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MEMOIRS

Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Responsável
Responsável | Principal Investigator Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Acrónimo | Acronym Memoirs
Nome | Name

Os Filhos dos Impérios e Pós-Memórias Europeias

Children of empires and european postmemories

Tipo de ERC | ERC Type Consolidator Grant 648624
Ano | Year 2015
Valor atribuído | Value 2,00 M€
Unidade I&D | Research Unit CES

Resumo | Summary

Memoirs
MEMOIRS focuses on the intergenerational memories of the children and grandchildren of those involved in the decolonization processes of colonies held by France, Portugal and Belgium. Through interviews of this second and third generation, and a comparative analysis of the cultures influenced by the postmemory of the colonial wars and the end of empire, Europe's postcolonial heritage will be reinterrogated, and a new understanding of the contemporary continent will be developed. At the heart of the project is a desire to comprehend the effects of Europe's postimperial diversity through postmemories of colonial praxis. The project is interdisciplinary, bringing together specialists from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology and migration studies. MEMOIRS aims to maximize the impact of its findings through broad web, open-access publications and an itinerant artistic exhibit that captures multiple aspects of the representations of postmemory, and fosters a meaningful North-South dialogue.
Inicio | Start date 2015-11-01
Fim | End date 2020-10-31
Website https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/