Catarina Laranjeiro

Culture, Identities, and Power
Contact:
claranjeiro@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Catarina Laranjeiro is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA FCSH, where she develops research on vernacular cinema in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau and the respective diasporas in Portugal and France. She holds a PhD in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship from the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, and a Master’s in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She regularly participates in projects and collectives that cross anthropology, photography, and cinema.
Research fields
- Vernacular cinema
- Post-Colonialisms
- Gender studies
- Anthropology of images
Selected publications
- Laranjeiro, Catarina. Dos sonhos e das imagens. A guerra de libertação na Guiné-Bissau. Lisbon: Outro Modo, 2021. [link]
- Laranjeiro, Catarina. “The Cuban Revolution and the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Images, Imaginings, Expectations and Experiences,” The International History Review 42 (2020): 1319-1338. [link]
- Galvão, Inês & Catarina Laranjeiro, “Gender Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Participation On and Off the Liberation Record,” in Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History, edited by Nuno Domingos, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and Ricardo Roque, 85-122. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. [link]
Main projects
- Individual project “African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2020.00202.CEECIND). 2021-2027
- Researcher in the project “Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to Politics of Memory” — Coordinated by Rui Lopes (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014). 2017-2019 [link]
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maio, 2023
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News
José Pedro Castanheira wins the Maria Ondina Braga Grand Prize for Travel Literature
May 26, 2023
The book Volta aos Açores em Quinze Dias received a prize from the Portuguese Writers Association.
Sakiru Adebayo wins Amílcar Cabral Prize
May 26, 2023
The Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022 was awarded to the scholar of African literature Sakiru Adebayo.
The IHC at Festival Imaterial
May 22, 2023
The opening weekend of the Festival Imaterial included two events in collaboration with the IHC and the IN2PAST Associated Lab.
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