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Elsa Lechner is researcher at the Center for Social Studies/University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research line Europe and the Global South: patrimonies and dialogues. Since the early 2000 she participates in and belongs to International Networks on Life Histories in Education and Biographical Research, namely as a member of the Committee of the International Association for Biography Studies in Education Le Sujet dans la Cité, where she was Editor in Chief of the International Journal for biographical research LSC, and member of the scientific committee of Grafho research group and Biograph association. Her current research interests include life writing practices, intercultural dialogues, lifelong education among migrants and refugees, experiential knowledge, participatory methods, inclusive pedagogies, theater in education, life education. She has participated in twelve national and international research projects in the areas of Migrations, Biography Studies, Education and Intercultural Communication. Coordinated five research projects funded by FCT, Fulbright, Gulbenkian Foundation, among Portuguese emigrants in France, USA, Brazil, and immigrants from many different origins in Portugal; participated as a research member in national and international projects funded by FCT, OFAJ, ERASMUS+, Jean Monnet, Brazilian CAPES, FAPESB. Her main focus of research is life experiences and narratives of migrants and refugees to and from Portugal, and participatory methods/qualitative research, namely in the following contexts: Portuguese in the Parisian region, Portuguese in New Jersey and California, Descendants of Portuguese in Brazil, second and third generations of Portuguese in secondary and university Portuguese language and culture classes, immigrants in Portugal, refugees and asylum seekers in post-2015 Portugal. She has published 8 books (2 as single author, 3 as coordinator, 3 as co-editor), 27 book chapters (23 as single author), book reviews and 21 journal articles (18 as single author) in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. She co-organized 3 special issues in the area of biographical research and migrations and 39 scientific/academic events (conferences, workshops and cycles of seminars/debates). She gave circa 80 oral presentations in conferences and workshops in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, Finland, UK, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Taiwan, many of them as an invited speaker or as keynote speaker. Counts 20 thesis supervisions of national and international students. Since July 2021 she coordinates a monthly debate forum cycle online aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchanges between professors, students, voluntary participants, open to the large public and participants, in partnership with three public universities in Portugal and Brazil (14 seminars in two years). Coordinated the CES research group Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies (2010-2014) and integrated the scientific Board of CES (2010-2014). She is regularly contacted to teach about biographical studies and by scientific journals for peer reviewing (e.g. Intercultural Discourses, RABPB, Análise Social, Educação em Questão). She was interviewed by the Portuguese press and radio programs in Portugal and the diaspora communities about issues related to biographies and migrations. Has also artistic formal and informal training in theater, namely playback theater, theater of the oppressed, Meisner Technique, Stanislavski system. Acts regularly in outreach activities in schools to conduct workshops with young students about alterity and diversity.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elsa Margarida Sousa LECHNER

Citation names

  • Lechner, Elsa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5713-5253-8C21
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5029-1243
Scopus Author Id
56166740500

Email addresses

  • elsalechner@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centre for Social Studies University of Coimbra. Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Ap. 3087, 3001-401, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
1996/10/01 - 2003/01/20
Concluded
Social Anthropology (Docteur)
Major in Migrations
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Honors
1995/09/06 - 1996/06/01
Concluded
Visual Anthropology (DEA)
Major in Migrations
Université Paris-Nanterre, France
Good
1989/01/01 - 1995/09/01
Concluded
Sociology (Licenciatura)
Major in Communication
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Very Good
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2014/03/01 - 2019/02/28 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2014/02/15 - 2015/02/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Program, United States
2009/07 - 2014/02/28 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2006/03/01 - 2009/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2003 - 2006/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/10/10 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2018/04/02 - 2018/05/01 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Université Paris-Nanterre, France
CRILUS, France
1999/03/01 - 2000/06/01 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) University of California Berkeley Department of Anthropology, United States
University of California Berkeley Department of Anthropology, United States

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/03/13 - 2023/07/01 Invited Professor Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
2019/10/01 - 2022/02/25 Invited Professor Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/09/01 - 2019/02/28 On the Tip of Your Tongue: Stories, Memories, Innovation in Portuguese Emigration.
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2011/03 - 2014/08 Research on migration and the biographical approach: building a collaborative framework in the Portuguese context.
PTDC/CS-ANT/111721/2009-FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-014442
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra
Concluded
2007/09 - 2011/02 Public health policies and therapeutic practices: suffering and treatment strategies of migrants in the Greater Lisbon area. Universidade de Coimbra

