Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Raquel De Araujo Ribeiro
Citation names
- Ribeiro, Raquel
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5811-C802-4C10
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9654-3397
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2009/12/08
Concluded
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Hispanic Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Comparative Literature
University of Liverpool Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, United Kingdom
"Europe, edenic Space - a literary cartography in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Passed with minor corrections |
2003
Concluded
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Ciências da Comunicação (Licenciatura)
Major in Jornalismo
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2010 - 2012 | Researcher (Research) | University of Nottingham Department of Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies, United Kingdom |
Centre for Research on Cuba, United Kingdom |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2014/08 - 2021/12 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | ||
2014/01 - 2014/07 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, United Kingdom |
2005 - 2009 | Assistant (University Teacher) | University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/09/01 - Current | Investigadora Integrada | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2001 - Current | Jornalista freelance, repórter e crítica literária | Jornal Público, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/05 - 2023/12 | Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in
the Guatemalan cordillera
NE/T010517/1
Researcher
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Natural Environment Research Council
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2021/07/01 | Remembering Angola: The Cultural Memory of the Cubans in the Angolan Civil War
RF-2020-565\1
Principal investigator
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Leverhulme Trust
Concluded
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2019/01 - 2020/07 | Visibilizing Afro Cultural Connections and Geopolitical Dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés and Providencia
AH/S005625/1
Researcher
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Arts and Humanities Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund Ongoing
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2017 - 2018 | Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK
AH/P006884/1
Researcher
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Arts and Humanities Research Council
Concluded
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2016 - 2017 | After the thaw: cultural approaches to research on Cuba
R44423
Other
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
University of London Institute of Latin American Studies
Concluded
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2005 - 2009 | Europe, edenic space – a literary cartography in the works of Maria Gabriela Llansol
SFRH/BD/23146/2005
PhD Student Fellow
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/06/01 - Current | Conflicting memories, contested narratives: a cultural history of the Cuban presence in postcolonial Angola
2022.02266.CEECIND/CP1725/CT0033
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 | Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s)
2022.01785.PTDC
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2010 - 2012 | War Wounds: Cultural representations of the Cuban presence in the Angolan civil war
Nottingham
Research Fellow
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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University of Nottingham
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Dictionary entry |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Newspaper article |
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Preface / Postscript |
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Website |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/03/15 | 'Adelante Portugal': intersecções revolucionárias entre Cuba e Portugal | Portugal, Espanha e mais além (1974-1977) Revolução, transição e movimentos sociais
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/05/03 | Tricontinental: Cuba e o fim do império português | Da Conferência de Bandung ao fim do império português
Comissão Organizadora 50 anos do 25 de Abril (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/04/26 | MILAGRE NA TERRA MORENA: O 25 DE ABRIL VISTO DO CARIBE E DA AMÉRICA LATINA | Conversas sobre o Caribe
Universidad Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
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2022/11/15 | Conference USA: IMPERIAL WAY OF LIFE? Conference series on "Empires" | USA: IMPERIAL WAY OF LIFE? |
2022/05/05 | Presentation - Revolução de Abril no mundo e no seu tempo | Revolução de Abril no mundo e no seu tempo
Aljube Museum (Portugal)
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2022/03/24 | Cuba e a Revolução Portuguesa: algumas aproximações in Histórias Globais da Revolução - seminar series | Histórias Globais da Revolução - seminar series |
2021/10 | Memória e pós-memória da Guerra de Angola em duas escritoras cubanas: Karla Suarez e Wendy Guerra | Ciclo de Conferências - Literatura Escrita por Mulheres
Biblioteca Nacional Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2021/06/18 | Exportar a revolução: a arma da teoria ou a arma na/da prática | Ciclo de Conferências e Mesas Redondas: Interpelações a partir d¿ O Silêncio da Terra. Visualidades (pós)coloniais intercetadas
pelo arquivo Diamang - Universidade do Minho, Braga
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2021/05 | “Comer ou não comer, that is the question: transculturação e canibalismo numa leitura de “Biografia de un cimarrón” (1966) | seminar 'Pensar a comida, pensar o mundo'
Centro De Estudos Sociais CES (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2019/10 | Keynote Wisps: Witches are Dangerous Women: Gender and Creativity in the Lusophone World | WISPS, Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies
University of Maynooth (Maynooth, Ireland)
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2019/05 | «Comunidades afectivas» transatlânticas: o internacionalismo cubano e a «política da amizade» | Viver para além da guerra: Histórias, Etnografias e Agências nas Guerras de Libertação
Centro de Estudos Sociais - Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2018/11 | Cuba and the Decolonization of Africa: from the Cuban Revolution to the End of Apartheid | Socialism and decolonization in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau
Centre Régional Francophone de Recherches Avancées en Sciences Sociales (Bucarest, Romania)
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2018/06 | (In)Visibility in the Black Caribbean: The cases of Cuba, Nicaragua and Colombia | Decentred/Dissenting Connections: Envisioning Caribbean Film and Visual Cultures
Newcastle University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
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2017 | invited lecture: Emory University, Atlanta, USA – “War Wounds: Cultural Representations of the Cubans in Angola” | Invited Lecture on Cuba and Africa
Emory University (Atlanta, United States)
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2016 | invited guest at conference: “Liberation struggles, the ‘falling of the empire’ and the birth [through images] of African nations” | Liberation struggles, the ‘falling of the empire’ and the birth [through images] of African nations
University of Reading/King’s College London (Reading and London, United Kingdom)
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2015 | Conflicting memories of Cuba´s presence in the Angolan war (1975-1991): has Angola erased the Cubans from its national narrative? | Liverpool Research Seminars
University of Liverpool (Liverpool)
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2014 | “El (des)encanto del regreso? Cuban films of the Angolan war” | CubAngola: mémoires connectées Historiographie, littérature, photographie et cinéma
Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France)
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2014 | “Were the Cubans ‘erased’ from Angola’s history? A re-reading of the Angolan literary canon” | Oxford Portuguese Research Seminars
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2019 - 2021 | Spacio-Temporal Overlap in African and Diasporic Literature and Visual Culture: Magical Realism, Afrofuturism, and the Afropolitan
Co-supervisor
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Comparative Literature (PhD)
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2017 - Current | Regular collaboration with Havana Glasgow Film Festival, curating film seasons on Cuban cinema (2017)
Festival (Co-organisor)
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Havana Glasgow Film Festival , Portugal |
2016 - Current | Regular collaboration, organising film seasons on Lusophone African cinema and Caribbean/Cuban cinema with Africa in Motion
- Scotland's African Film Festival (2016)
Festival (Co-organisor)
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Africa in Motion, United Kingdom |
2017/10 - 2017/10 | Radio Podcast Curator: “Descolonizacao” (Part 1 and 2), Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Portugal (2017) | Teatro Maria Matos, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/09/26 - Current | Praça da Liberdade
Round table
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Reescrever as Escritas
Biblioteca Municipal de Oeiras, Portugal
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2024/01/31 - 2024/01/31 | What will the 20th century be like? A conversation on the current state of affairs on the Global South, Palestine, the BRICs,
Ukraine, Russia and its implications for the writing of the history of the 20th century and its memory.
Round table
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ANTICOLONIAL HISTORY, POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE FUTURES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07 | Moderator
Remembering Chile's 50 Years Coup
Round table
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50 anos do Golpe do Chile
Fundação José Saramago, Portugal
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2021/11 - 2021/11 | guest speaker: Porto.Post.Doc Film Festival (Portugal)
Festival
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Porto.Post.Doc Film Festival |
2021/06 - 2021/06 | Mesa redonda "Entre la investigación histórica y la ficción literaria", Centro de Estudos Comparatistas
Round table
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Mesa redonda "Entre la investigación histórica y la ficción literaria", Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Lisbon, 16 June 2021
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
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2021/04 - 2021/04 | Lançamento do livro e debate: Amilcar Cabral, "Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência: Edição Revista e Comentada"
Round table
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Lançamento do livro e debate: Amilcar Cabral, "Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência: Edição Revista e Comentada"
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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2019/01 - 2019/01 | guest speaker: A toca do lobo/Wolf’s Lair, film by Catarina Mourão, at Portuguese Women Directors Series
Festival
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Portuguese Women Directors Series
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Guest speaker: Mortu Nega, film by Flora Gomes, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Festival
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Film Season on African Cinema
Nottingham Contemporary - Art Gallery, United Kingdom
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2018 - 2018 | guest speaker: Muxima, film by Alfredo Jaar, Cample Line Arts Org, Thornhill, Scotland
Exhibition
