Disputed Heritage Sites
Memory as a Human Right and a tool for historical reparation
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Date
- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out Friday, 18:00
Location
Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
- Free entry
Subject to room capacity
In this conference, Lucimar Felisberto dos Santos and Víctor de Barros will come together to discuss the role of public heritage as a space for dialogue in acknowledging historical injustices and building collective memory, from a comparative perspective between Brazil and Portugal.
Statues, monuments, museums, and other elements of public heritage mark historical events, creating specific narratives of the past that we seek to preserve. But these spaces also reflect power relations, social hierarchies, and dominant ways of interpreting history. For this reason, public heritage is above all a space for debate, where established memories can be questioned, reinterpreted, and transformed, giving rise to new ways of understanding the past and commemorating it.
In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in activist, civic, and political movements that challenge these narratives and pressure government authorities to acknowledge their slave-owning past and to use public space to honor the victims.
To discuss these issues from a comparative perspective between the Brazilian and Portuguese contexts, the Calouste Gulbenkian and the Slave Wrecks Project invite Lucimar Felisberto dos Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Víctor de Barros (Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) for this conference.
Speakers
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Lucimar Felisberto dos Santos
With experience in research on history, historiography, and race relations in colonial, imperial, and republican Brazil, she focuses particularly on the history of imperial Brazil, with an emphasis on slavery and the post-abolition era in urban Rio de Janeiro during the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a content creator for the AFRODIÁLOGOS platform; an activist with the Unified Black Movement; a member of the Network of Black Historians; a cultural advisor for ACEMADES; a researcher at the Laboratory of the History of Religious Experiences at the Institute of History at UFRJ; a researcher with the Local Education History Studies research group (UERJ); and a teacher in the municipal public school systems of Duque de Caxias and Magé.
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Víctor de Barros
Historian, PhD in Contemporary Studies from the University of Coimbra with a thesis on commemorations, public uses of history and the memory of empire in the colonies during the Portuguese Estado Novo (1933-1974). He was awarded the Agostinho Neto International Prize for Historical Research. He is the author of the book Campos de Concentração em Cabo Verde, which received an Honourable Mention in the Vitor de Sá Contemporary History Prize in 2008. He is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon.
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Arjan Martins, Só vou ao Leblon a negócios (pormenor), 2016 ©Arjan Martins
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