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Ramos, M. (2024). O retrato de Esteves Pereira. 100 anos da morte do orientalista Francisco Esteves Pereira, Academia das Ciências.

M. J. Ramos,  "O retrato de Esteves Pereira", in 100 anos da morte do orientalista Francisco Esteves Pereira, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, 2024

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	author = "Ramos, M.",
	title = "O retrato de Esteves Pereira",
	year = "2024",
	howpublished = "Digital",
	url = "https://www.acad-ciencias.pt/events/100-anos-da-morte-de-francisco-maria-esteves-pereira/"
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AB  - This presentation explores the biography and scholarly contributions of Francisco Maria Esteves Pereira (FEP), a Portuguese orientalist and expert in Ethiopian studies, whose work remains both highly regarded within academic circles and largely forgotten by the public. It traces his engagement with the international network of orientalists, particularly through René Basset, and categorizes his research into three main cycles: Ethiopian literature in the context of Portuguese expansion, the publication of Ethiopian hagiographies and royal chronicles, and his late interest in Sanskrit. Despite his substantial contributions, FEP left no disciples, and his memory faded, surviving primarily through a brief nationalist commemoration in 1940 and minimal public recognition in his hometown of Miranda do Douro.  

The presentation also reflects on the phenomenon of historical erasure, considering how memory is constructed and erased over time. It contrasts FEP’s legacy with the modern challenges posed by digital memory and AI-driven knowledge production, highlighting the risks of historical distortion and oversimplification. The role of forgetting in shaping cultural narratives is examined through references to Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (2011) and the implications of algorithmic memory.  

Finally, the discussion broadens to address historiographical challenges, drawing parallels with the case of Jesuit missionary Pedro Páez, whose research on Ethiopia faced censorship and manipulation for political and religious reasons. By analyzing both the commemoration and the forgetting of FEP, the text ultimately questions the processes by which intellectual legacies are preserved, distorted, or erased within national and academic contexts.
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