Ana M. Troncoso S. studied Journalism in Valdivia (Chile) and Visual Anthropology in Göttingen (Germany). There she also completed her PhD with a filmic project on processes of becoming a citizen of German Jews in Chile. Since 2017, she has been a research assistant at the Institute for European Studies and Historical Sciences at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research focuses on theories of racism and postcoloniality as well as gender studies, intersectionality, entangled history and film.

Bárbara Góis is an immigrant from Bahia, born in São Jorge dos Ilhéus, Brazil, and now living in Lisbon. She arrived in Sines, Portugal, in 2002 at the age of 9 to be reunited with her father who had come to work in the city’s port. She is 30 years old and started her political activity claiming to be Marxist, in the Bloco de Esquerda of Leiria. In the student movement she stood in 3 lists for the general management of the Associação Aacadémica de Coimbra. Within the university she saw her status to be a racialized immigrant and from then she made a point of focusing her activity on the fight against racism and on the black feminism: for a Portugal and a world free of all oppression and exploitation.

Beatriz Gomes Dias (Dakar, 1971) is a Portuguese black woman, antiracist activist, politician, and biology teacher in secondary education. In 2021 she was elected a member of Lisbon City Council, and between 2019-2022 was a member of the Portuguese Parliament for the Left Bloc party. She is one the co-founders of Djass – Association of Afro-descendants, a Lisbon-based, non-profit organization founded in 2016 with the aim of combating racism and defending the rights of people of African descent in Portugal. In 2017, representing Djass, she proposed that the Participatory Budget of Lisbon should fund the creation of a Memorial to Enslaved People, which will be built in the historic center of the city. The purpose is to challenge the prevailing historical narrative in Portugal, which even today relies on the almost unanimous glorification of what are known as the ‘Discoveries’, regarded as a universalist and even humanistic epic. Her main areas of interest are the decolonization of knowledge and culture, and the construction of a counter-narrative on history and memory.

Christin Schuchardt, born in 1990 in Erfurt/Germany, studied Visual Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Göttingen. During her studies, she produced her first short film „Iduna-Komplex“ (2015), and the non-linear storytelling documentary „Bilder machen“ (2017). For the last two and a half years, she focused on the production of her first documentary „Barcelona – A Welcoming City“ (2021), an independent and participatory ethnographic film about the ongoing resistance of five BIPOC collectives and migrant self-organizations in the face of institutional racism. She currently lives in Barcelona, works as a freelance translator, and devotes every free time to filmmaking and sports climbing.

Doris Wieser is Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, where she is responsible for the area of African Literatures in Portuguese Language. She holds a PhD in Ibero-Romance Literature from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a thesis on the Latin-American crime novel, published in 2012. With her research project on political and literary constructions of national identities in Angola, Mozambique and Portugal, she was awarded the FCT Researcher competition (Investigador FCT). She worked at the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon from 2017 to 2019. She was a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Centre for African, Asian and Latin American Studies (CEsA / ISEG) at the University of Lisbon from 2014 to 2016. From 2008 to 2016 she was a research and teaching associate at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Göttingen. She concluded her Magister in Hispanic, Lusophone and German Philology at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests centre on Lusophone African literatures, Latin-American literatures, crime novel, gender studies, memory studies, and the construction of identities.

Dzifa Peters is a German-Ghanaian visual artist and researcher.
As a PhD candidate in Culture Studies, she is currently working on her doctorate in the field of AfroDiasporic identities and their visual representations at The Lisbon Consortium and the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. She is also a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, as well as working internationally as a freelance artist on curatorial projects. Her research project is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and analyses colonial, postcolonial, diasporic, and contemporary identities through the format of photography to investigate phenomena of identity constructions that indicate alternations of coexisting cultural identities and perspectives. In her artistic practice, Dzifa Peters examines forms of cultural identity and their representations. She works with the media of photography and photomontage, with sound and video, text, installation, and collaboration. As an artist, she has participated in several exhibitions internationally and has received various artistic grants amongst them DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Ministry for Families, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Germany.

