Conference with Bruno Sena Martins + Closing of the programme

Bruno Sena Martins will make a presentation entitled “A autorrepresentação das vidas negras: entre legados imperiais e resistências ancestrais”. A critical, historical and political analysis of the Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa will be proposed in this presentation, inserting it into the national and international context, and discussing its vestiges in the collective memory and in the current urban space.

The conference will be followed by the closing moment of the programme Um Elefante no Palácio de Cristal, part of ping!, and also the presentation of one of the resulting projects, – “ATLAS”, designed by the Interstruct Collective.

With a degree in Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology, Bruno Sena Martins is a researcher at CES — Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he coordinates the PhD program Human Rights in Contemporary Societies and teaches in the PhD program Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship. He was vice-president of the CES scientific council, between 2017 and 2019, and co-coordinator of the Democracy, Citizenship and Law center of the same institution, between 2013 and 2016. He has researched and published on topics such as body, disability, human rights, racism and colonialism and is a co-author of several books, among which Não Posso Ser Quem Somos? (2020) and Quem Precisa dos Direitos Humanos? (2019).

Photography: Dinis Santos