Marisa Ramos Gonçalves

Contacts

marisagoncalves@ces.uc.pt

Biography

Marisa Ramos Gonçalves is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, a fellow (CEEC-IND) of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and part of the research group 'Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues'. She is currently working in a research project on the history of solidarity relations between Mozambique and Timor-Leste funded by FCT(CEECIND/00620/2018), which started during her Marie Sklodowska-Curie/ Widening fellowship research project EDULIBERA| "Education as an instrument for liberation in Mozambique and Timor-Leste - histories of solidarity and contemporary reflections" [H2020- MSCA-WF GA no. 867413]. She is a member of the International Advisory Council for the National Chega! Centre (CNC), an Institute of Memory under the oversight of the Cabinet of the Prime-Minister of Timor-Leste. She received her doctorate from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong in the area of history and human rights. From 2014 to 2015 Marisa was a guest lecturer and subject coordinator in the course of "International Development Studies", at the Australian Catholic University, in Sydney. She also was a tutor in Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wollongong (2011-2015). Between 2007 and 2012, she worked in Timor-Leste as a lecturer and visiting researcher at the National University of Timor Lorosa'e (UNTL) and as a visiting researcher to the Archives of the Post-Commission of Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) Technical Secretariat. Marisa worked on several research projects in Portugal: "Study about the Justice System in Timor-Leste - Community Justices"; "Timor-Leste's Democratic transition"; "Migrant Women in Portugal: Occupational trajectories and integration in the labour market". Her research interests are of a pluridisciplinary nature, interweaving history, anthropology and sociology of development. Marisa pursues research themes at the intersection between history and memory, colonial violence and postcolonial studies, education, local knowledge systems and movements for social justice and rights in the global south. She published on: memory, history and colonial violence; generations in Timor-Leste; human rights, justice and reconciliation; street art; immigrant women in Portugal.

ORCID

Agenda

January 15, 2025, 14h30-16h00

MEETING IV | KITCHEN CONVERSATIONS II | Coffee with Watermelon: conversation about international solidarity and academic responsibility for defending the rights of the people of Palestine

February 19, 2025, 14h30-16h00

MEETING V | KITCHEN CONVERSATIONS II | Coffee around the city: conversation about projects that connect CES to institutions and spaces in Coimbra

March 19, 2025, 14h30-16h00

MEETING V | KITCHEN CONVERSATIONS II | Coffee in solidarity: conversation-presentation of research and comments circle

Projetos

EDU-AM

Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s)

Latest Publications

Book

Hearman, Vannessa; Loney, Hannah; Ramos Gonçalves, Marisa; Leach, Michael (orgs.) (2023), The Santa Cruz Massacre, 1991: Thirty Years On. Proceedings of an International Research Symposium. Swinburne, Australia: Swinburne University Press

Article in Scientific journal

Gonçalves, Marisa Ramos (2022), "A ilha-prisão de Ataúro durante a ocupação indonésia de Timor-Leste: histórias de encarceramento, resistência e legados contemporâneos", e-cadernos CES, 37

Book Chapter

Ramos Gonçalves, Marisa (2021), Contested histories and solidarities from the South: the East Timorese diaspora in Mozambique (1975-1999), in Vannessa Hearman, Marisa Ramos Gonçalves and David Webster (org.), TLSA PT 2020 - Volume V: Remembering the past, building the future: New ways of seeing Timor-Leste. Coimbra | Lisboa | Díli | Melbourne: Timor-Leste Studies Association - Portugal