José Lingna Nafafé will be speaking on "Abolition and Quilombo", research that is part of his most recent book "Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century", published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lourenco-da-silva-mendonca-and-the-black-atlantic-abolitionist-movement-in-the-seventeenth-century/B030B16D932D0C6A971FAC1BF9A19F5C

Prof. Nafafé is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, co-Director of Teaching for Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and Co-Director of the MA in Black Humanities at the University of Bristol. He has been a Co-Investigator for an ERC Advanced Grant on "Modern Marronage? The Pursuit and Practice of Freedom in the Contemporary World" (31/08/2028 – 31/08/2023) with Prof. Davidson, the Principal Investigator, at the University of Bristol; he is responsible for conducting a study of Quilombos in Brazil, past and present.