Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (PhD, King's College London) is a researcher-coordinator at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and coordinator of the Eduardo Lourenço Chair at the University of Bologna/Camões (with Roberto Vecchi). She is a PhD coordinator and lecturer in the doctoral program “Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship”, Faculty of Economics and Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. In 2015, Ribeiro was awarded the Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, for the project “MEMOIRS - Filhos de Império e Post-Memórias Europeias”. Among her various publications, several that stand out are: Uma História de Regressos: Império, Guerra Colonial e Pós-colonialismo (2004), África no Feminino: as mulheres portuguesas e a Guerra Colonial (2007), Des-Cobrir a Europa - Filhos de Impérios e Pós-memórias Europeias (2022, with Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues), and the co-organization of five books on Portuguese-speaking African literature.

Roberto Vecchi is vice-rector of the University of Bologna and full professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures at the University of Bologna. He coordinates the Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bologna/ Camões (with Margarida Calafate Ribeiro). Furthermore, he is an associate researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and a guest researcher at CNPq, Brazil. Vecchi was president of AIL, the International Association of Lusitanians (2014-2020). His research guidelines encompass the Brazilian and Portuguese spheres, delving above all into the critical aspect of the relationship between history, literature, trauma, memory and violence. Among his publications, the following stand out: Excepção Atlântica. Pensar a Literatura da Guerra Colonial (2010), the organisation of the books Do Colonialismo como Nosso Impensado, by Eduardo Lourenço (2014), the Antologia da Memória Poética da Guerra Colonial (2011) and, with Vincenzo Russo, Literatura Portuguesa - Modos de Ler (2022).

Mónica V. Silva has a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in Educational Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Coimbra. She collaborated on several research projects, among them: "Os Filhos da Guerra Colonial: pós-memória e representações", "Poesia da Guerra Colonial: uma ontologia do 'eu' estilhaçado", "Os Processos de Libertação em Angola e Moçambique: anticolonialismo e ruturas identitárias no feminino" (funded by the FCT), "Portugal e os Pós-Colonialismos: conceitos, contextos, vozes” (funded by the Camões Institute and the Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bologna) and "MEMOIRS – Children of Empires and European Postmemories” (funded by the European Research Council). In 2016, Silva published the article "Luanda Through its Prisons: Luandino Vieira's Papéis da Prisão" (Journal of Lusophone Studies, 1, 1, 73-88).

Nuno Simão Gonçalves holds a master's degree in Architecture and is a doctoral candidate in the Heritage of Portuguese Influence program (PIP) at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He was a researcher in several projects: 2013-2015-"De S. Paulo de Luanda a Luuanda, de Lourenço Marques a Maputo: capitais coloniais em tempos pós-coloniais" (FCT); 2015-2016 - “José Luandino Vieira: Diários do Tarrafal – Acervo Digital” (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); 2016 - "UNESCO's Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development regional survey for Portuguese speaking countries", (UNESCO); 2016-2018 - "Oficinas de Muhipiti: Planeamento Estratégico, Património, Desenvolvimento" (Universities of Lúrio and Coimbra, with support from Camões I.P., Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and UCCLA). He situates his research interests in the history of architecture and urbanism in Portuguese-speaking African cities and their relationships with the themes of colonialism, post-colonialism and racism.

Helena Rebelo has a degree in Communication Design from ARCA-EUAC, University School of Arts of Coimbra. She lived for 6 years in Mozambique, where she was an assistant professor at UCM - Universidade Católica de Moçambique, Faculty of Education and Communication in Nampula, and resident designer in a communication and events office in Maputo. In recent years, she has collaborated in the communication of science and doctoral projects at the University of Coimbra. Of note is the collaboration as designer and communication officer in the project MEMOIRS - Children of Empire and European Post-Memories, (ERC, 2015-2021) and currently, in the project MAPS - European Post-Memories, a Postcolonial Cartography (FCT, 2021-2023) and José Luandino Vieira, Papéis da Prisão - Digital Archive.

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