Hélia Santos (D01F-544B-3B74)

Curriculum Vitae

Hélia Santos

Hélia Santos is project manager since 2012, and junior researcher since 2003. In 2021, she took on the coordination of the Project Management Office of the Center for Social Studies, of the University of COimbra. She holds an MA degree in Sociology (Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship), from the Centre for Social Studies and School of Economics, University of Coimbra, and she is a PhD candidate in this same programme since 2015. Her research interests focus on postcolonial studies and identities, and, more recently, memory studies.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Hélia Santos

Citation names

Santos, Hélia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D01F-544B-3B74
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4463-9776

Email addresses

helia@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

239855570 (Professional)

Addresses

Centro de Estudos Sociais. Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Apartado 3087, 3000-995, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://ces.uc.pt/pt/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es-juniores/helia-santos (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Sociology
Social Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2009/03/09 Concluded	Pós-colonialismos e Cidadania Global [Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship] (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Jovens Muçulmanos, Escola Pública, Identidades: um estudo de caso" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2001/06/30 Concluded	Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, Inglês e Alemão [Modern Languages and Literature: English and German] (Licenciatura) Major in Education Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "n.a." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/06/01 - Current	Head of Project Management Office	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/01/01 - Current	Project Management	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2003/12/01 - Current	Junior Researcher	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2016/09/01 - 2021/12/31	PhD Candidate (taught course in Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship, CES/ Univ Coimbra). Project: Colonial Paradoxes: memory, postmemory and forgetfulness in second generation narratives	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

2000/09/01 - 2003/07/31	English Teacher	High schools in Coimbra, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31	MAPS - Pós-memórias Europeias: uma cartografia pós-colonial PTDC/LLT-OUT/7036/2020 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2015/11/01 - 2021/10/31	MEMOIRS: Children of Empires and European Postmemories 648624 PhD candidate Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Research Council Concluded
2013/11/01 - 2014/10/31	elocALL: E-LOCAL for All EACEA FP7 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Lingue Letterature e Culture Moderne, Italy	Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency Concluded
2010/12/01 - 2012/11/30	E-LOCAL: Electronically Learning Other Cultures and Languages Erasmus FP7 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency Concluded
2008/09/01 - 2012/02/28	´Raça´ e África em Portugal: um estudo sobre manuais escolares de história Acrónimo: RAP PTDC/CED/64626/2006 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2007/10/01 - 2010/03/31	Children of the Colonial War: Postmemory and Representations FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-007261 Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2003/12/01 - 2006/01/31	INTERACT: Intercultural Active Citizenship Education FP6 INTERACT Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Sixth Framework Programme Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter

"Traits de mémoires entre oublis: récits de deuxième génération à propos de la fin du colonialisme en Angola". In Voir / Revoir: Revenir sur les traces, définir le présent: La Péninsule Ibérique après les dictatures, in Graça dos Santos; José Manuel Esteves; Lina Iglesias; Gonçalo Plácido Cordeiro (ed.).), 63-80. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2021.
Published
Guilherme, Manuela; Pureza, José Manuel; Silva, Rita Paulos da; Santos, Hélia. "The intercultural dimension of citizenship education in Portugal". Multilingual Matters, 2006.

Thesis / Dissertation

Santos, Hélia Regina Gaspar dos. "Muslim pupils, identities and state schools: a case study". Master, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/9707.

Other

Other output

Não havia olhos inocentes. MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624); MAPS - Pós-memórias Europeias: uma cartografia pós-colonial. Neste breve texto, esboço uma hipótese que discuto no meu trabalho de investigação no âmbito do projeto MEMOIRS: se a narrativa da pós-memória, elaborada a partir de restos de memórias familiares, omite ou ignora as identidades raciais no tabuleiro político do colonialismo. 2021. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96709.
Invisible Portuguese. MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624). 2019. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87186.
Another Day of Life": the Journalist Memorialized, Angola Forgotten. MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624). Em novembro de 2018, circulou nas salas de cinema em Portugal a adaptação ao cinema do livro Mais um Dia de Vida: Angola 1975 do jornalista Ryszard Kapuscinski, originalmente publicado em 1976. Polaco (1932-2007), o jornalista foi correspondente de guerra durante grande parte da sua vida profissional, tendo acompanhado de perto os p. 2019. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87173.
Forgetting in Portuguese. MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624). 2018. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/81730.
Memories of Portuguese colonialism staged by Hotel Europa. MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624). 2018. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/79865.
Introduction - Commenting Our Own Face Sketches, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, A Cor do Tempo Quando Foge. 2009. Araújo, Marta; Matias, Marisa; Santos, Hélia; Martins, Bruno Sena. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/36180.
A Responsabilidade Social e Educativa dos Mass Media. 2006. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/41139.
A Colonialidade do Saber no Ensino da História: uma perspectiva pós-colonial e intercultural. 2006. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/41137.
O Esplendor de Portugal, de António Lobo Antunes: um romance pós-colonial? Identidade, 'Raça', (Des)Território. 2006. Santos, Hélia. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/41136.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/09/16	Memory's forgetfulness: the end of colonialism in Angola narrated by the "second generation"	XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro - Utopias Pós-Crise Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Língua Portuguesa-AILPCSH (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/06/27	(Post)memory and Forgetfulness Among the Second Generation in Families coming from Angola in the Decade of 1970	Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association Complutense University (Madrid, Spain)
2018/11/08	(Post)memory and forgetting with the descendants of families coming from Angola in the 1970s	magining the future. Knowledges, experiences, alternatives School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/10/04	Memory glimpses from amidst forgetting: second generation narratives on the end of colonialism in Angola [Traits de mémoires entre oublis : récits de deuxième génération à propos de la fin du colonialisme en Angola]	VOIR / REVOIR - Revenir sur les traces, définir le présent: La Péninsule Ibérique après les dictatures Université Paris Nanterre (Paris, France)
2012/12/06	E-LOCAL: collaborative production of an online platform for six languages (introductory level)	International Meeting - Languages, Applied Linguistics and Translation University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2011/06/15	Children of the Colonial Wars: in-between silences and excesses	Conference/ Debate Children of Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations Centro de Estudos Sociais and CIUL-Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/02/17	Imagining the Colonial War: postmemories of 'Children of the War', between silences and excesses	International Conference "Portugal between Disquiets and Challenges", Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010/04/26	(Post)Memories of the Colonial War: cultural representations	Seminar Series of the Association of Anthropology Students of the University of Coimbra Department Anthropology, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2009/09/02	Muslim pupils and the negotiation of Portuguese postcolonial identity	9th European Sociological Association Conference European Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)