Join us for a talk by Patrícia Martinho Ferreira from Brown University, “Orphans of the Empire: Decolonization and Africa–Portugal Ruptures, Displacement, and the Identity of the ‘Retornados,’” on Thursday, February 19, 3:30–5:00 pm, in Girvetz 2320. This event is organized by the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, the Migration Initiative, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research.
About the Speaker
Patrícia Martinho Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Portuguese and of Lusophone African Literature and Film at Brown University. Her research attends to issues of historical and political transitions, cultural identity, collective memory, trauma, race, migration, diaspora, urban spaces, social and environmental justice, as well as the interconnections between literature, visual arts and sound. She is the author of Orphans of the Empire: Colonial Legacies in Contemporary Portuguese Literature (ICS/University of Lisbon, 2021). Her current book project explores literary and filmic analyses under the theoretical framework of sound studies. She is a research member at the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto, where she co-leads the digital encyclopedia Diásporas em Português. She is the editor of the journal Portuguese Cultural Studies and the book review co-editor for Pessoa Plural.
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