Ricardo Roque (IKOS, March-June 2026)

Ricardo Roque is a historian and Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a scholar of colonialism and its intersections with the human sciences from 1800 to the present.

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Ricardo works on the history and anthropology of human sciences and colonialism. His research bridges imperial history, historical anthropology, and the global history of racial sciences, bringing ethnographic methods and social theory to bear on the understanding of colonial archives and of collections of human remains in museums.

At Lisbon, he is currently the PI of Ancient Portuguese Manuscripts in Timor-Leste, a project funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme and the Director of the ICS Press (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), Portugal’s main university press on social sciences and humanities.

At Oslo, Roque will work on the completion of a book manuscript on the history and ethnography of colonial archives and museum collections of human remains. He will also develop the experimental theme “Colonial Environmental Archives”, through a reading group program and seminar series, in collaboration with Hugo Reinert.