Activities

- 26 November, 2011: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the projects "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", in the Symposium/Debate Guerra Colonial – Do Tabu à Narrativa da Memória, at the Auditorium of the Lóios Convent, an event organized by Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas – Porto Office/ Sta. Maria da Feira City Hall.

- 14 and 15 June, 2011: Symposium/ Debate "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations", Auditorium CIUL; CES Lisbon. On the 15th of June, at 7pm, the Anthology of the Poetic Memory of the Colonial Wars was launched by Joaquim Furtado, with the presence of the organizers of the book: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and Roberto Vecchi. This anthology was published by Afrontamento (Porto) and organized within the research carried out in the project "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", from the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.

- 11 June, 2011: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the projects "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", in the Seminar Echoes of the Colonial Wars, organized by Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas (Coimbra), at the Auditorium of the Association Fernão Mendes Pinto, Coimbra.

- 2-5 June, 2011: Luísa Sales, Aida Dias and Rui Mota Cardoso presented the paper "How are the children and the spouses of the Portuguese war veterans, 30 years later?", 12th European Conference on Posttraumatic Stress: Human Rights and Psychotraumatology, University of Wien, Austria.

- 2-5 de Junho, 2011: Aida Dias, Luísa Sales and Rolf Kleber presented the poster "Relations between childhood trauma and psychological symptoms", 12th European Conference on Posttraumatic Stress: Human Rights and Psychotraumatology, University of Wien, Austria.

- 16 March, 2011: Hélia Santos, Luciana Silva and Mónica Silva presented the project to highschool pupils as an activity of the outreach programme "CES goes to school" ("CES vai à escola"). This activity took place at the Quinta das Flores Highschool, in Coimbra, and will take place again on the 29th of March, in Viseu, and back in the same school in Coimbra, on the 4th of April.

- 17 February, 2011: Hélia Santos presented the paper "Imaginando a Guerra Colonial: a pós-memória dos “filhos da guerra”, entre silêncios e excessos", at the International Conference "Portugal between Disquiets and Challenges", Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 February.

- 17 February, 2011: Mónica Silva presented the paper "Sons feridos e silêncios traídos: pautas de uma identidade", at the International Conference "Portugal between Disquiets and Challenges", Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 February. This paper draws on the results of musical pieces collected as public narratives within this project.

- 6-8 December, 2010: Ivone Castro-Vale presented the paper "Intergenerational transmission of trauma" in the "16th Round-Table: Trauma - Myth and reality", a round-table chaired by Luísa Sales, at the 6th National Conference of Psychiatry, an organization of the Portuguese Society for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Estoril, Portugal.

- 16 November, 2010: Presentation of the project to undergraduation students in Sociology, of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, at CES.

- 4 November, 2010: António Sousa Ribeiro and Roberto Vecchi participated in the Annual International Colloquium on Post-conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, an event co-organized by this project with the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bologna and the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures of the University of Nottingham, from the 4th to the 6th of November at University of Bologna, Italy. They presented the papers "Spaces and non-spaces: violence and the scene of writing", and "Global battlefields for humanities: new topographies".

- 4 November, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the project "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" as invited speaker for the Round Table "Images of Exile", at the 3rd Congress "Literature, War and Peace", Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil.

- 23-24 September, 2010: Ivone Castro-Vale presented the poster "Posttraumatic stress disorder: transgenerational effects", 14th Conference of the European NeuroEndocrine Association, in Liége (with Aida Dias; Luísa Sales; Davide Carvalho; and Rui Mota-Cardoso).

- 3 July, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented "O Fim da História de Regressos e o Retorno a África: leituras da literatura portuguesa contemporânea", in Conference LUPOR III: "Teorias Itinerantes/ Travelling Theories", Universidade do Minho, Braga.

- 1 July, 2010: Book launching of Excepção Atlântica. Pensar a Literatura da Guerra Colonial, by Roberto Vecchi (Edições Afrontamento, 2010), in Centésima Página bookstore, Braga, with the participation of Ana Gabriela Macedo, António Sousa Ribeiro and Paulo de Medeiros.

- 28 April, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented "Feminine Voices of a War: a different memory of the Colonial Wars", at the University of Stocolm, within the activities for the Remembrance of the Revolution of the 25th of April, organized by the Centro de Língua Portuguesa of Instituto Camões.

- 26 April, 2010: Hélia Santos and Luciana Silva presented "(Post)Memories of the Colonial Wars: cultural representations", at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra. The talk focused on both projects coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro: "Children of the Colonial Wars" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars".

- 15 April, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented this project at the Conference Voices of Revolution: Colonial Wars and Decolonization, organized by ISCTE, University of Lisbon.

- 31 March, 2010: Luísa Sales co-organized the Inaugural Seminar Risks (of)and Trauma [Riscos (d)e Trauma], in the Conference Cycle of the Trauma Centre of CES (with José Manuel Mendes e Aida Dias).

- 25 March, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented this project at an MA seminar at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Coimbra, invited by Dr. Joaquim Pires Valentim.

Research Networks:

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is member of the Steering Committee of the international network “POCOEUR - Post-Colonial Europe: the legacies of colonialism and the enduring imprint of Empire”, a European Science Foundation (SCH) Programme.

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and António Sousa Ribeiro are members of LUPOR: Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network.

Luísa Sales participates in the network TENTS: The European Network for Traumatic Stress, sponsored by the European Commission. This research network aims to identify and to map the European institutions that offer psychosocial support to victims of catastrophic events, and to define best practices of intervention in such acute situations.