Elsa Peralta, PhD in Anthropology, is a senior researcher at the CEComp-FLUL and an Associate Researcher at ICS-UL. Her work draws on intersecting perspectives from anthropology, memory studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies and focuses on postcolonial cultures, memories and identities. At the moment, she coordinates the CEComp’ Research Group CITCOM and the Research Line Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. She is also the PI of the FCT funded project, Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering.

Felipe Castro is PhD candidate at the Institut of Romance Studies of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and a DAAD scholarship holder from Colombia. His research project is entitled: „Africa in America: history and ethnography in Latin American literature (1920-1960)“. His contribution on the social outburst is related to his academic activity. The research topic in his thesis is the relationship between literature and politics, society and history, which have taken place throughout Latin America. The theme of his contribution raises the need for the recognition of the aesthetic dimension that shapes political interventions in the public sphere, in this case, in urban space.

Flávio Almada „Lbc“ was born in São Domingos, Santiago, Cape Verde. He is above all a person, son, brother, companion/partner, father, friend. He has a degree in Translation and Creative Writing (ECATI – ULHT) and a Master’s in International Studies (ISCTE). He is a Hip Hop artist/artivist, anti-racist activist and General Coordinator of the Cultural Association Moinho da Juventude, where he works as a Family Education Agent.

Gabriela Miranda is Master’s student in Latin American Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, member of the organization Iberoamerica e.V. Jena, and scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung since 2021.

Ina-Sophie Deckert, studies English Language Studies, Spanish Language Studies and Educational Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena to become a high school teacher, lived and studied in the USA and Spain, worked multiple years for the International Center in Jena and the International Office of the FSU. Her interest in postcolonial research and decolonial praxis is based on the wish to develop a multi-perspective curriculum for her future students.

Joe David Akkaya Green is currently researching the changes made to Lisbon during the Portuguese transition to democracy. Naturally, looking at colonial and decolonial aspects will form an important part of such a study.

Johanna Preißler, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history and a bachelor’s degree in ethnography and cultural history from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, also studied and worked in Georgia for several years, is currently a master’s student in education at Chemnitz University of Technology, works as a translator and is the director of the Serpentine Museum in Zöblitz. She is interested in interdisciplinary research in the field of public history.

Jonas Prinzleve holds a degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Amsterdam University College (2014) and an MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017), and is currently a PhD candidate in the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL). He is developing the research project A decolonial turn in public memory? Hamburg and Lisbon compared as a doctoral scholarship holder of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He is a member of the Centre for Comparative Studies at FLUL (CEComp), where he is part of the project Constellations of Memory: A Multidirectional Study of Migration and Postcolonial Memory, funded by FCT, as well as the research network COST Action, TRACTS, and the CEComp-Digital Humanities Commission. He is a member of the international Memory Studies Association and the Hamburg Ministry of Media and Culture’s commission for the elaboration of a city-wide decolonial program. He is also a co-author of the digital project ReMapping Memories Lisboa – Hamburg at the Goethe Institute of Lisbon and a member of the advisory board.

Jordy Pacheco is PhD candidate at the Institute of Romance Studies of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung scholarship holder from Ecuador. His research project is entitled: „Ecocritical study on aesthetic activism in Ecuador´s contemporary indigenous literature“. He is also former vice-president of the migrant organization Iberoamerica e.V. in Jena and strongly believes that thinking about literature, and art in general, as a critical response to social issues represents an important and necessary contribution towards fairer societies.

Juan Felipe Castro Maldonado: My contribution on the social outburst is related to my academic activity, because my main research topic is Latin American literature and, with it, the relationship between literature and politics, society and history, which have taken place throughout Latin America. The theme of my contribution is fundamental because it raises the need for the recognition of the aesthetic dimension that shapes political interventions in the public sphere, in this case, in urban space.

Leoni Papritz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Chemnitz University of Technology, studied in Peru and worked in Estonia for some time. As part of her thesis, she dealt with different perspectives on feminism. The scientific examination of feminism and gender justice combined with learnings from a semester abroad in Lima influenced the academic orientation of her studies.

Leonor Rosas attended the Political Science and International Relations Undergraduate course and the Master in Anthropology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also a member of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly. Her work focuses on the study of the intersections between memory, colonialism and power in the city of Lisbon.

