Deliverables from Conciliare

We are proud to share the project’s deliverable: D.1.1 Technical Report on Narratives and Images (WP1)Published: 31 December 2024 (Month 10)Authors: Santavuori, A., Sakki, I., Di Carlo, G., Leone, G., Mastropietro, A., Prometti, C., Meuer, F., Forte T., Valentim, J. P. The report examines how colonialism is narrated and represented in school textbooks across three […]
Conciliare at the 17th International Conference on Social Representations (CIRS)

Brest, France | July 7–12, 2025 Several members of Conciliare had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the 17th International Conference on Social Representations (CIRS), hosted by the Laboratory of Psychology: Cognition, Behaviour, Communication (LP3C) at the University of Western Brittany, with the support of the Global Serge Moscovici Network (REMOSCO). This year’s theme was: […]
Conciliare at the 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)

Several members of the Conciliare project participated in the 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), held from July 3 to 6, 2025, at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic. This year’s theme was Social Identity, Political Conflict, and the Future of Democracy. Members of Conciliare took part […]
Representations of the Colonial Past: Dissemination, Change and Psychosocial Impact

Last week, the Conciliare project took part in the National Symposium on Psychological Research, held at the University of Porto. Researchers Joaquim Pires Valentim and Rosa Cabecinhas coordinated the thematic session “Representations of the Colonial Past: Dissemination, Change and Psychosocial Impact”. The session explored different forms of social representation of Portugal’s colonial past in schoolbooks, […]
Newsletters Vol.1-3
CONCILIARE Kick-off Meeting

Kick-off Meeting: the event laid the foundation for the project, providing an opportunity to formally introduce all participating researchers and the eleven institutions that make up the consortium. Over the course of two intensive workdays, papers and talks were shared on topics related to emotions, history, and colonial memory. The event also included the presence […]
Civil action: Inauguration of the ‘Monument des pionniers’ in the Cinquantenaire Park “The Grand Opening”

Civil action: Inauguration of the ‘Monument des pionniers’ in the Cinquantenaire Park “The Grand Opening”. In line with the Brussels-Capital Region’s action plan “Towards the Decolonisation of Public Space”, urban Brussels commissioned the architectural collective Traumnovelle to create an installation titled “The Grand Opening” in front of the Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in Congo […]
Workshop WP2 -WP3: Working session at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Yasmina Zian (ULB), Aline Bosuma & François Makanga (Afropean Project), and Alana Castro de Azevedo (CEGESOMA). Tervuren (Belgium), June, 2024
Workshop WP2 -WP3: Public Space team and Museum team visiting the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium)

Two visits. Tervuren (Belgium) June, 2024
Seminar: Amalia Gilodi, “Utrecht University and Colonial Legacies: Looking at Past, Present, and Future”
Presentation by on the Horizon Europe project CONCILIARE on changing colonial heritage in Europe. Utrecht (Netherlands), 26 June, 2024