Curriculum Vitae
Pedro Manuel Sobral Pombo
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Manuel Sobral Pombo
Citation names
- Pombo, Pedro
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7210-65E0-71EA
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7314-8431
Email addresses
- pedromanuelpombo@gmail.com (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2015/05
Concluded
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Antropologia (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"O Espaço entre as Palavras. Antropologia de uma Comunidade no Sul de Moçambique " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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with Distinction by unanimity |
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1993 - 1998
Concluded
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Artes Decorativas - Especialização em Design de Interiores (Licenciatura)
Escola Superior de Artes Decorativas, Portugal
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Goa University, India |
| Goa University, India | ||
| 2015/08 - 2018/07 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/09/22 - 2022/12 | Porous futures in Indian Ocean Africa: oceanic flows and insular socio-ecologies in Mauritius
Researcher
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa
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Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Ongoing
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| 2020/11 - 2022/06 | Macau dos oceanos aos arquivos. Documentação sobre Macau e as suas rotas marítimas do século XIX em arquivos no oceano Índico
0116/DEPUB/2020
Research Fellow
Instituto Cultural de Governo da RAE de Macau, Macau SAR China
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Instituto Cultural de Governo da RAE de Macau
Ongoing
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| 2021/06 - 2021/07 | Afro-Indic Archipelagos: materialities, visual cultures and art practices on African heritages in Indian Ocean islands
none
Research Fellow
Africa Multiple Cluster for Excellence, Bayreuth University, Germany
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Ongoing
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| 2018/12 - 2020/07 | The club, the city, the island
no reference
Principal investigator
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal SA, Portugal
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Rádio e Televisão de Portugal SA
Ongoing
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| 2019/12 - 2020/04 | Village temples with wooden structure in the Goan Ghats
NO REFERENCE
Researcher
Sahapedia - UNESCO, India
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Sahapedia - UNESCO
Concluded
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| 2018/09 - 2018/11 | African topographies in India: (in) visible heritages, circulations and contemporary art
no reference
Research Fellow
Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, Netherlands
International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands |
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2002/03 - 2005/02 | Colonial Logics: Space and Society in Goa
n.a.
Research Fellow
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Newsletter article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2021/02/27 | Ethnographies across the Indian Ocean. Working on landscape, cultural heritages and memories. | Foundation Program
Indian Institute of Technology Goa (Ponda, India)
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| 2020/09/14 | Coast / island / house. Sensorial cartographies and the materiality of Afrasian places | AfricAsia: Overlooked Histories of Exchange
Smithsonian Institute (Washington, United States)
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| 2019/11/26 | "Goa(ns) and other islands: an ongoing collaborative research on the presence of Goans across the Indian Ocean" |
University of Macau (Macau SAR China)
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| 2019/11/25 | "Intercultural changes in the Indian Ocean: Goa, Diu and Sri Lanka in focus" |
Fundacao Rui Cunha (Macau SAR China)
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| 2019/11/25 | Vestígios de cartografias oceânicas: lugar, narrativas e culturas materiais no oceano Índico | Luso-Afro-Asian Dialogues I
CIELA - Universidade de Macau (Macau, Macau SAR China)
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| 2019/10/02 | Fragmented Archipelagos: Contemporary Afro-Asian Archaeologies in the Indian Ocean | Archives of the Afro-Asia: Excavating the Cultural Politics of the Early Decolonization Era
Center for Indian Studies in Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2018/11/21 | Ruins, written walls and personal museums. Belonging, (dis)place and memories at two Indian Ocean margins | From Tokens of Love to Archived Relics: Private Life and Material Culture in Indian Ocean Societies
Université de La Reunion (Saint Denis de La Reunion, France)
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| 2018/09/21 | African topographies in India: (in)visible heritages, African prints and contemporary material culture in the Indian Ocean | International Conference Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge - Second Edition
IIAS and Dar es Salaam University (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
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| 2018/07/07 | “Unfolding circulations in the Indian Ocean: textiles, weavers and heritage between Diu and Mozambique” | International Conference AAS in Asia
Ashoka University and Association for Asian Studies (India)
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| 2018/03/08 | “The water and the stone: maritime urbanities, heritage and memory in an Indian island” | Faculty of Planning Public Talks
CEPT (Ahmedabad, India)
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| 2018/01/03 | Troubling the tide: visual cartographies of mobilities in the Indian Ocean | Order/Disorder in Asia: Historical Perspectives
Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
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| 2017/10/27 | Possibilities of Mapping Mozambique in Diu: narratives, places and senses of belonging across the Indian Ocean | International congress Diu and the Diuese: Multidisciplinar Perspectives
iISCTE-IUL, FLUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/10/03 | Unbounded Heritage: recognizing cartographies of circulation and fluidity in the Indian Ocean | International Seminar Ending Indenture: Comparative perspectives 1875-1038
University of Mauritius (Mauritius)
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| 2017/07/22 | Lines, images and objects: anthropology, art and performing identities in contemporary India | ICAS 2017, International Conference of Asian Scholars
IIAs and University of Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
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| 2017/07/14 | Weaving networks: The economic decline of Diu and maritime circulations of the Vanza community | III CHAM International Conference "Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environment"
