardo Lourenço Chair, Camões / University of Bologna. She is Research Fellow da Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Universidade de Oxford and Research Fellow of CRILUS, University Paris-Nanterre. Since 2024 she is a fellow of the Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. At CES she is coordinator of the Trauma Observatory (with Luísa Sales and Inês Nascimento Rodrigues) and she is a lecturer and coordinator of the PhD programme Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (CES/ FEUC) (with Patrícia Branco and Paulo Peixoto) at the University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King's College, University of London (2001), a master from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a BA from the University of Aveiro. She is a member of the scientific committee of the research laboratory "LABEX - Les passés dans le présent", University of Paris Nanterre, and of the Scientific Editorial Scientific Committee of the Secretariat of State for Communities / National Press Casa da Moeda and of the Commission for the Commemorations of the Centenary of Eduardo Lourenço. With Helder Macedo, she is the curator of the exhibition "Camões, the Future of the Past" at the Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.In 2015 she received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC), with the research project "MEMOIRS - Children of Empire and European Post-Memories", which she coordinated at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She is author, co-author and organiser of several books, book chapters, scientific articles and other writings.
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Latest Publications
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Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate (2025), Europa Transfigurada - heranças coloniais e restituição. Porto: Afrontamento
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Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate (2024), África no Feminino - as mulheres portuguesas e a Guerra Colonial (2 edição). Porto: Afrontamento
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Lourenço, Eduardo; Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate; Vecchi, Roberto (orgs.) (2024), Eduardo Lourenço. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado (2.ª ed.). Lisboa: Gradiva