Seminar on “Social Representations of African History in the Angolan Education System”

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.

[Posted: 15-03-2023]