Conference with Patrícia Ferraz de Matos

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos proposes a critical, historical and political analysis of the Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, inserting it into the national and international context, and discussing its vestiges in the collective memory and in the current urban space. This conference will be moderated by Alexandra Balona.

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an anthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. Since 2019, she is an associate editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and a member of the History of Anthropology Network. She holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology focusing her studies on the history of Portuguese anthropology and colonialism. In 2005, she received the Victor de Sá Contemporary History Prize, awarded by the University of Minho for her research entitled As Côres do Império — Racial Representations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire. She is also the author of A vida e a obra do Professor Mendes Correia (1888–1960): articulações entre antropologia, nacionalismo e colonialismo em Portugal (2011).

Alexandra Balona is licensed in architecture, a researcher, writer and independent curator based in Porto. She is PhD student at the European Graduate School & Lisbon Consortium, with a research on the Political Potentiality of Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ Choreographic Work, supervised by Samuel Weber and Isabel Capeloa Gil. With Sofia Lemos, she co-founded PROSPECTIONS for Art, Education and Knowledge Production, co-curated Metabolic Rifts, and co-edited Metabolic Rifts Reader (2019). She curated Migratory Images – Thinking Lab on Performative Arts in Porto City Theater, is a member of SINAIS DE CENA scientific and editorial board, and publishes regularly on performing arts.

Photography: Renato Cruz Santos