In remembrance
On this page we would like to remember two Portuguese colleagues who have contributed to REFAT's activities from the beginning, but who unfortunately left us.
Carlos Cordeiro
Born on August 22, 1946 in Ponta Delgada (São Miguel Island), Carlos Alberto da Costa Cordeiro grew up in the Azores during the Estado Novo and experienced the Colonial War in Angola. He was Professor at the University of the Azores (UA) and Integrated Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20/UC). He was Director of the UA Center for International Relations and Strategy Studies and Coordinator of the respective Master in International Relations. It has always sought to promote the strengthening of cooperation ties, both inter-university and with State apparatus and with organizations of "civil societies".
He worked with contemporary history of the Azores in the contexts of Portuguese history and global history. He paid particular attention to political regimes and their respective political-administrative configurations, Azorean emigration and Azorean autonomy after the institutionalization of democracy, the Azorean press and the implications for the Azores of military conflicts that marked the 20th century. Within the scope of what REFAT is today, among other participations, he organized the Colloquium “Authoritarianism, totalitarianism and democratic responses” (Ribeira Grande, São Miguel Island, 2008) and coordinated a collective work with the same title (Coimbra, CEIS20 / UC, 2011). He passed away on September 19, 2018.
Jorge Pais de Sousa
Born in 1960, Jorge Manuel Garrido Pais de Sousa made his academic career at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, having completed a Degree in Philosophy, a Specialization in Documentary Sciences, a Master and a PhD in Contemporary History. Librarian by profession, he was an Integrated Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20/UC), as well as a postdoctoral fellow from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He taught at several Higher Education institutions, namely at the Instituto Superior Bissaya Barreto and at the Faculties of Letters and Law of the University of Coimbra.
He published a significant number of books, essays and articles, both in Portugal and abroad, in the field of institutional and political history, as well as contemporary cultural and intellectual history, with special emphasis on the works Bissaya Barreto: Ordem e Progresso (1999) and O Fascismo Catedrático de Salazar (2011). He was a member of several networks and organizations of a scientific nature, having actively participated in the process of creating REFAT. He died in Coimbra, on May 24, 2019.