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Catarina Laranjeiro is a CEEC (Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus) junior researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC, NOVA-FCSH) with the project "African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow" (2020.00202.CEECIND). She works on vernacular cinema, particularly in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and their diasporas communities in Portugal. At the IHC, she co-heads the Research Line 'Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication', and she integrated the research project "Amilcar Cabral, from Political History to the Politics of Memory" (PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/5214). She holds a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Following a transdisciplinary academic path, she holds a degree in Social Psychology from the University of Lisbon and a Master of Media and Visual Anthropology from Freie Universitaet Berlin. She was the editor of the "Exhibitions and Film Festivals" section and a member of the editorial board at Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image. She has published one peer-reviewed book, seven peer-reviewed articles (3 in SCOPUS/Web of Science journals, and seven book chapters. As a filmmaker, she directed the film "Pabia di Aos" (2013) and co-directed "Fire in the Mud" (2022). She has participated in several projects that interlace anthropology, cinema, and visual arts. Her main research interests focus on colonial and postcolonial cinema, vernacular cinema, home movies, memory politics, and gender studies.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina de Castro Laranjeiro

Citation names

  • Laranjeiro, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3B1B-F392-12F3

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013 - 2019
Concluded
Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship (Doutoramento)
Major in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
"Between Images and Spirits: Encounters with the Memory of Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved with honors
2011 - 2013
Concluded
Master of Arts Visual and Media Anthropology (Master)
Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Germany
"We, the War" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2010 - 2012
Concluded
Digital Visual Cultures (Pós-Graduação)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
18
2008 - 2012
Concluded
Cinema / Moving Image (Curso médio)
Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Portugal
2006 - 2007
Concluded
Photography (Curso médio)
Escola Oficina da Imagem, Portugal
2001 - 2006
Concluded
Psicologia (Variante Psicologia Social, do Trabalho e das Organizações) (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/06/01 - 2027/05/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2012/05/01 - 2012/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2008/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2012/01/01 - 2012/11/30 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Turismo do Porto e Norte de Portugal, Portugal
2010/11/01 - 2011/03/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Associação Solidariedade Imigrante, Portugal
2009/04/01 - 2010/07/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Fundação Fé e Cooperação, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2009/03/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude, Portugal
2008/10/01 - 2008/12/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Fundação Aga Khan, Portugal
2006/09 - 2007/07 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01/02 - 2022/12/31 Co-Head of Research Line 'Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication' Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023 - Current FOCOS - Photography, Community and Social Sustainability | FOCOS - Fotografia, Comunidade e Sustentabilidade Social
"SUBMITTED"
Submitted
2013/10/01 - 2017/12/31 Between Images and Spirits: Encounters with the Memory of Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau
PD/BD/52253/2013
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/05/01 - 2012/11/30 Immigrants and social support services: technologies of citizenship in Portugal
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/07/01 - Current African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow
2020.00202.CEECIND
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/07/01 - 2019/12/31 Amílcar Cabral, da História Política às Políticas da Memória
PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Sorbonne Université, France

