Academic and professional activities

2021-05-01 - Coordination of the research line Europe and the Global South: legacies and dialogues (With Maria Paula Meneses and Miguel Cardina)

2021-04-01 - Coordination of the Trauma Observatory (with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues and Luísa Sales)

2021 to ... - Member of the Commission for the Commemoration of the Centenary of Eduardo Lourenço, Centre for Iberian Studies, Guarda (with António Pedro Pita, Rui Jacinto, Roberto Vecchi, Alexandra Isidro).

2021 to ... - Scientific coordinator in the PhD programme "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship",CES/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (with José Manuel Mendes and Patrícia Branco).

2020-01-01 - Member of the Editorial Scientific Committee of the Secretary of State for the Communities/ Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda

2020 to ... - Member of the Scientific Committee of the collection La langue portugaise en cultures, Press Universitaires de Nanterre, Paris.

2020 to ... - Scientific coordinator of the e-learning postgraduate course "Portugal: Memories of the end of the empire", Camões, I.P. - Eduardo Lourenço Chair/ Università degli Studi di Bologna, Centre for Social Studies (CES)/University of Coimbra (with Roberto Vecchi).

2020 to ... - Scientific coordinator of the e-learning postgraduate course "Subalternities in the South Atlantic", Camões, I.P., and Eduardo Lourenço Chair/ Università degli Studi di Bologna (with Roberto Vecchi).

2019-10-10 - Member of Labex - les Passés dans le Présent - Histoire, Patrimoine, Mémoire, Univesrité de Paris-Nanterre.

2019 to 2023 - Coordinator for the Centre for Social Studies (ERC Memoirs - children of empire and post-European memories) of the exhibition European memories) of the exhibition Europa Oxalá, curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Katia Kameli and Aimé Mpane. Europa Oxalá was a co-production of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra through its ERC Memoirs project, MUCEM (Marseille), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (France and Lisbon delegations) (France and Lisbon delegation) and the Royal Museum of Central Africa-AfricaMuseum (Tervuren, Belgium). A exhibition of artworks and the cycle of debates took place from 2021 to 2023, in three countries: France, Mucem, Marseille, 20 October 2021 to 16 January 2022; Portugal, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 3 March to 30 May 2022; Belgium, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale /AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, 6 October to 5 March 2023. March 2023.

2015 to 2020 - Member of CREPAL - Centre de Recherches sur les Pays Lusophones, Université de Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle

2012-04-01 to 2013-04 - Board Director/ Coordinator of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

2011 to 2020 - Scientific co-coordinator of the e-learning postgraduate course "Portugal and Postcolonialisms: concepts, contexts and voices"; Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bologna/ Camões and CES-UC. (with Roberto Vecchi).

2011 to 2015 - Director of the CES/Almedina collection, Identities and Interculturalities (with Maria Paula Meneses).

2011 to 2013-04 - Member of the board of the CES-UC.

2011 to ... - Co-editing director for Collection CES/ Almedina, 'Identidades e Interculturalidades (with Maria Paula Meneses).

2010 to ... - Elected member of the Scientific Board of CES-UC.

2010 - Co-founder of the doctoral programme "Heritage of Portuguese Influence", CES/III. University of Coimbra (with Walter Rossa, Paulo Varela Gomes, António Sousa Ribeiro).

2009 to 2012 - Scientific co-coordinator of the e-learning course "Heritage of Portuguese Influence", CES- University of Coimbra/ Instituto Camões (with Walter Rossa). University of Coimbra/ Camões Institute (with Walter Rossa).

2008 to 2018 - Scientific co-coordinator of the e-learning course "Postcolonial Studies: South Atlantic", Chair Eduardo Lourenço, University of Bologna/ Camões Institute (with Roberto Vecchi).

2007 to 2010 - Organizer of the PhD programmes of CES-UC, School of Economics , Law School and Faculty of Humanities, University of Coimbra.

2007 to ... - Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bolonha/ Instituto Camões (with Roberto Vecchi).

2004 to 2013 - Executive co-coordinator of the PhD programme Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship. CES/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (with Maria Paula Meneses).

2004 to 2009 - Visiting researcher associate of the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, King's College, University of London.

2004 to ... - Eventual collaborator of the Camões Institute for Cooperation and Language.

2004 to ... - Researcher of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

2004 - Co-founder of the PhD programme "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship", CES/Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (with Maria Paula Meneses, António Sousa Ribeiro, Boaventura de Sousa Santos).

2002 to 2004 - Associate researcher of CES-UC. Post-doctoral scholarship granted by Portuguese Agency for Sciences and Technology (FCT).

2001 to 2002 - Researcher associate at the Department for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, University of London.

1996 to 2000 - Praxis XXI Programme (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), for PhD researcher at King's College, University of London.

Other Activities

2022 to 2023 - General coordination of the "Prison Papers Digital Collection - José Luandino Vieira", developed by Helena Rebelo and Nuno Simão Gonçalves. Research by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Roberto Vecchi and Mónica V. Silva. Funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Available at: https://luandino.ces.uc.pt/

2020 to 2023 - General coordination of the digital platform of Artists & Works of European colonial post-memory carried out by the company Sistemas de Futuro, artistic direction by António Pinto Ribeiro, research by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, António Pinto Ribeiro, António Sousa Ribeiro, Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues, Felipe Cammaert, Fernanda Vilar, Paulo de Medeiros, Roberto Vecchi, Victor Belanciano, technical support by Bruno Machado, Helena Rebelo and the Informatics Office of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. The database is available in three languages. The translation into French was by Felipe Cammaert and into English by Margarida Bonifácio. Funding: European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Community Framework Programme for Research & Innovation (No. 648624); Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT - PTDC/LLT-OUT/7036/2020). Available at https://reimaginaraeuropa.ces.uc.pt/inweb/paginaEntrada.aspx?Lang=PO&f=artistasObras

2020 to 2023 - General coordination of the Reimagining Europe platform, carried out by the company Sistemas de Futuro, with technical support from Bruno Machado, Helena Rebelo and the IT Office of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. https://reimaginaraeuropa.ces.uc.pt/default.aspx?lang=pt. Financiamento: Conselho Europeu de Investigação (ERC) no âmbito do Programa-Quadro Comunitário de Investigação & Inovação Horizonte 2020 da União Europeia (n.º 648624); Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT - PTDC/LLT-OUT/7036/2020).

2020 - Member of the Scientific Committee of the collection La langue portugaise en cultures, Press Universitaires de Nanterre, Paris.

2019 - Member of the editorial board of the journal Língua - Lugar - Literatura, História e estudos Culturais, CEL - Centre d 'Etudes Lusophones, University of Geneva.

2016 - Director of the collection EDitora Afrontamento/ Memoirs Children of Empire/

2016 - Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Plural Pluriel - Revue des cultures de langue, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.

2012 to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Convergência Lusíada, Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2011 to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Abril, Revista do Núcleo de Estudos de Literatura Portuguesa e Africana, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil.

2011 to ... - Membre of the Editorial Board of Mulemba - Journal for the Studies of African Literatures in Portuguese, Brazil.

2008 to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Gragoatá, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

2004 to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Ellipsis, Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association.

2004 to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Portuguese Studies, Modern Humanities Research Association/King's College, University of London.

1985 to 1987 - Student representative on the Council of the University of Aveiro.

1985 to 1986 - Student representative on the Committee for the Election of the Rector of the University of Aveiro. Co-rapporteur of the 1st Regulation for the Election of the Rector of the University of Aveiro.

1983 to 1984 - President of the Board of the Students' Association of the University of Aveiro.