Luca Hirsekorn is a bachelor’s student in European Studies with a focus on cultural science at TU Chemnitz and has an interest in postcolonial research and decolonial praxis due to numerous seminars revolving around this topic and a personal drive to learn more about colonial past and continuities.

Manwinder/Monty Dhanjal (they) is a 2nd generation Central-South Asian diaspora, born and socialized in Germany, non-binary queer, abled bodied, privileged in terms of education (completed medical studies, currently: ethnic studies and cultural studies) and has no children. Manwinder’s work focus is on anti-racism, queer feminism, (post-)colonialism, and intersectionality, and is a freelance trainer and activist in various local, federal, and international organizations.

Márcio Carvalho: Whether through drawing, film, or performance, Carvalho’s work tries to re-think the role that public space can and/or should play today in the design of an inclusive, representative collective remembrance. He is currently working on collaborative projects in countries such as Germany, Nigeria, Portugal, Cyprus, and the UK on questions related to remembrance, public space representational memories, and new grammars for cultural object restitution.

Mathilde Honecker is bachelor’s student in European Studies with a focus on cultural science at TU Chemnitz. During the seminar “Lisbon – a postcolonial archeology” she explored Portugal’s colonial continuities. Additionally, she partook in different seminars about postcolonialism and decolonial activism.

Santiago Perez Isasi is Assistant Lecturer (Professor Auxiliar) at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. He completed a PhD in Spanish literature in 2009 by Universidad de Deusto, with a dissertation on „Spanish National Identity and Literary History (1800-1939)“, and a Master in Education in 2013 by Universidad Abierta de Cataluña. Between 2015 and 2020 he worked as Assistant Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he developed the project „Digital Map of Iberian literary relations (1870-1930)“. His main research areas include Iberian Studies and Iberian literary history; Spanish and Basque literature (with a particular attention to contemporary narrative) and Digital Humanities (specifically in the areas of digital scholarly edition and digital cartography). His teaching experience include courses and seminars on Literature and Geography, Travel Literature, Digital Humanities or Spanish contemporary narrative.

Simone Frangella is an anthropologist, currently working as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has worked on topics related to urban space, corporality, itinerant journeys and the construction of sociabilities, particularly focusing on migratory phenomena and their social and symbolic dynamics and studying diverse contexts such as Brazilian immigrants in London and Lisbon. Recently she has been researching the territorial configurations and margins of neighborhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, to understand the intersection of territorial belonging relations with intergenerational relations, and with different work experiences and conviviality relations. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the FCT Project, “Constellations of memory: a multidirectional study of migration and postcolonial memory”.

Stephan Schurig studied geography, sociology and ethnology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). While his geography studies dealt with rather classical social science topics, his minor subjects  dealt with queer-feminist, post-structuralist and power-critical  perspectives (intersectionality, positionality, power structures,  etc.). His research therefore focuses on social inequalities and spatio-temporal phenomena. He is currently researching his doctoral project on colonial and postcolonial perspectives on the city of  Chemnitz (Germany).

Teresa Pinheiro is Professor of Iberian Studies at the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Paderborn in 2002 (summa cum laude), for which she was awarded the Georg Rudolf Lind Award of the German Association for Lusophone Studies. In 2014 she was a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and in 2015/2016 was a visiting professor at Saarland University. In 2017–2018 she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research grant for experienced researchers that enabled a one-year stay at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, for archival research on the memory of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s public space. She is currently President of the Ettersberg Foundation’s Council, Vice-President of the German Association of Catalan Studies, Liaison Professor for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, board member of the German Cultural Studies Society, a member of the scientific board of Iberoamericana and a review editor for the International Journal of Iberian Studies. Within Iberian Studies, her research fields are representations of collective identity and politics of memory, on which she has extensively published in Catalan, English, French German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Viktoria Hohlfeld is bachelor’s student in European Studies with a focus on cultural science at TU Chemnitz. During the seminar “Lisbon – a postcolonial archeology” she explored Portugal’s colonial continuities. Additionally, she partook in different seminars about postcolonialism and decolonial activism.