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Amar Mohand Amer, Ph.D. in history (Paris 7), is a researcher in the "Socio-anthropology of history and memory (HistMém)" unit and deputy director of the editorial board of the journal Insaniyat at the National Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology, CRASC, in Oran, Algeria. His work focuses on processes of transition (coming out of war), individual and group trajectories, violence in times of war (colonization), as well as issues of memory and alternative historical narratives. Amar Mohand-Amer has just published with Frantz Fanon Éditions (Algiers, August 2023): "La crise du FLN de l'été 1962. Indépendance nationale et enjeux de pouvoir(s)" (The Crisis of the FLN in the Summer of 1962. National Independence and Questions of Power) (preface by Omar Carlier and afterword by Mohammed Harbi).

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Christoph Kalter is Professor of History at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. He is the author of The Discovery of the Third World. Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c. 1950-1976 (Cambridge UP, 2016), originally published in German in 2011, and of Postcolonial People. The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal (Cambridge UP, 2022). Related articles have been published in Past & Present, Contemporary European History, the Journal of Global History, and others. 

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Cláudia Castelo has a degree in History, MA in the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and PhD in Social Sciences - Historical Sociology (Universidade de Lisboa). She has also a specialization course in Library and Archival Sciences (Universidade de Lisboa) and training in Oral History (ISCTE-IUL). Currently she is assistant professor at the Department of History, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, and research fellow at the Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. She has published books, book chapters and articles on several topics related with her research interests: the circulation of people, colonial and anticolonial ideas, and scientific knowledge, in the late Portuguese empire; trans-imperial cooperation; concepts and practices of African development; colonial archives and oral memories.

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Elizabeth Buettner has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam since 2014.  Her publications include Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India (Oxford University Press, 2004), Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and many book chapters and articles, including a contribution to Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales that has recently been republished in David Motadel (ed.), Globalizing Europe: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2025).  She also co-edited Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors, and Practices in and beyond Europe (Routledge, 2021) as part of the Horizon 2020 ‘ECHOES’ consortium project that explored ‘European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities’.

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Elsa Peralta, PhD in Social Sciences, is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), School of Arts & Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her work draws on intersecting perspectives from anthropology, memory studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies, focusing on postcolonial cultures, memories and identities. At Cecomp she coordinates the research group CITCOM: Citizenship, Culture and Memory and the research line Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective. She is also the principal investigator of the FCT project "Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of migration and postcolonial memory". Her recent publications include The Retornados from Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Narrative, Memory and History (Routledge, 2022) and, with Nuno Domingos, Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is currently preparing The Postcolonial Museumscape of Lisbon: Histories, Memory Politics, and Contested Pasts (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026) and, with Christoph Kalter and Jonas Prinzleve, Empire and the City. Migrations and Memories in the Lusophone World (Routledge, 2025). In addition to writing and editing books and several academic articles and chapters, she was the curator of the exhibition Return - Traces of Memory, produced by the Municipality of Lisbon.

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Filipa Lowndes Vicente is a historian and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She received her doctorate from the University of London in 2000. In 2015 she was a visiting professor at King's College, University of London and in 2016 at Brown University, Providence, USA. Her research subjects focus on the 19th and 20th centuries: the production and circulation of written, visual and material knowledge in colonial contexts; the history of collections, museums, exhibitions, travel and photography; the intellectual and cultural history of Goa and Bombay; colonial comparisons and crossings between the British and the Portuguese empires in India; and the place and history of women as authors and artists. Amongst her latest publications are: Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975, in 2023, edited with Afonso Dias Ramos; the catalogue of the exhibition she organized together with Inocência Mata, Family Albums. Photographs of the African Diaspora in Greater Lisbon (1975-Today) and, also in Routledge, the co-edited book, with Leonor de Oliveira, Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire: From the 18th to the 20th century.

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Inês Nascimento Rodrigues is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She is the principal investigator of the MSCA-funded project GHOST. The Afterlives of Contract and Enslavement: Narratives on Indentured Labour between Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe (2024–2027), and holds a Scientific Employment Stimulus contract from FCT (2023–2029). From 2017 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project CROME. Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times. Her research explores the afterlives of empire through postcolonial theories, memory studies, and critical historiography, with a particular focus on forced and indentured labour, African liberation struggles, and colonial violence in São Tomé and Príncipe, Cabo Verde, and Guinea-Bissau. Among other publications, she is the author of Espectros de Batepá: Memórias e narrativas do «Massacre de 1953» em São Tomé e Príncipe (Afrontamento, 2018), and co-author (with Miguel Cardina) of Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory (Routledge, 2022). Link institucional: https://ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/ines-nascimento-rodrigues. ​​​​​​​

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Itay Lotem, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster, is a contemporary historian of memory politics in Europe. His work has examined the links between memory politics, race and social movements in a comparative European context. His first monograph, The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), was the first-ever comparative study of the mechanisms of the memory of colonialism in Europe's two largest ex-colonial polities and has been shortlisted for the Memory Studies Association's First Book Award. His second book, Dealing with Dark Pasts (Cambridge University Press, 2024), is a comparative examination of the history of 'autocritical' memory in Europe between the Second World War and the present day. He has also published extensively on intersectionality and antiracism in France. 

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Jonas Prinzleve is a researcher of postcolonial memory at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL), where he defended his PhD research project A decolonial turn in public memory? Hamburg and Lisbon compared with an FCT Doctoral Grant (2023). He is a member of the FCT-funded research project ‘Constellations of Memory: A Multidirectional Study of Migration and Postcolonial Memory’. In 2022, he became an international fellow at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He currently works in a coordinating role for the Ministry of Culture and Media of the City of Hamburg.

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Leonor Rosas is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at ICS-UL, where she is researching statues and monuments - and the contestation against them - related to colonialism in the cities of Lisbon and Brussels, seeking to intersect the themes of memory, coloniality, power and urban studies. She completed her master's degree in Anthropology at NOVA-FCSH, which resulted in the publication of the book De quem se esqueceu Lisboa? - A luta pela inscrição da memória anticolonial e antirracista no espaço público. She previously graduated in Political Science and International Relations from the same university. She is also a member of the research project Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of migration and postcolonial memory and a researcher at CeComp-UL. From the point of view of civic and cultural participation, she is the co-author of the feminist podcast Lei da Paridade in the Expresso newspaper, was a member of the Youth Advisory Board of the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre between 2023 and 2024, is a political activist and a member of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly for the Left Bloc - a party in which she is a member of the Political Comission -, writes regularly for the online Gerador newspaper and is part of the editorial group of the online magazine Desatempo.

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Manuel Loff, PhD in History and Civilisation (European University Institute, Florence), tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political and International Studies, Universidade do Porto, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History - NOVAFCSH/IN2PAST (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and at the Research Centre on Dictatorship and Democracy (Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcias, CEDID) of the Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona (UAB). I have been researching on 20th century political and social History (fascism and neofascism, colonialism, International Relations and Education), Memory Studies, and 21st century authoritarian transitions through securitisation. Currently I am focused on comparative democratic transitions in the 1970s and 1980s; 21st century new authoritarian liberalism, extreme-right and neofascism; and social forms of (re)construction of collective memory on authoritarianism, coloniality and political transitions. I am columnist at daily newspaper Público (Lisbon).

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Marta Macedo is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), NOVA University Lisbon. She holds a degree in Architecture and completed her PhD in Architecture, specializing in Theory and History, at the University of Coimbra in 2010. Before joining the IHC, she was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, as part of the ERC project The Color of Labour: the Racialized Lives of Migrants, a postdoctoral researcher at CIUHCT, University of Lisbon, and a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research project, "São Tomé and the Global Atlantic: a Genealogy for the Plantationocene," addresses the relationship between technical-scientific practices and imperial history in the long term. Specifically, it examines the circulation of plantation systems between São Tomé, Brazil, Angola, and the Belgian Congo, intersecting approaches from the histories of science and technology, labor, the environment, and capitalism.

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Max Ruben Ramos holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Institute of Social Sciences. He has worked on the role of musical practices in affirming notions of belonging and in tackling racial violence experienced by Cape-Verdeans and their descendants in Lisbon. He also participated in research projects on the anthropology of religion and the anthropology of death, studying the conception and the management of death by Cape-Verdens immigrants in Portugal. He was a Post-doctoral Researcher Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies -  University of Coimbra, in a European project on Islamophobia in Portugal. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Cape Verde and at ISCEE. Currently, he is a research collaborator in the project “Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of a postcolonial migration and remembering” (University of Lisbon).  

