International Seminar
Art, Architecture and African (In)Visibilities in Portugal
June 15, 2026, 9h30-18h00
Auditorium B3, Torre B (Av. Berna), NOVA FCSH (Lisbon)
9:30 - Registration
9:45 - Welcome
ART, ARCHITECTURE AND AFRICAN (IN)VISIBILITIES IN PORTUGAL
Moderator: Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES-UC)
10:00 - 10:20
Giuseppina Raggi (IHA-NOVAFCSH-IN2PAST)
Vitória de Jesus, an enslaved Black woman, and the founding of churches and chapels in Portugal.
10:20 - 10:40
Paulo Almeida Fernandes (IHA-NOVAFCSH-IN2PAST)
On depersonalisation in historical and artistic records: regarding a Lisbon painting of Our Lady of the Rosary.
10:40 - 10:50
Discussion
10:50 - 11:10
Hugo Ribeiro da Silva (CITCEM-FLUP)
Making people laugh to exist: jokes, verses and the agency of a black slave in seventeenth-century Lisbon.
11:10 - 11:30
Iskrena Yordanova (CESEM-FCSH Nova and Divino Sospiro - CEMSP)
Devotion to Nossa Senhora da Atalaia in the 18th century: cultural context and musical details.
11:30 - 11:40
Discussion
11:40 - 12:00
Antonieta Reis Leite (CES-UC)
African (in)visibilities in the urban fabric of Angra, Ponta Delgada and Horta.
12:00 - 12:20
Rui Lobo (CES-UC)
The Church of S. Mamede do Sádão: an essay on architectural reconstruction and its social and territorial context.
12:20 - 12:40
Joana Frutuoso, Giuseppina Raggi and Rui Lobo (FL-UC; IHA-NOVAFCSH-IN2PAST; CES-UC)
Behind place names and representations: a journey through the Mondego valley.
12:40 - 13:00
General discussion
13:00 - 14:40
Lunch
PARTICIPATORY EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP AND THE ARTS
Moderator: Giuseppina Raggi (FL-UC; IHA-NOVAFCSH-IN2PAST; CES-UC)
14:40 - 15:00
Cláudia Pato de Carvalho (CES-UC)
Citizen science as a participatory methodology in formal and non-formal educational contexts
15:00 - 15:20
Mário Carneiro (ESA)
Citizenship Education: from the curriculum to a culture of participation.
15:20 -15:40
Rosa Botequilha (ESA)
Between Citizenship and Creativity: the implementation of the Arts at Amora Secondary School, based on the Making Portugal project.
15:40 - 16:00
General discussion and open sharing of experiences by teachers Clarisse Sequeira, Albertina Morgado, Gabriela Benavente and pupils from the classes involved in the project.
16:00 - 16:15
Presentation of the digital platform for the MAKING PORTUGAL project.
16:15 - 16:25
Break
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
16:25 -16:45
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC)
Contemporary shadows and remnants of a long Portuguese-African journey - a reading of ‘Por Debaixo da Nossa Pele’ by Joaquim Arena.
16:45 - 17:30
Roundtable
Moderator: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC)
Guests:
Joaquim Arena - author
Jessemusse Cacinda - author, editor and sociologist
Ruben Zacarias - visual artist
17:30 - 17:50
Discussion
17:50 - 18:00
Conclusions and closing remarks

