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––––– EDUCATION, AFFILIATION AND DISTINCTIONS ––––– Susana de Noronha is an Anthropologist and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) University of Coimbra, Portugal (Member of the Science, Economy and Society Research Group NECES). (Obtained the status of CES Associate, upon a favourable evaluation by the Scientific Council, and approved by unanimous vote at the General Assembly of the Centre for Social Studies on December 12, 2019) Winner of the 2003 Bernardino Machado Award for the best student (17.1/20 points) in Anthropology (BA/Licentiate degree), Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra. She holds a Master and a Ph.D. in Sociology (maximum grades) from the Faculty of Economics of the same University, winning the 2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists with her Master’s dissertation, and unanimously approved with distinction and praise (summa cum laude) with her doctoral thesis in 2012. She had positive evaluation and funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in her Master, Doctoral and Postdoctoral research projects. ––––– SCIENTIFIC AND CREATIVE OUTPUTS ––––– Single-author of three pioneering books regarding the depiction of cancer experiences in the visual and plastic arts, her working field since 2005. She is also the single-author of several book chapters and journal articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, doing peer-review for six indexed international scientific journals. She is also an editorial board member of two open access publications funded by the European Research Council (ERC). She is a published lyricist and author of more than fifty scientific illustrations, using ethnographic drawing and painting, blending social science with the visual arts. ––––– TEACHING AND SUPERVISION ––––– She has a substantial teaching experience, collaborating with several Bachelor, Master and Doctoral programs, being also a coordinator, lecturer and tutor of an e-learning seminar focused on health and illness, included in an international course assembled by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and CES. She supervises MA dissertations, Ph.D. theses and also Ph.D. and postdoctoral internships of students and researchers enrolled in her fields of expertise, also using her proficiency in creative methodologies to coordinate and mentor advanced training courses. ––––– ACTIVITIES ––––– Co-organizer of several roundtables, seminar cycles, workshops, summer schools and international conferences, she has delivered more than sixty single authored oral presentations, twenty by invitation, thirty in peer-reviewed panels of scientific meetings, and eighteen to non-academic publics as an invited speaker, also reaching the Media as an interviewee in newspapers and large audience television networks and programs, doing science with and for society.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Susana Pinto Figueiredo de Noronha

Citation names

  • Noronha, Susana de

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E219-92C5-60D2
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1823-4342

Email addresses

  • susananoronha@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • https://www.ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/susana-de-noronha (Professional)
  • http://www.susananoronha.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Education
Degree Classification
2013/04/01 - 2018/04/30
Concluded
 POSTDOC in Sociology - Research Monograph: Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 n/a
2012/12/19
Concluded
 PH.D in Sociology - Governance, Knowledge and Innovation (Doutoramento)
Major in Sociology of Culture, Science and Communication
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"Objetos feitos de Cancro. A cultura material como pedaço de doença em histórias de mulheres contadas pela arte [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved by Unanimity With Distinction and Praise
2007/12/11
Concluded
 MA in Sociology - National Societies Facing Globalization Processes/ Sociologia - As Sociedades Nacionais Perante os Processos de Globalização (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte enquanto experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good (Maximum Grade)
2003/09/12
Concluded
 Licentiate in Anthropology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Guggenheim: A Identidade de um Fragmento Metamórfico [Guggenheim: The Identity of a Metamorphic Fragment] 19 in 20 points" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17,1/20 (Good with Distinction)
Affiliation

Science

2018/05/01 - Current Researcher (Research)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/04/01 - 2018/04/30 Postdoc (Research)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

2004 - 2005 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

2020/06 - Current Collaborator Professor/Researcher of the Research Group: Collective Health, Epistemologies of the South and Interculturalities, Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), Brazil
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2021/01/20 Professor of the Social Sciences Post-Graduate Programs Network of The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2018/03/01 - 2020/01/28 Professor (and Co-coordinator) of the postgraduate international virtual seminar “Rethinking Health: forms of knowledge(s), care and resistance” CES-CLACSO
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Others