Contract

Designation Funders
2014/03 - 2019/02 PROMP.pt
IF/00107/2013
Secretaria de Estado de Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2013/10/01 - 2015/10/01 Education in Contemporaneity: research and cooperation.
00000
Researcher
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia
Concluded
2014/02/15 - 2015/02 Participatory Media Biographical Research among Portuguese in Newark
17-073
Principal investigator
United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Program
Concluded
2010/09/15 - 2011/07/01 International Observatory for Local Policies of Social Inclusion
CGLU
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Concluded
2007 - 2010 European Citizenship in the plurality of languages and cultures.
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNSF/Careers;Fellowships/PA00P1_136347/CH
Researcher
Concluded
2007 - 2008 Formative dialogue research on the 'Critical urban areas programme in Portugal
NIURR
Researcher
OsloMet Handelshøyskolen, Norway
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - 2022/11/18 Transcultural Europe in a Global World
620114-EPP-1-2020-FR-EPPJMO
Invited Scientist Fellow
Université Paris-Nanterre, France
Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe
Ongoing
2017/09/01 - 2020/08/31 CODES- ERASMUS+ Communication, cultural diversity, and solidarity
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Conseil de l'Union Europeenne
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pedro Abrantes; Elsa Lechner. Global Knots: Ongoing Investigations on Questions of Globalization [pt]. Coimbra, Portugal: Impresa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2023.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-2410-5 • Editor
  2. Lechner, Elsa; Capinha, Graça; Keating, Clara. IN migration IN Portuguese: Exiles, returs, colonizations. [pt]. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  3. LECHNER, Elsa. Faces, voices, and silences: a biographical collaborative research with immigrants in Portugal. [pt]. Portugal: Almedina. 2015.
  4. LECHNER, Elsa. The essential on migration and conflict. [pt]. Portugal: Angelus Novus. 2010.
    Published
  5. Lechner, Elsa. The reconstruction of identity in a migrant situation. [fr]. Sarrebruck, Germany: Éditions Universitaires Européennes. 2010.
    Published
  6. LECHNER, Elsa. Migration, health, and cultural diversity. [pt]. Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2009.
    Published • Editor
  7. LECHNER, Elsa. Life Histories: an interdisciplinary perspective. [pt]. Portugal: Afrontamento. 2009.
    Published • Editor
  8. Pussetti, Chiara; Ferreira, Júlio F.; Lechner, Elsa; Santinho, Cristina. Migrants and mental heath: the construction of cultural skills. [pt}. Portugal: ACIDI. 2009.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "Utopia and migrations: inequality, agonism, and biographical research. [fr]". In Transcultural Europe in the Global World., edited by A. Benucci, S. Contarini, G. Cordeiro, G. Dos Santos, JM Esteves, 237-250. Nanterre, France: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2023.
    Published
  2. Lechner, Elsa. Corresponding author: Lechner, Elsa. "Introduction: what is doing research in Global Studies? [pt]". In Global knots. Ongoing Investigations in Questions of Globalization.. Coimbra, Portugal: Impresa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  3. Lechner, Elsa. "Migrant's lives matter: biographical research, recognition and social participation". In Biographical Research: challenges and creativity., edited by Ana Caetano e Magda Nico. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022.
    Published
  4. Abrantes, Pedro; Lechner, Elsa. "O que é fazer investigação em Estudos Globais?". In Nós Globais: Investigações em Curso sobre Questões da Globalização, edited by Abrantes, Pedro; Lechner, Elsa, 7-23. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022.
    Published
  5. Lechner, Elsa; Capinha, Graça; Keating, Maria Clara. "Introdução". Almedina, 2020.
  6. Lechner, Elsa. "Biographies and migrations: theoretical-practical dialogues in the horizon of a concrete utopia. [pt]". In Biographies and Migrations. Salvador, Brazil: RBPB, 2018.
    Published
  7. Lechner, Elsa; Demartini, Zeila de Brito Fabri. "Migrations, biographical and (auto)biographical studies: a presentation. [pt]". In Biographies and Migrations. Salvador, Brazil: UNEB, 2018.
    Published • Editor
  8. LECHNER, Elsa. "The migrant patient, the doctor, and the (im)possibility of intercultural communication". In Languages in Migratory Settings: Place, politics and aesthetics, edited by Alison Phipps, Rebecca Kay, 159-190. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published
  9. LECHNER, Elsa. "Autobiographies in Emigration: resilience, and empowerment of Portuguese in the USA. [pt]". In Gender, Diversity, and Resistance: self writing and empowerment. [pt], edited by Elizeu Clementino de Souza; Zeila Demartini; Marlene Gonçalves, 235-248. Curitiba, Brazil: CRV, 2016.
    Published
  10. Lechner, Elsa. "Collaborative biographical research: challenges and contributions of a project with immigrants in Portugal. [pt]". In The New (Auto)Biographical Adventure., edited by Maria Helena Menna Barreto Abraão; Lourdes Maria Bragagnolo Frison; Christianny Bento Barreiro, 159-190. Porto Alegre, Brazil: EDIPUCRS, 2016.
    Published
  11. Lechner, Elsa. "Biographical research in the study of migrations: building a collaborative work in the Portuguese context. [pt]". In Faces,, Voices, and Silences: a collaborative biographical research with immigrants in Portugal. [pt], edited by Lechner, Elsa, 21-57. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina, 2015.
    Published
  12. Lechner, Elsa; Galvanese, Marina. "Participatory research and the coconstruçtion of knowledge: biographical workshops with immigrants in Coimbra. [pt]". In Faces, Voices, and Silences: a collaborative biographical research with immigrants in Portugal. [pt], edited by Lechner, Elsa, 265-300. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina, 2015.
    Published
  13. Lechner, Elsa. "The autobiographical writing of Portuguese emigrants to Newark: resisting stereotypes. [pt]". In Life writing and resitence, 99-114. Curitiba, Brazil: CRV, 2014.
    Published
  14. Lechner, Elsa. "Silences, and echoes in a biographical research with migrants. [pt]". In Education and the Rural: memories, and autobiographical narratives. [pt], 401-422. Salvador, Brazil: EDUFBA, 2012.
    Published
  15. Lechner, Elsa. "Alterity, and inclusion in the Portuguese socio-cultural context. [pt]". In Social Actors: a unique political force in the defense of affections and rights. [pt], 47-53. Lisboa: Padrões Culturais, 2011.
    Published
  16. Lechner, Elsa. "Enchantment and disenchantment: a personal account in biographical research. [SP]". In Trajectories: biographies and practices. [SP], 21-42. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2011.
    Published
  17. Lechner, Elsa. "Der "Moinho da Juventude": von der alltäglichen Praxis einer solidarischen". In Europäische Bürgerschaft in Bewegung, 91-103. Münster: Waxmann, 2011.
    Published
  18. Lechner, Elsa. "Le «Moulin de la Jeunesse»: la pratique au quotidien d'une citoyenneté démocratique solidaire entre migrants". In La Citoyenneté Européenne: désirs d'Europe, regards des marges, 121-135. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
    Published
  19. Lechner, Elsa. "Migration, biographical research and social emancipation. [pt]". In Education Practices, memory, and (auto)biographical research. [pt], 45-75. São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Cultura Académica, 2010.
    Published
  20. Lechner, Elsa. "Biographization as an alternative to the medicalization of migrant experiences. [pt]". In Migration, Health, and Cultural Diversity.. Lisboa: ICS, 2009.
    Published
  21. Lechner, Elsa. "Biography and transmission in the Portuguese diaspora in France. [pt]". In The construction of the Nation and associativism in the diaspora. [pt]. Lisboa, Portugal: ICS, 2009.
    Published
  22. Lechner, Elsa. "Life Dialogues: biographical interviews in the study of migrations. [pt]". In Life Histories: an interdisciplinary perspective., 91-105. Porto: Afrontamento, 2009.
    Published
  23. Lechner, Elsa. "Migration, biographical research and social emancipation. [fr]". In Living, surviving, narratives of resistance, edited by Delory-Momberger, Christine et Christophe Niewiadomski. Paris, France: Téraèdre, 2009.
    Published
  24. Lechner, Elsa. "Introduction". In Migration, Health, and Cultural Diversity.. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009.
    Published
  25. Lechner, Elsa. "Migrant trajectories and biographical mobility as self education. [fr]". In Life trajectories, biographical learning and education. Paris, France: Téraèdre, 2008.
    Published
  26. Lechner, Elsa. "Biographical accounts and self transformation: identities in action. [fr]". In (Auto)biography: life writing and Education in Brazil.. Paris, France: l'Harmattan, 2008.
    Published
  27. Lechner, Elsa. "Subjectivity, displacement and the ethics of ethnographic representation". In Seeking the Self, Encountering the Other: diasporic narrative and the ethics of representation. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
    Published
  28. Lechner, Elsa. "The face of the other or facing the Other: ethics and representation. [pt]". In Metropolitan field sites: essays in ethnographic research.. Lisboa: ICS, 2006.
    Published
  29. Lechner, Elsa. "Biographical narratives and self transformation. [pt]". In Time, Narratives and Fictions: the invention of the Self.. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Edipurcs, 2006.
    Published
Book review
