Ricardo Roque
Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2007) after studying sociology and historical sociology in Lisbon (BA, MA, Nova University of Lisbon). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-13) and is now an Honorary Associate in the Department of History of the University of Sydney. At Lisbon he now heads the Research Group Empires, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Societies (http://gi-imperios.org/blog/) and teaches in the Doctoral Programs in History and Anthropology.
Roque works on the history and anthropology of human sciences, colonialism, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world, from 1800 to the twentieth-century. His first book (Antropologia e Império, 2001) analyzed the colonial origins of physical anthropology in late imperial Goa. His second book (Headhunting and Colonialism, 2010) explored headhunting, colonial violence, and the circulation of human skulls to anthropological museums in Europe, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Over the past four years he has been engaged in the historical ethnography of colonial mimesis and in comparative studies of racial thought and colonial collections. Drawing on this research, Roque is currently working on two book projects. The first is a monograph that explores the connected histories of anthropometry and racial theory in Portugal and its colonial empire between 1880 and 1945. The second is a history of the so-called ‘Colonial Anthropological Missions’ to Portuguese Africa and Asia, from their origins in the 1930s to their legacies in the present. A result of this research are also the volumes Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents (co-edited with Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Ventura Santos), a critical comparative history of luso-tropicalist claims; and Crossing Histories and Ethnographies (co-edited with Elizabeth Traube), a historical anthropology of colonial historicities in Timor-Leste, both published by Berghahn in 2019. Current research includes also a Portuguese Research Council (FCT) funded project entitled, Indigenous Colonial Archives: Micro-histories and Comparisons.
Roque’s research has been funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the University of Cambridge (Smuts Memorial Fund and Darwin College), the Orient Foundation, and the Australian Research Council.
He was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2012), Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History of the Johns Hopkins University (2018), and Visiting Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2019).
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How the ‘natives’ make colonial archives: a research project | Department of History Seminar | 19/11/2018 |
Historicizing Lusophone racial exceptionalism | Portuguese Program Speaker Series | 29/10/2018 |
Bleeding languages: race, blood types and linguistic groups in the late Portuguese colonial empire | The Monday Seminar | 01/10/2018 |
Línguas que sangram: raça e grupos linguísticos nas Missões Antropológicas | Ciência e Império na Era da Descolonização | 25/06/2018 |
Entre o arquivo e o terreno: cruzando histórias e etnografias | Memória & História: os arquivos de e para Timor | 24/05/2018 |
Antropologia física, botânica e império | Cultura, Ciência e Política em Portugal no século XX, 5º ciclo | 11/04/2018 |
The future that never was: colonial collections from the Anthropological Missions | To Research and Exhibit Human Biological Diversity | 22/03/2018 |
O sangue que fica: como termina uma ‘ciência colonial’ | Ciência Colonial? | 16/03/2018 |
Negrito de Timor: ethnic craniology and racial inscriptions in nineteenth century Europe | Missing and Missed: the subject, politics and memorialization | 01/03/2018 |
The blondes of Aituha and other stories: the racialization of indigenous traditions in colonial East Timor | American Historical Association 132nd Meeting | 05/01/2018 |
Mendels peas, elsewhere: Mendelism, race, and the histories of human biological collections | 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Science and power, science as power | 23/09/2016 |
Mutant races, bonds of affect: Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor, 1940-1960 | Racial Conceptions in the Twentieth-Century: Comparisons, connections and circulations in the Portuguese-speaking Global South | 05/04/2016 |
Stories, skulls, and human remains collections | Informal workshop on race at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam | 20/12/2011 |
Reflections on the colonial trade between civilization and savagery in the 'feast of the heads', Timor 1859-1863 | Workshop Selfing: Contact, Magic, Selfhood | 12/09/2011 |
Usos e Costumes em Timor colonial | XI Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais. Diversidades e (Des)Igualdade | 01/08/2011 |
Skull archives: objects and texts from colonial East Timor | Workshop Fieldwork between folders: theories of the archive and the historical anthropology of colonialism | 14/07/2011 |
Engaging colonial knowledge | Department II - Socialist and Postsocialist Eurasia Seminar | 13/07/2011 |
To merge ourselves with their social manners': race, law and mimetic governmentality in nineteenth century East Timor | Workshop Race, Gender, Culture: Creating Identities within Cross-cultural Historical Contexts | 01/06/2011 |
A administração colonial e o inquérito sobre usos e costumes | Colóquio Timor: Missões Científicas e Antropologia Colonial | 01/05/2011 |
Faithful reproductions? Colonial ethnographies as mimetic technologies in East Timor | 10th SIEF Conference, Panel: New histories of anthropology: the hidden emotions of colonial ethnography | 01/04/2011 |
Exemplary centers and mimetic authority in colonial East Timor | Workshop Colonialism and Theories of Imitation | 01/04/2011 |