2008 - 2012/12/19 Ph.D. Student Associated with NECES: Research Group on Science, Technology and Society
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2006/01/01 - 2007/12/31 Post-graduation Student (Master) associated with CES/NECES: Research Group on Science, Technology and Society
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013 - 2018/04/30 [The objects and cancer(s) of twelve Portuguese women, entangled among body, art and social science] Objetos e cancros de doze mulheres portuguesas misturados entre o corpo, a arte e a ciência social
SFRH/BPD/88239/2012
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2008 - 2011/12/31 [(P)arts of Cancer in Digital Walls: the hybrids of art, science and experience] (P)artes do cancro em parede digital: hibridações entre arte, ciência e experiência oncológica
SFRH/BD/37150/2007
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2006 - 2006/12/29 [AR(ms)T: Cancer, Art, Knowledge and Activism in the Internet] AR(ma-)TE: Cancro, Arte, Conhecimento e Ativismo na Internet
SFRH/BM/24457/2005
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Noronha, Susana de. Cancro Sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres Portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science]. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina. 2019.
    Published
  2. Noronha, Susana de. Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]. Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina. 2015.
    Published
  3. Noronha, Susana de. A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: A arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento. 2009.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Noronha, Susana de. "Sarcoma e amputação de um braço esquerdo: da (in)capacidade a um outro uso do coto, do corpo e dos objetos do trabalho [The sarcoma and amputation of a left arm: from (dis)ability to another way of working with objects, a stump, and a body]". In Experiência de adoecimentos e condições crônicas: perspectivas socioantropológicas [Experiences of illness and chronic conditions: socio-anthropological perspectives], edited by Sílvia Portugal; Reni Barsaglini; Melo Lucas P.. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Fiocruz & Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020.
    In press
  2. Noronha, Susana de. "Fotografías hechas de cáncer: el arte como pedazo de enfermedad en los relatos de mujeres [Photographs Made of cancer: art as a part of illness in women’s stories]". In La Imagen Desvelada: prácticas fotográficas en la enfermedad, la muerte y el duelo [The Unveiled Image: photographic practices in illness, death and grief], edited by Rebeca Pardo; Montse Morcate, 79-122. Barcelona, Spain: Sans Soleil Ediciones, 2019.
    Published
  3. Noronha, Susana de. "Na terceira metade das coisas e do conhecimento: o desejo de um outro conceito e experiência de doença na arte de mulheres com cancro [The third half of things and of knowledge: the desire for an alternative concept and experience of illness in the art of women with cancer". In Saúde e Cyborgs: Cuidar na Era da Medicina Biotecnológica [Health and Cyborgs: Caring in the Age of Biotechnological Medicine], edited by Ana Paula Teixeira ; Manuel Curado, 257-308. Porto, Portugal: Fronteira do Caos, 2019.
    Published
  4. Noronha, Susana de. "Metástases de um texto antropológico escrito entre mulheres, arte(s) e cancros da mama [Metastases of an anthropological essay written among women, art(s) and breast cancer]". In Semióticas da Comunicação Intercultural: da teoria às práticas [Semiotics of Intercultural Communication: from theory to practice], edited by Sarmento, Clara (ed.); Moreira, Carlota (ed.), 283-311. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento, 2015.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Noronha, Susana de. "Emoções". In Dicionário Alice (ISBN: 978-989-8847-08-9), edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Maria Paula Meneses; Susana de Noronha; Mara Bicas. CES, 2019. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/?id=23838&pag=23918&id_lingua=1&entry=24276.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Noronha, Susana de. "(Un)stitching the memory and the story of a melanoma: giving a form to forgetfulness between anthropology and creative ethnographic drawing". Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 8 2 (2019): https://journals.openedition.org/cadernosaa/2500?file=1 .
    Open access • Published
  2. Noronha, Susana de. "The chairs of hereditary cancer: understanding time and illness using creative ethnographic drawing". Comunicação e Sociedade 35 (2019): 153-171. https://revistacomsoc.pt/article/view/543/523 .
    Open access • Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.35(2019).3136
  3. Noronha, Susana de. "Radiant: Understanding endometrial cancer, vaginal brachytherapy and motherhood through words and images". Revista Ñanduty 7 11 (2019): http://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/index.php/nanduty/article/view/10768/5699.
    Open access • Published
  4. Noronha, Susana de. "Cancro, arte e ação: experiências e projetos de mulheres e homens Portugueses [Cancer, Art and Action: experiences and projects of Portuguese women and men]". Configurações 22 (2018): 101-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/configuracoes.6097 .
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/configuracoes.6097
  5. Noronha, Susana de. "Mulheres em morte-cor: os objetos que fazem e desfazem corpos e cancros metastáticos [Women in ground colour/coat: objects that make and unmake bodies and metastatic cancers]". Saúde e Tecnologia (2013): 33-37. https://web.estesl.ipl.pt/ojs/index.php/ST/article/view/874/864 .
    Open access • Published
  6. Noronha, Susana de. "Duas Mulheres, a Câmara e o Bisturi: (re)misturas entre o incorporado, o artístico e o biomédico na experiência do cancro de mama [Two Women, a Camera and a Scalpel: (re)mixing embodied, artistic and biomedical breast cancer experiences]". POP/ Publicação Oncológica Portuguesa, nº 02, Ano 02 2 (2010): 54-64.
    Open access • Published
Online resource
  1. Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (ed.); Cunha, Teresa (ed.); Nunes, João Arriscado (ed.); Noronha, Susana de (ed.). Mestras e Mestres do Mundo: Coragem e Sabedoria [Teachers of the World: Courage and Wisdom] open access publication included in the results of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to new way of sharing the world experiences, coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). 2020. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/mestrxs/.
  2. Noronha, Susana de. Frida Kahlo de perfil” [Frida Kahlo’s Profile], in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Cunha, Teresa; Nunes, João Arriscado; Noronha, Susana de (Eds.) Mestras e Mestres do Mundo: Coragem e Sabedoria [Teachers of the World: Courage and Wisdom], Coimbra: CES-ALICE.. 2020. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/mestrxs/ (in press).
  3. Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (ed.); Meneses, Maria Paula (ed.); Noronha, Susana de (ed.); Bicas, Mara (ed.); Ramírez, René (ed.). Dicionário ALICE [ALICE Dictionary] open access publication included in the results of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to new way of sharing the world experiences, coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). 2019. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/.

Artistic / Performance

Audio recording
  1. Noronha, Susana de. 2012. "Lyrics of the song Written in Blood, Water and Mud, for the project At Freddy's House". In À Sombra de Deus Vol. 4, Portugal: Braga 2012.
  2. Noronha, Susana de. 2010. "Lyrics of the Album Lock Full Version, for the project At Freddy's House". In Lock full version, Portugal: Cobra Discos.
  3. Noronha, Susana de. 2009. "Lyrics of the EP Lock, for the project At Freddy's House". In EP Lock [International digital edition], Portugal: Optimus Discos.
  4. Noronha, Susana de. 2009. "Lyrics of the song My Falling House, for the project At Freddy’s House". In Novos Talentos FNAC 2009 [New Talents FNAC 2009], Portugal: FNAC.
  5. Noronha, Susana de. 2009. "Lyrics of the album Undergod/Underdog, for the band Pyroscaphe". In Undergod/Underdog [digital edition in 23 countries through iTunes, Napster and eMusic], Los Angeles: Poison Tree Records.
  6. Noronha, Susana de. 2009. "Lyrics of the song Tempest Girl, for the project At Freddy's House". In 3pistas Vol.2, Portugal: Antena3 & Edições Valentim de Carvalho-Iplay.
  7. Noronha, Susana de. 2006. "Lyrics of the songs Drunken Boat and Rubber Nose, for the project At Freddy’s House". In Acorda! Nova Música Portuguesa em mp3 [Acorda! First mp3 compilation of Portuguese contemporary music], Lisboa/Braga: Antena3 and Cobra Discos.
Visual artwork
  1. Noronha, Susana de. Cancro sobre Papel [Cancer on Paper], a creative scientific illustration project with eight visual essays and fifty illustrations, for the monograph - Noronha, Susana de (2019) Cancro Sobre Papel: Estórias de oito mulheres Portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: stories of Eight Portuguese women in words, art and science], Coimbra: Almedina.
  2. Noronha, Susana de. Frida Kahlo de perfil [Frida Kahlo’s Profile] [Graphite, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 21x29.7cm], drawing/painting for the online resource essay Noronha, Susana de (2020) Frida Kahlo de perfil to be published in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Cunha, Teresa; Nunes, João Arriscado; Noronha, Susana de (Eds.) (2020) Mestras e Mestres do Mundo: Coragem e Sabedoria. Coimbra: CES-ALICE. (in press).
  3. Noronha, Susana de. Four illustrations for the article Noronha, Susana de (2020) “Radiant: understanding endometrial cancer, vaginal brachytherapy and motherhood through words and images”, Revista Ñanduty. Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Brasil..
  4. Noronha, Susana de. (2019) Transplanted [Acrylic on paper, 21x29.7cm] for the virtual exhibition “Objects of Engaging with Migration & Crime Control Infrastructures”, EXCHANGE Project (Curators: Marta Martins and Laura Carvalho – CECS-UM).
  5. Noronha, Susana de. Three illustrations for the article Noronha, Susana de (2019) “(Un)stitching the memory and the story of a melanoma: giving a form to forgetfulness between anthropology and creative ethnographic drawing”, Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, vol. 8(2): pp. 73-79. Salvador-BA (Brazil): Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).
  6. Noronha, Susana de. Seven illustrations for the article Noronha, Susana de (2019) “The chairs of hereditary cancer: understanding time and illness using creative ethnographic drawing”, Comunicação e Sociedade, vol. 35: pp. 153-171. Braga, Portugal: Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) ISSN: 1645-2089/ e-ISSN: 2183-3575..
  7. Noronha, Susana de. Two photographs for the illustrated essay “A Pandemia e a Cidade Cheia” [The Pandemic and the Crowded City], in the digital rubric CES (com)vida 2020. Coimbra: CES. • Illustrations: O Número de Todas as Portas [The number of each and every door- Photography]; Para lá da Fachada [Beyond the Facade - Photography].

