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Joana Matias is a writer, doctoral student in History and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST, Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory in Lisbon, Portugal. Their thesis project is a cultural history of queer identity and politics in contemporary Portugal through the gay and lesbian press; their research interests include the history of gender and sexuality, queer material cultures, and uses of the past. They are the recipient of a doctoral grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Matias

Citation names

  • Matias, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A216-389C-A5F9

Email addresses

  • joanamatias@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology
  • Humanities - Other Humanities

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Chinese Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/01 - 2024/09/01
Ongoing
PhD in History (Doutoramento)
Major in Contemporary History
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2017/09/01
Concluded
Gender Studies (Master)
Université Paris 8 UFR Textes et Sociétés, France
"L'émergence d'une subjectivité queer dans la littérature chinoise contemporaine: Les garçons de cristal de Pai Hsien-yung et Les bonbons chinois de Mian Mian" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17.25
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/01
Concluded
Critical and Cultural Theory & Gender Studies (Erasmus) (Outros)
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2009/09/01 - 2012/09/01
Concluded
BA in Asian Studies (Licenciatura)
Major in Chinese
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
17
2011/09/01 - 2012/02/01
Concluded
Estudios de Asia y África (Erasmus) (Outros)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/11/01 - Current Arquivo reparativo: publicações independentes e a historiografia queer portuguesa ("Reparative archive: independent publishing and Portuguese queer historiography")
SFRH/BD/08446/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Matias, Joana. "'Quentes da capital': Portraits of a changing Lisbon in the gay and lesbian press of the 1980s and 1990s". Paper presented in VIII International Congress on Cultural Studies: Sexualities and Leisure, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Matias, Joana. "Porque faz falta (mais) história queer ("Why we need (more) queer history")", Setenta e Quatro, 2022, https://setentaequatro.pt/ensaio/porque-faz-falta-mais-historia-queer?fbclid=IwAR0uduKHiJODUDiKdPEactNx1RfuoKab3bh8KVk4cZEjSnHhO-EBq57KD4I.
Online resource
  1. Matias, Joana. (Safe) Sex, leather and zines: Lisbon's GayClub and early HIV/AIDS information activism. 2023. https://notchesblog.com/2023/10/17/safe-sex-leather-and-zines-lisbons-gayclub-and-early-hiv-aids-information-activism/.
Preprint
  1. Matias, Joana. "Cravos cor-de-rosa: Notas para o lugar das dissidências sexuais e de género na história da revolução ("Pink carnations: Notes on the place of gender and sexuality in the history of the revolution")". 2023.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/16 Who was really at Stonewall? Gender identity and sexuality in the Portuguese gay and lesbian press membra(I)nes: 12th Gender Studies Association Annual Conference
German Gender Studies Association (Leipzig, Germany)
2023/01/26 Como fazer uma história lésbica? Pistas de um trabalho em curso ("How to write a lesbian history? Notes from ongoing work") Ciclo de Conferências Resistência no Feminino
História, Territórios e Comunidades (HTC), CFE NOVA FCSH & Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/11/13 Queers and the state: Portugal’s decriminalisation of homosexuality in the global stage 19th Annual Historical Materialism Conference: Facing the Abyss, An Epoch of Permanent War and Counterrevolution
Historical Materialism (Londres, United Kingdom)
2022/07/08 Apontamentos para uma história do género no feminismo em Portugal ("Notes for a history of gender in Portuguese feminism") Escola de Verão Internacional do ISUP: Sociologia e dinâmicas sociais contemporâneas
Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/06/19 Arquivo reparativo: A imprensa LGBTI+ e queer em Portugal (1975-2000) ("Reparative archive: LGBTI+ and queer publishing in Portugal (1975-2000)") II Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em Humanidades e Ciências Sociais: Debates Contemporâneos
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/05/28 Queers e o estado: A despenalização da homossexualidade em Portugal no contexto global Encontros 40 anos de despenalização da homossexualidade: História LGBTI+ em Portugal
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/03/13 Queers e o estado: A despenalização da homossexualidade em Portugal no contexto global I Congreso Internacional: Corpos, xénero e sexualidade
Rede Galega de Estudos Queer (A Coruña, Spain)
2018/11/09 Doing (cis)gender: The laboring of femininity 15th Annual Historical Materialism Conference: Taking on the Right
Historical Materialism (Londres, United Kingdom)
2017/05/26 Beautiful women in the city of mirrors: Mian Mian's 'Candy', sexual politics, and feminism Feminist Readings #3
University of Helsinki (Helsínquia, Finland)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/05/27 - 2022/05/28 Encontros 40 anos de despenalização da homossexualidade: História LGBTI+ em Portugal ("40 years of the decriminalisation of homosexuality: LGBTI+ history in Portugal)" (2022/05/27 - 2022/05/28)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/10/05 - Current Roundtable "Arquivismo como memória coletiva" ("'Archivism' as collective memory")
Festival
etceteras: Feminist Festival of Design and Publishing
2023/09/29 - Current Panel "Nós no ecrã - Representação LGBTQI+ nos média" ("Us on screen: LGBTQI+ representation in the media")
Festival
Queer Lisboa: International Queer Film Festival

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/09/19 - 2033/11/23 Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict (2182-8938) International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts
2023/10/12 - 2023/11/07 RCL - Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, Journal of Communication and Languages (2183-7198) Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA - ICNOVA