CONCILIARE brings together nine scientific and two non-scientific European organizations with experts from different fields of Social Sciences and Humanities, all accustomed to interdisciplinary dialogue and transcultural collaboration.
The institutions that make CONCILIARE possible are:
CONCILIARE is composed of scholars and researchers with extensive backgrounds in fields such as social psychology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, archaeology, architecture, gender studies, communication, and sociology, among others. This diverse team includes senior scholars with extensive backgrounds in fields such as social psychology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, archaeology, architecture, gender studies, communication, and sociology, among others. The core of the consortium is formed of researchers who have already collaborated together in other EU research projects and networks, including COST IS1205 and H2020 ECHOES, both deeply connected to colonial and postcolonial memory.
The project has a strong training capacity, with a solid group of PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers contributing to its development. Additionally, nine distinguished external experts bring invaluable insights to the project: Elísio Macamo (University of Basel / Switzerland and Mozambique), Placide Mumbembele (University of Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of the Congo). Margareta von Oswald (Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage / Germany), Matthew Stanard (Berry College / USA), Sandrine Colard (Rutgers University / USA), Karel van Nieuwenhuyse (Catholic University of Louvain / Belgium), Mario Carretero (Autonomous University of Madrid / Spain), Roshi Naidoo (Museums Association / UK), Peter Bull (University of York, University of Salford / UK).
CONCILIARE coordinator
I hold a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Coimbra. I also hold a European PhD on Social Representations and Communication (University of Helsinki, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, ISCTE Lisbon). My main research fields are on social representations, intergroup relations, cultural diversity, and political psychology. In these areas, I have been Principal Investigator and researcher in Portuguese national and in European funded projects. Currently, I am Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra.
I am a full professor of social and cultural psychology at the Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My research focuses on social representations of history (with a special interest in colonialism), social identities, and intergroup relations. I chaired the Cost Action IS1205 “Social-psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union” (2012-2016). I co-chair WP3 in the CONCILIARE project with Prof. Giovanna Leone (Sapienza University, Rome).
I am a relationship harmonization entrepreneur. I am also an artist and anthropologist. My main professional focuses are: (1) Creation of educational tools dealing with issues linked to body stereotypes, discrimination processes and colonial history. (2) Coaching for professional organisations and associations wishing to make the fight against racism a structural issue and to encourage the creation of a workplace as safe as possible for everyone. (3) Personal development coaching and (4) Family mediation. (5) I also offer sensitivity reading services (race, gender and body shape).
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I currently serve as Pro-Rector of the University of Coimbra for Pedagogic Innovation. I am also the President of the Portuguese Association of Sociology. My most recent projects include: a) ECHOES (CES, Horizon 2020); b) Study on youth in the municipality of Castelo Branco: elaboration of a Municipal Plan for youth (partnership UC/Municipality of C.B.). The main topics of my recent publications are: cities and urban cultures, heritage, colonial heritage, postcolonial city, tourism.
I teach economics and statistics in the Social Economics Department at Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer (Belgium). My expertise lies in quantitative analysis and its practical applications to socio-economic contexts. I have contributed to research on economic modeling and social policy evaluation, with publications emphasizing the intersection of economic theory and social equity. I am dedicated to addressing contemporary socio-economic challenges. I actively participate in WP1-WP5, applying academic insights to solve real-world problems.
I started studying colonial history at the ULB. I then worked on anti-Semitism as part of my PhD at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung at the TU-Berlin. My PhD is published in French and German. I did three postdocs and co-authored three reports for the governments of Belgium and Luxembourg. I’ve worked in interdisciplinary contexts in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Luxembourg. In CONCILIARE I’ll trace the history of controversies in public spaces and ethnographic museums.
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I currently serve as co-coordinator of the Doctoral Program on Discourses: Culture, History and Society (CES/FEUC/FLUC). The main topics of my recent publications are: urban cultures, cultural values, music and cultural markets, cultural policies and institutions.