Other

Other output
  1. Noronha, Susana de. 2020. A Pandemia e a Cidade Cheia [The Pandemic and the Crowded City]. Illustrated essay, written and spoken (video) in creative writing about the impact of COVID-19 in the cities, digital rubric CES (com)vida 2020. Coimbra: CES.. https://www.ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/ces-com-vida-2020/3-abr-2020/a-pandemia-e-a-cidade-cheia.
  2. Noronha, Susana de. 2012. Comment to the chronicle «Bloqueio em Movimento» [Moving Blockage] (Visão, May, 8, 2003), in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, A Cor do Tempo Quando Foge Vol. 2, Coimbra: Almedina. https://www.almedina.net/product_info.php?products_id=20629.
  3. Noronha, Susana de. 2012. Comment to the chronicle «Uma Sociedade em Busca de Medida» [A Society in Search of Measure] (Visão, March 7, 2005), in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, A Cor do Tempo Quando Foge Vol. 2, Coimbra: Almedina. https://www.almedina.net/product_info.php?products_id=20629.
  4. Noronha, Susana de. 2010. Poems in Portuguese: Entre a língua e o papel; Das tuas orelhas para os meus dedos; Cinderela Auto-etnogra(fada); o G do teu golpe: fibroso maligno; Mãe muscipula; Do avesso. in Oficina de Poesia: revista da palavra e da imagem, nº 14, II semestral series, March. Coimbra: Palimage. https://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/oficinadepoesia/14/14.php.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/05/22 BY INVITATION Radiante: compreender o câncer do endométrio, a braquiterapia vaginal e a maternidade através de palavras e imagens [Radiant: understanding endometrial cancer, vaginal brachytherapy and motherhood through words and images] Encontro Virtual Sonoridades Sociais: a importância da Criatividade e da Arte em tempos de Pandemia [Virtual meeting Social Sounds: the importance of creativity and art in times of pandemic]
Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (Bahia, Brazil)
2019/11/19 BY INVITATION - [The Third Half of Art and Cancer: another ontology, epistemology and methodology] A Terceira Metade da Arte e do Cancro: uma outra ontologia, epistemologia e metodologia Workshop/roundtable The Windows of Care: experiences in the search for health
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10/23 BY INVITATION - Do bodies and cancers have a South? When women’s art and action point to another direction Autumn School “La Santé dans les Épistémologies du Sud: autres ontologies, savoirs et connaissances” [Health in the Epistemologies of the South: other ontologies and forms of knowledge]
Université de Paris 8, Vincennes - Saint-Denis, Campus Condorcet (Paris, France)
2019/07/09 BY INVITATION - [Shaping and colouring the time of cancer: from the experience of illness to creative scientific illustration] Dar forma e cor ao tempo do cancro: da experiência da doença à ilustração científica criativa Meeting Time, Art and Experience in Dialogue
Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) and LAB2PT, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) - University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/06/14 [Bodies, organs and cancer on paper: creative ethnographic drawing as an ontological extension of women and illnesses] Corpos, órgãos e cancros sobre papel: o desenho etnográfico criativo enquanto extensão ontológica de mulheres e doenças Colóquio Internacional Figuras do pós-humano. Literatura, Cinema, Banda Desenhada
Centre for Humanistic Studies of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/06/12 Cancro sobre papel: misturar conhecimento incorporado, antropologia e arte na feitura de resistência contra a doença [Cancer on paper: to mix embodied knowledge, anthropology and art in the making of resistance against disease] COMbART: Arte, ativismo e cidadania: Conferência Internacional [COMbART: Arts, activism and citizenship: International Conference]
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06/06 [Anthropology and creative ethnographic drawing: understanding and acting on cancer between science and art] Antropologia e desenho etnográfico criativo: compreender e agir sobre o cancro entre ciência e arte [VII Congress of The Portuguese Anthropological Association] VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
NOVA – School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/12 Presentation, as author, at the launch of the book Cancro sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science] COMbART: International Conference on Arts, Activism and Citizenship
FLUP, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/03/21 [Cancer on paper: Anthropology and creative scientific illustration in the research about illness] Cancro sobre Papel: antropologia e ilustração etnográfica criativa na investigação sobre doença Neces Day [Dia do Neces]
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/01/15 BY INVITATION - [Whole in a different way: methodology and ethics across cancer(s), art(s) and bodies without some parts] Inteiras de outras maneiras: metodologia e ética entre cancro(s), arte(s) e corpos sem algumas partes [Colloquium Queer Methodology/Queering Methodologies] Colóquio Metodologia Queer/Queerizando Metodologias
Centre For Social Studies - University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/01/04 BY INVITATION - [Between Art and Science: cancer in the stories of women survivors] Entre arte e ciência: O cancro nas estórias de mulheres resistentes [WOMANART Seminar Cycle] Ciclo de Seminários WOMANART
GAPS Gender, Arts, and Post-Colonial Studies, CEHUM – The Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/06/21 BY INVITATION - Nudging between Art, Oncology, and the Will of Sick People: Pushes and Pulls in Breast Cancer Nudging and Paternalistic Societies: Free Choice and Subtle Determinism
School of Economics and Management, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/06/06 BY INVITATION - [Cancers, stories and objects of women survivors: Cancer disease between society, art and science] Cancros, estórias e objetos de mulheres resistentes: a doença oncológica entre sociedade, arte(s) e ciência(s) [First Session of the Permanent Seminar: Science with and for Society] 1º Sessão do Seminário: Ciência com e para a Sociedade
CECS (Communication and Society Research Centre) Social Sciences Institute, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2017/09/30 [Cancer on Paper: stories of eight women among spoken words, art and written science] Cancros de 8 mulheres sobre papel: estórias da doença entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Meeting Cultura/Natura 2017] Encontro Cultura/Natura 2017
Higher Education Artistic School of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/09/30 Cancer on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science Woman XXI
Fundação Cupertino de Miranda (Porto, Portugal)
2017/09/08 [The third half of things and of knowledge: the anthropological method to mix cancer and objects among women, art(s) and science(s)] A Terceira Metade das Coisas e do Conhecimento: o método antropológico para misturar cancros e objetos entre mulheres, arte(s) e ciência(s) [3rd Conference Paths for the Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal] 3ª Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, Temática: Ciência e Arte
Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2017/07/07 Cancer on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science - Panel The Body and the Future in the Anthropology of Cancer 2017 Biannual Conference Network Meeting – EASA Medical Anthropology Network – Bodies in Transition: Power, Knowledge and Medical Anthropology
University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06/23 Cancer on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science ETHNOARTS: Ethnographic Explorations of the Arts and Education, Ethnography and Education Journal Meeting
Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/06/09 Cancer on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science Lost in translation? People, technologies, practices and concepts across boundaries, First Joint Meeting, Red esCTS and Portuguese STS Network