	Project Activities Archives Publications Symposium ESF workshop Media Bibliography Links Contacts Poetry of the Colonial Wars Entrar Utilizador/a: Password: Esqueceu os dados de acesso?	Activities - 26 November, 2011: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the projects "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", in the Symposium/Debate Guerra Colonial – Do Tabu à Narrativa da Memória, at the Auditorium of the Lóios Convent, an event organized by Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas – Porto Office/ Sta. Maria da Feira City Hall. - 14 and 15 June, 2011: Symposium/ Debate "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations", Auditorium CIUL; CES Lisbon. On the 15th of June, at 7pm, the Anthology of the Poetic Memory of the Colonial Wars was launched by Joaquim Furtado, with the presence of the organizers of the book: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and Roberto Vecchi. This anthology was published by Afrontamento (Porto) and organized within the research carried out in the project "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", from the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. - 11 June, 2011: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the projects "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars: an ontology of the shattered 'self'", in the Seminar Echoes of the Colonial Wars, organized by Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas (Coimbra), at the Auditorium of the Association Fernão Mendes Pinto, Coimbra. - 2-5 June, 2011: Luísa Sales, Aida Dias and Rui Mota Cardoso presented the paper "How are the children and the spouses of the Portuguese war veterans, 30 years later?", 12th European Conference on Posttraumatic Stress: Human Rights and Psychotraumatology, University of Wien, Austria. - 2-5 de Junho, 2011: Aida Dias, Luísa Sales and Rolf Kleber presented the poster "Relations between childhood trauma and psychological symptoms", 12th European Conference on Posttraumatic Stress: Human Rights and Psychotraumatology, University of Wien, Austria. - 16 March, 2011: Hélia Santos, Luciana Silva and Mónica Silva presented the project to highschool pupils as an activity of the outreach programme "CES goes to school" ("CES vai à escola"). This activity took place at the Quinta das Flores Highschool, in Coimbra, and will take place again on the 29th of March, in Viseu, and back in the same school in Coimbra, on the 4th of April. - 17 February, 2011: Hélia Santos presented the paper "Imaginando a Guerra Colonial: a pós-memória dos “filhos da guerra”, entre silêncios e excessos", at the International Conference "Portugal between Disquiets and Challenges", Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 February. - 17 February, 2011: Mónica Silva presented the paper "Sons feridos e silêncios traídos: pautas de uma identidade", at the International Conference "Portugal between Disquiets and Challenges", Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 February. This paper draws on the results of musical pieces collected as public narratives within this project. - 6-8 December, 2010: Ivone Castro-Vale presented the paper "Intergenerational transmission of trauma" in the "16th Round-Table: Trauma - Myth and reality", a round-table chaired by Luísa Sales, at the 6th National Conference of Psychiatry, an organization of the Portuguese Society for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Estoril, Portugal. - 16 November, 2010: Presentation of the project to undergraduation students in Sociology, of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, at CES. - 4 November, 2010: António Sousa Ribeiro and Roberto Vecchi participated in the Annual International Colloquium on Post-conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, an event co-organized by this project with the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bologna and the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures of the University of Nottingham, from the 4th to the 6th of November at University of Bologna, Italy. They presented the papers "Spaces and non-spaces: violence and the scene of writing", and "Global battlefields for humanities: new topographies". - 4 November, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented the project "Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations" as invited speaker for the Round Table "Images of Exile", at the 3rd Congress "Literature, War and Peace", Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil. - 23-24 September, 2010: Ivone Castro-Vale presented the poster "Posttraumatic stress disorder: transgenerational effects", 14th Conference of the European NeuroEndocrine Association, in Liége (with Aida Dias; Luísa Sales; Davide Carvalho; and Rui Mota-Cardoso). - 3 July, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented "O Fim da História de Regressos e o Retorno a África: leituras da literatura portuguesa contemporânea", in Conference LUPOR III: "Teorias Itinerantes/ Travelling Theories", Universidade do Minho, Braga. - 1 July, 2010: Book launching of Excepção Atlântica. Pensar a Literatura da Guerra Colonial, by Roberto Vecchi (Edições Afrontamento, 2010), in Centésima Página bookstore, Braga, with the participation of Ana Gabriela Macedo, António Sousa Ribeiro and Paulo de Medeiros. - 28 April, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented "Feminine Voices of a War: a different memory of the Colonial Wars", at the University of Stocolm, within the activities for the Remembrance of the Revolution of the 25th of April, organized by the Centro de Língua Portuguesa of Instituto Camões. - 26 April, 2010: Hélia Santos and Luciana Silva presented "(Post)Memories of the Colonial Wars: cultural representations", at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra. The talk focused on both projects coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro: "Children of the Colonial Wars" and "Poetry of the Colonial Wars". - 15 April, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented this project at the Conference Voices of Revolution: Colonial Wars and Decolonization, organized by ISCTE, University of Lisbon. - 31 March, 2010: Luísa Sales co-organized the Inaugural Seminar Risks (of)and Trauma [Riscos (d)e Trauma], in the Conference Cycle of the Trauma Centre of CES (with José Manuel Mendes e Aida Dias). - 25 March, 2010: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro presented this project at an MA seminar at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Coimbra, invited by Dr. Joaquim Pires Valentim. Research Networks: Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is member of the Steering Committee of the international network “POCOEUR - Post-Colonial Europe: the legacies of colonialism and the enduring imprint of Empire”, a European Science Foundation (SCH) Programme. Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and António Sousa Ribeiro are members of LUPOR: Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network. Luísa Sales participates in the network TENTS: The European Network for Traumatic Stress, sponsored by the European Commission. This research network aims to identify and to map the European institutions that offer psychosocial support to victims of catastrophic events, and to define best practices of intervention in such acute situations.

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