I am an architect, designer and Full Professor of Design at Sapienza University of Rome. The main themes of my research and teaching activities are: Design, Identity and Territory; Design and Multiculturalism; Design and Natural Capital; Languages and Morphological Experimentations. Themes transversally related to the fields of “Visual Communication Design”, “Exhibit and Spatial Design” and “Product Design”. I am the author of more than 200 writings including articles, monographs, essays, papers, and I am member of national and international editorial committees.
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, part of Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI). In my research, I adopt an interdisciplinary focus and a reflexive and critical approach for the study of various topics including experiences of racism and marginalization, colonial legacies, and conditions of vulnerability and privilege. During my PhD project, I critically examined the concept of vulnerability in the context of migration, and I have worked on the Horizon project MIMY. I was involved in CONCILIARE as a postdoctoral researcher until March 2025.
I am a social performance expert, author of “République démocratique du Cobalt” and documentary producer. I have worked for seven years on the social impacts of mining projects in the DRC, Senegal and Guinea. Presently, I work at the intersection between my expertise in social impacts and sustainability and my passion for storytelling, pluriversalim, peace building, art and culture, all in order to help understand the present and shape the future of our societies.
I am a Psychologist and Ph.D Fellow in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Sapienza University of Rome. My research focuses on collective memories and group-based emotions, specifically examining the case of colonial memories. I explore changes in cultural consumption related to Colonial Cultural Heritage, investigating how individuals interpret, react to, and engage more consciously with transformations in colonial cultural heritage within European societies.
I am a motion designer and Research Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome. My research focuses on motion design teaching approaches and materiality in stop motion animation. On these topics I have authored several publications, including the books Design Moving Images (2023), Anatomy of a Puppet: Design Driven Categories for Animated Puppets’ Skin (2020) and the article “Performance of puppets’ skin material: The metadiegetic narrative level of animated puppets’ material surface” (2019), which received the Norman Mclaren-Evelyn Lambart Award in 2020.
I am a Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar. I hold a Masters degree in Psychology. My research interests are in social, political and motivational psychology. I am currently working on the DISINFO Climate, TYPES and CONCILIARE projects.
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law, and a former Research Fellow (2022–2024) at the UCD Centre for War Studies in Dublin. My research focuses on the construction of Holocaust memory and its intersections with colonial studies. I am currently investigating how museums and public spaces in Italy construct, erase, and reframe colonial memory, and how these processes shape social representations and forms of exclusion in contemporary Italy.
I have worked as an archivist for multiple art institutions, focusing on the archives of artists active in Rome during the first half of the XX century. I co-curated the exhibition Anton Giulio Bragaglia. L’archivio di un visionario and have studied the relationship between various art forms and fascist propaganda. I am currently finishing a degree in History, Anthropology, Religions at Sapienza University of Rome, specialising in Anthropology, and am preparing a thesis examining repatriation efforts of other cultures’ artefacts currently held in Italian museum collections.
I’m a journalist specializing in strategic communication and a research fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS/University of Minho) as part of the CONCILIARE project. I’m now finishing my master’s degree in Communication, Arts and Culture at the University of Minho. I also hold a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Within the CONCILIARE project, I’m responsible for managing and updating its communication channels — such as the website, social media platforms, and newsletters — ensuring that the most effective content strategies are put into practice.
I am a Full Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. I am the Scientific Coordinator at Sapienza of the Horizon Project 2023 CONCILIARE. I am also Italian Member of the European Project MAKINGHISTORIES and the Italian Participant to the CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme “Democratic Memories in Global Perspective”. My research interests involve helping and overhelping relations, intergenerational communication or silence about historical violence, intergroup reconciliation, and multimodal analysis of political communication, main topics of my 164 scientific publications.
I am professor of Communication Sciences at the Social Sciences Institute and researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho. I have been Head of the Cultural Studies Doctoral Program and Head of the Communication Sciences Department. I was Vice-Chair of the COST Action IS 1205 “Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union”. Currently, I am the Principal Investigator of the project “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” and I coordinate the CECS/UMinho team of CONCILIARE. My research interests include social memory, media, migrations, intergroup relations, diversity and social change.