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/03/25 [9 Cancers on Paper: stories of 8 women among spoken words, art and written science] 9 cancros de 8 mulheres sobre papel: estórias e objetos da doença entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [International Conference Intersexualities: Crossing Bodies, Crossing Borders] Congresso Internacional Intersexualidades: Cruzando Corpos, Cruzando Fronteiras
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/03/24 BY INVITATION - [Speaker at the Roundtable: lightning talks about the epistemic status of testimony within the many practices and forms of knowledge] Palestrante na Mesa Redonda: lightning talks sobre o estatuto epistemológico do Testemunho em diversas áreas e práticas do saber [Interdisciplinary Meeting on Testimony] Encontro Interdisciplinar sobre o Testemunho
Centre For Social Studies, CES Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/03/16 BY INVITATION - [The third half of things and of knowledge: the anthropological method to mix cancer and objects among women, art(s) and science(s)] A Terceira Metade das Coisas e do Conhecimento: o método antropológico para misturar cancros e objetos entre mulheres, arte(s) e ciência(s) [1st Session of Social Sciences and Health Seminar. The plurality of research methodologies – Session 1] 1ª Sessão do Seminário Ciências Sociais e Saúde. A pluralidade de metodologias de investigação
Centre For Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/03/10 [9 Cancers on Paper: stories of 8 women among spoken words, art and written science] 9 cancros de 8 mulheres sobre papel: estórias e objetos da doença entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [International Conference Ways of doing, Ways of being: artistic practices in and with anthropology] Colóquio Internacional Modos de Fazer, Modos de Ser: práticas artísticas na e com a antropologia
Nacional Museum of Ethnology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/10/14 [Objects Made of Cancer: women, material culture and illness in online space and art stories - Parallel Session: Representations and Arts] Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte e da Internet - Sessão Paralela: Representações e Artes [Ciberculture Congress: circumnavigations in transcultural networks of knowledge, archives and thought] Congresso de Cibercultura: Circum-navegações em redes transculturais de conhecimento, arquivos e pensamento,
School of Psychology, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/09/10 9 cancers on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science The ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts: 9th midterm conference: Arts and Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference
University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Porto, Portugal)
2016/06/04 [9 Cancers on Paper: stories of 8 women among spoken words, art and written science - Panel Art, Ethnography and Social Intervention: contemporary reconfigurations of social organization] 9 cancros de 8 mulheres sobre papel: estórias e objetos da doença entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita - Painel: Arte, etnografia e intervenção social: reconfigurações contemporâneas de organização social [6th Congress of APA - Disputed Futures] VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Futuros Disputados
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/05/21 9 cancers on paper: stories and objects of illness among women, spoken words, art and written science ESA RN16 Mid Term Conference: New directions in health care work and organisations
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/03/18 BY INVITATION - [Objects made of cancer: women, material culture and illness in the arts] Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [9th Cycle of CEI Seminars] IX Ciclo de Conferências do CEI
Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI), Accounting and Business School (ISCAP) (Porto, Portugal)
2016/02/23 BY INVITATION - [Women, art(s) and objects made of cancer: the third half of things and of knowledge, from modular illnesses to built-in objects] Mulheres, Arte(s) e Objetos Feitos de Cancro: a terceira metade das coisas e do conhecimento, a doença modular e os objetos encastráveis [1st International Doctoral and Master's Seminar UICISA:E 2016] 1º Seminário Internacional Para Doutorandos e Mestrandos UICISA:E 2016
Health Sciences Research Unit Events, Nursing School of Coimbra (ESENFC) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/02/22 BY INVITATION - [(Dis)arranging Objects Made of Cancer: women, material culture and disease in the (his)stories of art] Des)arrumando Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [3rd Meeting of Arts Informed Research] Encontro 3 de Arts Informed Research
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/11/26 [Objects Made of Cancer: women, material culture and illness in online space and art stories] Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte e da Internet [ON/OF: Navigating through digital cultures, technology and knowledge] ON/OFF: Navegando pelas culturas digitais, tecnologia e conhecimento
Portuguese Sociological Association, Section Arts, Culture and Communication, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/09/08 [9 Cancers on Paper: stories of 8 women among spoken words, art and written science - Session: Health, Illness and Biomedicine] 9 cancros de 8 mulheres sobre papel: estórias e objetos da doença entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita - Sessão: Saúde, Doença e Biomedicina [2nd Conference Paths for the Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal] 2ª Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal
Social Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/07/11 [The Third Half of Cancer and Material Culture: objects as parts of illness in art stories told by women] A terceira metade do cancro e da cultura material: os objetos que fazem a doença nas história(s) da arte contadas por/com mulheres [International Colloquium Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South-North and North-South global learnings] Colóquio Internacional Epistemologias do Sul: Aprendizagens globais Sul-Sul, Sul-Norte e Norte-Sul
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2013/09/11 [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture as a part of illness on women's art stories - Panel: Death, sacrifice and suffering, now and then] Objetos feitos de cancro: a cultura material como pedaço de doença em histórias de mulheres contadas pela arte - Painel: Morte, sacrifício e sofrimento, ontem e hoje [V Congress of The Portuguese Anthropological Association - Anthropology in Counterpoint] V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia – Antropologia em Contraponto
UTAD (Vila Real, Portugal)
2012/11/23 BY INVITATION - [Speaker at the Panel - Cancer: from institutional framework to subjective experience] Palestrante no painel - O cancro: do enquadramento institucional à vivência da doença [III Conference on Social Sciences, Humanities and Health - Health: paths of reflection] III Jornadas de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Saúde – Saúde: Vias de Reflexão
Lisbon School of Health Technology (ESTeSL) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/11/10 [Objects Made of Cancer] Objetos Feitos de Cancro [Coimbra C - Stage of Siege, Displaced States - Third Edition of The Graduate Student Conference] Coimbra C – Estado de Sítio, Estados sem Sítio, III Colóquio de Doutorandas/os do CES
Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012/05/02 BY INVITATION - [Cancer between breast, art and social science: art as a piece of cancer - Part I] O cancro enredado entre a mama, a arte e a ciência social: a arte como pedaço de doença - Parte I [Meeting BIOQ30 Exploring Networks 2] BIOQ30 Explorando Redes 2
Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS) - University of Porto
2011/12/16 BY INVITATION - [Other relations between cancer(s) and art(s) in the experience of women-artists] Outros encaixes entre cancro(s) e arte(s) na experiência de mulheres artistas [5th Cycle of CEI Seminars] V Ciclo de Conferências do Centro de Estudos Interculturais
Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI), Accounting and Business School (ISCAP) (Porto, Portugal)
2011/04/08 BY INVITATION - [Speaker at the Panel - Cancer and Society, an overview. Topic: Cancer and Art] Palestrante no Painel - Panorâmica do Cancro da Sociedade. Tópico: Cancro e Arte [III Symposium for the Prevention of Cancer Disease] III Simpósio de Prevenção da Doença Oncológica
