BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:What do we inherit from empire? And what survives when colonial histories are transmitted across generations, remain inscribed in places, and are reworked through relationships? This talk brings into dialogue tw o bodies of literary and cultural inquiry that illuminate different dimens ions of colonial afterlives. The first concerns contemporary Portuguese li terature by Afro-descendant women, where memory, postmemory, historical er asure, and reparative practices reveal how colonial legacies are transmitt ed across generations. What is inherited extends beyond remembered events: silences, affects, attachments, displacements, and contested forms of bel onging are reinterpreted by those who inherit histories they did not direc tly experience. This work led me to ask how colonial histories become inhe ritance—and to consider the places in which histories of survival, resis tance, and unequal relations unfolded. Memory is carried not only by peopl e and texts, but also by places. Tarrafal and the plantation spaces of Sã o Tomé and Príncipe offer distinct sites through which material traces, absences, silences, and ghosts make imperial afterlives perceptible in the present. Bringing these perspectives together, I ask: what survives betwe en people? Under what conditions might inherited histories, shared vulnera bility, care, and collective survival become forms of solidarity? The ques tion, then, is not only what we inherit, but what futures we can build tog ether. I approach solidarity not as a legacy of empire, but as an open que stion about the relations that survive or emerge from its afterlives. Biog raphical Blurb Margarida Rendeiro is a tenured researcher at the Centre fo r the Humanities (CHAM), NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, where she coordinates the Rese arch Group on Transcultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King’s College London. Her research fo cuses on Afro-Luso-Brazilian literary and cultural production, cultural re sistance, women’s writing, and memory. She is co-editor of Writing as Cu ltural Resistance (V&R/Brill, 2026) and Challenging Memories and Rebuildin g Identities (Routledge, 2019). She was Principal Investigator of the FCT- funded project Women’s Literature: Memories, Peripheries, and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic and currently contributes to internat ional research projects on women in literature and the visual arts and on contemporary Portuguese-language historical fiction. During the Fall 2026 semester, she is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Portugu ese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. Free and Open to the Public Visitor Parking: 14\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/11-5-2 6-center-of-portuguese-studies-speaker-professor-margarida-rendeiro.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

What do we inherit from empire? And what survives when colonial histories are transmitted across generati ons\, remain inscribed in places\, and are reworked through relationships?

This talk brings into dialogue two bodies of literary and cultura l inquiry that illuminate different dimensions of colonial afterlives. The first concerns contemporary Portuguese literature by Afro-descendant wome n\, where memory\, postmemory\, historical erasure\, and reparative practi ces reveal how colonial legacies are transmitted across generations. What is inherited extends beyond remembered events: silences\, affects\, attach ments\, displacements\, and contested forms of belonging are reinterpreted by those who inherit histories they did not directly experience. This wor k led me to ask how colonial histories become inheritance—and to conside r the places in which histories of survival\, resistance\, and unequal rel ations unfolded. Memory is carried not only by people and texts\, but also by places.

Tarrafal and the plantation spaces of São Tomé and P ríncipe offer distinct sites through which material traces\, absences\, s ilences\, and ghosts make imperial afterlives perceptible in the present. Bringing these perspectives together\, I ask: what survives between people ? Under what conditions might inherited histories\, shared vulnerability\, care\, and collective survival become forms of solidarity? The question\, then\, is not only what we inherit\, but what futures we can build togeth er. I approach solidarity not as a legacy of empire\, but as an open quest ion about the relations that survive or emerge from its afterlives.

\n< p>Biographical Blurb

Margarida Rendeiro is a tenured researcher at the Centre for the Humanities (CHAM)\, NOVA FCSH\, Lisbon\, where she coo rdinates the Research Group on Transcultural\, Literary\, and Postcolonial Studies. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies from King’s College Lond on. Her research focuses on Afro-Luso-Brazilian literary and cultural prod uction\, cultural resistance\, women’s writing\, and memory. She is co-e ditor of Writing as Cultural Resistance (V&R/Brill\, 2026) and Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities (Routledge\, 2019). She was Principal Investigator of the FCT-funded project Women’s Literature: Memories\, Pe ripheries\, and Resistance in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic and current ly contributes to international research projects on women in literature a nd the visual arts and on contemporary Portuguese-language historical fict ion. During the Fall 2026 semester\, she is Visiting Assistant Professor i n the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University.< /p>\n

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Even t page: https://www.umassd .edu/events/cms/11-5-26-center-of-portuguese-studies-speaker-professor-mar garida-rendeiro.php

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