The Communication and Diversity Seminar on “Social Representations of African History in the Angolan Education System” will be held on April 11 at 4 pm in the ICS Meeting Room.
The session will feature Jacob Lussento Cupata from the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences in Sumbe.
Jacob Lussento Cupata has a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Minho/Portugal, a Master’s degree in Intercultural Relations from the Open University of Lisbon/Portugal and a degree in Education Sciences in the History Teaching option from the Agostinho Neto University/Angola. He is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Teaching and Research in Social Sciences at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação do Sumbe (ISCED/S), where he teaches History of Africa, Pedagogical Practices and Cultural Anthropology.
He is currently a collaborating researcher in Cultural Studies at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho, and a member of the team working on the project “MigraMediaActs — Migrations, media, and activism in the Portuguese language: decolonising media landscapes and imagining alternative futures”.
His main areas of research are social representations, interculturality, African history, textbook analysis and memory and social identity.