Who we are

The research team brings together senior researchers from the literary and cultural studies, sociology, psychology and psychiatry. Both professionally and personally, their academic and research experience assure the acknowledgment of research ethics and deontological principles during the process of collection and analysis of data, namely the researcher’s duty of guaranteeing the confidentiality of all information conveyed by the participants.

 

Researchers

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES, Coordinator of the Project)
António Sousa Ribeiro (CES/School of Humanities, University of Coimbra)
José Manuel Pureza (CES/ School of Economy, University of Coimbra)
Luísa Sales (Coimbra Army Hospital/CES)
Roberto Vecchi (University of Bologna/CES)
Rui Mota Cardoso (Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto/CES)

Junior Researchers

Aida Dias (CES)
Hélia Santos (CES)
Ivone Castro Vale (Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto/CES)
Luciana Silva (CES)
Monica Silva (CES)

Consultants

This team counts on the expertise of three permanent consultants: Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College, London), Márcio Seligmann-Silva (UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil) and Bernard McGuirk (Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures, Univ. Nottingham).

 

Coordinator:

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Centre for Social Studies - CES

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES - Associate Laboratory) and teacher in the PhD Programmes "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship" and "Cultural Heritages of Portuguese Influence", offered by CES, the School of Economics and III of the University of Coimbra. Since 2007, she holds the Eduardo Lourenço Chair from the Instituto Camões and the University of Bologna, with Roberto Vecchi, and she was Visiting Researcher Associate at the King’s College, University of London, between 2004 and 2009.
Her current research interests include postcolonial studies, Portuguese and lusophone literature, and history of the Portuguese empire, in particular the African empire and the Colonial Wars. She coordinated another FCT-funded research project, concluded in January 2010: “Poetry of the Colonial War: Ontology of the Shattered 'Self'”. This project will continue in 2011 with the support from the Ministry of Defense.
Her publications include the books Atlantico Periferico. Il postcolonialismo portoghese e il sistema mondiale (ed. with Roberto Vecchi and Vincenzo Russo) (Diabasis, 2008); África no Feminino: as mulheres portuguesas e a Guerra Colonial (Afrontamento, 2007); Uma História de Regressos: Império, Guerra Colonial e Pós-Colonialismo (Afrontamento, 2004); e Fantasmas e Fantasias Imperiais no Imaginário Português Contemporâneo (ed. with Ana Paula Ferreira) (Campo das Letras, 2003). More

Research Team:

António Sousa Ribeiro
Centre for Social Studies and Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra

António Sousa Ribeiro is a full professor for German Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. He is the co-coordinator of the doctoral program on "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship", offered by CES and the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra.  He is researcher at CES, where he was the president of the Editorial Board of its journal, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, until 2009, and has recently ended his appointment as the president of the Scientific Board of CES, among several other functions.
Among others, his current research interests include postcolonial studies, studies on violence, culture and identities. He coordinated the FCT-funded research project “The Representation of Violence and the Violence of Representation", concluded in September 2009.
He edited Translocal Modernisms. International Perspectives (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008) and Entre Ser e Estar: Raízes, Percursos e Discursos da Identidade (Porto: Afrontamento, 2002). From among his numerous essays, we highlight "Memória, identidade e representação: Os limites da teoria e a construção do testemunho", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 88 (2010); "Mitos e realidades: a Mitteleuropa e os seus avatares", in Manuela Tavares Ribeiro (org.), Europa em Mutação: Cidadania, Identidades, Diversidade Cultural (Quarteto, 2003); and "As Humanidades como Utopia", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 63 (2002). More

José Manuel Pureza
Centre for Social Studies and School of Economics, University of Coimbra

José Manuel Pureza is Professor at the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. He is co-director of the PhD Programme on "International Politics and Conflict Resolution", offered by CES and the School of Economics. Currently, he coordinates three research projects within the work of the Peace Studies Research Group: "Portuguese cooperation and strengthening human security in institutionally fragile states (Guinea Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe)" (funded by IPAD), "Trajectories of outbreaks of violence and containment: a comparative study between Bissau and Praia" (funded by FCT) and "Violence and small arms: the Portuguese case" (funded by FCT).
Amongst other publications, we highlight O património comum da humanidade: Rumo a um direito internacional da solidariedade? (Afrontamento, 1998), also in Spanish (Madrid, Trotta, 2003); Para uma Cultura da Paz (Quarteto, 2001); A teia global: movimentos sociais e instituições (with A.C. Ferreira, Afrontamento, 2002); and Fogo sobre os media! Informação, conhecimento e crítica em conflitos armados (Quarteto, 2003) (with Francisco Ferrándiz). More

Luísa Sales
Army Hospital of Coimbra and Centre for Social Studies

Luísa Sales is Psychiatrist (MD), Consultant in Psychiatry, Head of Department of the Psychiatry Service of the Military Hospital of Coimbra and associate researcher of CES, where she co-coordinates the Centre for the Study of Trauma with José Manuel Mendes. She is Didactic Therapist at the Portuguese Society of Psychodrama and her scientific interests focus on the fields of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric and Psychosocial Interventions in Crisis and psychopathologic syndromes in war veterans.
She directs therapeutic groups of Psychodrama with post traumatic stress disorder victims and her major interests focus on the field of Psychiatry of Catastrophe and Crisis Intervention. She also participates in European research projects that aim to develop psychosocial and therapeutic networks for crisis intervention.
She developed and published research works about post traumatic stress disorder, related with medical reparation, therapeutic interventions and also trauma transmission. She organized and published the book Psiquiatria de Catástrofe e Intervenção na Crise (Almedina, 2007). More