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina. Dos Sonhos e das Imagens: A Guerra de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Dreams and Images: The War of Liberation in Guinea-Bissau]. 2021.
    Accepted
Book chapter
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Bernardo, Luís. "Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: O início e o fim da história [Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: the beginning and the end of History].". In Fernando Matos Silva. O cinema a fazer realidade [Fernando Matos Silva. Cinema making reality]., 265-278. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições da Cinemateca, 2024.
    Published
  2. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Cunha, Paulo; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. "(Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture". In Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics, edited by Natalia Telepneva; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; LIESELOTTE VIAENE; Miye Tom. Corresponding author: LIESELOTTE VIAENE. "The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia". In Sexual Misconduct in Academia: Informing an Ethics of Care in the University, edited by Erin Pritchard; Delyth Edwards, 208-225. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023.
    Published
  4. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences". In Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies), edited by Afonso Dias Ramos; Filipa Lowndes Vicente, 369-372. United Kingdom: Palgrave macmillan, 2023.
    Published
  5. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Novas visualidades e resistências: partir do que os amuletos nos mostram para chegar ao que os amuletos escondem". In Modos de Ser, Modos de Fazer: Conexões Parciais entre Antropologia e Arte, 315-338. Lisboa, Portugal: Etnográfica Press, 2022.
    Published
  6. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "From the Tabanca to Bissau, from Bissau to the Diaspora: Social narratives in the Bissau-Guinean popular cinema". In Contemporary Lusophone African Film, 131-44. 2020.
    Published
  7. Galvão, Inês; Laranjeiro, Catarina (3B1B-F392-12F3). "Gender Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Participation On and Off the Liberation Record". In Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History, edited by Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Roque, Ricardo; Domingos, Nuno, 85-122. Lisboa, Portugal: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-19167-2_4
  8. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "(In) visible Dialogues between Death and Nation-State". In The Struggle is not over yet, edited by César, Filipa; Faria, Nuno; Hering, Tobias, 209-233. Berlim, Germany: Archive Books, 2018.
    Published
  9. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Bernardo, Luís. "Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: o início e o fim da História [Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: the beginning and the end of History]". In A Colecção Colonial da Cinemateca [The Cinematheque Colonial Collection], edited by Piçarra, Maria do Carmo, 88-103. Viseu, Portugal: Cineclube de Viseu, 2018.
    Published
  10. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Etnografia Visual da Guerra Colonial/ Luta de Libertação na Guiné- Bissau [Visual Ethnography of the Colonial War/ Liberation Struggle in Guinea]". In O Império da Visão. Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860-1969) [The Empire of Vision. Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860-1969)], edited by Vicente, Filipa Lowndes, 435-445. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições 70, 2014.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Screening Gender in Bissau-Guinean Vernacular Filmmaking". TOMO- Dossiê Gênero, sexualidade e resistência nas artes: olhares desde o Sul global (2023): 1-16.
    Published
  2. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Bissauwood: devising alternative modes of production and distribution". Revista Comunicação e Linguagem 57 (2022): 112-127.
    Published
  3. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Arma diplomática e ficção: as mulheres nos filmes da Luta de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau [Diplomatic weapon and fiction: women in Guinea-Bissau’s Liberation struggle films]". Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens - Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Journal of Communication and Languages- ] 54 (2021): 47-64.
    Open access • Published
  4. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Imaginários Anticoloniais e Pós-coloniais: o Cinema de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Anticolonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries: Liberation Cinema in Guinea-Bissau]". Revista Tomo [Journal Tomo] 37 (2020): 119-144.
    Open access • Published
  5. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "The Cuban Revolution and the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Images, Imaginings, Expectations and Experiences". The International History Review (2019): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1706185.
    Published • 10.1080/07075332.2019.1706185
  6. Cunha, Paulo; Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Guiné-Bissau: do cinema de Estado ao cinema fora do Estado [Guinea-Bissau: from State cinema to cinema outside the State]". Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual [Rebeca- Brazilian Journal of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies] 1 1 (2017): 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/periferia.2009.3421.
    10.12957/periferia.2009.3421
  7. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "How many nations are we able to imagine?". Colonial imaginaries: propaganda, militancy and “resistance” in the cinema. Comunicação & Sociedade [Communication & Society] 29 (2016): 93-105.
    Open access • Published
  8. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Resenha: Lourenço, Eduardo. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado. [Review: Lourenço, Eduardo. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado.]". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [Critical Journal of Social Sciences] 106 (2014): 182-185. https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/5953.
    Published
  9. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Vasconcelos, Catarina. "Imagens, Memórias e Histórias ou o que significa dizer “ Eu Sou da Mouraria” [Images, Memories and Stories or What it means to say “I'm from Mouraria”]". Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia [Art and Anthropology Notebooks] 1 (2012): 42-51. https://journals.openedition.org/cadernosaa/712.
    Published
Newspaper article
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Cuba e a luta de libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Cuba and the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau]", Público, 2023, ANÁLISE - SÉRIE O MUNDO DE AMÍLCAR CABRAL (VIII), https://www.publico.pt/2023/05/14/mundo/noticia/cuba-luta-libertacao-guinebissau-2048927.
Report
  1. Castro, Fernanda; Baptista, Maria Manuel; Almeida, Alexandre Rodolfo Alves de; Silva, Carlos Guardado da; Gomes, Nelson P.; Santos, Clara; Carina Cerqueira; et al. 2022. Dossier da Rede Nacional de Estudos Culturais (RNEC).
Website
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. Mediações Modernas: Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação [Modern Mediations: Art, Technology and Communication]. 2022.. 2022. https://sites.dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/mediacoes-modernas/..