Portuguese League Against Cancer (LPCC) (Porto, Portugal)
2010/11/18 Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer International Meeting Anthropology and Health: trends for the next decade
Department of Life Sciences, CIAS [Research Centre for Anthropology and Health], University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010/10/11 BY INVITATION - [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Seminars of the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health - CIAS] Ciclo de Conferências do CIAS - Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Department of Life Sciences – Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010/09/02 Cancerous(P)arts: art objects as pieces of experience, knowledge and action EASST 2010 - Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social - Track: ARTificial Life? Performativity Between Science, Media and Art
Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento (Trento, Italy)
2010/05/08 BY INVITATION - [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Commemorative Cultural Session of the 32nd Anniversary of GAAC] Sessão Cultural da Comemoração do 32º Aniversário do GAAC
GAAC - (Grupo de Arqueologia e Arte do Centro) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010/03/27 [Cancerous (P)arts: art objects as pieces of experience, knowledge and action] (P)artes Cancerosas: o objecto de arte enquanto pedaço de experiência, conhecimento e acção [III International Seminar of Memory and Visual Culture/ II International Workshop of Anthropology and Images] III Seminário Internacional da Memória e da Cultura Visual/ II Workshop Internacional Antropologia e Imagens
Cooperativa Árvore (Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal)
2010/01/07 BY INVITATION - Keynote Speaker with the oral presentation [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: Art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Conference – Breast Cancer] Conferência – Cancro da Mama
Health Institute of Alto Ave (ISAVE) (Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal)
2009/02/05 [Paint and Tumors: translations between experience, art and the writings of social science for the understanding of breast cancer] Tintas e Tumores: traduções entre a experiência, a arte e as escritas da ciência na compreensão do cancro de mama [X Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences: unequal societies, conflicting paradigms] X Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais: sociedades desiguais e paradigmas em confronto
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2008/06/27 [Brushes and Scalpels: merging embodied, artistic and biomedical knowledge in the experience of breast cancer] Pincéis e Bisturis: encontros entre o incorporado, o artístico e o biomédico na experiência e acção sobre o cancro de mama [VI Portuguese Congress of Sociology: social worlds, knowledge and practice] VI Congresso Português de Sociologia: Mundos Sociais, Saberes e Práticas
FCSH-UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2008/06/26 [Corrosive Exposure: art, knowledge, activism and the social and ontological redefinition of breast cancer] Exposição Corrosiva: arte, conhecimento e activismo na redefinição social e ontológica do cancro de mama [VI Portuguese Congress of Sociology: social worlds, knowledge and practice] VI Congresso Português de Sociologia: Mundos Sociais, Saberes e Práticas
FCSH-UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2008/06/18 [Ink and Word: translations between experience art and social science for the understanding of breast cancer - Workshop: Young Scientists and Future Paths: new maps for the human and social sciences] Tintas e Escritas: traduções entre experiência, arte e ciência social para uma compreensão sobre o cancro de mama - Workshop Pré-Colóquio: Os jovens e os caminhos de futuro: novos mapas para as ciências sociais e humanas [International Colloquium Future Paths: new maps for the human and social sciences] Colóquio Internacional Caminhos de Futuro: Novos Mapas Para as Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
1999/11/17 [Tattoos: Irreversible Art on Mutant Canvas - Roundtable of Anthropology of Art and Aesthetics] Tatuagem: Arte Irreversível em Tela Mutante - Mesa Redonda de Antropologia e Estética [II APA Congress: Portugal and Anthropology’s field and practice] II Congresso da APA: Práticas e Terrenos da Antropologia em Portugal
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/10/29 - Current Co-supervision (with Ana Luísa Martinho) of the MA dissertation "Os Recursos Humanos e os Doentes Oncológicos" [Human Recourses and Cancer Patients]
Co-supervisor
 Gestão e Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2019/10/17 - Current Co-supervision (with Maria Margarida Abreu de Figueiredo Medeiros), of the Ph.D. Thesis "Rupturas e transgressões da apropriação artística da doença oncológica, na estrutura panóptica de poder e enclausuramento do corpo" [Disruptions and transgressions in the artistic appropriation of cancer, within the panoptic structure of power and confinement of the body]
Co-supervisor
 Ciências da Comunicação (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/08/01 - 2021/07 Supervision of the Postdoctoral Internship of a visitant researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, with the working program: Towards an Epistemology of Encounters: Approaches for Another ‘Pensar-Sentir’ (Thinking-Feeling) in Health Education. (Scheduled for August 2020-July 2021)
Supervisor
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
2020/01/01 - 2020/07/31 Co-supervision, with Ana Raquel Matos, of the Ph.D. Internship at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, of a student undertaking a Doctoral program in Bioethics at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brazil, Project Thesis: Therapeutic and body itineraries of people living with haemophilia
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral program in Bioethics (PhD)
Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
2019/09/05 - 2020/02/04 Supervision of the Ph.D. Internship at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, of a student undertaking a doctoral program in Public Health, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá – Thesis Project: Políticas Públicas, Implementación y Emociones: Caso de estudio: Política Pública de Salud para las Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes con Cáncer en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogotá - Colombia
Supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Public Health (PhD)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/10/01 - 2020/12/31 Coordinator of the “Seminars Cycle CES, Health and the Epistemologies of the South”, with Tiago Pires Marques, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal – Session I - November 19, 2019 (10:00h); Session II - February 4, 2020 (10:00h); Session III - March 18, 2020 (14:30h) (2019/11/19 - 2020/12/31)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019 - 2020/12/31 Member of the Organizing Committee of the XV Edition of the Young Social Scientists Annual Cycles, with Luciana Sotero and Sidh Losa Mendiratta (scheduled for October) (2020/10/01 - 2020/10/01)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/09/14 - 2020/09/04 Coordinator, with Rita Campos and Raquel Siqueira-Silva, of the Working Group GT3 “Creative Approaches to Health: embodied, artistic and scientific knowledge(s)”, XIV Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress (CONLAB 2020) – Post-crisis Utopias: arts and knowledge in motion (RESCHEDULED FOR 2021) (2020/09/02 - 2020/09/04)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019 - 2020/07/11 Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of “KISMIF International Conference - Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges (KISMIF 2020)” (RESCHEDULED FOR 2021) (2020/07/07 - 2020/07/11)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (FLUP), Portugal
2019 - 2020/07/07 Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of “Todas as Artes, Todos os Nome: II International Conference” [All the Arts, All the Names: II Conference] (RESCHEDULED FOR 2021) (2020/07/06 - 2020/07/07)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (FLUP), Portugal