Roberto Vecchi
University of Bologna, Italy and Centre for Social Studies

Roberto Vecchi is Associated Professor of Brazilian and Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna and also professor and director of the PhD Programmes on Iberistic Studies at Universities in Bologna, Milan and Bergamo. He is Associate Researcher at CES, University of Coimbra and an invited researcher of the Brasilian CNPq. Since 2007, he holds the Eduardo Lourenço Chair from the Instituto Camões and the University of Bologna, with Margarida Calafate Ribeiro. His current research interests include Brazilian and Portuguese Studies, particularly the areas concerning to history, literature, trauma, memory and violence criticism.
His recent publications include the books Excepção Atlântica: Pensar a Literatura da Guerra Colonial (Afrontamento, 2010), Experiência e Representação: Dois Paradigmas para um Cânone Literário da Guerra Colonial (Lisboa, 2001), and Naufrágio à Portuguesa (Coimbra, 2001); and the essays “The Author’s Posthumous Condition: War Trauma and Portugal’s Colonial War", in Cristina Demaria and Colin Wright (eds.), Post-Conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation (London: Zoilus Press/ CTCS Publications, 2006); "Império português e biopolítica: uma modernidade precoce?", in Paulo de Medeiros (ed.) Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures (Portuguese Studies Center Universiteit Utrecht, 2007). More

Rui Mota Cardoso
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and Centre for Social Studies

Rui Mota Cardoso is Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, where he is responsible for the subject Medical Psychology. His research interests focus on Psychosomatics and Memory. He is Senior Researcher of IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), and Associate Researcher at CES.  He founded the Portuguese Society of Psychosomatics and the Institute for Prevention of Stress and Occupational Health, and is a founding member of the Centre of Cognitive Science of the University of Porto.
From among his publications, we highlight O Stress nos Professores Portugueses. Estudo IPSSO (Porto Editora, 2002), and “Crença e Memória”, in Gil F, Livet P, Pina Cabral J, O Processo da Crença (Gradiva, 2004). More

Junior Researchers:

Aida Dias
Centre for Social Studies

Aida Dias is a PhD student in Psychology, with the project "Childhood Trauma and Psychopathology in Adults: a study of Portuguese war veterans offspring and the application of the Delphi method", at the University of Utrecht (grant of the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology). She graduated in clinical psychology in the field of cognitive-behavioural interventions, at the University of Coimbra.
She worked with war veterans and their families in the Army Hospital of Coimbra between 2003 and 2007. She has been working and researching in the field of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in war veterans, her current research interest.
She has published some articles on the subject: “PTSD e Peritagem Médico-legal” (with Luísa Sales and Fernando Guardado Pereira) and “A Experiência do Acompanhamento Psicológico dos Meninos do Projecto Africra-2003” (with Luísa Sales) in Stresse Pós-traumático – Modelos, Abordagens e Práticas (Editorial Diferença – ADFA, 2006); and "PTSD e Peritagem Médico-legal", Revista Portuguesa de Saúde Militar (with Luísa Sales and Fernando Guardado Pereira, 2004).

Hélia Santos
Centre for Social Studies

Hélia Santos has an MA degree in Sociology, field of specialization “Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship”, from the Centre for Social Studies and School of Economics, University of Coimbra. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German), from the same university.
She is a junior researcher at CES since 2003. Her current research interests focus on the Colonial Wars and collective memory. Another field of research is education and postcolonial identities, within her work for her MA dissertation and within the project "'Race and Africa in Portugal: a study on history textbooks" (coordinated by Marta Araújo; funded by FCT).
Within the theme of this project, we highlight the publication of "O Esplendor de Portugal, de António Lobo Antunes: um romance pós-colonial? Identidade ‘Raça’, (Des)Território", in Cabo dos Trabalhos, the e-Journal of the PhD Programmes of CES (2006). More

Ivone Castro Vale
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and Centre for Social Studies

Ivone Castro Vale graduated in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She specialised and holds an MA degree in psychiatry and mental health at the same university, where she works as assistant professor since 2004. She is junior researcher of the project “Children of the Colonial Wars: postmemory and representations”, and her current research interests include neurobiological heritage of trauma and therapeutic relations.
From her work, we highlight "Knowing the amygdala: its contribution to psychiatric disorders". Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática, 4, 173-186 (with de Sousa, L., Tavares, M.A. & Coelho, R., 2002); "Neonatal exposure to cocaine: altered dopamine levels in the amygdala and behavioral outcomes in the devoloping rat". Ann N Y Acad Sci, 965, 515-521 (with Summavielle, T., Magalhães, A., de Sousa, L. & Tavares, M.A., 2002); and "A Díada Amígdala-Cocaína como Paradigma Neurobiológico num Modelo de Neurotoxicologia Experimental" (MA dissertation, 2002 - unpublished).

Luciana Silva
Centre for Social Studies
Luciana Silva graduated in Portuguese Studies from the University of Coimbra. Presently, she is taking a second degree in Spanish Studies from the same faculty, and she is an MA student in Literary and Cultural Studies, at the same university.  Between June and September 2009, she was junior researcher of the project "Poetry of the Colonial Wars"; since October 2009, she is working in the project “Children of Colonial War: post-memory and representations”. More