MOVEMENT: PEOPLE AND IDEAS BETWEEN PLACES

This thematic line addresses, summarises and lends interdisciplinary depth to a meaningful set of research, partnerships and joint initiatives conducted by the CEIS20. One of the core concerns of the thematic line is the territory. As the bibliography has highlighted, the territory is, at the same time and in variable proportions, functional and symbolic. As for Europe, these coordinates are essential for identifying, researching and applying knowledge of the conditions of massive migrations, social exclusion and ethnic-anthropological conflicts.
Consequently, another core concern is to study the conditions of European social cohesion and the types of European presence in a changing World. The thematic line arose from the assumption that there is knowledge collected by several researchers from several of the CEIS20's groups, which fosters systematic research into the processes of the movement of people and ideas, which make it possible to identify changes in migration flows in a global World and the impact of such space-temporal changes on the complexity of developing identities.
Researchers have been focusing particularly on the following topics:

1. The reception of trends of thought and new political, social, scientific or cultural outlooks and ways of projecting Portuguese production;

2. Tension inside and outside, and connections with tensions between tradition and modernity, development and the lagging behind;

3. Emigration types and relevant effects;

4. Colonisation, decolonisation and the post-colonial context;

5. The reality of insularity, focusing particularly on the enhancement of the Atlantic space;

6. Migrations and exile, in a variety of contexts – political, social, economic, cultural.

The thematic line also addresses the multiple processes of redefining the national context, which vary depending on whether they take place in Europe, Africa and South America.
This line also launches the foundations for research into the conditions for the shift of political and economic decision-making entities to outside Europe and further research into relations with the Far East. Therefore, this line includes guest researchers who conduct research into the international irradiation of the Portuguese culture and, more broadly, of European culture.
Overall, the research conducted is anchored methodologically speaking in a post-colonial conscience and it addresses the ties between territories and identities, firmly guided by the idea of origin and the purpose of inscribing the study of the movement of people, goods and ideas in growing transnational and transcultural concerns.
The thematic line provides the ideal framework for the network on Migrations and Exiles, which envisages pooling experts, both members and non-members of the CEIS20, and promoting the research conducted under the topic migrations /exile. Although it focuses primarily on studies conducted by the Portuguese groups, the network is open to all who, as researchers of this topic, may provide input into the discussion, foster the exchange of experience and information, supporting theoretical reflection and the development of the appropriate methodologies. However, due to the need to know the reasons for emigration/exile and the realities experienced in the settlement areas of Portuguese emigrants and exiles, some boundaries must be established. Therefore, researchers who have worked in the territories with greater concentration of Portuguese emigrants, namely across the Americas, Spain, France and Africa, have been considered.
The thematic line also provides the appropriate horizon for the integrated enhancement of possibilities underlying a vast set of partnerships, with local and regional stakeholders which, in that scale, structure the territory.

1. Organizational structure

For this line, a bimonthly seminar is scheduled to be held from 2015-2020. This seminar will be a space of convergence, streamlining and scientific stabilisation of the inputs provided by researchers from the Groups directly involved in the development of the thematic line. The seminar is closely connected to the 3rd Cycle diploma (PhD) of Contemporary Studies, which professors and doctoral students are encouraged to attend in a continuous and fruitful manner. The seminar is coordinated with equivalent input from other - national and international - Centres, enjoying high reputation in research into this subject matter. The seminar receives outside researchers who provide original outlooks into their own work. The seminar supervisor shall adopt the necessary procedures to ensure the success of initiatives and subsequent collaborative work.
The thematic line is thus organised around a global strategy of initiatives, which includes the Groups and PhD students, as well as the publications of the Centre (journal, reports and collections), coordinated by the Researcher responsible for this line.
The autonomous nature of the groups encourages productivity of the thematic line. Freedom, diversity and creativity in the groups are essential for specialised research, which is also part of the thematic line when required.
The publications 'Estudos do Século XX' and 'Cadernos do CEIS20' - the Centre's scientific production - will be regularly dedicated to this thematic line, thus encouraging reflection on this subject and combining the Group's various outlooks. A biannual meeting will be held to present the group's preliminary findings, and discuss the subject on a national and international level. The publications coordinated by in-house CEIS20 researchers are also open to submissions on these topics.

2. Objectives

The following are the specific objectives:

1. Enhancing research anchored in a post-colonial conscience and addressing the ties between territories and identities, firmly guided by the idea of origin and the purpose of inscribing the study of the movement of people, goods and ideas in growing transnational and transcultural concerns;

2. Consolidating the network of Migrations and Exiles with the following goals: congregate experts in view of disseminating the findings of the research and studies in connection with migrations/exile; fostering discussion, exchange experience and information supporting theoretical and methodological reflections;

3. Promoting the convergence of research lines focus on: refugees/exiles, emigrants/immigrants; nationalisms/regionalisms; African states; journalism providing the setting for the dissemination of knowledge and culture; sports as a social and political phenomenon; history education and reflection on historical memory; cultural heritage and museum studies;

4. Enhancing research into geopolitics and migrations: the construction of identities in regional, national and transnational contexts on the insular, European and Atlantic space; the elites role and powers in the European and Atlantic context – scientific territoriality; production, movement, social-cultural and institutional exchange phenomena in the European and Atlantic context; discourse and projects about European transcultural memory; diplomacy in times of crisis; insular horizons and identity of the Azores, outermost regions; the concept of Atlantic Community; Azores as a strategic area;

5. Enhancing types of mutual understanding between Europe and the Far East (especially Macau and China);

6. Studying, in the field of medicine and health sciences, the Portuguese reception method and mechanisms of scientific and technological innovation; the location, the importance and the projection of Portuguese scientific and technological innovation; the movement of knowledge, raging from national to international, traditional to modern; popular to erudite;

7. Strengthening the thematic line of Images and Cultures on the Move in Portuguese Cinematography: development and update of the Online Dictionary of the Memory of the Portuguese Colonial Empire, based on fiction film from Angola, Brazil, Green Cape, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and East Timor; pursuing the Film cycle about productions in Portuguese-speaking countries, presenting research findings and films; enhancing the knowledge of the Portuguese film production, creating teams from several countries and effective communication systems; analysing colonial representation in Portuguese documentary film from 1920 to 1950;

8. Consolidating the Festival Film and the City: based on the hypothesis of the congenital connection between film production and the city, the group looks into how film invented the cities it screened, while inspiring and disseminating powerful urban imagery;

9. Consolidating fundamental research into Education, Territory and Sustainable Development: relating education to the concept of sustainable development; studying Educational Letters as legitimising tool of strategic planning and development of the school network; analysing educational policies of local governments; designing an alternative reorganisation of local educational policies; projecting new options for the organisation of educational supply based on the coordination between institutions, organised groups and available resources; promoting the preservation of heritage and research into its pedagogical and didactic appropriation;

10. Studying educational policies and organising national education systems, with phenomena like globalisation, transnationalisation and local development;

11. Conducting in-depth research in the field of Communication Sciences, focusing particularly on large contemporary discussions;

12. Establishing innovative forms of digital access to cultural heritage.