2020/02/05 - 2020/02/05 Member of the Organizing Committee and participant speaker, with María Camila Pinzón Segura, of the workshop/roundtable “Other persons, experiences and forms of knowledge in transdisciplinary research about health-illness (2020/02/05 - 2020/02/05)
Round table
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/01/28 - 2020/01/31 Member of the Organizing Committee, with Teresa Cunha, Gaia Giuliani, Sílvia Roque, Luciana Moreira, Luísa Valle, Cristina Villar-Toribio, Begona Dorronsoro, Sandra Silvestre and José Miguel Pires, of the Winter School Feminist Ecologies of Knowledges II – 2020 (2020/01/28 - 2020/01/31)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/10/23 - 2019/10/24 Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee, with João Arriscado Nunes, Maria Paula Meneses and Jacqueline Descarpentries, in an international cooperation between the Centre for Social Studies (CES) University of Coimbra and Université de Paris 8, France, of the Autumn School “La Santé dans les Épistémologies du Sud: autres ontologies, savoirs et connaissances” [Health in the Epistemologies of the South: other ontologies and forms of knowledge] (2019/10/23 - 2019/10/24)
Meeting (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Université de Paris 8, France
2019/10/13 - 2019/10/13 Member of the Organizing Committee of “Science + Art = Reshaping Knowledge and the World” - XIV Edition of the Young Social Scientists Annual Cycles, with Sara Araújo and Carlos Nolasco (2019/10/13 - 2019/10/13)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/09/09 - 2019/09/13 Member of the coordinating team of the bilingual (PT & EN) Summer School CreA(c)tivating Scientific Making in the Social Sciences & Humanities/ CreA(c)tivar o Fazer Científico nas Ciências Sociais e Humanidades, with Patrícia Silva, Nancy Duxbury and Maria José Carvalho (2019/09/09 - 2019/09/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2009/03/30 - 2009/03/30 Member of the Organizing Committee (with Matos; Ana Raquel; Barbosa, Rosemeire) of the Seminar "Mãe (mother) on hard ground: finding a path of violence under the feet of women, walking with the writer valter hugo mãe between film, literature and life" [Mãe em terra batida: a violência sob(re) os pés das mulheres num caminho feito com valter hugo mãe entre o filme, a escrita e a vida] (2009/03/30 - 2009/03/30)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/02/04 - 2020/02/04 Invited speaker
Round table
 Round Table ‘Art in the Fight Against Cancer’ - World Cancer Day (Auditorium of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) Coimbra)
Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/11/14 - 2019/11/14 Invited commentator
Seminar
 Workshop “Care, Criticism, Correction? Engaging with migration & crime control infrastructures” (Exchange Workshop-CECS)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Educação, Portugal
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/08 Invited speaker
Round table
 Round Table The Importance of Public Participation in Science and Technology, within the activities of “Braga’s Book Fair 2019” and the cultural intervention platform Communitas Think Tank (CECS/ICS-UM)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal
2019/06/08 - 2019/06/08 Presentation, as author, of the book Cancro sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science]
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac - Braga, Portugal
2019/05/04 - 2019/05/04 Presentation, as author, at the book launch of Cancro sobre Papel: estórias de oito mulheres portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science]
Other
 Book Launch
Livraria Almedina - Estádio, Portugal
2018/10/11 - 2018/10/11 Invited commentator
Seminar
 Seminar Out-of-the-Box Methodologies: From Canon to Experience, XIII Edition of the Young Social Scientists Annual Cycles (CES)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2015/11/21 - 2015/11/21 Presentation, as author, of the book Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac - Braga, Portugal
2015/11/14 - 2015/11/14 Presentation, as author, at the book launch of Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]
Other
 Book Launch
Livraria Almedina - Estádio, Portugal
2014/05/17 - 2014/05/17 Invited Speaker
Meeting
 Meeting Cancer and Faith, at António Cupertino de Miranda Foundation
Mama Help, Portugal
2014/02/04 - 2014/02/04 Invited Speaker
Meeting
 Celebration gathering of the “World Cancer Day” at Café Brasileira, Braga
Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro (LPCC) Unidade de Psico-Oncologia de Braga, Portugal
2012/11/29 - 2012/11/29 Invited Speaker
Round table
 III session of Café com Livros [Coffee With Books] Biblioteca Norte/Sul [North/South Library]
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2011/03/21 - 2011/03/21 Oral presentation by invitation - A arte e o cancro de mama na parede transparente do social [Art and breast cancer on society’s transparent wall]
Exhibition
 Events Box-in-the-box/Edifício Transparente
Edifício Transparente, Portugal
2010/10/26 - 2010/10/26 Presentation, as author, of the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac - Coimbra, Portugal
2010/10/22 - 2010/10/22 Presentation, as author, of the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] 18h
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac - Santa Catarina - Porto, Portugal
2010/10/22 - 2010/10/22 Presentation, as author, of the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] 22h
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac Guimarães, Portugal
2010/10/20 - 2010/10/20 Presentation, as author, of the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
Other
 Book Presentation
Fnac - Braga, Portugal
2010/05/28 - 2010/05/28 Oral presentation by invitation - Art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer: thinking across skin, laboratory and canvas”
Meeting
 [Art Lab Conferences] Conferências do Laboratório das Artes
Laboratório das Artes, Portugal
2010/04/30 - 2010/04/30 Invited speaker with the oral presentation “Art and Cancer”
Meeting
 Rotary Club Lectures (Biblioteca Professor Machado Vilela, Vila Verde)
Rotary Club de Braga, Portugal
2010/02/23 - 2010/02/23 Invited speaker with the oral presentation “Art and Cancer”
Meeting
 Celebration of the 105th Anniversary of Rotary International
Rotary Club de Braga, Portugal
2009/11/21 - 2009/11/21 Presentation, as author, at the book launch of A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
Other
 Book Launch
Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva, Portugal
2009/03/30 - 2009/03/30 Commentator
Round table
 ‘Mãe’ on hard ground: finding a path of violence under the feet of women, walking with valter hugo mãe between film, literature and life, within the activities of the Ph.D. Program Governance, Knowledge and Innovation
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2008/07/25 - 2008/07/25 Invited commentator
Meeting
 Colloquium Expressive-aesthetic Manifestations: new emancipative capabilities
Associação de Paralisia Cerebral de Coimbra, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/09/14 - Current International Association of the Portuguese Language Social and Human Sciences (AILPcsh) Member
2017 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Member
2016 - Current European Sociological Association (ESA) Member
2016 - Current Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) Member
2013 - Current Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA) Member
2009 - Current Portuguese Authors Association (SPA) Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019/07/22 - Current Coordinating Team, with Maria Paula Meneses, João Arriscado Nunes and Jacqueline Descarpentries, in the establishment of an international cooperation between the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra and the Université of Paris 8, Vincennes - Saint-Denis, in the creation of a European Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences and Health. Tasks: creation of protocol and cooperation agreement; definition of curricular structure and units; selection of an international teaching team and definition of the programme’s pedagogical contents.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Université Paris 8, France