I am Inari Sakki (D.Soc.Sc.), a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki, specializing in societal and political social psychology. My research interests include political discourse, nationalism, European identity, populism, and collective memory, as well as history teaching through discursive, visual, and multimodal methodologies. I have led several projects on representations of history, nationalism, and populism, funded by the Academy of Finland. My work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals across disciplines.
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University. My research interests are in the field of Social and Political Psychology/Sociology. I apply an interdisciplinary perspective to study people’s emotional responses and civic engagement (with a particular focus on youth) in relation to timely societal challenges, such as the climate crisis, the rise of populist radical-right parties and Europe’s contested colonial past.
I hold a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Minho and the University of Aveiro, in the field of Communication and Culture, with a dissertation on migrations, cultural memory, and identity representations in cinema. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho and an integrated researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS). I was a member of the project “Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?” (2018–2022), co-coordinated the project “Migrations, Media and Activisms in Portuguese: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” (2022–2025), and have published on representations of history, migrations and memory. Currently, I am the Director of the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies and of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, a cultural unit of the University of Minho.
I am an integrated researcher of Social and Political Psychology at CINEICC/UCoimbra with a Master’s in Clinical and Health psychology and a Phd on Social Representations and Communication as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow. I am interested in public understandings of history and historical conflicts; ideology and politics; and health, particularly mental health, from a socio-cultural and communication perspectives.
I am a Full Professor of Sociology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. My main scientific interests include: sociological theory, history of sociology and social research, methodology of social research (with a specific focus on data collection strategies and techniques), public opinion analysis, evaluation (with a specific focus on quality of social research outputs). On these issues I have organized and supervised several scientific projects, publishing almost 80 essays (monographs, edited volumes, articles in Italian and international journals, chapters). I am the co-coordinator of the Research Network – Quantitative Methods (RN21) of the European Sociological Association. Since 2021, I am the Director of the BA program in “Communication, technologies and digital cultures” at Sapienza University of Rome.
I am a FCT Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), at Universidade do Minho (Portugal), where I am working on the project Sketch Her Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism Against Gender Violence (https://www.sketchthatstory.com/). I authored the monograph Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge 2021) and co-edited the volume Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave 2023).
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Coimbra. I hold a PhD in Contemporary History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and I have been visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the Université Paris-Sorbonne. I have worked on topics related to historiography and its dialogue with poststructuralism, cultural studies and the ontological turn, and have also published articles on identity, museums, postcolonialism, public history and transmission of memory.
I hold a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Sociology from the Universidade de Brasília (Brazil), and a Ph.D in Sociology from the Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, at Universidade do Minho (Portugal). I am also member of the Sociology of Culture Research Network (European Sociological Association). My research endeavors deal with the relations between culture and the other fields that surround it, emphasizing the affinities and tensions between artists and other actors.
I am a social psychologist specializing in intercultural relations, currently pursuing a PhD on representations of Portuguese colonialism as part of Work Package 1. I hold a Master’s degree in the Psychology of Intercultural Relations from the University Institute of Lisbon. My current focus is on textbook research, which I enjoy integrating with quantitative and experimental methods.
I define my professional civic, artistic and research practice as that of a cultural activist who combines convergence, awareness and advocacy on decolonial issues in European artistic creation, in particular, through decolonial mediation. Since 2017, I have worked as a decolonial guide-lecturer mediating exhibitions addressing de/post/neo-colonial issues for the educational services of institutions such as the Africa Museum, the Bozar, the Kanal Center Pompidou and the CIVA but also for self-managed Afro-descendant collectives carrying out field advocacy work on the colonial memory of Belgian society such as Femïya.
My research focuses on memory and postmemory, the narratives of people of African descent, and commitments to historical reparations and the duty of memory from a postcolonial and comparative perspective. Most recent publications: Sheila Khan and Sandra Sousa (2023), Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida: Weaver of Past and Present Worlds (UMinho Press); Sheila Khan and Sandra Sousa (2025, in preparation), thematic volume, Emerging Perspectives in Afro-Descendant Cultural Production: Memory, Identity and Global Diaspora, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies Journal and the book by Sheila Khan, Sandra Sousa, Orquídea Ribeiro and Rosa Cabecinhas, Migrations of the Soul. A Collective Inquiry into Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s “Poetic of Hospitality” (Peter & Lang, UK, 2025-2026, also in preparation).
I am currently pursuing a PhD in Public History at the University of Florence. My research interests focus on the history of colonialism, memory studies, and history education. I have taught Italian literature at Italian secondary schools. At the moment, I am studying, for my doctoral reserch project, the relationship between public history and historiography.
I hold a Master’s degree in Media, Digital Communication and Journalism from Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis in Political Psychology. I am currently collaborating with Sapienza University through an extracurricular internship in the ASOF Department – Promotion and Image Dissemination. My research interests focus on the visual representations of colonialism, the analysis of school textbooks, denial, intergroup reconciliation, and Italian colonial crimes.
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a member of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). My research broadly deals with group identities, immigrant integration, and intergroup relations in multi-ethnic societies. I have recently completed a ERC project about collective psychological ownership and intergroup relations (OWNERS) and I am the leader of WP4 of the CONCILIARE project.
I have a PhD in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. I am a member of the project CONCLIARE and co-coordinator of WP2: Colonial Heritage and public spaces. I am currently head of the public history unit at the Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society/State Archives (Brussels). I coordinate the www.belgiumwwii.be website. I have published mainly on the history of Brussels, the question of identity and the memory of the two world wars in Belgium. I am particularly interested in the impact of images, the phenomenon of commemorations and the memory of the past in the public arena. I am also a specialist in odonymy and questions related to colonial past in public space.
I am a Senior Scientific Adviser at Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences. My research interests include social and political attitudes and values, political/social participation, intergroup relations and youth. Currently, besides working on COINCILIARE I am also team member on COORDINATE project (Horizon2020) and principal investigator on two national projects: Motivators and barriers for collective action (Croatian science foundation) and Role of dispositions and exposure to information in the context of climate change (NextGenerationEU).
I am an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Sapienza University of Rome. I am the Director of the Master’s Degree in Security, Interforce Coordination, International Cooperation (Sapienza University in agreement with the Interagency Law Enforcement Academy of Advanced Studies) and, from 2007, she is Scientific Director of MediaLab/Radiosapienza. Between 2007 and 2024 she was a member of the Ministerial Media and Minors Committee. I am part of various juries for communication and scientific dissemination and she promotes educational innovation and research initiatives in collaboration with various national institutions such as the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiC) and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. I have authored of more than 150 writings including articles, monographs, essays, papers, and I am currently member of national and international editorial committees.
I hold a PhD in Science completed by a MBA. I currently work at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences as a researcher. I’m involved for several years in the museum sector. As representative of the Belgium National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) I participated in several initiatives related to the colonial heritage in museum collections and exhibitions, and related to the presence of colonial elements and landmarks in the public space.
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I am the coordinator of the Doctoral Program in “Sociology-Cities and Urban Cultures” (FEUC/CES). My recent and current projects include: a) ECHOES (CES, Horizon 2020); b) Theatre, Audiences and Community (partnership CES/Teatrão, arts organization); c) Study on youth in the municipality of Castelo Branco: elaboration of a Municipal Plan for youth (partnership UC/Municipality of C.B.). My most recent publications are on urban cultures, postcolonial city, cultural policies and practices.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at CegeSoma/State Archives of Belgium, with a bachelor’s in Social Sciences and a master’s in Cultural Heritage Management. My research focuses on the intersections of cultural heritage, identity, and conflict, with a particular interest in civil society’s role in the creation of public memorials. As part of the CONCILIARE project, I am investigating how controversies surrounding Belgium’s colonial heritage are unfolding in Brussels, Antwerp and Mons.
I am a senior research assistant at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences. My research interests focus on social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology, particularly in reasoning and decision-making, collective actions, political participation, and social action. I am currently participating in the following projects: MotiKA – Motivators and Barriers for Collective Action , DISINFO klima – Role of Dispositions and Exposure to Information in the Context of Climate Change, & Conciliare.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a member of ERCOMER. My research examines the relationship between social-psychological processes (e.g., prejudice, collective memory, structural thinking) and historical events (e.g., colonialism, transitional justice, the equalisation of minoritised groups). I did a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and an MSc in Social-Community Psychology at the Universidad Católica de Chile.
I hold a Ph.D in Psychology and Cognitive Science. I am a Psychologist and Research Fellow at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. For the Academic Year 2024/2025 I am an Adjunct Professor of Political Psychology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. My research interests involve helping relations and overhelping, historical narratives of ingroup violence and emotional expressions in political communication, that are the topics of her scientific publications.
I am a research fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS/UMinho) in the scope of the project CONCILIARE and a PhD in Film Studies at University of Coimbra. I develop an interdisciplinary practice-based research focused on diaspora, post-colonial studies, and documentary practices. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Brasília (UnB) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC). I am also collaborating with CEIS20. In addition to my academic work, I am an independent filmmaker and curator.
I am a social psychologist and a Ph.D. student at University of Helsinki. My thesis focuses on visual rhetoric and political identity leadership in the context of President Zelensky’s communication during the war in Ukraine. I hold a Master’s in Social Psychology from the same institution and collaborate with CONCILIARE as a Research Assistant. My research interests center on identity construction within social contexts, particularly in the political sphere, focusing on visual and multimodal methodologies.
I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology and work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. My recent and ongoing projects include CONCILIARE and the H2020 project UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture (2020–2024). As a sociologist, musicologist and musician, I have teaching experience in music historiography and artistic methodology at higher education institutions.
I hold a Master’s degree in History and Philosophy (History curriculum) from the University of Siena, where I completed a dissertation in Contemporary History entitled La rappresentazione dell’Altro coloniale. Il problema della continuità ne “Il Borghese” e ne “Il secolo d’Italia” (anni ’70-’80), under the supervision of Professor Nicola Labanca. My research interests focus on collective memory, particularly the legacy of Italian colonialism in Republican Italy and its intersections with right-wing political discourse.
I hold a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. I specialised in Social Psychology and minored in Global Development Studies. I am interested in researching the influence of colonialism on contemporary modes of existence and interpersonal dynamics. I am also interested in identity construction within a social context. In my Master’s thesis, I examined the impact of postcolonial power relations on the everyday lives and relationships of Zanzibari beach vendors engaged in informal labour, whose economic activities depend on tourists from the Global North.
I hold a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Coimbra. I also hold a European PhD on Social Representations and Communication (University of Helsinki, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, ISCTE Lisbon). My main research fields are on social representations, intergroup relations, cultural diversity, and political psychology. In these areas, I have been Principal Investigator and researcher in Portuguese national and in European funded projects. Currently, I am Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra.
I am a Full Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. I am the Scientific Coordinator at Sapienza of the Horizon Project 2023 CONCILIARE. I am also Italian Member of the European Project MAKINGHISTORIES and the Italian Participant to the CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme “Democratic Memories in Global Perspective”. My research interests involve helping and overhelping relations, intergenerational communication or silence about historical violence, intergroup reconciliation, and multimodal analysis of political communication, main topics of my 164 scientific publications.
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a member of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). My research broadly deals with group identities, immigrant integration, and intergroup relations in multi-ethnic societies. I have recently completed a ERC project about collective psychological ownership and intergroup relations (OWNERS) and I am the leader of WP4 of the CONCILIARE project.
I am a full professor of social and cultural psychology at the Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My research focuses on social representations of history (with a special interest in colonialism), social identities, and intergroup relations. I chaired the Cost Action IS1205 “Social-psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union” (2012-2016). I co-chair WP3 in the CONCILIARE project with Prof. Giovanna Leone (Sapienza University, Rome).
I am professor of Communication Sciences at the Social Sciences Institute and researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho. I have been Head of the Cultural Studies Doctoral Program and Head of the Communication Sciences Department. I was Vice-Chair of the COST Action IS 1205 “Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union”. Currently, I am the Principal Investigator of the project “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” and I coordinate the CECS/UMinho team of CONCILIARE. My research interests include social memory, media, migrations, intergroup relations, diversity and social change.
