{"id":17504,"date":"2026-03-25T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=17504"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:07:03","slug":"raquel-lima","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/literackisopot.pl\/en\/people\/raquel-lima\/","title":{"rendered":"Raquel Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is a poet, art educator, performer, essayist, curator and transdisciplinary artist. She has a degree in Artistic Studies and she is a PhD candidate in Post-Colonial Studies. Her research focuses on orature, slavery and Afrodiasporic movements, and she co-organized the Conference Afroeuropeans: Black In\/Visibilities Contested (ISCTE, 2019), and co-edited the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Routledge, 2025). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has presented her academic work at various international conferences, most notably the Conference Authoring Human Rights in West Africa and beyond: Expressions of slaveries in Literature (texts) and the Arts (visuals) at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana (2023), and th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e Conference Decolonial Remains: Scrutinizing African Studies in Africa and the Unfinished Business of Decolonization at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria (2022).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, she was invited to the Venice Biennale as a speaker at the event Loophole of Retreat, invited as keynote speaker to the opening session of the World Congress of Women in Mozambique, and invited to the event Literature Talk: Poets from Black Europe at BOZAR in Belgium. In 2023 she was invited to the 35th S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial, curated the Conference <em>Reformulating Authority and Authorship in the Arts<\/em>\u00a0in Lisbon, and was elected one of the 100 most influential Black personalities in Lusophony by Bantumen magazine&#8217;s annual Power List. In 2024 she was invited as a keynote speaker to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Race in Iberia Symposium<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at The Ohio State University. She published the poetry books <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ingenuidade Inoc\u00eancia Ignor\u00e2ncia <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00daLULU<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and co-founded The Black Union of the Arts in Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">pic. 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