"The Duty to See" series, with José Augusto Pereira and Pedro Varela.

On October 23rd, at 6:30 PM, the second session of the "The Duty to See" cycle will take place, offering a look at the achievements and unfulfilled dreams of the April 25th Revolution. Was the end of the war also the end of colonialism and racism? This is the question that historian José Augusto Pereira and anthropologist Pedro Varela will be discussing.

Free entry, subject to room capacity.

Guest biographies

José Augusto Pereira is a historian and research collaborator at the Institute of Contemporary History. He has dedicated himself to the study of national liberation movements in Africa, particularly in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. More recently, he has focused on the establishment of labor flows in the Portuguese colonial empire and on the history of the anti-racist movement in Portugal in the first decades of the 20th century.

Pedro Varela is an anthropologist and works as a researcher at CIES-Iscte. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He has a master's degree in anthropology from Iscte and a degree in landscape architecture from the Higher Institute of Agronomy at the University of Lisbon. Between academia and social movements, he has worked on the periphery, urban agriculture, music circuits, and the history of the anti-racist struggle.

Both are co-authors of the book Tribuna Negra, a history of the black movement.