Curriculum Vitae
Sofia Pinto
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sofia Pinto
Citation names
- Pinto, Sofia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0310-0E46-3520
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9646-1295
Email addresses
- srpinto@ucp.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Arts
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| French (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Chinese | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2015 - 2021
Concluded
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Estudos de Cultura (Doutoramento)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Urban Failures & Other Imaginations: Walking, Writing, and Transgressing the Gendered City " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013 - 2015
Concluded
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Estudos de Cultura (Mestrado)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Cidades Transientes, Cidades Resilientes: A Trajectória Conjunta da Street Art e do Muro de Berlim " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2004 - 2007
Concluded
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Teatro (Licenciatura)
Major in Formação de Atores
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2010 - 2012 | Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2015 - 2019 | Urban Failures & Other Imaginations: Walking, Writing, and Transgressing the Gendered City
Sem referência
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2014/08 - 2015/01 | Bolsa de Iniciação Científica
Sem referência
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/07 | Archiving the Wild: Urban Wild Plants and the Ceramic Herbarium of María Ulecia | Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference: Memories in Transit
(Praga, Czech Republic)
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| 2025/06 | “Wall Watching: Observing Urban Walls and Activism” | CombART 2025
Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH e IPLEIRIA) Instituto de História da Arte (IHA-NOVA FCSH)
Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (IS-UP) CITCEM - Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar «Cultura, Espaço
e Memóri
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| 2025/03 | “Edible Encounters with the Wild: Human Foraging as Subaltern knowledge” | The "Food-Webbed World" Conference
CECC (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/07 | “Herbaria and the alternative archive of urban wild plants: María Ulecia´s Ferae Plantae Portum” | Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference: Memories in Transit
Memory Studies Association (Lima, Peru)
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| 2023/11/08 | Identidade, Cultura & Diferença: "What's culture got to do with it?' |
University of Minho
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| 2023/07 | "Feminist Collages: A Transnational And Insurgent Archive Of Feelings" |
Memory Studies Association
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| 2023/05/12 | "Girl Power, Graffiti, and Herstory: History by Other Means" | Transatlantic Women Networks: Cultural Engagements from 19th Century to Present
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/05 | "Girl Power, Graffiti, and Herstory: History by Other Means" | Transatlantic Women Networks: Cultural Engagements from 19th Century to Present
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023 | "Identidade, Cultura & Diferença: "What's culture got to do with it?'" | Ciclo de palestras “Design à mesa com …”, integrado na Unidade Curricular “Cultura do Design Contemporâneo”, da Licenciatura
em Design do Produto e da Unidade Curricular “Seminários I”, do Mestrado em Design do Produto e Serviços
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
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| 2022/02/25 | "Marielle, One Thousand, and Many More: The Resilience of Political Street Art" | Glocal Street Art: Places, Identities, Narratives
Université Rennes 2 (Rennes, France)
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| 2022/02/25 | "Marielle, One Thousand, and Many More: The Resilience of Political Street Art" |
Université Rennes 2
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| 2021/05/27 | "Walls That Speak: Graffiti & Street Art" | InterCECCtions
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Portugal)
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| 2021/05/27 | InterCECCtions | InterCECCtions
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/06/20 | Why Have There Not Been Great Women [Graffiti and Street] Artists? |
NOVA University Lisbon
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| 2018/06 | Alfama, Walls of Fame: Framing Graffiti and Street Art as Assertions Of Democratic Authority | Conference Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/03 | In the Name Of |
International Association of Inter-American Studies
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| 2017/11 | "Lisbon: The Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle of Tourism" | Society of the Spectacle - 50 Years Later
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/11 | Lisbon: The Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle of Tourism |
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
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| 2017/09 | "A Woman's Job: Claiming Public Space Through Graffiti and Street Art" | Conference "Rethinking Global Justice: “An International Academic Conference for Critical Urban Studies" (International Sociological
Association), Panel "A Self- Reproducing Movement: Everyday Failures and Queer Solidarities"
Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/09 | A Woman's Job: Claiming Public Space Through Graffiti and Street Art |
Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association
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| 2017/06 | In the Name Of: Tagging As Resistance | VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Transvisuality
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/06 | In the Name Of: Tagging as Resistance | VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/06 | "The Irresistible Urge for Visual Self-Representation: From Earth to Outer Space and Vice-Versa" | VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Transvisuality
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016/06 | The Irresistible Urge for Visual Self-Representation: From Earth to Outer Space and Vice-Versa | VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/11/07 - 2024/11/08 | Conjunctures of Hospitality: Conditions, Articulations, and Affects of Border Encounters (2024/11/07 - 2024/11/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Faculty of Human Sciences, Portugal |
| 2023/07/03 - 2023/07/08 | XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Future/Futures (2023/07/03 - 2023/07/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Faculty of Human Sciences, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2023 | XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Future/Futures (2023/07/03 - 2023/07/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal |
| 2019/05/31 - 2019/06/02 | Archiving Performance (2019/05/31 - 2019/06/02)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023 - 2024 | Cities and Urban Cultures | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2024 | English Culture | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2022 - 2023 | Migrações, Interculturalidade e Direitos Humanos | Licenciatura em Serviço Social (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2022 - 2023 | Cities and Urban Cultures | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2022 - 2023 | English Culture | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2022 | Migrações, Interculturalidade e Direitos Humanos | Licenciatura em Serviço Social (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2022 | English Culture | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2023 | Enrevista na sequência da atribuição do Prémio Internacional em Estudos Culturais - Virgínia Quaresma | Alma Mater (UCP) |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2018/05 - 2019/09 | Diffractions (2183-2188) | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | Prémio Internacional em Estudos Culturais – Virgínia Quaresma (Best Thesis)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2016 | Best Paper Award - VI Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture |