Curriculum Vitae
Carla Alexandra Ferreira Melo
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carla Alexandra Ferreira Melo
Citation names
- Melo, Carla
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- C71D-7362-329B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5239-6065
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlaafmelo/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Political Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Chinese | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
| Japanese | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
| Korean | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
| French | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2023/10/15 - 2027
Ongoing
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Relações Internacionais: Geopolítica e Geoeconomia (Doutoramento)
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal |
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2023/03/05
Concluded
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Língua e Cultura Chinesas I-II (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2023/02/23
Concluded
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Língua e Cultura Coreanas I-II (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2020/10/22
Concluded
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Master in China Studies (Master)
Major in Master in Law
Beijing Foreign Studies University International Institute of Chinese Studies, China
Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, China "Does Foreign Aid Entail Gender Equality? The Case of United Nations in China" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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3.94 |
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2019/07
Concluded
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A China e os Países de Língua Portuguesa na Economia Mundial: Comércio, Turismo, Cooperação e Desenvolvimento (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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18 |
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2019/05
Concluded
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Língua e Cultura Japonesas I-V (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2014/09/10 - 2017/06/28
Concluded
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Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)
Major in Licenciatura
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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14.7 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/11/23 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal |
| Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/05/01 - 2024/12/31 | Secretária-Geral | Associação Amigos da Nova Rota da Seda, Portugal |
| Associação Amigos da Nova Rota da Seda, Portugal | ||
| 2017/07/01 - 2019/07/31 | Assistant at the International Relations Office (GRI-FEUC) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/10/01 - 2023/06/30 | Research Internee | Fundação Jorge Álvares, Portugal |
| Fundação Jorge Álvares, Portugal | ||
| 2019/11/07 - 2020/01/07 | Ensino de Língua Portuguesa a Oficiais de Segurança de Aeroporto | Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, China |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/05/05 - 2024/12/31 | A China e o Mundo: A Estratégia Militar Chinesa em África
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PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2020/10/01 - 2023/06/30 | Cooperação Portugal-China no Âmbito do Ensino Superior e Cooperação Científica
Portal FJA
Principal investigator
Fundação Jorge Álvares, Portugal
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Fundação Jorge Álvares
Cancelled
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/05/10 - Current | Vamos Estudar Português Juntos - ¿¿¿¿¿
yiqixuepuyu
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2018/09/01 - 2019/07/31 | Human Orientation and Career Guidance in China
Human Orientation and Career Guidance in China
Technical development
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Cancelled
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Newsletter article |
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| Newspaper article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/03/10 | The Politics of Memory, Trauma, and Identity in Northeast Asia: WWII Memorial Sites as Foreign Policy Tools | Young Scholars - Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2025/02/25 | O Nordeste Asiático: História e Memória da China, do Japão e da Coreia do Sul |
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/22 | MY MIRAI | Intervenção n'O Encontro Entre Portugal e o Japão: Uma Longa Amizade
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau - Sharing Knowledge - Associação Amigos da Nova Rota da Seda (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/02 | Historical Legacies and Contemporary Geopolitics in Northeast Asia: Implications for Regional Security | CESRAN2024 |
| 2024/10/10 | The Geoeconomic Strategy in Northeast Asia: National Interests vs. Regional Integration | Dialogues on China 2024
Institute of International Politics and Economics (Belgrado, Serbia)
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| 2024/04/29 | Entre o Passado e o Presente: uma Análise da História da China, do Japão e da Península Coreana | Aula proferida no âmbito da UC "Dinâmicas das Civilizações"
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa
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| 2024/04/19 | China-EU: Relations Prior and After the BRI | China-EU Relations
Universidade Lusófona, Centro Universitário do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/14 | O Peso da História nas Relações China-Japão-Coreia | Aula proferida no âmbito da Licenciatura em Relações Internacionais
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/14 | Dos Vínculos Antigos às Realidades Modernas: China-Japão-Coreia na História das RI | Aula proferida no âmbito da UC "História das Relações Internacionais"
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP-UL) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/04/06 | Politics of Memory and Trauma in Northeast Asia: An Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea | Young Scholars - Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/03/08 | China-EU: Relations Prior and After BRI | EU-China Relations Conference
Universidade Lusófona do Porto
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| 2024/03/05 | Politics of Memory and Trauma in Northeast Asia: An Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation between China, Japan and South Korea | Young Scholars - Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau
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| 2023/09/21 | 10 Anos da Iniciativa Faixa e Rota: Análise dos Projetos de Cooperação no Continente Africano | Diálogos Interculturais Portugal-China
Instituto Confúcio da Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2023/04/07 | PORTAL FJA: COOPERAÇÃO CHINA-ESPAÇO LUSÓFONO NO ENSINO SUPERIOR E INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA | Young Scholars - Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/01/22 | ¿¿¿¿: Celebrando o Ano Novo Chinês | Asia Membership
ORIENTATE (Portugal)
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| 2021/05/18 | ¿¿¿¿: Estudar na China sem Saber Chinês | Conversas Culturais
Instituto Confúcio da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/06/01 - Current | Coorganização e participação na Conferência Portugal-China Scientific Research Cooperation Conference organizada pela Associação
Novos Amigos da Rota da Seda e pela Associação de Macau para a Cooperação Científica entre a China e os Países de Língua Portuguesa (2021/12/06 - 2021/12/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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| 2023/03/02 - 2024/10/06 | BRI CONFERENCES: 10 Years of the Belt and Road Initiative was a conference that wished to promote knowledge on the development
of BRI for the past 10 years, giving special attention to what was been made in Portugal. (2023/11/28 - 2024/10/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2024/06/18 - 2024/06/18 | Ciclo de Conferências "BRI CONFERENCES: Health and Sustainable Development" em coorganização entre a Associação dos Amigos
da Nova Rota da Seda e o Instituto Confúcio da Universidade de Aveiro. Parceria da Escola de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa.
(2023/06/01 - 2023/06/01)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/03/15 - Current | Moderation of the Panel "Iniciativa Faixa e Rota"
Conference
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Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal
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| 2022/11/03 - Current | Voice-recording of Korean sentences for a system of voice recognition.
Other
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2022 NIA Project - Korean Speech Database Construction project for Learning Through IA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2025/03/10 - 2025/03/28 | Moderação dos Painel "Política Externa Chinesa" e "Japan and the (Portuguese-speaking) World
Conference
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Conferências da Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Portugal
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| 2025/03/06 - 2025/03/08 | XII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Political Science (APCP)is a biennial congress that will take place at ISCTE
- University Institute of Lisbon, from from March 6th to 8th, 2025, will feature in this edition 7 thematic sections: Portuguese
Society and Politics, European Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance and Local Politics , Administration and Public Policy,
International Relations and Political Theory.
Conference
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Emotional Diplomacy: The Role of National Sentiments in Shaping Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política, Portugal |
| 2024/11/06 - 2024/11/12 | The Government of Japan launched the MIRAI Programme in 2015. It is a short-term youth exchange scheme set up to invite graduate
and undergraduate students to Japan.
The title of the programme, “MIRAI,” means “future” in Japanese and is also an acronym based on the first letters of the following
keywords, as indicated: Mutual understanding, Intellectual Relations and Academic exchange Initiative.
This programme is intended to offer an opportunity to (i) promote mutual trust and understanding among the people of Japan
and Europe to build a bas
Meeting
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| 2022/10/28 - 2022/11/08 | Conjunto de aulas online sobre o desenvolvimento da Economia Digital nos Países de Língua Portuguesa.
Conference
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Colóquio Online sobre a Economia Digital para os Países de Língua Portuguesa
City University of Macau, Macau SAR China
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| 2022/02/22 - 2022/05/18 | A conference cycle on different aspects - social, economical, political - about China, its history and contemporary relevance.
Symposium
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CASS-UC Course on China Studies
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
| 2019/03 - 2022/03 | Participation on the X-XII International Electronic Symposium on Chinese Politics, organized by Observatório de Política Chinesa,
where abstracts and academic articles, on different topics, were shared with the participants whom, therefore, could pose
any questions/comments.
Symposium
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International Electronic Symposium on Chinese Politics
Observatorio de la Política China, Spain
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2025/01/04 - Current | European Center for Japanese Studies (ECJS) | |
| 2024/09 - Current | The International Political Science Association (IPSA) | |
| 2024/09 - Current | The International Studies Association (ISA) | |
| 2022/04/30 - Current | Associação dos Amigos da Nova Rota da Seda (ANRS) | |
| 2025/04/30 - 2027/04/30 | European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) | Member |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/11/06 - 2023/11/22 | The Seminar for China Issue Experts of B&R Countries was jointly promoted by the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (UCASS) and the Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) in an attemp to gather political figures and researchers who have been working on Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. | University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
Distinctions
Award
| 2021 | “Diálogos Intercivilizacionais: Ásia, Europa e Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa – Asian and European-Lusophone Civilization
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Eurasia Foundation, United States |
| 2020 | Best Master Dissertation of the master program on Chinese Studies
Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, China
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| 2017 | Contemporary China-AJEPC Award
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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