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Susana de Noronha is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D. summa cum laude in sociology of culture, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal. Winner ex aequo of the 2007 "CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists" and the "Bernardino Machado Award 2003" for the student with the highest final grade in Anthropology, University of Coimbra. Author of the books - A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama (2009, Afrontamento) [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge, and action on breast cancer]; Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doenças nas estórias da arte (2015, Almedina) [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women’s art stories]; and Cancro Sobre Papel: Estórias de oito mulheres Portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita (2019, Almedina - in press) [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science]. Regarding creative work, she is also a published lyricist and author of creative scientific illustrations (creative ethnographic drawing/painting and amateur photography).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Susana Pinto Figueiredo de Noronha

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
 Sociology (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/12/19
Concluded
 Governação, Conhecimento e Inovação (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
 [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 Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good (Maximum Grade)
2003/09/12
Concluded
 Antropologia (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

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 - 2007/12/11 Post-graduation Student (Master) associated with NECES: Research Group on Science, Technology and Society
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, 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
Pos-doctoral 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
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Noronha, Susana de. 2019. 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. https://www.almedina.net/product_info.php?products_id=50886.
    Published
  2. Noronha, Susana de. 2015. 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. https://www.almedina.net/product_info.php?products_id=29747.
    Published
  3. Noronha, Susana de. 2009. A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: A arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies and Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento. http://www.edicoesafrontamento.pt/sociologia--epistemologia.html.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Noronha, Susana de. 2015. "Metástases de um texto antropológico escrito entre mulheres, arte(s) e cancros da mama [Metastasis 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 Clara Sarmento, 283-311. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento. http://www.edicoesafrontamento.pt/textos--diversos.html.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Noronha, Susana de. 2019. "Emoções". In Dicionário Alice (ISBN: 978-989-8847-08-9), edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Maria Paula Meneses; Susana de Noronha; Mara Bicas. Coimbra, Portugal: CES. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/?id=23838&pag=23918&id_lingua=1&entry=24276.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Noronha, Susana. 2018. "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): 101-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/configuracoes.6097.
    Open access • 10.4000/configuracoes.6097
  2. Noronha, Susana de. 2013. "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: 33-37. https://web.estesl.ipl.pt/ojs/index.php/ST/article/view/874.
    Open access • Published
  3. Noronha, Susana de. 2010. "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): 54-64.
    Open access • Published

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, 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 (in press).
  2. Noronha, Susana de. Frida Kahlo de perfil [Frida Kahlo’s Profile], (drawing/painting within an article with the same title) to be published in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Cunha, Teresa; Nunes, João Arriscado (Eds.) (2019) Sabedoria e Coragem: os mestres e as mestras do mundo. Coimbra: Almedina. (in press).

Other

Other output
  1. Susana de Noronha (ed.); Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.); Maria Paula Meneses (ed.); Mara Bicas (ed.); René Ramírez (ed.). 2019. Dictionary ALICE. Editorial board of the Dictionary ALICE, included in the results of the project “ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences, coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/.
  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)
2019/01/15 [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 [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 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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [(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 [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 [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 [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 [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 Metastasis: 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 [Paint, Butterflies and Metastasis: 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 [Paint, Butterflies and Metastasis: 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 [Paint, Butterflies and Metastasis: 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)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Coordinator of the Seminar Health and Resistance(s): patients and movements, from illness to effective action - a 12 classes seminar (with João Arriscado Nunes and Ana Raquel Matos), Specialization and International Course Epistemologies of the South, 4th Cohort (2019-2020), E-Learning Course, a CES-CLACSO initiative, with the participation of CODESRIA. (https://www.clacso.org.ar/sur-sur/especializacion_y_curso_internacional_4.php?idioma=esp) (2019/08/01 - 2019/10/31) Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2009/03/30 - 2009/03/30 [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] Comissão organizadora (com Matos; Ana Raquel; Barbosa, Rosemeire) do debate 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) 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
2018/10/11 - 2018/10/11 [Commentator at the Seminar Out-of-the-Box Methodologies: From Canon to Experience] Comentadora do Seminário Metodologias Fora da Caixa: do cânone à experiência
Seminar
 [XIII Edition of the Young Social Scientists Annual Cycles] XIII Ciclo Jovens Cientistas Sociais
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2009/03/30 - 2009/03/30 [Commentator at 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] Comentadora do debate 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.
Seminar
 [(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
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
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

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/04/10 - 2019/04/10 Mentor of the 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' (scheduled for April 10) (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/12/04 - 2018/12/05 Mentor of the 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. (Outros) 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 Metastasis: 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 (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2017/03/06 - 2017/03/06 Tv Show Faz Sentido 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 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 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 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 Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
2011/01/17 - 2011/01/17 TV Show Mais Mulher 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 Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]
2010/10/08 - 2010/10/08 TV Medical News Program - Consultório 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 Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge and action on breast cancer]

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
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