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "The autobiography of a Luso-American. Lawrence Oliver (1972). [pt]". Review of Backwads walks the lobster (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/37484.
    Published
  2. Lechner, Elsa. "Lechner, Elsa (2013) critical review to Luc Decaster (2012), On est là, film documentaire, França, in Le Sujet dans la Cité.". Review of Le Sujet dans la Cité (2013):
    Published
  3. Lechner, Elsa. "Lechner, Elsa (2004) critical review to João de Pina Cabral e Clara Carvalho (2004), A persistência da história: passado e contemporaneidade em Africa, Lisboa: ICS, in". Review of The persistence of history: past and contemporaneity in Africa (2004):
    Published
  4. Lechner, Elsa. "Lechner, Elsa (2004) critical review to Comité Português para o Parlamento Europeu (2003), Europa, o desafio demográfico e o espaço de liberdade, segurança e justiça, Lisboa, in Análise Social.". Review of Revista Análise Social (2003):
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "Migrations [pt]". In Vocabulaire des Histoires de Vie et de la Recherche Biographique. érès, 2019. www.editions-eres.com.
    Published
  2. Lechner, Elsa. "Migrations [pt]". In Dictionary of Crises and Alternatives. Edições Almedina, 2012.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Abrantes, Pedro; Lechner, Elsa. Nós Globais: Investigações em Curso sobre Questões da Globalização. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2022.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "Oficinas biográficas com estudantes e investigadores: um método participativo de investigação e formação". Cadernos de Sociologia 3 (2023): 41-49. ojs.letras.up.pt.
    Published
  2. Lechner, Elsa. "The collective dimensions of biographical work". Linhas Críticas 29 (2023): http://doi.org/10.26512/lc29202347346.
    Open access • Published
  3. Lechner, Elsa; Renault, Letícia. "Migration experiences and narrative identities: viewing alterity from Biographical Research.". Critical Hermeneutics 2 1 (2018): 1-25. http://doi.org/10.13125/CH/3436.
    Published
  4. Branco, Patrícia; Canelo, Maria José; Capinha, Graça; Cardina, Miguel; Casaleiro, Paula; Coelho, Lina; Costa, Hermes Augusto; et al. "Portugal: um retrato ainda singular? 40 anos volvidos". (2018): http://journals.openedition.org/eces/2994.
  5. Capinha, Graça; Keating, Clara; Lechner, Elsa; Solovova, Olga. "Tessituras: da poética e da política nos espaços das migrações". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/83523.
  6. Lechner, E.. "Narratives In|With and Beyond Borders: Constraints and Potentialities of Biographical Research with Refugees". a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32 3 (2017): 637-643. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028665707&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/08989575.2017.1338023
  7. LECHNER, Elsa. "Action research: a collaborative biographical investigation with immigrants in Portugal. [pt]". Estreia Diálogos 1 1 (2016): 54-74.
    Open access • Published
  8. LECHNER, Elsa. "Autobiographical writings of Portuguese emigrants to Newark: glocal emancipation and resisting stereotypes". Journal of Lusophone Studies (2016):
    10.21471/jls.v1i2.109
  9. LECHNER, Elsa. "A not so common idea: autobiographies of Portuguese emigrants in the USA". Mnemosyne, o la costruzione del senso (2016): http://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?gcoi=29303100050380.
  10. LECHNER, Elsa. "Migration, resilience and empowerment: a theoretical-practical equation. [pt]". Brazilian Journal of (Auto)Biographical Research [pt} (2016):
    Published
  11. "Migração, resiliência e empoderamento: uma equação teórico-prática à luz da pesquisa biográfica". Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto)Biográfica (2016):
  12. LECHNER, Elsa. "Collaborative research: contributions from a project with imigrants in Coimbra. [pt]". Education and Contemporaneity 24 44 (2015): 223-231. https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/33260/1/Pesquisa%20colaborativa_contributo%20a%20partir%20de%20um%20projeto%20com%20imigrantes%20em%20Coimbra.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  13. LECHNER, Elsa. "Biographical research and transdisciplinarity: a spiral in knowledge production.". Inter-Legere (2015):
    Published
  14. "Pesquisa colaborativa: contributo a partir de um projeto com imigrantes em Coimbra". Educação e Contemporaneidade (2015): https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/33260/1/Pesquisa%20colaborativa_contributo%20a%20partir%20de%20um%20projeto%20com%20imigrantes%20em%20Coimbra.pdf.
  15. "Pesquisa biográfica e transdisciplinaridade: uma produção em espiral de conhecimento". Inter-Legere (2015):
  16. Lechner, E.. "Biographical research among immigrants in Portugal: Collaborative research and the analytical relevance of personal accounts". Historia (Brazil) 33 1 (2014): 97-108. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905679206&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  17. Lechner, E.; Solovova, O.. "The migrant patient, the doctor and the (im)possibility of intercultural communication: silences, silencing and non-dialogue in an ethnographic context". Language and Intercultural Communication 14 3 (2014): 369-384. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905441337&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/14708477.2014.914727
  18. LECHNER, Elsa. "Biographical research with immigrants in Portugal: participatory methods and analytical relevance of private testimonies. [pt]s privados". História 33 1 (2014): 97-108. https://estudogeral.sib.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/33261/1/Pesquisa%20biogr%C3%A1fica%20junto%20de%20imigrantes%20em%20Portugal.pdf.
    Published • 10.1590/S0101-90742014000100006
  19. Lechner, Elsa; Abrantes, Pedro. "(Auto)biographical research in Portugal: mapping and two case studies. [es]". Mexican Journal of Research in Education. 19 62 (2014): 859-883. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/11206.
    Published
  20. Lechner, E.; Abrantes, P.. "La investigación (auto)biográfica en Portugal: Un mapeo y dos estudios". Revista Mexicana de Investigacion Educativa 19 62 (2014): 859-883. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906079239&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. LECHNER, Elsa. "Recherche participative : contribution à partir d'un travail effectué avec des migrants dans la ville de Coimbra". Le sujet dans la cité (2013):
  22. LECHNER, Elsa. "Biographical Workshops: research, pedagogy, and ecology of knowledges. [pt]". Education & Reality 37 1 (2012): http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/21807/16032.
    Open access • Published
  23. Lechner, Elsa. "Confiscated subjectivities: silences in intercultural encounters between nationals and migrants.". Sociological Forum 22 (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/33282.
    Open access • Published
  24. "Subjetividades confiscadas: silêncios e silenciamentos num terreno etnográfico". Forum Sociológico (2012):
    10.4000/sociologico.690
  25. "Oficinas de trabalho biográfico: pesquisa, pedagogia e ecologia de saberes". Educação & Realidade (2012): http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/educacaoerealidade/article/view/21807/16032.
  26. LECHNER, Elsa. "La recherche biographique aujourd’hui : de la science de l’incertitude au savoir ancré". Le sujet dans la cité (2011): http://www.cairn.info/revue-le-sujet-dans-la-cite-2011-1-page-213.htm.
  27. "Imigração e saúde mental". Migrações (2007):
  28. LECHNER, Elsa. "Immigration and mental health: migrant's suffering and the encounter of different symbolic orders. [pt]". Psilogos: Hospital Fernando Fonseca Journal (2005): 15-18. http://revistas.rcaap.pt/psilogos/article/view/6051.
    Published
  29. Lechner, Elsa. "Approaching Cultural Difference: immigration and health care. [pt]". Transcultural (2005):
    Published
  30. "Uma aproximação à diferença: imigração e cuidados de saúde". Transcultural (2005):
  31. Lechner, Elsa. "Full Silences. [fr]". Sigila 9 (2002):
    Published
  32. Lechner, Elsa. "Emigrants from Trás os Montes in Paris. [pt]". Brigantia XVII 1/2 (1997): 85-88.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "Migrations, Biographical Research, and autobiography". Brazilian Journal of (Auto)Biographical Research [pt} 3 7 (2018):
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Nolasco, Carlos; Lechner, Elsa. "O drama dos/as refugiados/as na Europa". Cescontexto-Debates 18 (2017): https://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/cescontexto/index.php?id=17945.
    Published
  3. Lechner, Elsa. "The Drama of Refugees in Europe. [pt]". E-cadernos 18 1 (2017):
    Published • Coeditor
  4. Nolasco, Carlos; Lechner, Elsa; Ribeiro, Joana Sousa. "Reflections: Illegal migrations in documentary and fiction films. [pt]". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 105 (2014): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/32854.
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Lechner, Elsa; LECHNER, Elsa. "Migrantes em Portugal. Pensar a inclusão em contextos interculturais atuais.", Dirigir&Formar, 2023
  2. Lechner, Elsa. "African refugees trying to get to Europe. [pt]", Konrad Adanauer Stiftung, 2017, http://hdl.handle.net/10316/48147.
Newspaper article
  1. Lechner, Elsa. "An international necropolitics of migrations? [pt]", Público, 2016
  2. Lechner, Elsa. ""Hypothetical Lives". [pt]", Jornal Público, 2016
Report
  1. Campos, Rita; Lechner, Elsa; Renault, Leticia; Melo, Ana Teixeira; Silva, Patrícia. 2020. Pesquisa colaborativa e saberes da experiência: Recursos metodológicos da investigação biográfica e cartografia. Oficina 2. Ciclo de metodologias Roda de Saberes, relatório de oficina. Ciclo de metodologias Roda de Saberes, relatório de oficina [Cycle of MethodologiesWheel of knowledges, report of workshop]..

