Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Mariana Liz
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7415-05F8-BC5E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3388-4415
- Scopus Author Id
- 56524417600
Email addresses
- mliz@letras.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2012
Concluded
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PhD in Film Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"The Idea of Europe in Contemporary European Cinema" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Passed with no corrections |
2006
Concluded
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Licenciatura em Ciências da Comunicação (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Report on final year project 'Dreams and Visions in Cinema' (April 2006 film programme)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 - Bom com Distinção |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal |
2020/12/02 - 2021/12/31 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2017/04/01 - 2020/12/01 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/01/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
2013/08/01 - 2016/07/31 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
2012/09/24 - 2013/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom |
2009/10/01 - 2013/02/01 | Tutor (University Teacher) | King's College London, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/09 - 2025/08 | Institutional Documentary & Amateur Cinema in the Colonial Era (El documental institucional y el cine de aficionado coloniales:
análisis y usos)
PID2021-123567NB-I00
Researcher
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España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
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2018/01 - 2022/09 | Cinema of mobility in the Hispanic Atlantic ('Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad: el eje Atlántico Hispánico')
Researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual, Spain
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Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
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2017/04 - 2020/12 | Screening the European City
SFRH/BPD/115319/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2017/09 - 2019/02 | Portuguese Women Directors
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
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2008/10 - 2012/09 | The Idea of Europe in Contemporary European Cinema
SFRH/BD/43258/2008
PhD Student Fellow
King's College London, United Kingdom
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/12/02 - 2021/12/31 | The Screen Geographies of Contemporary Lisbon
CEECIND/00824/2018
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Edited book |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Magazine article |
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Newsletter article |
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Newspaper article |
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Report |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2025/06 | From “New Wave Woman” to Tragic Heroine: Rediscovering Ilda in The Green Years | NECS Annual Conference, ‘Discovering/Undiscovering’
Universidade Lusófona / NECS (Portugal)
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2025/05 | Half Full: Positive Developments in Contemporary European Cinema | Frames of Change: Historicizing Recent European Cinema (1990–2025)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
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2025/03 | 50 Years of Women’s Cinema in Portugal: a Transnational History | PhD in Media Research Seminars
Communication and Media Studies Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
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2024/12 | Women in European Screens: Focus on Contemporary Portugal | The Digital Zone of European Film and Television Culture
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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2024/10 | A lexislación portuguesa na busca de novos públicos e diversidade: Un achegamento dende a colaboración da academia nas políticas públicas | Simposio Internacional Proxecto LEXCAV: As linguas minorizadas no audiovisual a dous anos da aprobación da Lei 13/2022
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Spain)
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2024/10 | Passé colonial et visions post-coloniales: A Costa dos Murmúrios | Le Portugal de nos jours - Carrefours d'identités vus par le cinema, Cours public
Université de Genève (Switzerland)
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2024/06 | A ausência presente do autor em Gestos e Fragmentos | Colóquio ‘Contar de Abril. Testemunho e Revolução'
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2024/06 | Portuguese cinema’s emerging diversity: the case of Basil da Cunha | International Conference: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2024/03 | 'Alma Viva: A Return to Nature and to Portuguese Film History', Part of the pre-constituted panel ‘Contemporary Iberian Cinema and the Ecological Turn’ | SCMS Annual Conference
SCMS – Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Boston, United States)
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2025/03 - 2025/03 | Invited Speaker, ‘O Cinema de Regina Pessoa’, AFCD Online, Take 22, Plano Nacional de Cinema, 6 March 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taHRUcwWyd8
Workshop
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O Cinema de Regina Pessoa
Plano Nacional de Cinema, Portugal
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2025/03 - 2025/03 | Presentation of Mosquito (2020) – Filme Comentado, 1ª Edição de Encontros com a História, Associação de Professores de História, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra, Portugal, 7-8 March 2025. | 1ª Edição de Encontros com a História
Associação de Professores de História, Portugal
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2025/01 - 2025/01 | ‘Marginality, Resilience and Escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen’: speaker at the ‘Alphaville: Home as a Site of Resistance’
SCMS U/G/A SIG 24-25 Virtual Event, 24 January 2025.
Symposium
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SCMS U/G/A SIG 24-25 Virtual Event
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, United States
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2025/01 - 2025/01 | ‘Movimento: imagem e mecânica’: Second session of the series ‘A Ciência é Linda!’, conversations about science for the city,
organized by the project “Study & Research in Lisbon”, Lisbon City Council (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa), Lisbon, Portugal.
29 January 2025.
Round table
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A Ciência é Linda!
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
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2024/11 - 2024/11 | Book Presentation: Cinema e Dialéctica: Uma Gramática Profunda (2024), by Sérgio Dias Branco (UCoimbra), with Paulo Cunha
(UBI), Livraria Linha de Sombra, Cinemateca Portuguesa, 6 November 2024.
Round table
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Editora Página a Página, Portugal
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2024/09 - 2024/09 | Invited speaker for launch event of the Monique Rutler retrospective catalogue, ‘Conversa sobre a obra de Monique Rutler’,
Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 September 2024
Round table
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Conversa sobre a obra de Monique Rutler
Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - 2026 | Member of the Advisory Board of the ‘Leading Women’ research project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council,
coordinated by Sally Faulkner (Exeter), Hilary Owen (Oxford) and Núria Triana Toríbio (Kent): https://leadingwomenproject.com/pt/
Advisor / Consultant
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2024 - 2024 | Coordinator of the course “O 25 de Abril Através do Cinema”, directed at teachers and educators wanting to discuss best practices and resources about film and history in Portugal, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, January-March 2024 | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2021 - Current | New Studies in European Cinema (Peter Lang): Series Editor | Peter Lang Publishing Oxford, United Kingdom |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2024/12 | ‘A Revolução em Movimento: Pensar o 25 de Abril através do Cinema’, interview, Revista ULisboa, 31, pp. 10-17, December 2024. | Revista ULisboa |
2023/06 | Interviewed for Público for an article on the future of Portuguese cinema: https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/02/culturaipsilon/noticia/cinema-portugues-beira-fim-futuro-radioso-2051459 | Público |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2025 - 2025 | Jornal 2 - RTP: Cinema Feito por Mulheres em Portugal | Mostra Elas Fazem Filmes: cinema feito por mulheres em Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023/06 - Current | International Journal of Iberian Studies (17589150 ) | Intellect |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2025 - 2025 | Jury member: Support for Artistic Creation (Apoio à Criação Artística), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
2024/04 - 2024/06 | Jury member: Support for Artistic Creation (Apoio à Criação Artística), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2025 | Menção Honrosa: Prémios Científicos ULisboa/CGD, Área Científica de Estudos de Literatura e Cultura
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2024 | The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies
The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies, Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University , Romania
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