CHAM New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/10/04 | Stereos, words in the wall and a Woolworths reed kitchen. Traces of emigration in South Mozambique | international conference Circulations: the (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders
WiSER, Wittwaterand University (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2015/10 | Narrating Ruins: Landscapes of belonging and the remains of history in a southern Mozambican district | international conference A Luta Continua, 40 years later. Entangled Histories and Legacies of Empire in Southern Africa
French Institute of South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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| 2014/09/13 | Está a dar-nos de volta a nossa história´. Trazer o arquivo histórico para o terreno etnográfico | CIEA 9 (9th Iberian Congress of African Studies)
CES Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2013/09/05 | High degree of civilization”. Colonial urbanism and ‘civilizing mission’ in a Southern Mozambique district | International conference Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2016 - 2020/12 | The pol of Ahmedabad: its social production
Co-supervisor
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Architecture (PhD)
CEPT University, India
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| 2017/05 - 2018/05 | Socio-Economic Impact of Tourism: a casa-study of small-scale shopkeepers in Jaipur
Supervisor
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Social Sciences (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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| 2015 - 2016 | Between Kenya, India and the United Kingdom: Study of Transnational networks maintained by Gujarati Hindu Diaspora
Co-supervisor
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Social Sciences (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017/10/27 - 2017/10/28 | CO-organiser of International Congress "Diu and the Diuese: Multidisciplinar Perspectives" (2017/10/27 - 2017/10/28)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2012 - 2015 | AfrikPlay –Chat and a movie, screening documentaries on contemporary Africa (2012 - 2015)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2021/07/21 - 2021/07/23 | Co-convenor of the panel "Fluid Infrastructural Time(s): Temporalities, Spatial Transformations and the (Un)Making of Borders"
Conference
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Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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| 2018/07/05 - 2018/07/08 | Panel convenor: Crisis, Circulations and Change: Populating the Margins of the Indian Ocean
Conference
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AAS in Asia
Ashoka University, India
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| 2017/07/12 - 2017/07/15 | Panel convenor: Practices of defiance: resisting colonial maritime power
Conference
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CHAM International Conference "Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environment",
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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| 2017/06/29 - 2017/07/01 | Panel convenor: Africa and the city. Constrained urbanisation through forced displacement, 7th European Conference on African
Studies
Conference
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ECAS 2017
Universität Basel, Switzerland
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| 2017/03/30 - 2017/03/30 | Participation on the roundtable "Can Heritage be Managed?"
Round table
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"Can Heritage be Managed?"
Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University, India
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2017/04 | Three Essays In Aging And Intergenerational Relationships: Social Capital, Family Dynamics And Transnational Arrangements
(Thesis) Arguer
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Jagriti Gangopadhyay (PhD)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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| 2017/03 | Sedition And Free Speech In India; A Legal Ethnography Of Cases Between 2000-2016
(Thesis) Arguer
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Mujeeb Rahman (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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| 2017/03 | Redistribution, Representation And Democratic Deficit: The Case For Social And Economic Democracies
(Thesis) Arguer
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Prateek Khobragade (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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| 2016/03 | Aspirations of Young Muslim Men in Juhapura
(Thesis) Arguer
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Asaf Ali Lone (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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| 2016/03 | Role of Caste and Class in shaping up of neighbourhood of Chandkheda and Ranip in Ahmedabad
(Thesis) Arguer
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Bargav Oza (Master)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
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Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/03 - 2022/03 | Associate Editor | Asian Review of World Histories, Netherlands |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2021/11/08 - 2021/11/09 | Conferência Internacional Travessias no Índico. Memória e Património | The State University of Zanzibar - SUZA |
| 2016/01/01 - 2016/11/04 | international conference "Circulations: the (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders" | Center for Indian Studies in Africa |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/01 - Current | Research Methodology | Portuguese and Lusophone Studies (Doctor) | Goa University, India |
| 2019 - Current | Portuguese Art | Portuguese and Lusophone Studies (Master) | Goa University, India |
| 2019 - Current | Portuguese Cinema | Portuguese and Lusophone Studies (Master) | Goa University, India |
| 2019 - Current | History of Portugal | Portuguese and Lusophone Studies (Master) | Goa University, India |
| 2019 - Current | Engaging with contemporary ethnographies | Sociology (Master) | Goa University, India |
| 2019 - Current | Out in the Field | Sociology (Master) | Goa University, India |
| 2015 - 2018 | Disrupting Cartographies: Space, Place and Narratives | Social Sciences (Master) | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India |
| 2015 - 2018 | Locating Postcolonial Fieldworks | Social Sciences (Master) | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India |
| 2015 - 2018 | Critical Perspectives on Sociology and Anthropology | Social Sciences (Master) | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India |
| 2015 - 2018 | Mapping Technology and Society | Social Sciences (Bachelor) | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2019/12/03 - 2019/12/03 | TDM Entrevista | Cultural program of Macau Television |