Third annual scientific progress report. Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weighs on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?

Abstract

[Excerpt] Executive summary: The team has collected, and analysed data, produced several scientific publications, and developed scientific and cultural activities within the project's scope. However, it is worth noting that during the third year of the project, the COVID-19 pandemic directly impacted the proposed activities, mainly on the implementation of focus groups. The studies produced five articles published in journals, five book chapters, one book and the organisation of two editions of scientific journals, one issue of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais (Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies) and another in the Vista (Vista Journal), in field of visual culture and digital arts. Both journals have a bilingual edition - Portuguese and English - indexed Erih Plus and open access. Since the beginning of the project, 29 articles and three books have been published. Which already exceeds the initially planned outputs in terms of publications. Notably, the project has four articles published in journals indexed in Scopus and 10 in journals indexed in ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences). There were two Summer Schools within the framework of the "Summer with Science" competition launched by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and the General Directorate of Higher Education (DGES), between July and October 2020. The summer school "Áfricas: mobilidade, violência, memória e criatividade" (Africas: mobility, violence, memory and creativity) led to the publication of a book coordinated by the researcher João Sarmento, collaborating with several project researchers. The project organised the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Interculturalities and historical awareness: current challenges for citizenship, gathered hundreds of people online, on March 12. The team promoted the I Encontro Virtual – Seis Museus Africanos de Etnologia e Antropologia, bringing together museums from five Portuguese-speaking African countries, namely Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, in June. In May, the II Conferência Internacional sobre Cultura & Sociedade – Que Literacia(s) para uma Justiça Económica e Social? was organised in collaboration with Zambezi University (online). [...]