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militant memory & the walking archive w/ Sónia Vaz Borges


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Image: Amélia Araújo recording the works of the First National Popular Assembly of Guinea-Bissau for Rádio Libertação, in the liberated region of Madina de Boé [available: http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=05247.000.152] In this program, militant memory & the walking archive w/ Sónia Vaz Borges, we move through her work on the PAIGC’s struggle for liberation and militant education, paying attention to the contours of thought, the edges where questions were formed that guide us to push beyond. Sónia Vaz Borges [https://www.soniavazborges.com/] is a militant interdisciplinary historian and long-time social and political organizer. A daughter of Cape Verdean immigrants, she was born and raised in Portugal. Sónia is currently an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, in the department of History and Africana Studies. Sónia work focuses on the silenced histories of people, specifically peoples actions and roles during historic moments of sociopolitical change … the liberation struggles and social movements around the world and their internationalism and solidarity, in relation with the fields of education and memories, space and architectures, through the practice of anti-colonial, decolonial and militant research and writing. Sónia career as an interdisciplinary historian was developed in three international public universities: Lisbon, Berlin and New York. Professor Borges obtained a B.A in Modern and Contemporary History-Politics and International Affairs from ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon as well as an M.A in African History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon and received a Ph.D. in Education Sciences - History of Education from the Humboldt University of Berlin. In August 2019, Sónia finished postdoctoral work at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics (CPCP) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, under the theme Consciousness and Revolution. Sónia is author of Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 and The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74 with the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Sónia has edited Notebooks Consciousness and Black Resistance and In the Dust of Waiting. Paths in the neighborhoods of Estrada Militar, Santa Filomena and Encosta Nascente. Along with filmmaker Filipa César, creative work includes a short film titled: Navigating the Pilot School (2016), and Mangrove School (2022). Sónia is currently working on her next project focused on The Walking Archives, the liberation struggle, memory, generation and imaginaries. Makaya McCraven - The Fifth Monk [Universal Beings] Oddisee - Work To Do (feat. Bilal)[To What End]
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