I have a PhD in history from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. I am a member of the project CONCLIARE and co-coordinator of WP2: Colonial Heritage and public spaces. I am currently head of the public history unit at the Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society/State Archives (Brussels). I coordinate the www.belgiumwwii.be website. I have published mainly on the history of Brussels, the question of identity and the memory of the two world wars in Belgium. I am particularly interested in the impact of images, the phenomenon of commemorations and the memory of the past in the public arena. I am also a specialist in odonymy and questions related to colonial past in public space.
I am a relationship harmonization entrepreneur. I am also an artist and anthropologist. My main professional focuses are: (1) Creation of educational tools dealing with issues linked to body stereotypes, discrimination processes and colonial history. (2) Coaching for professional organisations and associations wishing to make the fight against racism a structural issue and to encourage the creation of a workplace as safe as possible for everyone. (3) Personal development coaching and (4) Family mediation. (5) I also offer sensitivity reading services (race, gender and body shape).
I am Inari Sakki (D.Soc.Sc.), a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki, specializing in societal and political social psychology. My research interests include political discourse, nationalism, European identity, populism, and collective memory, as well as history teaching through discursive, visual, and multimodal methodologies. I have led several projects on representations of history, nationalism, and populism, funded by the Academy of Finland. My work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals across disciplines.
I am a Senior Scientific Adviser at Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences. My research interests include social and political attitudes and values, political/social participation, intergroup relations and youth. Currently, besides working on COINCILIARE I am also team member on COORDINATE project (Horizon2020) and principal investigator on two national projects: Motivators and barriers for collective action (Croatian science foundation) and Role of dispositions and exposure to information in the context of climate change (NextGenerationEU).
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I currently serve as Pro-Rector of the University of Coimbra for Pedagogic Innovation. I am also the President of the Portuguese Association of Sociology. My most recent projects include: a) ECHOES (CES, Horizon 2020); b) Study on youth in the municipality of Castelo Branco: elaboration of a Municipal Plan for youth (partnership UC/Municipality of C.B.). The main topics of my recent publications are: cities and urban cultures, heritage, colonial heritage, postcolonial city, tourism.
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University. My research interests are in the field of Social and Political Psychology/Sociology. I apply an interdisciplinary perspective to study people’s emotional responses and civic engagement (with a particular focus on youth) in relation to timely societal challenges, such as the climate crisis, the rise of populist radical-right parties and Europe’s contested colonial past.
I am an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Sapienza University of Rome. I am the Director of the Master’s Degree in Security, Interforce Coordination, International Cooperation (Sapienza University in agreement with the Interagency Law Enforcement Academy of Advanced Studies) and, from 2007, she is Scientific Director of MediaLab/Radiosapienza. Between 2007 and 2024 she was a member of the Ministerial Media and Minors Committee. I am part of various juries for communication and scientific dissemination and she promotes educational innovation and research initiatives in collaboration with various national institutions such as the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiC) and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. I have authored of more than 150 writings including articles, monographs, essays, papers, and I am currently member of national and international editorial committees.
I teach economics and statistics in the Social Economics Department at Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer (Belgium). My expertise lies in quantitative analysis and its practical applications to socio-economic contexts. I have contributed to research on economic modeling and social policy evaluation, with publications emphasizing the intersection of economic theory and social equity. I am dedicated to addressing contemporary socio-economic challenges. I actively participate in WP1-WP5, applying academic insights to solve real-world problems.
I am an Assistant Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. I hold a PhD in cultural studies, and my current research critically engages intercultural communication and decolonial perspectives to explore the challenges of contemporary migration and the representations conveyed by cinema. I am co-PI of the project “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” (2022-2026) and have published on representations of history, migrations and memory.
I hold a PhD in Science completed by a MBA. I currently work at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences as a researcher. I’m involved for several years in the museum sector. As representative of the Belgium National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) I participated in several initiatives related to the colonial heritage in museum collections and exhibitions, and related to the presence of colonial elements and landmarks in the public space.
