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Curator: Ana Calçada Commissaries: Alfredo Caldeira, Fátima Sá, Isabel do Carmo, Patricia Alves, Paula Cabeçadas, Raquel Santos Opening and Round-table Discussion: Municipal Museum of Ethnography and History – 19 Sep 17:00 Featuring: Isabel do Carmo, doctor, lecturer and anti-fascist activist, co-coordinator and co-author (with Ana Calçada and Patrícia Alves) of the exhibition “Empire of Fear”; Ana Calçada, who holds a degree in Social Policy and a Master’s in Education and Society, curator of the exhibition “Empire of Fear” and numerous others; Ana Cristina Pereira (AKA Kitty Furtado), who holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a researcher at CECS (UMinho), where she is developing the project “The Black Gaze: Black Cinema in Portugal”. She works as an independent curator of (post-)colonial and Black cinema screenings, organising public debates on Memory, Racism and Reparations. In this discussion, the speakers will address the historical and contemporary significance of slavery, the trafficking networks that sustained it, and the many forms of racism today, inviting the audience to engage in a critical examination of the past and the present.