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. O chão é lava [The floor is lava]. 2024.
  2. Além da Ucronia: Histórias Não Vividas do 25 de Abril [Beyond Uchrony: April 25th Unlived Stories]. 2014.
  3. MI GO. 2007.
Artistic performance
  1. 2021. Álbuns de Guerra. Casa da Memória Guimarães [House of Memory].
Visual artwork
  1. Laranjeiro, Catarina. Pabia di Aos.
  2. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Leite, Marta. Grafting.
  3. Laranjeiro, Catarina (3B1B-F392-12F3); Vasconcelos, Catarina. I am from Mouraria or Seven Ways to Tell and Save Histories.
  4. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Barroca, Daniel. Fire in the Mud.

Other

Other output
  1. Álbuns de Guerra (série para portal foto-sintese.pt). Coordenadora e editora da série proposta por Catarina Laranjeiro e Tânia Dinis para o portal foto-sintese.pt. 2021. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Dinis, Tânia. https://foto-sintese.pt/albuns/albuns-de-guerra.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/11 Diplomatic Weapon or Fiction? The role of women in the filmography of the PAIGC liberation struggle. Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization
AAMOD (Rome, Italy)
2023/11/25 A sombra, torrentes de sonhos e imagens [The shadow, torrents of dreams and images] Encontro de Tipografia [Tipographic Worlds]
Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/30 Mulheres de fogo, no lodo [Women of fire, in the mud] Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Women in decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing]
Hangar (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/24 Ein Nations Födelse [O Nascimento de uma Nação]: O filme fundacional da nação The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de História Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/07 Circumventing censorship in Guinea-Bissau: Popular Cinema taking the floor, Decifrando censuras. Da regulação à produção de inexistências, do arquivo à internet: uma abordagem interdisciplinar
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de História Contemporânea (Portugal)
2023/05/24 De Cuba a Cuba: do Alentejo ao Caribe · De Cuba a Cuba: do Alentejo ao Caribe ·
Festival Imaterial (Portugal)
2023/03/02 Dos Teleteatros a Bissauflix
Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/12/12 Arriscando Bissauwood: outras Leituras sobre a História Contemporânea da Guiné-Bissau V Colóquio Internacional de Cinema e História [V International Colloquium on Cinema and History]
(São Paulo, Brazil)
2022/11/22 Bissau-Guinean vernacular films in transnational flow
Camões, IP (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2022/02/09 Bissau-Guinean Liberation Struggle: Through its militant/diplomatic imagens: french support, cuban imaginaries, algerian secrets Art by Translation
(Torres Vedras, France)
2021/12/19 Álbuns de Guerra [War Albuns] Conferência Internacional Fotografia e História [International Photography and History Conference].
University of Madeira
2021/11/09 Entre o Norte e o Sul. Entre o quente e o frio. Nada é tão simples: Reflexões históricas, teóricas, temáticas e estéticas, talvez contemporâneas, sobre cinemas africanos. [Between North and South. Between warm and cold. Nothing is so simple: Historical, theoretical, thematic and aesthetic, perhaps contemporary, reflections on African cinemas.] Grupo de Trabalho Cinemas Pós-Coloniais e Periféricos [Postcolonial and Peripheral Cinemas Working Group]
2021/10/19 Produção Audiovisual, Nação e Diásporas [Audiovisual Production, Nation and Diasporas] História da África em debate [African history in debate]
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
2021/09/04 Cinema Vernacular Bissau Guineense [Bissau-Guinean Vernacular Cinema] Oficina Perdidos e Achados [Lost and Found Workshop]
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/07 Álbuns de Guerra [War Albuns] Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Women in decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing]
Hangar- Centro de Investigação Artística [Hangar- Center for Artistic Research] (Portugal)
2020 Visões de Guerra e Contracultura [Visions of War and Counterculture]
Galeria Zé dos Bois [Zé dos Bois Gallery] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020 Os Filmes da Luta de Libertação Guineense: Arma Diplomática ou Etno-Ficção? [The Films of the Bissau-Guinean Liberation Struggle: a Diplomatic Weapon or Ethno-Fiction?] Seminário Ciência & Império [Science & Empire Seminar]
CIUHCT/ ICS - UL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 Fotografia, Cinema e Etnografia [Photography, Cinema, and Ethnography] VII Seminário Cultura, Ciência e Política em Portugal no Século XX [ 6th Seminar on Culture, Science and Politics in Portugal in the 20th Century]
CICS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 Novas Dimensões no Estudo da Luta pela Independência da Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde [New Dimensions for the Study on the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde]
