Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She holds the Eduardo Lourenço Chair at the University of Bologna/ Instituto Camões, with Roberto Vecchi and is a research fellow at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford. At CES she is a lecturer and co-coordinator of the PhD programme “Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship” (CES/ FEUC), she is the coordinator of the research line “Europe and the Global South: legacies and dialogues” (with Miguel Cardina and Maria Paula Meneses) and co-coordinator of Trauma Observatory (with Luisa Sales and Inês Nascimento Rodrigues). She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King's College, University of London, an MA from the University Nova of Lisboa and a BA from the University of Aveiro. In 2015, she won a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) with the research project “MEMOIRS-Children of Empires and European Postmemories”, with output in the forms of books, chapters, articles and the international exhibition, Europa Oxalá, held at the MUCEM, Marseille, France, at the Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon and at the Africa Museum, Belgium. She is currently the principal investigator of the research project “MAPS European Postmemories, a Postcolonial Cartography” (FCT, 2021-2023) that produced the first digital platform of artists and works on European colonial postmemory in five artistic areas, an author book, published with Fátima Cruz Rodrigues, Des-Cobrir a Europa filhos de impérios e pós-memória europeias (2022), also available in French and a podcast, “Memória da Memória”, a selection of 25 interviews with artists, writers, academics and art curators. She is the author of África no feminino: mulheres portuguesas e Guerra Colonial (2004) and Uma história de regressos: império, guerra colonial e pós-colonialismo (2001). Her last book, co-authored with Roberto Vecchi, is Eduardo Lourenço -uma geopolítica do pensamento (2023). She is also an expert on Portuguese African literatures, having co-edited six books with internationally recognized colleagues. She coordinates the “Reimagining Europe” platform and the Papeís da Prisão digital collection of Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira. She is a member of several international scientific committees, including the scientific committee of the research laboratory "LABEX - Les passés dans le présent", University of Paris Nanterre, the Scientific Editorial Committee of the Secretariat of State for the Communities / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda and the Commission for the Commemoration of the Centenary of Eduardo Lourenço.