Other

Other output
  1. There are Lives in this City [pt]. Interview by the Radio University of Coimbra for the Program "There are lives in this city", about migrations and participatory biographical research. With Graça Capinha. Interviewers: Isabel Simões, Júlia Garraio, Vasco Martins.. 2021. Lechner, Elsa; Capinha, Graça.
  2. Cycle of cinema and debates on "Illegal Migrations". One year Cycle at CES with films and debates with invited directors to discuss migrations from documentary film work.. 2014. Nolasco, Carlos; Lechner, Elsa. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/32857.
    10.4000/rccs.5839
  3. "I was throne in the Desert". Interview with Pierre Delagrange.. Delagrange is a human rights activist, founder of the Sub-Saharan Communities Collective in Morocco and signatory of the World Migrants Charter. Cameroonian born in 1977 with the name Kesseng à Beyeck, he was a competitive athlete in his native country until he became interested in the situation of sub-Saharan migrants in North Africa on a trip to Morocco.. 2014. Lechner, Elsa; Nolasco, Carlos; Ribeiro, Joana Sousa; Delagrange, Pierre. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/42364.
Research technique
  1. Biographical workshops A participatory method gathering volunteer participants willing to share biographical narratives about a particular topic under investigation. Method inspired by the arbre a palabre in which I was trained by Prof. JM Rugira. Applied in my research projects among migrants, and with university students about their own projects and careers.. Researcher. Lechner, Elsa.
    Researcher
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/08/01 Autobiographies in the arts and humanities. [pt] Summer Course "Autobiographical Doc Cinema". [pt]
International Documentary Film Festival of Melgaço. (Melgaço)
2023/07/08 On-line biographical workshops in times of confinement: recording and sharing life in a worldwide crisis. Life Writing in Europe, European IABA Conference
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2023/07/07 Teaching life writing texts in Europe Life Writing in Europe, European IABA Conference
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2023/07/05 On-line Biographical Workshops in times of confinement: recording and sharing life in a worldwide crisis. IABA Conference
Warsaw University (Warsaw, Poland)
2023/06/23 Migrant's voices in multicultural European contexts. Launching of the Jean Monnet Project TransEU
University van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2023/05/16 Presentation and moderation of the Seminar "Lives: the 25th of April and Emigration", by Manuel Antunes da Cunha. Memory plots
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/05/02 Biographical research in the social sciences and humanities. Ao Norte.
Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo. (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2023/01/26 Biographical studies as a research and training tool. Opening Lecture CIEd Winter School on Qualitative Methodologies
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/11/26 Life stories, interdisciplinarity, and intergenerationality: the construction of transdisciplinary knowledges. (online Brazil/UMinho). VII International Meeting GRIFO
GIRO-Narratives in research and education (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2022/11/12 Presentation of the Book Glocal Languages: voices from the south, edited by Manuela Guilherme at Mercado das Letras. Book Launching
SF (Portugal)
2022/07/05 Biographical work as research and training: collaborative workshops under analysis. [pt] Invited lecture, keynote. Biographical workshops
UFRN (Natal, Brazil)
2021/09/30 Croiser les récits, filmer les témoins : migrations européennes, Seminário do projeto Jean Monnet Transcultural Europe in the Global World, Universidade de Cagliari, Sardenha, 30 setembro Récits et témoins, Transcultural Europe in the Global World
Cagliari University (Cagliari, Italy)
2021/04/21 Les ateliers biographiques avec des migrants : la création de récits et de refuges.
Maison Française d'Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2020/10/30 Collaborative qualitative research in times of pandemics: An experiment with autobiographical reports from the field by Zoom Intercultural communication
Oslo University (Oslo, Norway)
2020/01/30 Biographical research and the study of migrations: potentialities and limits of civic education.
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/11/19 Refugees, Life Stories and Narrative Exchange. Communication, Diversity, Solidarity : Discourse and Practices of Cultural Diversity
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/03/01 Alterity and Social Recognition-a CES outreach activity in schools CES vai à Escola
Portuguese Education System (several, Portugal)
2018/10/25 The Emotion of Language: language as cultural connection in the Portuguese Circles of Emigration. PhD Student's Meeting
Université Paris-Nanterre, CRILUS (Paris, France)
2018/10/06 The Language in Us: identity and emotion through Portuguese language among Emigrants. The Museum of Language Temporary Exhibition
Museu da Eletricidade (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/07/18 Opening session of the international conference "Histories, memories, and innovation in migration".
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06 Alterity at work: narrative identities in biographical workshops with migrants Borders, Regimes, Disposability
Universidade de Coimbra, Faculty of Economics (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/04/18 On the tip of your tongue: stories, memories, and innovation in Emigration, comunicação apresentada em Luso Estudos-Forum OLD, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 18 a 18 de Abril. Luso Studies Forum
Observatoty of Luso Descendants (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/04/12 Le Projet "Na Ponta da Língua"", talk at the Journée Doctorale d'Études Romanes: Approches théoriques et méthodologiques. Journée Doctorale d'Études Romanes
Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris, France)
2017/11/26 Immigrant's experiential accounts in Portugal: counternarratives of the Luso-African Imaginary. Images and Narratives Africa/Portugal
FCSH-UNL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/11/24 Educational subjects and migration policies, a masterful dialogue with José Manuel Valenzuela and Marcela Gomez Sollano.. [sp] Mexican Congress on Research for Education. [sp]
Universidad San Luís de Potosí (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)
2017/10/23 Histories, and Memories of Portuguese Emigration: a participatory research. [fr] Master en Langue et Civilization Portugaise, Université de Paris-Nanterre.
University of Paris Nanterre (Nanterre, France)
2017/09/14 Discourses on Refugees.
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/07/07 Collaborative research with migrants and refugees: from asymmetrical reciprocity to concrete utopia. Roundtable Series. Life writing, Europe and New Media. IABA Europe Conference.
King's College (London, United Kingdom)
2017/06/09 Collaborative research with migrants and refugees. Life Writing in Europe, European IABA Conference
King's College (London, United Kingdom)
2017/06/08 Confined narratives: refugee's testimonials, research limits, and new civic potentialities IABA Europe Conference
King's College (London, United Kingdom)
2017/04/07 One's own land? Autobiographical writings by Portuguese emigrants to Newark. Heritages of Migration: stories, objects and home
Museu de la Inmigración (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2017/04/03 Biographical narratives and narrative identity in research. Permeable Identities
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/11/26 Experiential accounts by immigrants in Portugal: counter narratives of Luso-African imaginaries. [pt]
FCSH-UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/10/19 The management of the 'Refugee Crisis' in Portugal", comunicação apresentada em 19 a 22 de Outubro. The European Border Regime in Crisis
Göttingen University (Göttingen, Germany)
2016/07/19 Resistence, resilience, and empowerment: autobiographies of Portuguese emigrants in the USA. VII International Conference on (Auto)Biographical Research
Universidade do Mato Grosso (Cuiabá, Brazil)
2016/07/04 Biographical workshops with immigrants in Coimbra. The Intercultural Mediation in face of contemporary challenges
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/05/26 From shade to light: migrant life stories in 'Circles of voices'. 10th IABA Global Conference
University of Nicosia (Nicosia, Cyprus)
2016/05/06 "Biographical research with migrants: experiential knowledge, narratives and subject positions", comunicação apresentada em FCSH-IUL, 05 a 06 de Maio. 1st International Conference on Ethics, Politics and Culture
Universidade de Lisboa, FCSH-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/04/11 Narratives with and between borders: biographical work with migrants and refugees. [pt]. Seminar on Narrative Research
University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2015/09/04 Biographical workshops with immigrants: for an epistemology of the social shadows. Poetics of Selfhood Conference
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/06/19 A not so common idea: written autobiographies of Portuguese emigrants in Newark. XIV Mediapolis Europa Symposium
Instituto Sant'Anna (Sorrento, Italy)
2015/01/23 Biographical research for the study of migrations: a scholarly itinerary. Department of Communication Colloquium.
University of Illinois (Champaign, United States)
2015/01/10 Biographical research for the study of migrations: a scholarly itinerary. Portuguese Language and Culture