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Muxima, special screening
Cample Line Arts Org, United Kingdom
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2017 - 2017 | invited lecture: Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal – “Cuban and Angolan testimony”
Seminar
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Seminário em Literaturas Africanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | guest speaker: Porto.Post.Doc Film Festival (Portugal)
Festival
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Porto.Post.Doc Film Festival
Porto.Post.Doc Film Festival, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | roundtable discussion: Cronica Ibero-Americana, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal
Round table
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Cronica Ibero Americana
Casa Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
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2017 - 2017 | guest speaker: Portugal Week, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Colombia
Round table
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Portugal Week
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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2016/10 - 2016/10 | roundtable discussion: “Por um Cinema Impossível: Documentário e Vanguarda em Cuba”, Doc Lisboa International Documentary
Festival, Lisbon
Round table
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Cinema de Vanguarda em Cuba
Doc Lisboa - International Documentary Film Festival, Portugal
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2016 - 2016 | 'O contemporâneo vive nas fronteiras' Roundtable presentations and discussion on Cuba-Angolan and transatlantic relations
Festival
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Festival Silêncio |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2022/01 | Os diálogos entre o Cinema Novo brasileiro e o cinema revolucionário cubano (1959/1969)
(Thesis) Arguer
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RUNO FALCI BITARELLI MEDEIROS (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2020/05 | Voices from the Past: A Linguistic and Literary Investigation into the Bantu Ancestry and Oral Tradition through the Short
Fictional Works of José Luandino Vieira, Arnaldo Santos and Ana Paula Tavares
(Thesis) Arguer
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Vicenzo Cammarata: (PhD)
King's College London, United Kingdom
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2018/01 | "Fiction as History? Resistance, Complicities and the Intellectual History of Postcolonial Angola"
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Dorothee Boulanger (PhD)
King's College London, United Kingdom
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2016 | Writing Race: Patria, Mestizaje and Racial Identity in the works of José Martí
(Thesis) Arguer
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Oleski Miranda (PhD)
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2015 - Current | Portuguese Studies (2222-4270) | Modern Humanities Research Association |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2010 - Current | Centre for Research on Cuba - University of Nottingham | |
2007 - Current | Association of British and Irish Lusitanists | member, conference organiser, secretary |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2018 - 2021/12 | Member of the Board of Trustees of Africa in Motion Film Festival
Advisor / Consultant
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Africa in Motion, United Kingdom |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - 2021 | External Examiner for Undergraduate Courses in Portuguese at the University of Oxford | University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, United Kingdom |
2017 - 2020 | External Examiner for Undergraduate Courses in Portuguese at the University of Newcastle | Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
2017 - 2019 | External Examiner for Posgraduate Courses in MA in Translation at the University of Sheffield | The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022/10/27 - Current | Seminário virtual da CES/CLACSO: Artes, Ativismos e Memórias: os arquivos das histórias dos povos | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina |
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2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27 | Seminário virtual da CES/CLACSO: Artes, Ativismos e Memórias: os arquivos das histórias dos povos | (Outros) | Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina |
2021/08 - 2021/11 | Seminário virtual da CES/CLACSO: Artes, Ativismos e Memórias: os arquivos das histórias dos povos | Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2018 - Current | Peer review of books of Peter Lang Publishing Group and Legenda
Evaluator
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Peter Lang Publishing Group, Switzerland Legenda Publishing Humanities, United Kingdom |
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2015 - Current | for books for Boydell and Brewer Publishing House | Boydell and Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2016 | Contribution on Fidel Castro and Africa | Al Jazeera |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2021/01 - 2021/01 | Podcast Convocar a História with Professor Fernando Rosas | Tricontinental |
2016 - 2016 | live TV expert contribution: “Obama's visit to Cuba”, TRT World News Channel | Obama and Cuba |
2016 - 2016 | live radio interview: Stories from Colombia, Resonance FM, London, UK | Stories from Colombia |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2019 - 2021/12 | Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies (2516-8037) | Liverpool University Press |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | Jury Premio Literario Oceanos | |
2013 - Current | Jury Premio Gabo - Premio Periodismo Ibero-Americano de la Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Latino Americano | Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Latino Americano, Colombia |