2019/12/05 - 2021/01/20 Co-coordinator (with João Arriscado Nunes) of the Seminar “Epistemologies of the South and Health: ecology of experiences, knowledge and care”, Specialization and International Course Epistemologies of the South, 5th Cohort (scheduled for 20/08/2020-20/01/2021), E-Learning Course, a CES-CLACSO initiative, Centre for Social Studies (Portugal) and The Latin American Council of Social Sciences, CLACSO’s Graduate Programs Network - Social Sciences/Red CLACSO de Posgrados en Ciencias Sociales https://www.clacso.org/espistemologias-del-sur-2020/
Coordinator
 Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/03/28 - 2020/01/28 Co-Coordinator (with João Arriscado Nunes and Ana Raquel Matos) of the Seminar Health and Resistance(s): patients and movements, from illness to effective action, Specialization and International Course Epistemologies of the South, 4th Cohort (01/08/2019-28/01/2020), E-Learning Course, a CES-CLACSO initiative (Centre for Social Studies and Latin American Council of Social Sciences) https://www.clacso.org.ar/sur-sur/especializacion_y_curso_internacional_4.php?idioma=esp
Coordinator
 Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/08/01 - 2020/01/28 Coordinator, Lecturer and Mentor of the Seminar Health and Resistance(s): patients and movements, from illness to effective action, Specialization and International Course Epistemologies of the South, 4th Cohort (01/08/2019-28/01/2020), an initiative of the Centre for Social Studies (Portugal) and The Latin American Council of Social Sciences, CLACSO’s Post-Graduate Programs Network - Social Sciences/Red CLACSO de Posgrados en Ciencias Sociales https://www.clacso.org.ar/sur-sur/especializacion_y_curso_internacional_4.php?idioma=esp Social Sciences and Health (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
2020/01/16 - 2020/01/16 Mentor of the advanced training course “The Third Half of the Text: creative writing workshop for social sciences [applied manual]”, for the students of the PhD Program in Sociology, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Sociology (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/12/12 - 2019/12/12 Seminar Rural and Urban Sociology, 1st cycle studies, BA in Sociology, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Topic: Art, Cancer and Body: between urban domestic and hospital spaces and public space Sociologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2019/09/09 - 2019/09/13 Mentor of the advanced training course “Imaginative Methodologies for Science? Remaking writing, illustration and ethnographic drawing” - Module I - In the Third Half of the Text: creative writing workshop for social science research [applied manual] and Module II - Creative Scientific Illustration Workshop: how to (re)mix art, imagination and social science, at the bilingual (PT & EN) Summer School “CreA(c)tivating Scientific Making in the Social Sciences & Humanities/CreA(c)tivar o Fazer Científico nas Ciências Sociais e Humanidades/” Anthropology, Writing, Illustration (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/04/10 - 2019/04/10 Mentor of the advanced training course "Creative Scientific Illustration Workshop: how to (re)mix art, imagination and science [a theory manual]", 4th Edition of the Formation Cycle “Publish, Do not Perish: survive the stampede' Scientific illustration (ethnographic drawing) (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/12/04 - 2018/12/05 Mentor of the advanced training course - I Workshops Cycle Creative Methodologies for Research: Part I - In the Third Half of the Text: creative writing workshop for social science research [applied manual] December 4; PART II - Creative Scientific Illustration Workshop: how to (re)mix art, imagination and science [theoretical manual] December 5, integrating the activities of the Permanent Seminar Science with and for Society, Communication and Society Research Centre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal. Creative writing, scientific illustration (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
2018/11/19 - 2018/11/19 Seminar Introduction to Medicine I – Sociology Module. Topic: Malignant Illnesses, the multidisciplinary appeal in the study of cancer Medicina (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2018/11/14 - 2018/11/14 Seminar Sociology of Culture - Topic: Cancer, art and science? How to find/create links between personal experience, culture and research Comunicação, Arte e Cultura (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/04/24 - 2018/04/24 Seminar Design and Multidisciplinarity - Topic: Cancer on paper: mixing illness, voice, art and science on A4 sheet Design (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2010/11/02 - 2010/11/02 Art Sciences Seminar - Topic: Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer Artes Plásticas (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
2004/09 - 2005/06 Assistant Professor - Course: Cultural Anthropology, 4th year of the BA Program on Eco-Agrotourism Ecoturismo (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2004/05/22 - 2004/05/22 Cultural Anthropology Seminar - Topic: Mouth and body representations in the history of art and material culture Oral Hygiene (Bacharelato) Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave, Portugal
2004/01/16 - 2004/01/16 Cultural Anthropology Seminar - Topic: Body Arts as a process of management, aestheticization and material display of the ontological connections between self and society Oral Hygiene (Bacharelato) Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave, Portugal
2003/12/05 - 2003/12/05 Cultural Anthropology Seminar - Topic: Biomedical knowledge and illness as cultural constructs Oral Hygiene (Bacharelato) Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave, Portugal
2003/11/28 - 2003/11/28 Patrimony and Tourism Master Degree Seminars - Topic: Authentic and replica/fake as obsolete concepts for the understanding of ethnic commercial artefacts and their ethnographic legitimacy Património e Turismo (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2020/02/05 Newspaper article “A Arte Como Forma de Tirar o Cancro Para Fora do Corpo” [Art as a Way to Expose Cancer Outside the Body] Diário As Beiras (paper and electronic edition), p. 4
2010/10/11 Newspaper article and Interview “Criação Artística Ajuda Doentes com Cancro” [Artistic Creations help Patients with Cancer], about the research and monograph A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama, [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] JN (Jornal de Notícias, - printed/paper format)
2010/10/11 Newspaper article and interview “Arte ajudou mulheres a passar pela experiência do cancro da mama” [Art helped women to cope with the experience of breast cancer], about the research and monograph A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama, [Paint, Butterflies and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer] Diário de Coimbra (printed/paper format) p. 4
2010/03/01 Newspaper article and Interview “Rotary Club de Braga assinalou 105 anos do Rotary International: Susana Noronha foi convidada especial” [Braga’s Rotary Club celebrates Rotary International’s 105th birthday: Susana Noronha was their special guest] Diário do Minho (printed/paper format), p. 8
2008/06/20 Newspaper article “CES premiou jovens cientistas sociais” [CES gives award to young social scientists], about the 5th Edition of CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists and the celebration of CES 30th Anniversary Diário As Beiras (printed/paper format), p. 7
2007/07/24 Press release “Clara Sarmento e Santos e Maria Susana de Noronha vencem prémio para jovens cientistas sociais” [Clara Sarmento e Santos and Maria Susana de Noronha joint winners of Young Social Scientists Award], about the 5th Edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-Speaking Social Scientists 2007 webpage of RTP Notícias (TV Station)
2007/07/23 Press release “Clara Sarmento e Santos e Maria Susana de Noronha vencem prémio para jovens cientistas sociais” [Clara Sarmento e Santos and Maria Susana de Noronha joint winners of Young Social Scientists Award], about the 5th Edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-Speaking Social Scientists 2007 Newspaper JN (Jornal de Notícias, electronic edition)