Homens que queriam ser reis: heróis e guerreiros das campanhas de ocupação | Seminário Mimetismos Coloniais no Império Português | 24/03/2011 |
Os portugueses e a 'festa das cabeças'. Timor, 1860-1912 | Conferência proferida na Universidade de Macau | 09/03/2011 |
Histórias de sementes, Histórias de civilização | Mesa-Redonda Sementes e Civilização, Ciclo de Debates "Sementes: Valor Capital" | 04/02/2011 |
Caixa e bandeira: palavras, coisas e rituais do comando colonial em Timor Leste | Conferência Internacional A Lusofonia entre encruzilhadas culturais | 01/02/2011 |
The ceremonial language of colonial command: managing deference and etiquette in nineteenth century East Timor | Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011 | 01/09/2010 |
Histórias, colecções e classificações científicas | Ciência 2010. Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal | 01/07/2010 |
Anthropology, racial topography and political geography in East Timor | 19th Annual Conference of the World History Association | 01/06/2010 |
Colonialismo e Imitação: questões preliminares | I Encontro "A Investigação no ICS" | 01/03/2010 |
In search of black races in East Timor | Race, Encounters and the Constitution of Human Difference in Oceania | 01/01/2010 |
Race Relations in "Portuguese Asia" | Race Relations: The Portuguese-Speaking World in Comparative Perspective. International Symposium | 11/12/2009 |
A Magia da Distância: Colonialismo e Bandeiras Nacionais em Timor Leste | Seminário de Sociologia Histórica Comparada - Vitorino Magalhães Godinho | 10/11/2009 |
Ossos, Palavras, Materialidades | Estudos sobre a Ciência em Portugal: Rumos Contemporâneos | 06/05/2009 |
The Imitation of Law and the Laws of Imitation in Colonial East Timor | Conference Lusofonia and Anthropology: the Status of Race in Lusophone Social Science | 02/04/2009 |
A História Oculta da Colecção de Crânios de Timor da Universidade de Coimbra | Ciclo de Seminários de Antropologia | 01/12/2008 |
Museus, Práticas de Documentação e Mobilidade de Restos Humanos | VII Encontro de Sociologia dos Açores/Colloque International CES-UA/AISLF | 26/11/2008 |
Durkheim and the flag: colonial forms of religious life in East Timor | Conference Tarde/Durkheim: Trajectories of the Social | 01/03/2008 |
Encounters with Parasites: Ceremonial Violence and Colonial Interactions in East Timor | Seminar on the Portuguese-Speaking World | 01/02/2008 |
O Outro ou o Mesmo: "Caça de Cabeças" e Etnografias Militares em Timor Leste | Colóquio Imagem e Diferença: entre a identificação do outro e o conhecimento de si próprio | 01/10/2007 |
Histórias de crânios e o problema da classificação antropológica de Timor | II Ciclo de Jovens Cientistas Sociais | 01/12/2006 |
Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor | Workshop Beyond Deconstruction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge | 01/09/2006 |
Wordless Skulls: the Order of Things in the Circulation of Museum Objects | HoST Annual Workshop The Circulation of Science and Technology: Places, Travels, Landscapes | 01/06/2006 |
Raça e História, em Miniatura | Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia "Afinidade e Diferença" | 01/04/2006 |
"O Trigo e o Joio": Segredos e Botânica Médica em Goa, c. 1850-1930 | Seminário Medicina Colonial, Estruturas do Império e Vidas Pós-Coloniais em Português | 01/01/2006 |
"Skull-hunters": Physical Anthropology and Colonial Action | Meeting of the 4S & EASST Public Proofs: Science, Technology and Democracy | 01/08/2004 |
What's in a Head? Anthropology and the Circulation of "Stuffed Human Heads" | Fifth British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS | 01/08/2004 |
Do "Things" Matter? History and the Material Life of Colonial Anthropology | Artefacts in Fieldwork & Theory Seminar | 01/05/2004 |
"Talking Skulls": Physical Anthropology in the British and Portuguese Empires c. 1880-1930 | Commonwealth and Overseas History Seminar | 01/04/2004 |
Crania Etnica: Anthropology and Head Traffic in the Late 19th Century | ASA Decennial Conference - Anthropology and Science | 01/07/2003 |
Anthropology and Empire: Fonseca Cardoso and the Military Expedition to India in 1895 | World History Workshop | 01/12/2002 |
Fonseca Cardoso e a Antropologia de Timor no Início do Século XX | VII Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais | 01/09/2002 |
Sementes Contra a Varíola: Joaquim Vás e a Tradução Científica das Pevides de Bananeira Brava | International Seminar Saberes Médicos e Práticas Terapêuticas: Brasil e Portugal | 01/09/2002 |
Le Foyer, les Enfants et Moi: Gérer la Confiance dans des Quotidiens Féminins de Pauvreté | Colloque International de l'Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française | 01/09/2002 |
Nature Strikes "Us" Again: Governing Nature as a Post-Social Object | EASST' 2002 Conference Responsibility under Uncertainty: Science, Technology, and Accountability | 01/08/2002 |
The Razor's Edge: Practicing the Empire in Hinterland Angola (Moxico, 1894-1905) | Portuguese/African Encounters. An Interdisciplinary Congress | 01/04/2002 |
Cultura e Práticas de Leitura em Situações de "Exclusão Social" | V Encontro de Sociologia dos AÇores | 01/11/2001 |
Antropologia, Medicina e Etnicidade em Situação Colonial: o Caso dos Luso-Descendentes | VI Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais | 01/09/2000 |
Doctors for the Empire: Learning Western Medicine and Reproducing Subalternity in Colonial Goa | 12/03/2000 | |
Anthropological Practice and Colonial Order: the Emergence of Portuguese Colonial Anthropology | EASST'98 General Conference. Cultures of Science and Technology: Europe and the Global Context | 01/10/1998 |
Colonial Anthropology in Portugal (1870-1940) | Round Table Intellectuals and Politics in Portugal: Between Literature and Science | 01/11/1997 |