I started studying colonial history at the ULB. I then worked on anti-Semitism as part of my PhD at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung at the TU-Berlin. My PhD is published in French and German. I did three postdocs and co-authored three reports for the governments of Belgium and Luxembourg. I’ve worked in interdisciplinary contexts in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Luxembourg. In CONCILIARE I’ll trace the history of controversies in public spaces and ethnographic museums.
I am an integrated researcher of Social and Political Psychology at CINEICC/UCoimbra with a Master’s in Clinical and Health psychology and a Phd on Social Representations and Communication as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow. I am interested in public understandings of history and historical conflicts; ideology and politics; and health, particularly mental health, from a socio-cultural and communication perspectives.
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I am the coordinator of the Doctoral Program in “Sociology-Cities and Urban Cultures” (FEUC/CES). My recent and current projects include: a) ECHOES (CES, Horizon 2020); b) Theatre, Audiences and Community (partnership CES/Teatrão, arts organization); c) Study on youth in the municipality of Castelo Branco: elaboration of a Municipal Plan for youth (partnership UC/Municipality of C.B.). My most recent publications are on urban cultures, postcolonial city, cultural policies and practices.
I have a Ph.D. in Sociology. I teach Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). I currently serve as co-coordinator of the Doctoral Program on Discourses: Culture, History and Society (CES/FEUC/FLUC). My current projects include: a) UNCHARTED: Understanding the societal value of culture (CES, Horizon 2020); b) IN SITU: Place based innovation of cultural and creative industries (CES, Horizon 2020). The main topics of my recent publications are: urban cultures, cultural values, music and cultural markets, cultural policies and institutions.
I am a Full Professor of Sociology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. My main scientific interests include: sociological theory, history of sociology and social research, methodology of social research (with a specific focus on data collection strategies and techniques), public opinion analysis, evaluation (with a specific focus on quality of social research outputs). On these issues I have organized and supervised several scientific projects, publishing almost 80 essays (monographs, edited volumes, articles in Italian and international journals, chapters). I am the co-coordinator of the Research Network – Quantitative Methods (RN21) of the European Sociological Association. Since 2021, I am the Director of the BA program in “Communication, technologies and digital cultures” at Sapienza University of Rome.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at CegeSoma/State Archives of Belgium, with a bachelor’s in Social Sciences and a master’s in Cultural Heritage Management. My research focuses on the intersections of cultural heritage, identity, and conflict, with a particular interest in civil society’s role in the creation of public memorials. As part of the CONCILIARE project, I am investigating how controversies surrounding Belgium’s colonial heritage are unfolding in Brussels, Antwerp and Mons.
I am an architect, designer and Full Professor of Design at Sapienza University of Rome. The main themes of my research and teaching activities are: Design, Identity and Territory; Design and Multiculturalism; Design and Natural Capital; Languages and Morphological Experimentations. Themes transversally related to the fields of “Visual Communication Design”, “Exhibit and Spatial Design” and “Product Design”. I am the author of more than 200 writings including articles, monographs, essays, papers, and I am member of national and international editorial committees.
I am a FCT Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), at Universidade do Minho (Portugal), where I am working on the project Sketch Her Story and Make It Popular. Using Graphic Narratives in Italian and Lusophone Feminist Activism Against Gender Violence (https://www.sketchthatstory.com/). I authored the monograph Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy Between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge 2021) and co-edited the volume Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave 2023).
I am a senior research assistant at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences. My research interests focus on social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology, particularly in reasoning and decision-making, collective actions, political participation, and social action. I am currently participating in the following projects: MotiKA – Motivators and Barriers for Collective Action , DISINFO klima – Role of Dispositions and Exposure to Information in the Context of Climate Change, & Conciliare.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University and a member of ERCOMER. My research examines the relationship between social-psychological processes (e.g., prejudice, collective memory, structural thinking) and historical events (e.g., colonialism, transitional justice, the equalisation of minoritised groups). I did a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and an MSc in Social-Community Psychology at the Universidad Católica de Chile.