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2017/03/06 - 2017/03/06 Tv Show Faz Sentido https://youtu.be/RbCZrkXv36g Promoting science while presenting the book Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects made of cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]
2017/02/01 - 2017/02/01 TV Show Olá Maria https://youtu.be/1lzvBGDVdwk Promoting science while presenting the book Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects made of cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]
2016/12/17 - 2016/12/17 TV News Program 18/20 https://youtu.be/HdBiqCWnWrQ Promoting science while presenting the book Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte [Objects made of cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]
2011/01/17 - 2011/01/17 TV Show Praça da Alegria https://youtu.be/4apzr3sxIo4 Promoting science while presenting the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
2011/01/17 - 2011/01/17 TV Show Mais Mulher https://youtu.be/4apzr3sxIo4 Promoting science while presenting the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
2010/10/08 - 2010/10/08 TV Medical News Program - Consultório https://youtu.be/fZL3b_9DwIc Promoting science while presenting the book A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastases: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/06 - Current Revista 2i: Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade (2184-7010) Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho (CEHUM), Braga, Portugal
2020/01 - Current Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (RCCS) (2182-7435 ) Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/10 - Current Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (2238-0361) Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brasil
2019/10 - Current Todas as Artes: Revista Luso-Brasileira de Artes e Cultura (2184-3805) Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), Portugal
2019/03 - Current Revista de Ciências Humanas (2178-4582) Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2016 - Current CHASQUI: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (1390-924X) CIESPAL, Quito, Ecuador
2016 - Current Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação ( 1807-5762) UNESP, Brazil

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2008/05/05 - 2008/06/18 Juror: evaluation of the exams on cultural, social and economic issues. Application exams for the Judicial Magistrate Course. Centro de Estudos Judiciários, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2007 CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists (ex aequo)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2003 Bernardino Machado Award 2003 for the Best Graduate Student in Anthropology
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (two trienniums), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Ref: SFRH/BPD/88239/2012)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2007 Doctoral Research Scholarship, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Ref: SFRH/BD/37150/2007)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2005 Master Dissertation Scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Ref: SFRH/BM/24457/2005)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal