No dia 10 de março terá lugar o seminário "Processes of (ir-)reconciliations. Reconciliation between ‘instructed’ forgetting and inofficial remembering in Nampula", do Grupo de Investigação "Regime e Instituições Políticas". Este seminário contará com a presença de Magdalena Freischlad (Centre for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane; Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique, e Visiting student at the ICS U-DANT Lisboa). 

O evento decorrerá das 11:00h às 13:00h, na sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa. 

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"Mozambique has been considered a best-practice case for reconciliation by Transitional Justice (TJ) scholars and practitioners alike. “Forgetting the past” has been identified as the key to success: On the political level an amnesty has been implemented, on the local level political and religious leaders have promoted the message of “let the past rest”, instructing the population to forget the memories of the war. However, despite the “instructed” forgetting, contested memories prevail. In Nampula, especially during election time and with regard to the still on-going peace process, narratives of the civil war re-emerge putting into question the narrative of successful reconciliation in Mozambique. Based on 14 months of field research between 2019 and 2021 in Mozambique, I am analysing why these narratives emerge and critically reflect on what this could mean for the role of ‘forgetting’ in Mozambique’s reconciliation process in specific and for the concept of reconciliation in TJ-studies in general."

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Magdalena Freischlad, M.A. studied History and Politics in Berlin and Paris (FU Berlin/Sciences Po Paris), specializing in decolonization processes in Africa. During her studies she completed a research internship at the Department of History at SciencesPo Paris, she was a student assistant at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute at FU Berlin and part of the research group on ‘Emotions and Motion’ of the Department of ‘Politics of Change’ at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.
After her studies Magdalena Freischlad has worked as a Political Advisor for Public Finance and Development Aid at the German Bundestag (2014-2015), as Director and Head of Communication at Mission East Germany (2015-2016) and as Head of Project and Coordinator International Religious Dialogue at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2016-2017). Since March 2018, she serves as board member of Opportunity International Deutschland e.V.
In 2019 she started her dissertation titled “Knowledge of reconciliation. Religious practices as local forms of transitional justice in Mozambique (1992-2019)”. Between 2019 and 2021 she has been conducting 14 months of field research in Mozambique (Maputo, Nampula). She obtained a one-year-PhD scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since 2020 her dissertation is fully funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. She is a visiting student at the ICS U-DANT Lisboa and affiliated with two Mozambican universities (Centre for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane; Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universidade Lúrio).