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, part of Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI). In my research, I adopt an interdisciplinary focus and a reflexive and critical approach for the study of various topics including experiences of racism and marginalization, colonial legacies, and conditions of vulnerability and privilege. During my PhD project, I critically examined the concept of vulnerability in the context of migration, and I have worked on the Horizon project MIMY. I was involved in CONCILIARE as a postdoctoral researcher until March 2025.
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Coimbra. I hold a PhD in Contemporary History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and I have been visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the Université Paris-Sorbonne. I have worked on topics related to historiography and its dialogue with poststructuralism, cultural studies and the ontological turn, and have also published articles on identity, museums, postcolonialism, public history and transmission of memory.
I hold a Ph.D in Psychology and Cognitive Science. I am a Psychologist and Research Fellow at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. For the Academic Year 2024/2025 I am an Adjunct Professor of Political Psychology at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome. My research interests involve helping relations and overhelping, historical narratives of ingroup violence and emotional expressions in political communication, that are the topics of her scientific publications.
I am a social performance expert, author of “République démocratique du Cobalt” and documentary producer. I have worked for seven years on the social impacts of mining projects in the DRC, Senegal and Guinea. Presently, I work at the intersection between my expertise in social impacts and sustainability and my passion for storytelling, pluriversalim, peace building, art and culture, all in order to help understand the present and shape the future of our societies.
I hold a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Sociology from the Universidade de Brasília (Brazil), and a Ph.D in Sociology from the Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, at Universidade do Minho (Portugal). I am also member of the Sociology of Culture Research Network (European Sociological Association). My research endeavors deal with the relations between culture and the other fields that surround it, emphasizing the affinities and tensions between artists and other actors.
I am a research fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS/UMinho) in the scope of the project CONCILIARE and a PhD in Film Studies at University of Coimbra. I develop an interdisciplinary practice-based research focused on diaspora, post-colonial studies, and documentary practices. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Brasília (UnB) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC). I am also collaborating with CEIS20. In addition to my academic work, I am an independent filmmaker and curator.
I am a Psychologist and Ph.D Fellow in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Sapienza University of Rome. My research focuses on collective memories and group-based emotions, specifically examining the case of colonial memories. I explore changes in cultural consumption related to Colonial Cultural Heritage, investigating how individuals interpret, react to, and engage more consciously with transformations in colonial cultural heritage within European societies.
I am a social psychologist specializing in intercultural relations, currently pursuing a PhD on representations of Portuguese colonialism as part of Work Package 1. I hold a Master’s degree in the Psychology of Intercultural Relations from the University Institute of Lisbon. My current focus is on textbook research, which I enjoy integrating with quantitative and experimental methods.
I am Aino Santavuori (B.Sc. Psychology), a master’s student in Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki, with focus on political social psychology. My research interests include identity construction within social contexts, particularly in the political sphere. My primary interest lies in visual and multimodal methodologies. I am graduating this fall, and my thesis examines visual social representations of political leadership using visual rhetorical analysis. I am currently working as research assistant.
I am a motion designer and Research Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome. My research focuses on motion design teaching approaches and materiality in stop motion animation. On these topics I have authored several publications, including the books Design Moving Images (2023), Anatomy of a Puppet: Design Driven Categories for Animated Puppets’ Skin (2020) and the article “Performance of puppets’ skin material: The metadiegetic narrative level of animated puppets’ material surface” (2019), which received the Norman Mclaren-Evelyn Lambart Award in 2020.
I define my professional civic, artistic and research practice as that of a cultural activist who combines convergence, awareness and advocacy on decolonial issues in European artistic creation, in particular, through decolonial mediation. Since 2017, I have worked as a decolonial guide-lecturer mediating exhibitions addressing de/post/neo-colonial issues for the educational services of institutions such as the Africa Museum, the Bozar, the Kanal Center Pompidou and the CIVA but also for self-managed Afro-descendant collectives carrying out field advocacy work on the colonial memory of Belgian society such as Femïya.