Film Screening: Tales of Oblivion with director Dulce Fernandes

Tales of Oblivion is a powerful film about the 2009 unearthing of human remains in Portugal that were traced to the 15th-century slave trade. This archaeological find reveals how the violence and brutality of the transatlantic slave trade was suppressed in Portugal's selective historical memory, and how this silence reverberates in society's racism today.

Read more about the film and Dulce Fernandes in this article by António Tomás, associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, in Africa is a Country Newsletter. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese, History, and CLALS. It is organized by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, associate professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.