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Morgane Delaunay is researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies - University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in History from 2020 from Université Rennes and ISCTE-IUL and is specialised in the decolonisation migrations to France and Portugal. Between May 2022 and December 2024 she was a postdoc fellow in the framework of the FCT funded project "Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering" (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021). She is the main organiser of the Seminar Cycle "Memory, Culture and Citizenship in Postcolonial Nations" that takes place at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She authored various articles and book chapters on the Portuguese repatriated population of Angola and Mozambique and her first monograph, Les retornados. Accueil et intégration des rapatriés de la décolonisation portugaise, was published in 2024 by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. A Portuguese version will be published by Almedina. From September 2025, she will start a postdoc as a member of the Casa de Velázquez, at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques - EHEHI.

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Nélia Dias is Professor at the Department of anthropology iSCTE-IUL | CRIA. She works in the fields of cultural heritage, ethnographic museums and collections, history of anthropology, and environmental history. She is the author of La Mesure des Sens. Les Anthropologues et le corps humain (Flammarion, 2004), Le Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (1878-1908). Anthropologie et Muséologie en France (Presses du CNRS, 1991) and the co-editor of Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe (University College London Press, 2023), Collecting, Ordering, Governing. Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government (Duke University Press, 2017) and Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture (Routledge, 2015). Her articles have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Museum & Society, History of Anthropology, L’Homme, Social Anthropology, Museum Worlds, and The Extractive Industries and Society. She is currently involved in a consortium project, the EU-Horizon project PITCH, focused on the intersections of heritage and petroculture and participated in the MSCA-ITN Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe. She is President of the Scientific Council of IN2PAST (Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory) and currently serves on the Conseil d’Orientation Scientifique of the Musée du quail Branly (Paris) and on the editorial board of Social Analysis and Gradhiva. Revue d’anthropologie et d’histoire des arts.​

Nuno Domingos is senior researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He has a PhD in social anthropology (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). He researches the history of Portuguese colonialism, especially in Mozambique during the Estado Novo regime. He is the author of Football and colonialism: body and popular culture in urban Mozambique (New African histories) Ohio University Press, 2017. He recently edited  the book Cultura Popular e Império: as lutas pela conquista do consumo cultural em Portugal e nas suas colónias (ICS, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), and, with Elsa Peralta, the book Legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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Ornella Rovetta is a historian and researcher at the State Archives in Belgium. She specializes in the history of justice after mass crimes, with a comparative perspective on Europe and Central Africa, where she regularly conducts fieldwork. For the past fifteen years, her research has focused on the uses of archives in contexts of strong societal demands for history and memory. She is currently co-authoring a historical study on segregationist practices imposed on mixed-race (métis) individuals under Belgian colonial rule as part of the research project "Resolution-Metis". Her doctoral thesis, Un génocide au tribunal : le Rwanda et la justice internationale (published by Belin in 2019), is the first historical study dedicated to the Interantional Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In 2021, she co-edited a collective reflection book on the history of international justice (Defeating Impunity, Attemps at international justice, Berghahn). Committed to making knowledge widely accessible, she publishes in both general and specialized history journals focusing on Africa and has co-produced award-winning research podcasts (Wernaers-FNRS and ULB in 2019 and 2021). Her latest podcast project, Les enfants du génocide, gives voice to young Rwandans born after 1994, exploring intimate and intergenerational memory of the genocide. 

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Víctor Barros is PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra, completed with the support of a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research fellowship. His doctoral thesis on historical commemorations and the construction of memory of the Portuguese empire in African colonies was awarded with an honourable mention in the Third Edition of the Agostinho Neto International Historical Research Prize in 2020. From 2016 to 2019, Barros worked as a researcher in the project ‘Amílcar Cabral – From Political History to Politics of Memory’, hosted at Nova University of Lisbon, and having carried out archival research and organizing seminars in Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, Portugal and France. He is author of the book on colonial concentration camps in Cabo Verde, as well as of several articles on topics such as commemorations, Portuguese colonialism, transnational anticolonial solidarity, politics of memory, colonial monuments and history writing. His works has been published in journals such as The International History Review, Revista Portuguesa de História, European Contemporary History, etc. A former member of the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques from Casa de Velázquez, in Madrid (during 2022-2023), he is currently a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal).​