Sheila P. Khan Address Bairro Norton de Matos, Lote 8, 1ºDto 7520-118 Sines Portugal Telephone E_mail mobile +351 914470359 [email protected] Date of Birth Nationality Marital Status 2 October 1972 Portuguese Married EDUCATION 2004 (From October) Manchester University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies CES (Centre of Social Studies) Postdoctoral Research Programme United Kingdom Coimbra University Title of Proposed Research: ‘African Mozambican Immigrants in the former ‘motherland’: The portrait of a postcolonial Portugal’ Research Proposal: This project aims to re-interpret and re-think the effects of Portuguese colonialism, by giving a ‘voice’ to those who were categorised by the colonial regime as ‘assimilated’ individuals, and decided - after Mozambican independence (1975) - to pursue their lives in their former ‘motherland’. The study of African Mozambican immigrants’ narratives of identity and life trajectories will be carried out in order to gain insight into: who/what is Portugal after decolonisation?; what kind of affinity has Portugal established with its ex-assimilated subjects, finally does Portugal reveal any form of postcolonial consciousness regarding African Mozambican immigrants’ hybrid identities? Moreover, this study also aims to take into account the reflections of Portuguese writers, politicians and researchers in order to consider their perceptions of the state of postcolonial Portugal alongside those expressed by African Mozambican immigrants. The analysis of narrative was chosen as the appropriate methodology for this research. Supervisors: Professor Hilary Owen and Professor Paula Meneses 1999 – 2004 Warwick University PhD in Ethnic Relations United Kingdom Thesis: “African Mozambican Immigrants: Narrative of Immigration and Identity, and Acculturation Strategies in Portugal and England”. This research project aimed to argue that the notions of ethnic identity, ethnic group and ethnicity should be thought of as socially constructed. In order to support the above proposition, fieldwork was undertaken by examining African Mozambicans’ narratives of immigration and identity, and acculturation strategies in Portugal and in England. It was concluded, on the one hand, that the notions of ethnic identity, ethnic group and ethnicity are socially constructed, on the other hand, that the term ethnicity should be addressed as a detached human experience from the terms of ethnic identity and ethnic group. Supervisors: Dr. Bob Carter and Professor Danièle Joly Examiners: Professor Annie Phizacklea (internal) and Professor Anna Maria Gentili (external) 1996 - 1999 ISCTE, Department of Social Psychology Masters in Social Psychology Portugal Thesis: “Black Youth Immigrants: African Identities in Portugal” Thesis related to a research project which was carried out at Social Sciences Institute of Research. This study was published as a chapter on a compilation of essays on identity, racism, culture, and society. The book is now on its second edition. Supervisor: Professor Jorge Vala 1991 - 1996 Minho University Degree in Sociology Portugal Final Classification: 70 % Main subjects: Social Anthropology, Portuguese Contemporary History, Social Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Sociological Methodologies, Sociological Methods, History of Philosophical and Historical Ideas, Statistics, Macro-economy and Micro-economy. 1984 - 1990 Dona Maria High School A levels in Philosophy, History, and Geography. Portugal GCSE's in Philosophy, History, Psychology, English, French and Portuguese Literature. WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECTS 2005 - 2006 Manchester University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies United Kingdom Undergraduate Teaching: Oral Portuguese and Mozambican Literature 2004 Manchester University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Visiting Researcher (from May to September) United Kingdom Literary Research on postcolonial studies, regarding the current postdoctoral project on African Mozambican immigration in Portugal and Portuguese postcolonialism. 2002 Eduardo Mondlane University Centre of African Studies Visiting Researcher Mozambique Research developed on Mozambican history and Portuguese colonialism, in order to improve the understanding of the sociological and historical background of Mozambican emigration. 2002 Historical Archive Visiting Researcher Mozambique Literary research at the Historical Archive, in order to enrich the theoretical framework and analysis of the sociological and historical structure of Mozambican emigration. 1997 – 1998 Piaget Institute, Polytechnic University Invited Lecturer Portugal Lecturer of Social Psychology and Social Anthropology for undergraduate students. 1997 – 1998 University of Lisbon Social Sciences Institute Research Assistant Portugal Project related to African and Black identities in Portugal, sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e Technologia (Portugal). RESEARCH PROJECTS From 2008 – “Investigadora de Equipa de Investigação” for large grant project funded by FCT (Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia) on “Nação e Narrativa Pós-Colonial” coordinated by Professor Ana Mafalda Leite, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa INVITED GUEST: LECTURES, SEMINARS and CONFERENCES 2008 (25th and 26th September), Workshop, Oxford Research Network on Government in Africa, University of Oxford, “Diaspora, Empire and the Formation of a Lusophone World” “Voicing Diasporic Experiences: Mozambican Immigrants’ Domestic Ethnicities in Lisbon and London” 2008 (24th May), Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra “Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos: Memórias e Narrativas no Pós-Colonialismo do Quotidiano em Portugal” 2008 (18th and 19th April), University of Notre Dame, Hesburg Center for International Studies, “Africa in Portuguese, The Portuguese in Africa – An International Research Conference” “Portraits of a Daily Portuguese Postcolonialism: African Mozambican’s Colonial Memories and Postcolonial Identity Exile”. 2008 (4th April) Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade / Núcleo de Estudos em Antropologia, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, “Conferência Internacional – Comunicação Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios” “Do Pós-Colonialismo do Quotidiano às Identidades Hifenizadas: Identidades em exílios pátrios?”. 2007 (24th and 25th October) Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, “Seminário Internacional – Relações Interétnicas: Portugueses, Portugueses-Ciganos e Imigrantes dos Palop” “Identidades Híbridas e Etnicidade”. 2007 (14th June) Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho. “Das Memórias, das Narrativas, e dos Silêncios Rompidos, no Pós-Colonialismo de Expressão Portuguesa. Um Estudo sobre Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos em Portugal”. 2007 (7th and 9th May, Lecture) Literaturas Africanas de Expressão Portuguesa I, Departamento de Língua e Cultura Portuguesa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. “Apresentação do romance de João Paulo Borges Coelho, As Visitas do Dr Valdez, o diálogo entre passado e memória”. 2007 (27th April) Sessão Cultural de Faces de Eva, Centro de Estudos Sobre a Mulher, “A Memória de África no Feminino”, Faculdade Nova de Lisboa. “Na Pele da Memória: Narrativas de Vida e de Identidade de Mulheres Moçambicanas na Diáspora”. 2006 (7th August) Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ciclo de Palestras da Cátedra Jorge de Sena, Angola e Moçambique: Literatura, História, Tradições “Exílios moçambicanos: Narrativas ficcionais e narrativas de vida e de identidade”. “Vozes e experiências pós-coloniais: imigrantes moçambicanos em Portugal e Inglaterra”. 2005 (2nd May) University of Coimbra, Centro de Estudos Sociais “ ‘Somos uma raça com duas pátrias’. Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos: Narrativas de Vida e Identidade, e Percepções de um Portugal pós-colonial”. CONFERENCE PAPERS Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘Pensando as narrativas de vida e de identidade como metodologia no póscolonialismo do quotidiano em língua portuguesa’. Proposal for a panel on “Postcolonial Daily Experiences: From Theory to Practice, Memories, Autobiographies and Life Narratives”. The American Portuguese Studies Association’s Sixth International Conference, Embedded Colloquium: “Celebrating Machado de Assis”. Yale University, October 9-11. Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘Moçambique Mon Amour: O Mito do Eterno Retorno’.Congresso Internacional - Do Brasil a Macau – Narrativas de Viagens e Espaços de Diáspora, Simpósio: África e Portugal – Viagens e Topografias Identitárias. Universidade de Lisboa – Faculdade de Letras, 10-14 de Setembro. Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘ ‘How far you gonna go, before you lose your way back home’: Postcolonial memories and exiles’. Europe: Black & White. Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. 12 May - 14 May. Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘Deceiving memories: The myth of the return for African Mozambican immigrants in the diaspora (Portugal and United Kingdom)’. Seventh European Social Science History Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal, 27 February - 1 March 2008. Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘As ‘Raças’ e as Margens que o Império Tece: Dos Silêncios ao Portugal Pós-Colonial’. Assotiation of British and Irish Lusitanists, Second Conference. Bristol University, 11 and 12th , January 2008. Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘‘Narrativas, Rostos e Manifestações do Pós-Colonialismo Moçambicano nos romances de João Paulo Borges Coelho (As Visitas do Dr. Valdez (2004), Crónica da Rua 513.2 (2006); Campo de Trânsito (2007))’. III Encontro de Professores de Literaturas Africanas de Língua Português – UFRJ e UFF: Pensando África, Pesquisa e Ensino. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Letras – Sector de Literaturas Africanas, 20 a 24 de Novembro. Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘Narrativizando a Diferença: Da Memória das Margens à Memória Crítica das Margens’. 5º Congresso SOPCOM – Comunicação e Cidadania. Universidade do Minho, Braga, de 6 a 8 de Setembro. Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘Lessons from the margins: African Mozambican immigrants’ perceptions of a postcolonial Portugal’. “Re/siting the 'luso' and the 'tropical': theories and practices of Portuguese postcolonialism”, organized by Sheila Khan, Hilary Owen, Ana Martins and Carmen Ramos Villar. Manchester University, 15th-17th March. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘Velhas Margens, Novos Centros em ‘Ventos do Apocalipse’ de Paulina Chiziane’. APSA, American Portuguese Association Studies. Minnesota, University of Minnesota, 5th-7th October. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘Cartografia de um pós-colonialismo subjectivo: Memórias, narrativas de um exílio identitário em Moçambicanos na diaspora (Portugal e Inglaterra)’. Association of British and Irish Lusitanists, The inaugural conference of the association. Willoughby Hall, University of Nottingham 15th-16th September. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘O exílio pátrio e identitário - Contribuições literárias de Portagem de Orlando Mendes e Milandos de um Sonho de Bahassan Adamodjy para uma Sociologia da emigração/imigração moçambicana’.Paper presented at X Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, Simpósio Exílio e Migração. Rio de Janeiro, 30th July to 4th August. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘Pitfalls of hybridity: Being hybrid in a Portuguese postcolonial context The case study of African Mozambican immigrants in Portugal’. Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN), Hybridity, Mestizaje, Méttisage, Creolisation, Tropicalism, Minoritarianism: New Terms for old Phenomena?. University of Manchester, 26th May. Khan, Sheila (2005), ‘ “Milandos de um Sonho”. Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos em Portugal’. Paper presented at VIII Congresso da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas,. Santiago de Compustela, 18th to 23rd July. Khan, Sheila (2004), ‘ “Somos uma raça com duas pátrias”. Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos: Narrativas de Vida e Identidade, e Percepções de um Portugal pós-colonial’. Paper presented at VIII Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, A Questão Social no Novo Milénio. Coimbra, 16th to 18th September. Khan, Sheila & Iversen, Valentina (2004), ‘From Portuguese colonialism to immigration. African Mozambican Immigrants: acculturation strategies and identity narratives in Portugal’. Poster presented at 17th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. China, Xi’an, 2nd to 6th August. Khan, Sheila (2003), ‘African Mozambican Immigrants, Interactive and Identity Landscapes: Domestic Ethnicity’. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Atlanta, USA, 16th to 19th August. Khan, Sheila (2003), ‘African Mozambican Immigrants, Interactive and Identity Landscapes: Domestic Ethnicity’. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Atlanta, USA, 16th to 19th August. Khan, Sheila (2002), ‘Creating an ‘African’ ethnicity: Black Mozambican Emigrants’. Paper presented at South-South Workshop – The trans-Atlantic constructions of ‘race’, black culture, blackness and antiracism: towards a new dialogue between researchers in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Gorée, Senegal, 11th to 17th November. Khan, Sheila (2002), ‘Black Mozambican emigrants: The social construction of identity and ethnicity’. Paper presented at As Linguagens da Lusofonia, the VII Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro De Ciencias Sociais, IUPERJ- Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro/Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, 2nd to 6th September. Khan, Sheila (2002), ‘Black Mozambican Emigrants: Narratives of Emigration and Identity: Towards Portugal and England (Post-independence period)’. Seminar presented at Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, 19th April. Khan, Sheila (2001), ‘Faces without identity: To be a ‘negro’ during Portuguese colonialism’. Paper presented at Landless Voices, A colloquium of the School of Critical Theory and Social Studies and the Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham, 20th to 22nd September. Khan, Sheila (2001), ‘Constructing ethnicity: The case study of Black Mozambican Immigrants in an acculturation process’. Paper presented at Migration and Transculturation Conference. Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, 31st May to 1st of June. Khan, Sheila (2000), ‘As long as you’re Black you’re an African: The myth of the return’. Paper presented at Eurofor Conference n.31, Immigrant Communities, Diasporas and Politics, Athens, 25th to 27th May. BOOKS Khan, Sheila (in press), Imigrantes Africanos Moçambicanos. Narrativa de Imigração e de Identidade e Estratégias de Aculturação em Portugal e na Inglaterra. Lisboa, Editora Colibri. Khan, Sheila, Owen, Hilary, Villar, Carmen, R., and Martins, Ana Margarida (Eds.) (in progress). Relocating the “Luso” and the “Tropical”: Theories and Practices of Portuguese Postcolonialism. CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS Khan, Sheila (in progress), ‘Do Pós-Colonialismo do Quotidiano às Identidades Hifenizadas: Identidades em exílios pátrios?’. Cabecinhas, R. & Cunha, L. (no prelo). Comunicação Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios. Porto: Campo das Letras. Khan, Sheila (in progress) ‘Portraits of a Daily Portuguese Postcolonialism: African Mozambican’s Colonial Memories and Postcolonial Identity Exile’. Paper presented and submitted to conference book “Africa in Portuguese, The Portuguese in Africa – An International Research Conference”. Ed.Isabel Ferreira Gould and Pedro Schacht Pereira. Khan, Sheila (2008,forthcoming), ‘Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal: African Mozambican Immigration’. Phillip Rothwell (ed.) [Encyclopaedia Entry], A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Europe and Its Empires. Edinburgh University Press. Khan, Sheila (2007),‘ Are we all post-colonial? A Socio-Literary Reading of Crónica do Tempo’. Paulo de Medeiros (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures. Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht Portuguese Studies Series, pp. 79-97. . Khan, Sheila and Vala, Jorge (1999),‘Traços Negros: Aculturação e identidades de jovens de origem africana’. In Machado Pais (coord.), Traços e Riscos de Vida. Porto, Editora Ambar, pp.146-168. JOURNAL ARTICLES Khan, Sheila (invited for thematic issue), ‘Silêncios (im)prováveis: Leitura e Recepção das obras de Ascêncio Freitas (‘Paz Enfurecida’, 2003), e de Bahassan Adamodjy (‘Milandos de um Sonho’, , 2001), no Portugal Pós-Colonial’. Lusophone Studies 7, 2008, Contexts and Reception of Lusophone African Literatures. University of Bristol, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Khan,Sheila (in press), ‘Narrativas, Rostos e Manifestações do Pós-Colonialismo Moçambicano nos romances de João Paulo Borges Coelho’. Gragoatá: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFF’. Rio de Janeiro. Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘O Exílio Pátrio e Identitário – Contribuições Literárias de Portagem de Orlando Mendes e Milandos de Um Sonho de Bahassan Adamodjy Para Uma Sociologia de Emigração/Imigração Moçambicana. SCRIPTA, Revista do Centro de Estudos Luso-AfroBrasileiros, PUC Minas, Brasil, pp.137-155. Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘Velhas Margens, Novos Centros em ‘Ventos do Apocalipse’ de Paulina Chiziane’. Revista Teia Literária, PUC/RJ, Brasil, 119-131. Khan, Sheila (2006),‘Identidades sem chão. Imigrantes Afro-Moçambicanos: Narrativas de Vida e Identidade, e Percepções de um Portugal pós-colonial’. Luso-Brazilian Review, 43:2. University of Wisconsin: 1-26. Khan, Sheila (2004),‘Emigrantes africanos moçambicanos: A construção social de identidade e de etnicidade’. Travessias, Revista da Associação de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Língua Portuguesa, n.4-5: 250-267. REVIEWS of ACADEMIC BOOKS Khan, Sheila (2005,),‘O diálogo entre passado e presente – Francisco Noa, Império, Mito e Miopia, Moçambique como invenção literária’. Palaver, Africa e Altre Terre. Università Degli Studi di Lecce, ARGO, pp. 117-119. REVIEWS of LITERARY BOOKS Khan, Sheila (2008), ‘Toponímia de uma Memória Silenciosa em “Crónica da Rua 513.2” de João Paulo Borges Coelho’. Revista Metamorfoses 8, Cátedra Jorge de Sena, Editorial Caminho. p.318319. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘COELHO, João Paulo Borges. As Visitas do Dr Valdez’. Revista Metamorfoses 7, Cátedra Jorge de Sena, Editorial Caminho, pp.390-392. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Khan, Sheila (2007), ‘Memória Colonial - “O Tibete de África” de Margarida Paredes’. Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, Ano XXVII/n.959.pp.23. Khan, Sheila (2006), ‘Meu Moçambique’. Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, Ano XXVI/n.935. pp.38. CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS Khan, Sheila (2008, submitted),‘Exílios no Pós-Colonialismo Moçambicano: Uma Leitura de ‘Campo de Trânsito’ de João Paulo Borges Coelho’ . Anais do III Encontro de Professores de Literatuuras Africanas de Língua Portuguesa. Organizadores: Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco, Maria Teresa Salgado e Silvio Renato Jorge. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ e FBN, publicação em CD-Rom. Khan, Sheila (2008,forthcoming),‘“Milandos de Um Sonho”: Contribuições Literárias para Entendimento da Emigração Moçambicana para Portugal”. Actas do VIII Congresso da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas, Santiago de Compustela, Faculdade de Filologia. CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR COORDINATIONS Khan, Sheila (in preparation): with Joana Passos (Universidade do Minho), Elena Brugioni (Universidade do Minho), Carmen Ramos Villar (Sheffield Universty) and Maria Tavares (Manchester University). LUPOR III – Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network, “Teorias Itinerantes: Hibridismos, Diásporas e Subjectividades”, to be held at Mindelo, Cabo Verde; suggested dates 26-27-28 November, 2009. Khan, Sheila (2008, coord): Curso-Formação (Formação Avançada), Abordagens e Metodologias nos Estudos Pós-Coloniais de Expressão Portuguesa. Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 23-24 May. Khan, Sheila (2008): With Margarida Paredes, a one day Colloquium in collaboration with Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, and Casa Fernando Pessoa. ‘Para Além da Mágoa: Novos Diálogos Pós-Coloniais’. Lisboa, 22th January. Khan, Sheila (2007): with Professor Hilary Owen (Manchester University), Dr Ana Martins (Manchester University) and Dr Carmen Ramos Villar (Sheffield University), “Re/siting the 'luso' and the 'tropical': theories and practices of Portuguese postcolonialism”, Conference at Manchester University, 15th-17th March. Sponsored by: The University of Manchester, Worldwide Universities Network, The University of Sheffield, The University of Wisconsin (Madison), Instituto Camões, and Luso-American Foundation. Khan, Sheila (2006): “Semana Moçambicana”, a three-day event organized at Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 15th, 16th and 17th March. ACHIEVEMENTS 2004 –2009 Scholarship: Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Grant received to sponsor my postdoctoral research programme 2005 (May) Scholarship : “Um mês no CES” Grant given by Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra 1999 – 2003 Scholarship: Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) I have received a grant to sponsor my postgraduate studies. 1997 Scholarship: Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Scholarship to sponsor project research on African and Black Identities at Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon, Portugal. 1996 University of Minho’ s Academic Award This award was given to students whose academic performance was eminent and distinctive during an academic year. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS MEMBERSHIP From 2008 Invited Researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, NTNU, Trondheim University From 2006 Invited Associated Reseacher at Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho From 2006 Association of British and Irish Lusitanists From 2005 Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada From 2005 American Portuguese Association Studies From 2005 Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas LANGUAGES Portuguese - mother tongue; English – very good; French - good; Italian – good; COMPUTER SKILLS: Word processing and the Internet. Excel Power Point REFEREES Professor Carlos Silva Departmento de Sociologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal Tel : 253-604293/ 939306913 Email: [email protected] Professor Hilary Owen Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 1663747675 / + 44 1612753687 Email: [email protected] Dr Bob Carter, Director, MA Race and Ethnic Studies, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, Tel:+ 44 2476522598 Email: [email protected]