Department of Portuguese and Spanish Studies, Rutgers-Newark University. (Newark, United States)
2014/11/24 Biographical research for the study of Migrations Autobiographies and migrantions.
University of South Florida -Society, Culture and Language Department (Saint Pertersburg, United States)
2014/11/17 Autobiographical narratives of Portuguese emigrants in Newark: resisting stereotypes and glocal emancipation. comunicação apresentada em VI Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa (Auto)biográfica, Rio de Janeiro, 16 a 19 de Novembro. VI International Conference on (Auto)Biographical Research
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2014/10/29 On personal and cultural Identity Portuguese Language and Culture
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University. (Providence, United States)
2014/04/23 Portuguese emigration in the Ironbound.
Portuguese Studies Program, UCBerkeley (Berkeley, United States)
2013/10/25 Imagining social emancipation: Portuguese emigrant women in the film "Golden Cage" by Ruben Alves. World Meeting of Portuguese Women in Diaspora
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/10/19 Quelle chance pour les nouvelles révolutions ? Quels enjeux pour les nouveaux sujets politiques ? Democratizing Democracy
Centre Culturel Gulbenkian (Paris, France)
2013/10/14 Migrations policies from a Portuguese perspective. Migration Policies in Southern Europe
London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
2013/08/28 Biographical workshops and collaborative research with immigrants in Portugal. Images of Culture, Culture of Images
University of Sao Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2013/02/27 Collaborative research formats in superdiverse contexts: a Portuguese case. Graduate Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies seminar.
National Chiao-Tung University (Taiwan, Taiwan)
2012/12/17 Invited keynote Speaker giving the Closing Conference talk "Actors, authors, and social emancipation: immigrant biographies in action". II Symposium on Literature, authorship, and biographies
University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)
2012/11/30 Biographical workshops with migrants: social participation and ecology of knowledges VIII Encontro Internacional Imagens da Cultura/Cultura das imagens
Universidade Aberta do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2012/09/26 Knowledges in Dialogue Drawing Biographies
Coimbra Center for Social Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012/06/30 Chair and discussant of the pannel "Migrants, inclusion and exclusion". Cities are Us: rethinking urban inclusion
University of Coimbra, Faculty of Economics (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012/04/24 Comments on the Plenary Session "Law and citizenship inequalities". International Meeting on Law and Social Inequalities
University of Coimbra, Faculty of Economics (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012/04/14 Migration, resilience, and social (im)possibility. IV International Conference Cycle on Resilience and Culture
University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)
2012/04/12 Migration, resilience and social (im)possibilities. [pt] IV International Conference Cycle on Resilience and Culture: life histories, subjectivity and care.
Grapho-Uneb Education Department (Salvador, Brazil)
2011/11/03 Trajectories, biographies, and practices. [sp] Network meeting on pedagogic subjects and practice in contexts of education.
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)
2011/09/11 Testimonials of affliction: encounters and disencounters between migrants and hosts. [pt] Classifying the World, Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association.
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/08/29 Migrant silences: biographical research and ecology of knowledge in an ethnographic field
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2011/05/20 Participation at the Round Table "Biographical research and the international" La recherche biographique aujourd'hui: enjeux et perspectives
Lille University (Lille, France)
2011/05/19 Recherche biographique et Migrations. Colloque International sur la Recherche Biographique aujourd'hui: enjeux et perspectives.
University of Lille (Lille, France)
2010/07/28 An interview that was not: silence and silencing in an ethnographic field. IV International Congress on (Auto)Biographycal Research
University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2010/06/25 To leave traces on my path: biography and transmission in the Portuguese diaspora in France. Symposium The construction of the Nation and Portuguese Diaspora Associations: comparative perspectives.
University of Lisbon, ICS (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/03/21 Biographical narratives as an instrument of civic emancipation for migrants. [pt] Symposium on Identities and differentiation. [pt]
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009/03/18 The relationship to the Other in Contemporary Portugal. [pt] 8th Annual Conference of Cais Association
Luso-American Development Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)
2007/06 Life dialogues: biographical interviews with migrants. [pt] International symposium on life histories: new theoretical-practical challenges. [pt]
CRIA-ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2007/06 Life dialogues: biographical interviews for research on migrations. [fr] International Conference on The Biographical, reflexivity and temporalities.
Tours University François Rabelais (Tours, France)
2007 Old affinities in the construction of difference in diaspora: migrants from Trás-os-Montes in France. [pt] 3rd Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association.
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2006/10/01 The challenges of migration for health services. 1st Mental Health Campain
Municipality of Lourinhã (Lourinhã, Portugal)
2006/09/05 Biographical Narratives and self transformation: migrant's identities in action. II International Congress on (Auto)Biographical Research
University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)
2005/10/02 Subjectivity, displacement and the ethics of representation. Diasporic Narrative and Ethics of Representation
Turku University (Turku, Finland)
2004 Facing the other: ethnography and the ethics of representation. 8th EASA Conference
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2004 Fieldwork with young people in contexts of migration. Barriers of the global village: young migrant's problems in the Lisbon area.
Lisbon Municipality (Lisboa, Portugal)
2004 Itineraries and narratives of Portuguese migrants in France. [pt] PhD Students Meeting
Campinas University (Campinas, Brazil)
2003/11 Suffering and belonging: displacement and the production of idioms of pain and resilience.
AAA (Chicago, United States)
2003 Final comments on the Conference Searching for integration: second generation of immigrants in Europe.
Goethe Institut Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2003 From marginality to example. [fr] Colloquium "Minorities in Portugal and Portuguese Diasporas: identities, practices and representations. [fr]
École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/02/01 - Current Latin-american migrant women in Germany: experiential training and identity transformation.
Co-supervisor of Marianne Kolb
Adult Education (PhD)
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/01/04 - Current Human right to migrate: re-imagining the migration crisis at the Mediterranean Sea margins
Co-supervisor
Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/08/01 - Current Homeless People Movement in Brazil: a process of disruption from social invisibility and resistance.
Co-supervisor
Global Studies (PhD)
Universidade Aberta Centro de Estudos Globais, Portugal
2019/09/01 - Current Arts and Human Rights
Co-supervisor of Susana Gaspar
Artistic Studies (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Syrian refugees in Portuguese and Brazilian Universities
Supervisor of Marcus Carvalho
Postcolonial Studies (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/09/01 - Current From Integration to Exclusion: (Non) Fulfillment of Human Rights for Refugees in Europe
Supervisor
Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/02/24 - 2022/02/24 A collaborative research with Yanomamis in Amazonia.
Supervisor
Estudos Globais (PhD)
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2021/06/15 Women's migratory project: a research on the relation between agency and structure in female migration.
Supervisor of Gisele Almeida
Post Doc (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2020/10/01 The Biographical workshops: a first person research on experiences of migration.
Supervisor of Letícia Renault
Post Doc (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2020/09/01 Memories of Migration in the Western Mediterranean: an oral History project
Supervisor
Post Doc-FCT Fellowship (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/01/03 - 2020/08/01 Memories of migration: Portuguese in Brazil
Supervisor of Rosali Henriques
Post Doc (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2020 The perspective of Brazilian women about the Portuguese society.
Co-supervisor
Women Studies (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/05/01 Cities and Minorities in Times of Austerity: Impacts, Responses, and Challenges
Supervisor
Post Doc-FCT Fellowship (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2018/01/22 Comparative study about spatial segregation in Brazilian and Portuguese cities: the transformation of urban space by migrsnts
Supervisor
