Zélia Pereira
Political History – Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact: z.pereira@fct.unl.pt
Biography
Zélia Pereira has a PhD in Information and Documentation Sciences from the University of Évora. She has a degree in History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and a master’s degree in Contemporary Social History from Iscte-IUL, as well as a postgraduate qualification in Information and Documentation Sciences. She has collaborated and participated in research projects in the field of history, most recently at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, between 2018 and 2022, on the transnational aspects of East Timor’s self-determination. She was an archivist at the Mário Soares and Maria Barroso Foundation and is currently a senior technician at NOVA School of Science and Technology‘s Library, Archive and Culture Office.
Her research in the field of history centres on contemporary colonial and post-colonial issues, with a special focus on the transnational contexts of Timor Leste’s self-determination process, and she was one of the recipients of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Prize from the Portuguese Diplomats’ Trade Union Association. She is particularly interested in the political contours of the East Timorese question and the international solidarity movement. In the field of information science, she has addressed various aspects of the production and use of archival information, particularly from personal archives.
Research fields
- Contemporary history
- Diplomatic relations
- Colonialism and postcolonialism
- Archival science
Selected publications
- Pereira, Zélia & Rui Graça Feijó. Timor-Leste: Do Colonialismo Tardio à Independência. Porto / Lisbon: Edições Afrontamento / Instituto Diplomático, 2023. [link]
- Pereira, Zélia & Rui Graça Feijó (Eds.). Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence. Transnational Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. [link]
- Pereira, Zélia. “Reality Overlapping Principles? Portugal and the Self-Determination of Timor-Leste (1976–91).” Indonesia 115 (2023): 11-30. [link] 🔓
- Pereira, Zélia, “Personal archives and the shaping of collective memory in Portugal: results of a national census,” in Recovered voices, newfound questions: family archives and historical research, coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, Alice Borges Gago and Maria João da Câmara, 141-162. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019. [link]🔓
Main projects
- Coordinator of the project “DecTiL — Auditing Decolonization in Timor-Leste, 1974-82: the Riscado Report” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2023.10636.25ABR). 2024-2025
- Researcher in the project “ADeTiL — A autodeterminação de Timor-Leste: um estudo de História Transnacional” — Coordinated by Rui Graça Feijó and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/HAR-HIS/30670/2017). 2018-2022 [link]
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outubro, 2024
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Detalhes do Evento
International conference, film exhibition, and artistic meeting on the role of cinema and the media in the processes of African decolonisation. O Nascimento (em Imagens) das Nações Africanas:
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International conference, film exhibition, and artistic meeting on the role of cinema and the media in the processes of African decolonisation.
O Nascimento (em Imagens) das Nações Africanas:
Média e Descolonizações
A NOVA FCSH e a Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa vão acolher a conferência internacional O Nascimento (em Imagens) das Nações Africanas: Média e Descolonizações. Paralelamente, a Cinemateca Portuguesa junta-se ao evento com uma mostra de filmes a partir das representações das independências nos arquivos italianos (Independências nos Arquivos Italianos) e a Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística acolhe o encontro artístico Artivismo e Descolonizações. O encontro artístico decorre no dia 17 de Outubro.
A mostra de filmes destaca obras de referência ligadas às lutas anti-coloniais africanas, cujas exibições diminuíram ao longo do tempo. Entre os filmes apresentados estão Africa Nera, Africa Rossa, de Carlo Lizanni, filmado em Angola pós-independência; I Dannati Della Terra de Valentino Orsini; e Reconstrução, Educação, realizado por Flora Gomes. Outros títulos incluem A Proposito Dell’Angola, de Augusta Conchiglia, e Dieci Giorni Con i Guerriglieri del Mozambico Libero, testemunhando a solidariedade internacional nas lutas de libertação africanas.
>> Programa detalhado e resumos (PDF) <<
Organização de Maria do Carmo Piçarra (ICNOVA / UAL) e Giulia Strippoli (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).
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9 (Quarta-feira) 9:30 am - 11 (Sexta-feira) 4:30 pm
Localização
NOVA FCSH's Almada Negreiros College and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and ICNOVA — Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA
Detalhes do Evento
The three volumes of the work directed by Isabel Baltazar will be presented in Lisbon, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, Manuel Porto,
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The three volumes of the work directed by Isabel Baltazar will be presented in Lisbon, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, by Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, Manuel Porto, and António Nóvoa.
Novos Estudos de Cidadania
A Petrony Editores e a Rede Internacional UNESCO A Cidade que Educa e Transforma convidam para o lançamento da trilogia Novos Estudos de Cidadania, sob direcção de Isabel Baltazar.
A apresentação dos livros estará a cargo de:
– Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, Volume I: Nós e os Outros, os Europeus: Unidos na Diversidade
– Manuel Porto, Volume II: Cidadania – Direito, Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais
– António Nóvoa, Volume III: A Escola como Alicerce – A Dimensão Europeia da Educação
Mais informações sobre os livros: Volume I / Volume II / Volume III
Tempo
(Quinta-feira) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Organizador
Petrony Editores and Rede Internacional UNESCO "A Cidade que Educa e Transforma"
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