We’re delighted to announce that Professor Teresa Pinheiro (TU Chemnitz) will give a keynote presentation on the topic “Decolonising the Spirit(s) of April: Changing Memories of the Carnation Revolution” at the ACIS Conference, 4-6 September 2024, Technological University Dublin.
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. 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 at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. She is currently President of the Ettersberg Foundation’s Council, President of the German Association of Catalan Studies and Vice-president of the German Cultural Studies Society. 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. Her recent publications include: Cultura en transició. Estudis culturals a la catalanística (2022, ed., Düren: Shaker Verlag); “Memórias revolucionárias: políticas e práticas (trans)nacionais de memória na transição democrática portuguesa”, (2022, ed., Special Issue with Iberoamericana. América Latina – España – Portugal, 79); “Jewish (In)Visibility in Iberia: A View from the Margins”, (2020, ed. with Silvina Schammah Gesser, Special Issue of Contemporary Jewry, 40:4); and Iberian Studies: Reflections Across Borders and Disciplines (2019. ed. with Núria Codina Solà, Berlin: Peter Lang).