Post Doc-FCT Fellowship (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2015/03/25 - 2017/03/24 Searching for remembered times and spaces. A biographical research with a Moroccan family in Cataluña.
Co-supervisor
Psychology and Education (PhD)
Universitat de Girona, Spain
2015/06/18 - 2016/06/30 The moral dimension of stigma: a case study.
Supervisor
Medicine (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014/01/31 - 2015/02/04 Religious identities in migratory processes.
Supervisor
Sociology (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/01/05 - 2014/02/20 I came back to settle: a study on comercial strategies of Dekasseguis returning to the state of Para.
Co-supervisor
Sociology (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2013/12/20 Mediterranean encounters: migrations between Africa and Europe
Co-supervisor
Post Doc-FCT Fellowship (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/10/01 - 2013/10/01 (Re)inventing the future: integration processes of young brazilians in Portugal.
Supervisor
Post Doc in Sociology (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2021/07/16 - 2024/11/21 Cycle of web-seminars on Social Sciences, Literature and Theatre. This is an annual cycle of monthly events that I organize in collaboration with UERN, and UFRN online. Until today we have organized 14 events. This year we will have 5 more encounters. So, from the beginning until the end of 2023: 19 events. (2021/07/16 - 2024/11/21)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2021/10/28 - 2021/10/29 Organization of the Jean Monnet project Seminar "Migrant words: plural uses of cultures in the EU, (2021/10/28 - 2021/10/29)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Université Paris-Nanterre, France
2019/10/10 - 2019/10/11 Erasmus + CODES project Conference in Coimbra, with all the European institutional partners. (2019/10/10 - 2019/10/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/07/25 - 2018/07/26 Organisation of the Advanced Study Course "The social memory technology of the Museum of the Person", with Karen Worcman, Director of the Museum, CES-Coimbra. (2018/07/25 - 2018/07/26)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/07/23 - 2018/07/24 Organisation of the International conference "Histories, memories, and new narratives on migration", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2018/07/23 - 2018/07/24)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2017/03/25 - 2017/03/25 Co-organisation with Olga Solovova, Interdisciplinary Meeting on Testemonial, CES-Lisbon. (2017/03/25 - 2017/03/25)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/06/27 - 2016/07/01 Organisation of a Living Science internship, promoted by the National Agency for Living Science (2016/06/27 - 2016/07/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2014/01/30 - 2014/01/31 Organisation, International Symposium on Biographies in Migrations. (2014/01/30 - 2014/01/31)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/06/28 - 2012/06/30 Co-organisation, Cities are us, Coimbra. (2012/06/28 - 2012/06/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/06/05 - 2012/06/05 Urban Ruminations: tell your story in a circle of voices. (2012/06/05 - 2012/06/05)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2011/07/17 - 2011/07/21 Coordinator and organizer of the CES Summer School Lives and History: a comprehensive course on biographies and society. (2011/07/17 - 2011/07/21)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2011/07/14 - 2011/07/17 Organizer of the workshop provided by Daniel Feldhendler on Playback Theater for Social Change. (2011/07/14 - 2011/07/17)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2010/07/04 - 2010/07/06 Coordinator of the workshop Biografar: oficina de trabalho biográfico, CES-Coimbra, CES. (2010/07/05 - 2010/07/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2007/06/12 - 2007/06/12 Organisation, International Symposium on Life Stories, ISCTE, Lisboa, 12 de Junho 2007. (2007/06/12 - 2007/06/12)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2005/11/18 - 2005/11/18 Conference Cycle, Anthropology, Health, and Cultural Diversity, ICS, Lisboa, 18 de Novembro 2005. (2005/04/05 - 2005/11/18)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2005/01/05 - 2005/05/24 Coordinator of the advanced study course Therapeutical Practices and Cultural Diversity, ICS. (2005/01/05 - 2005/05/24)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2004/05/25 - 2004/05/27 European Anthropologial Summit, ICS, Lisboa, 25 a 27 de Maio de 2004. (2004/05/25 - 2004/05/27)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/07/31 - 2023/08/06 Lecturer and supervisor at the Summer Course on Autobiographical Cinema/Autobiographies in the movies, with a seminar on Autobiographies in the Arts and Humanities.
Festival
Autobiographies in the Arts and Humanities
Melgaço International Film Festival, Portugal
2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25 Invited keynote speaker for the 7th Meeting: Life Histories, intergenerationality, and the construction of transdisciplinary knowledge. Cycle of International conversations around narratives in research and education. GIRO, Canal Proped.
Meeting
7th GIRO Meeting on narratives in research and education.
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/10/28 - 2021/10/29 Paper presentation at the Jean Monnet project Seminar.
Seminar
Migrant's Words: plural uses of cultures in the EU
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/05/29 - 2019/05/30 Participation at the CODES ERASMUS+ Seminar in Rome, with the project's European partners.
Meeting
Intercultural skills referential
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2018/03/16 - 2018/03/19 Member of the working group for the preparation of a program on Portuguese language teaching in California, at the Luso-American Education Conference (Portuguese Heritage in California: Building the Bridge to the future), 16-19 march. with the support of the Portuguese Studies Program at UCBerkeley.
Conference
42 nd Luso-American Education Foundation Annual Conference, Portuguese Heritage in California - building bridges to the future.
California State University Fresno, United States
2013/04/16 - 2013/04/17 Workshop on the Theatre of the Opressed as a research tool.
Workshop
Sience and society: sciences and its publics
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2011/10/27 - 2011/10/30 Attendant and trainee, Playback Theater Core Training, with Jo Salas.
Workshop
Core training
Playback Centre, United States
2011/05/30 - 2011/05/30 Invited Talk, "The Study of Migrations from a Biograpical Research Perspective, The Anthropology Students Association invitation.
Seminar
Anthropology Students Meeting
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/02/22 No Domínio da espera: as relações estado-imigrantes e suas significações nas condições de vida, trabalho e subjetividades.
(Thesis) Arguer
Mary Help Ibiapina Alves (PhD)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Serviço Social e Sociologia, Portugal
2023/12/07 TERRA, SAÚDE E EXISTÊNCIA: uma abordagem etnográfica das lutas, lutos e lideranças Rikbaktsa
(Thesis) Arguer
Larissa Cykman de Paula (PhD)
2023/09/13 Art and Education: single diaries, plural dialogues.
(Thesis) Arguer
Daniele Moraes (Master)
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
2021/11/21 Brazilian migrant women in Germany: paths of education.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Marianne Kolb (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto da Educação, Portugal
2020/07/14 The integration of refugees in Portugal
(Thesis) Main arguer
Vitor Hugo Novais Zannato (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/07/14 Refugees in Portugal
(Thesis) Arguer
Vitor Hugo Novais Zannato (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/11/29 Invisible Frontiers: (Tras)national agency and self migrant representation. Migrant Policies and collective action: the case of the manteros.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Daniel Córdoba Gonzáles de Chávez (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2019/02/19 Web radio and the shared production of knowledge: an experience with the Brazilian community in Portugal.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Felipe Neves da Rocha (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/08/30 The symbolic reflexes of Heracles in us: autoreflection about teachers training.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Monica Santin (PhD)
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
2016/07/08 Resilience processes from the Perspective of Migrants: Narratives of Cape-verdiens and Brazilians.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Sandra Gaspar Roberto (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/04/05 Arguer of the Masters thesis by Marcus Ávila, UNEB, Salvador, Brazil.
(Thesis) Arguer
Marcus Ávila (Master)
Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
2011/07/05 Arguer, Master Thesis, Ana Carolina Cavagnoli. Faculty of Arts, Universidade de Coimbra.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Ana Carolina Cavagnoli (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/05/04 Cultural Specific Training for Nurses in Portugal
(Thesis) Arguer
Helder de Oliveira Almeida (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2007 Olga Mettig: life history, educational path and pedagogy. [pt]
(Thesis) Arguer
Liane Cristina Figueiredo Soares (Master)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/10/01 - Current Educação UFSM
2021/10/05 - 2021/12/01 Revista Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, ISCTE, Lisboa. (2182-3030) DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE.

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/04/05 - Current International Association for Biography Studies (IABA) Member
2007/05/05 - Current Association Histoires de Vie en Formation (ASIHVIF) Member
2006/09/15 - Current Brazilian Association for Biographical Research, Biograph. Member
2003/06/20 - Current Portuguese Anthropological Association Member
2009/10/01 - 2017/09/02 Association Internationale de Recherche Biographique, Le Sujet dans la Cité Journal Editor in Chief

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2023/09/19 - Current Member of the Scientific Committee of Terra Network.
Member
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
2017/10/10 - 2017/10/12 Co-organizer of the CODES ERASMUS + Project Seminar in Coimbra
Member
Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal
2009/10/06 - 2015/05/06 Member of the administrative committee, International Association for Biographical Reserach, Le Sujet dans la Cité.
Member
Le Sujet dans la Cité, France
2010/07/18 - 2014/05/05 Member of the CES scientific Committee
Member
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2020/09/01 - Current Arts and Human Rights Gulbenkian Foundation
2006 - Current IX CIPA Universidade de Brasília
2023/06/03 - 2024/05/27 10th CIPA UNEB
2019/10/10 - 2019/10/12 Communication, Diversity, Solidarity : Discourse and Practices of Cultural Diversity Coimbra Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2018/09/12 - 2018/09/16 International Conference on (Auto)Biograpical Research UNICID-São Paulo
2018/07/23 - 2018/07/24 Histories, memories and new narratives on Emigration Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2017/03/24 - 2017/03/25 Testimonial CES-Lisboa
2016/07/17 - 2016/07/20 VII Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa (Auto)biográfica, Cuiabá, 17 a 20 de Julho de 2016 Universidade do Mato Grosso
2012/10/11 - 2012/10/13 V Congresso Ibero-Americano de Pesquisa Qualitativa ISCSP
2012/04/11 - 2012/04/13 IV International Conference Cycle on Resilience and Culture: life histories, subjectivity and care. UNEB

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/07/03 - Current Biographical research for the study of migrations: challenges and possibilities. Summer Course on Migrations (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad de Granada, Spain
2020/03 - Current Research Methods Global Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
2020/01/30 - Current Sociology of Migrations Sociology (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/10/01 - Current PhD Program in Global Studies (Doutoramento) Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2018/05/10 - Current Biographical research in the study of migrations Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2023/07/03 - 2023/07/06 MISSCHO - Migration Studies PhD Summer School 2023, "Representation, narratives and discourse on migration. Migration Studies (Doctor) Universidad de Granada, Spain
2023/04/13 - 2023/06/20 Biographical studies for research and training. UERN, Brazil. online. Social Sciences (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2022/10/18 - 2022/12/20 Biographical studies: research and training, UERN, Brazil, online. Post Graduation (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2022/10/10 - 2022/10/10 Open lecture on biographical research in the social sciences and humanities. Post Graduation (Pós-Graduação) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal
2022/03/14 - 2022/03/14 Inaugural lecture, Post Graduation in Social Sciences, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Norte. Social Sciences (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2020/10/01 - 2022/02/25 Methodologies en Social research PhD Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2018/05/03 - 2018/05/03 The refugee crisis in Europe International Relations (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/04/12 - 2018/04/12 Biographical research for the study of Migrations. PhD (Docteur) CRILUS, France
2017/03/18 - 2017/03/18 Biographical workshop Democracy in the 201st Century (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/03/04 - 2017/03/04 Medical anthropology and Migrations Cultural and Social Psychiatry (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016/11/24 - 2016/11/24 Biopolitics of Migrations Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/05/07 - 2016/05/07 Biographical research with immigrants in Portugal Social Service (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2016/05/05 - 2016/05/05 Life stories and fieldwork Social Anthropology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016/04/29 - 2016/04/29 From life stories to biographical research Education (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2016/04/27 - 2016/04/27 What to do with immigrant's stories? International Relations (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2016/04/20 - 2016/04/20 Participatory research with immigrants in Coimbra Comunity Studies (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2015/09 - 2015/10/01 Biographical methods, Opening session for the CES PhD Academic Year All PhD Courses - Inaugural Lecture (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2014/11/12 - 2014/11/14 Biographical research in Portugal Education (Doctorat) Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
2014/11/06 - 2014/11/06 Participatory biographical research with Portuguese immigrants in New Jersey Portuguese Studies (Bachelor) Rutgers University Newark, United States
2014/10/28 - 2014/10/29 Portuguese immigration in New Jersey Portuguese Studies (Bachelor)
2014/01/05 - 2014/01/10 Coordinator of the advanced study course Espaços e transições: partilhando biografias e projectos na reinvenção do Centro Comercial Avenida, Coimbra, CES e Departamento de Arquitectura da Universidade de Coimbra. Architecture (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013/01/05 - 2014 Seminar on qualitative research in social sciences International Relations (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2012/11/08 - 2012/11/08 Life stories and biographical research, Seminar, Master, Feminist Studies, FLUC. Feminist Studies (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2011/01/14 - 2011/01/14 Participatory biographical research with migrants, invited by Prof. Christine Delory-Momberger. Education (Master) Université Paris 8, France

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/07/14 - Current External evaluator, Master Dissertation project qualification by Marcus Venícius Filgueira de Medeiros.
Evaluator
Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2015/10/05 - Current Referee for the Brazilian Journal on (Auto)biographical Research
Evaluator
Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
2012 - Current Evaluator for the European Welcome Program
Evaluator
2021/10/05 - 2021/11/20 Evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation- Senior research projects on migrations.
Evaluator
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
2019 - 2019 Member of the Fulbright Evaluation Committee for Visiting Scholars
Evaluator
2018 - 2019 Member of the Portuguese Fulbright Committee for PHD applications in Anthropology.
Evaluator
2016/01/05 - 2018/12/04 Referee for Revista Etnográfica
Evaluator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2007/10/01 - 2018/06/05 Member of the Master Projects Evaluation Committee, Cultural and Social Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra.
Evaluator
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra
2007/09/05 - 2018/05/05 Evaluation of Master dissertation projects, Master in Cultural and Social Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra. All sessions since 2007 until 2018.
Evaluator
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra
2017/06/12 - 2017/06/12 Evaluator for the Young Scientist Competition, FCT.
Evaluator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010/04/04 - 2017/06/04 Editor in Chief, International Journal for Biographical Research, Le Sujet dans la Cité Le Sujet dans la Cité, France Le Sujet dans la Cité

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/02/19 The suspended lives of scientific researchers: much qualified precarious work. [pt] Sinal Aberto
2020/06/18 Beyond borders: research, dialogue and collaborative action. Gaudium Sciendi, Nº 18, Junho 2020. Fulbright Gaudium Sciendi.
2018/03/24 Newspaper article interview for the Portuguese American Journal. Portuguese American Journal
2018/02/10 On the tip of your tongue – Histories, Memories and Innovation in Emigration. [pt] tv europa
2017/03/04 The (re)construction of the figure of the emigrant. [pt] Jornal Público
2016/08/29 Refugees in Portugal, an interview to DN newspaper. Diário de Notícias
2015/04/15 My Fulbright experience. http://www.fulbright.pt/experiences/elsa-lechner/
2014/04/23 Prejudices against emigrants. TVI News

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021/05/22 - Current Remote teaching. Experiential training and education online.
2018/07/30 - Current Radio France International Minor migrants
2011/12/23 - Current Getting to know immigration by meeting the immigrants. [pt] Immigrants in Portugal
2021/11/27 - 2021/11/27 There are lives in this city. [pt] Migrations, Migrant Voices

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2016/05/05 - Current Revista Multidisciplinar de Investigação Ação Universidade do Minho
2006 - Current Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto)Biográfica UNEB
2012/10/29 - 2014/05/05 Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (2182-7435) OpenEdition

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018/04/05 - Current Immigration and health in Medical Training Joice Cavalcanti
2022/11/15 - 2023/02/15 Biographical research within the social sciences Joriana Pontes
2022/11/10 - 2023/02/15 Biographical research within the social sciences Daniele Moraes
2023/01/27 - 2023/01/27 Biographical Workshops 12 PhD Students
2022/10/05 - 2022/12/18 Autobiography and Education Daniele Moraes
2022/10/11 - 2022/10/12 Biographical Workshops 12 students and researchers.

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Referee for Sociology online Journal. Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia, Portugal
2020/03/01 - Current Referee for Etnográfica Journal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/03/05 - Current Referee for the Journal on Multicultural Discourses
2017/02/01 - Current Referee for Análise Social Journal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2014/05/05 - Current Referee for Educação em Questão Journal Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2007 - Current Referee for RBPAB Editora da Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil
Distinctions

Title

2018 Invited Visiting Professor, University of Paris-Nanterre
Université Paris-Nanterre, France
2016 Invited Visiting Researcher
2016 Invited Foreign Researcher
Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil

Other distinction

2023 Invited Professor
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
2022 Visiting Researcher
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal
2014 Fulbright Scholar
2014 Investigador FCT
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 Outreach Lecturing Fund
2013 Fulbright/Instituto Camões Fellowship for Researchers
2010 Travel Grant for participation in Congress
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2006 Travel grant for participation in Congress, Brazil.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
1999 Scholarship at UCBerkeley
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
1998 Gulbenkian Foundation Fund for Research
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
1998 Scholarship at UCBerkeley 543/98.
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
1997 Luso-American Development Foundation Fund for Research
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
1995 Fellowship BD/3365/94
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1992 Erasmus Grant