Fundação Amílcar Cabral [Amílcar Cabral Foundation] (Praia, Cape Verde)
2019 Presentation of the film "The Return of Cabral" Seminar to discuss Amílcar Cabral's book "Analysis of Some Types of Resistance"
Associação Comunitária Amigos de Safendi (Praia, Cape Verde)
2019 Da tabanca a Bissau e de Bissau à Diáspora: O cinema popular guineense [From tabanca to Bissau and from Bissau to the Diaspora: the Guinean popular cinema] VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association]
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018 Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity. Art, Materiality and Representation
British Museam/SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2018 Guerras Coloniais e Lutas de Libertação: para um olhar pós-colonial [Colonial Wars and Liberation Struggles: towards a post-colonial gaze] VIII Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [8th Annual Meeting of the Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ]
Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018 Amílcar Cabral: Representações, Imagem e Memória no Cinema [Amílcar Cabral: Representations, Image and Memory in the Cinema] Amílcar Cabral: The “Anonymous Fighters” for the Mankind Fundamental Freedoms
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018 Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity. Art, Materiality and Representation.
British Museum/SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2018 Entre imágenes y espíritus: la memoria de la lucha de liberación em Guinea-Bissau [Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau] XIV Conferencia Antropologia 2018 [14th Anthropology Conference 2018]
Universidad de Habana [University of Havana] (Havana, Cuba)
2017 (In) visible Dialogues between Cinema and Irãs Africa Studies Association 60th Annual Meeting
(Chicago, United States)
2017 Who was sitting on his head? Ethnographic Experimentation Fieldwork Devices and Companions
1st Colleex Workshop (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017 Abrir Camino/Cerrar el Cuerpo [Open a Way / Close the Body] Cátedra de Estudios Africanos del Caribe
Universidad San José [University of San Jose] (San José, Costa Rica)
2017 O Invisível e o Moderno: Cinema e Irãs na Luta de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau [The Invisible and the Modern: Cinema and the Spiritual Entities in the Liberation Struggle of Guinea-Bissau] VII Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [7th Annual Meeting of the Association of Researchers of the Moving Image]
Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] (Braga, Portugal)
2017 The Cinema in Guinea-Bissau Liberation Struggle Sahel Research Group Seminar
University of Florida (Gainesville, United States)
2016 Struggling Gender in Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Participation on and off the Liberation Record Nordic Africa Days
The Nordic African Institute (Uppsala, Sweden)
2016 Struggling Gender at the Liberation Front: Questions on Equality and Complementarity in the Making of Guinea-Bissau’s Modern Nation Resistance and Empire: New Approaches and Comparisons
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais [Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 In the Past the Future was Better Falling of the Empire and the Birth through Images of African Nations
University of Reading (Reading, United Kingdom)
2016 Presentation of the film “Acto dos Feitos da Guiné” Rede Aleph
Portuguese Cinematheque (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 African Commandos: The Inability to Look at the Past Luta Ca Caba Inda: An Archive in Relation. 4th Edition of Encounters Beyond the History
International Centre for the Arts José de Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugal)
2015 Confronting vague ideas with clear images: ghosts and memories in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau Resistances in Movement. Cinemas of Lusophone Africa.
European Conference of African Studies (Paris, France)
2015 Confronting vague ideas with clear images: ghosts and memories in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau Archives of/for the future
European Network of African Studies (Lodz, Poland)
2015 Espectros da Luta de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Specters of the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau] V Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [5th Annual Meeting Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ]
Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 Pensar a Guerra e a Luta: Desafios Contemporâneos? [War and Struggle: Contemporary Challenges?] Grupo de Investigação Impérios, Colonialismo e Sociedades Pós-Coloniais [Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Societies Research Group]
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 O Silêncio das Imagens ou Pode a Imagem Falar? [The Silence of Images or Can the Image Speak?] Oficina da História e Imagem [History and Image Workshop]
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 Presentation of the film PABIA DI AOS Seminário de Investigação no Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina [Research Seminar at the Center for Studies on Africa, Asia and Latin America]
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão [Lisbon School of Economics and Management ] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 The Memory of the Liberation/Colonial War in Guinea-Bissau The Carnation Revolution: Between African Anticolonialism and European Rebellion
Birkbeck University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2014 Presentation of the film PABIA DI AOS Seminário de Estudos Pós-Coloniais [Post-Colonial Studies Seminar]
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais [Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra] (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014 Memória da Guerra Colonial/de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau como Arqueologia [Memory of the Bissau-Guinean Colonial / Liberation War] Revolution and Cinema: The Portuguese Exemple
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris, France)
2013 Memória e Fotografia da Guerra de Libertação/ Colonial [Memory and Photography of the Liberation / Colonial War] IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [4th Congress of Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association]
Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro [University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro] (Vila Real, Portugal)
2013 Nós, a Guerra [We, the War] II Conferência Internacional de Cinema de Viana [2nd International Cinema Conference]
Associação AO NORTE (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2012 I am from Mouraria or Seven Ways to Tell and Save Histories Cinema as a materially-embodied structure. Narratives and Social Memory: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Universidade do Minho [University of Minho] (Braga, Portugal)
2012 Memory and Photography: I am from Mouraria or Seven ways to Tell and Save Stories II Conferência Internacional da Tradição Oral “Oralidade e Património Cultural" [International Conference on Oral Tradition "Orality and Cultural Heritage]
Universidade de Évora [University of Evora] (Évora, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Paving the Streets to the “Women’s Revolution”: A History of Women’s Movements in Independent Sudan
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2023/09 - Current History, Urban Space and Belonging: African historical commemoration in Lisbon’s public spaces.
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/07/01 - Current Mostra de Teleteatro Guineense [Guinean Teletheater Showcase]. (2023/09/02 - 2023/10/04)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/01/04 - 2022/06/01 An International Conference organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory, and the Department of History of Art at University College London (2022/05/23 - 2022/05/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/01/04 - 2022/05/31 An International Conference organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory, and the Department of History of Art at University College London. (2022/05/24 - 2022/05/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity (2018 - 2018)
Conference (Co-organisor)
British Museum/SOAS, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Re-significar experiências e implicar futuros: o cinema, a fotografia e a música em reflexões pós-coloniais [Re-signifying experiences and implying futures: cinema, photography, and music in post-colonial reflections]. IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia in Coimbra [4th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] (2016 - 2016)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Perspectivas Pós-Coloniais: velhas e novas opressões, resistências e utopias [Post-Colonial Perspectives: old and new oppressions, resistances and utopias]. IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [4th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] (2016 - 2016)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/11/24 - Current Samson Kambalu's films and installations compel us to take a comparative look at the different ways of thinking in African and European territories, examining the way in which images and history are conceived and produced. Taking as our background the exhibition of this artist in our galleries, we will join three researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH) together in a debate, encouraging us to think about the questions raised by his work.
Conference
SITUACIONISMOS, CINEMAS E OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS [SITUATIONISM, CINEMAS AND OTHER STORIES]

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/01/16 Questões de Género em Contexto Anticolonial: Mulheres na Luta de Libertação Nacional de Angola
(Thesis) Arguer
Ana Filipa Henriques Correia (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2022/09/15 «Sweet Are the Waters: Ogiek Rights to Land and Development and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Court Ruling»
(Thesis) Main arguer
Diana Takácsová (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/01/27 Os Diálogos entre o Cinema Novo Brasileiro e o Cinema Revolucionário Cubano (1959/1969).
(Thesis) Arguer
Bruno Falci Bitarelli Medeiros (Master)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/02/01 - Current Reviewer a book proposal at Bloomsbury Publishing
2022/12/21 - Current Visual Anthropology Review
2023/11/14 - 2023/11/16 ANTROPOLÍTICA (Revista Contemporânea de Antropologia)
2022/08/01 - 2022/09/01 Topoi. Revista de História

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/05/01 - Current VEREDAS- Mostra Itinerante de Cinema Português [VEREDAS- Itinerant Exhibition of Portuguese Cinema]
2020/09/01 - Current Oficina de História e Imagem [History and Image Workshop]
2013 - Current Núcleo de Antropologia Visual e da Arte [Visual and Art Anthropology Group]

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2020/09/10 - 2022/10/11 Mediações Modernas: Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação [Modern Mediations: Art, Technology and Communication]. This thematic line focus on the discussion, study, and elaboration of different forms of historical representation, inside and outside (and in the interstices) of the academy, with particular emphasis on productive interactions with the field of arts, technological resources, and audiovisual objects.
Coordinator
2014 - 2017 FACA - Anthropology, Cinema, and Arts Festival
Member
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/09/29 - 2020/10/02 40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival Visual Anthropology and Arts Laboratory (NAVA)
2017 - 2017 Ways of Doing, Ways of Being: Artistic Practices in and with Visual Anthropology Museu Nacional de Etnografia [National Museum of Ethnology]
2015 - 2015 5th International Colloquium of Doctoral Students: Emerging Powers, Continuities and Transformations Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais [Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra]

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30 Reviewer a book proposal at Bloomsbury Publishing

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/11 - Current History in the public sphere (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2021/11/30 - Current Artes, ativismos e memórias: os arquivos das histórias dos povos.
2021/11/25 - Current Visual Anthropology Visual Anthropology (Mestrado) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/05/25 - Current Mulheres na Guerra [Women in War] Discursos da Violência [Discourses of Violence] (Doutoramento)
2020/11/18 - Current VIII SEMANA INTERNACIONAL DE ESTUDOS AFRICANOS E AFRO-BRASILEIROS [8th INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF AFRICAN AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES] Cinema Africano e da Diáspora [African and Diaspora Cinema] (Licence)
2023/11/04 - 2023/12/29 Oral History Short Course (Master Universitario) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2021/11/05 - 2021/11/29 Oral History Master Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Outros Cinemas, Outros Mundos: Para uma Compreensão Policêntrica da Produção Cinematográfica em Contextos Pós-Coloniais e Indígenas [Other Cinemas, Other Worlds: For a Polycentric Understanding of Cinematographic Production in Postcolonial and Indigenous contexts] Dos Cinemas Coloniais ao Movimento do Terceiro Cinema [The Colonial Cinema and the Third Cinema Movement] Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Imagens em Conflito: Política, Memória e Império [Conflicting Images: Politics, Memory and Empire] Fotografia: Arquivo, Teoria e História [Photography: Archive, Theory and History] Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Drawing and Video Workshop Photography and Drawing Workshop on Memories of the Liberation Struggle Casa dos Direitos, Guinea-Bissau

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - 2020 Award Portuguese Anthropological Association "Margot Dias e Benjamim Pereira” 2019
Evaluator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Ethnographic Film Exhibition at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association
Evaluator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/11/07 - Current TV report on the documentary, Fire in the Mud, directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, which won the the Prize for Best Film on a Theme Associated with Cultural Practices and Traditions and the Intangible Heritage of Humanity at the DOC LISBOA 2023 International Film Festival.
2023/10/18 - Current Interview on RTP AFRICA's Bemvindos programme, about the documentary Fire in the Mud. RTP AFRICA'
2022/03/28 - Current Convocar a história [Invoke History]

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/06/01 - 2022/06/01 ANIKI- The Portuguese Journal of Moving Image
Distinctions

Award

2023 Apoio a Projetos Novos Media
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
2023 Prémio para Melhor Filme de Temática Associada a Práticas e Tradições Culturais e ao Património Imaterial da Humanidade
Fundação INATEL, Portugal
2021 Programa de Apoio à Ação Cultural [Cultural Action Support Program]
Republica Portuguesa Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte, Portugal
2020 Virgínia Quaresma- International Award in Cultural Studies
International Network in Cultural Studies (RIEC), Portugal
2020 Apoio a Novos Criadores em Teatro [Support for New Theater Creators]
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2018 Documentary Production
Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Portugal
2015 Documentary Writing and Development
Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA), Portugal
2013 Ph.D. Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 Ethnographic Film Production (Master Thesis)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology/ Freie Universität Berlin, Portugal
2010 Grant Inov-Mundus
Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD), Portugal
2007 Grant Leonardo da Vinci
Agência Nacional Erasmus, Portugal
2004 Grant Erasmus
Agência Nacional Erasmus, Portugal