Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Concetta Lo Bosco
Citation names
- Lo Bosco, Maria Concetta
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- FE17-F7DF-CC09
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7220-8762
Email addresses
- maria.lobosco@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa - Av. Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9 , 1600-189, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://ics.academia.edu/MaricòLoBosco (Scholar)
- https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/pessoa/maria-concetta-lo-bosco (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
French | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2012/10 - 2018/10/03
Concluded
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Anthropology (Doutoramento)
Major in Medical Anthropology
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
"A call for a broader citizenship, Parent-led Autism Advocacy Movement in Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with praise and distinction |
2008 - 2011
Concluded
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Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
"An anthropological reading of a scientific dispute. The neural approach to intersubjectivity according to the Mirror Neurons
Theory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
2009/06 - 2010/09
Concluded
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Anthropologie de la santé mentale (EHESS); Philosophie (Paris 8) (Master)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Université Paris 8, France |
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2008
Concluded
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Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française (Postgraduate Certificate)
Ambassade de France (Italia), Italy
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B2 |
2003 - 2007
Concluded
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Teoria e pratiche dell'antropologia (Laurea)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
"Third World and Risk: an anthropological approach. The risk's perception according to the International Health Policies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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105/110 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/04/03 - 2029/04 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal | ||
2018/11 - 2023/03 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2018/03 - 2022/08 | Science and Technology Management | "The Colour of Labour" ERC project (AdG 695573), Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2010 - 2012 | Production assistant | European Jazz Expo, Italy |
2009/09 - 2010/07 | Special Needs Assistant (SNA) | Scuola Elementare “Guglielmo Oberdan”, Italy |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2016/01/01 - 2016/07/01 | Ethnographic-based art festival "Paratissima" | Paratissima - PRS Srl Impresa Sociale, Italy |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/01/03 - 2022/08 | [project manager] "THE COLOUR OF LABOUR: the racialized lives of migrants" (ERC - AdG 695573)
Science and Technology Management Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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European Research Council
Concluded
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2012 - 2016 | A call for a broader citizenship: Parent-led Autism Advocacy Movement in Portugal
SFRH/BD/84969/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2008/09 - 2011/04 | An anthropological reading of a scientific dispute. The neural approach to intersubjectivity according to the Mirror Neurons
Theory
Master Student Fellow
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
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ADISU PERUGIA
Concluded
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2004/09 - 2007/12 | Third World and Risk: an anthropological approach. The risk's perception according to the International Health Policies | Agenzia per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/02 - 2022/09 | [member of the research team] EXCEL: THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE. Biotechnologies, enhancement and bodycapital in portugal.
[FCT - PTDC/SOC-ANT/30572/2017]
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference abstract |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Artistic / Performance
Video recording |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/05/31 | Discussant - Sessão 2 "Experiências de pesquisa e escolhas metodológicas" | Open Day ICS
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2022/07/15 | O que é ser normal em saúde mental? | SIAP - Seminário de Inovação em Atenção Primária
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/11/26 | The neurodiversity movement in Portuguese: some notes for a comparative perspective | Roundtable "Neurodiversity in Global Perspective: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice"
American Anthropological Association AAA (Vancouver, Canada)
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2019/11/21 | Anatomy of the Skin: Biotechnologies of Authenticity in Changing Biopolitical Time | Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice
American Anthropology Association & Canadian Anthropology Society (Vancouver, Canada)
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2019/10/11 | Fathers of children with autism: for a cha(lle)nging visual representation of fatherhood and masculinity | Gender and Family representations between the twentieth century and present time
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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2019/03/15 | Dos artefactos tecnológicos e do aprimoramento cognitivo: o fazer e desfazer da conditio humana | Limitless? Imaginários, consumos e desafios no aprimoramento cognitivo
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2015/06/12 | Sensing the field and giving sense to emotions, narratives between a medical anthropologist and autistics' family caregivers | 6th Annual MAYS meeting “Emotions in/and Medical Anthropology”
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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2014/08 | Technological devices and autistic spectrum disorder an anthropological investigation about virtual sociality, autistic subjectivity and post-human debate. | 13th EASA Biennial Conference Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution - innovation and continuity in an interconnected world
EASA - European Association of Social Anthropologists (Tallinn, Estonia)
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2013/09 | A vivência do autismo entre as associações de ajuda e o ativismo virtual: primeiras explorações de terreno em Lisboa. | V Congresso da APA “Antropologia em Contraponto”
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Vila Real, Portugal)
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2013/02 | L'esperienza quotidiana dell'autismo e le nuove frontiere dell'attivismo politico nel Web. Prime esplorazioni etnografiche di terreno (Lisbona – Portogallo) | I Convegno Nazionale SIAM - Societá Italiana di Antropologia Medica
Societá Italiana di Antropologia Medica (Roma, Italy)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2020/09 - Current | The Female Burden: autistic experience beyond sex labels
Supervisor of Mayne Souza Benedetto
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Anthropology (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2018/03 - 2022/08 | Distinguished Lectures Series - bringing noted speakers to provide the academic community with different perspectives and
topics of thought [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2018)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2022/01/24 - 2022/01/24 | "Agronegócio: exploração agrícola no Alentejo, legados da plantação, mercados financeiros globais" in collaboration with Associação
Terra Batida and ERC-project "COLOUR" AdG 695573 (2022/01/24 - 2022/01/24)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Associação Terra Batida, Portugal |
2020/09/16 - 2020/09/25 | International symposium "Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities, Struggles" [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG
695573] (2020/09/16 - 2020/09/25)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2020/07/21 - 2020/07/24 | [Panel convenor] "Bettering oneself: enhancing bodies and subjectivities through biotechnologies of the self" (2020/07/21 - 2020/07/24)
Conference (Other)
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European Association of Social Anthropologists - EASA, United Kingdom |
2019/11/14 - 2019/11/15 | International Conference "Labour, Sugar and Long-distance Migration: Madeirans and Azoreans in Guyana, the Caribbean and Hawai'i"
in collaboration with CEHA - Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico Alberto Vieira (Funchal, Madeira) and ERC-project
"COLOUR" AdG 695573 (2019/11/14 - 2019/11/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal CEHA - Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico Alberto Vieira, Portugal |
2019/11/06 - 2019/11/06 | "Landscapes of Indenture: Indian Ocean Routes and Beyond" [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2019/11/06 - 2019/11/06)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2019/11/05 - 2019/11/05 | Session "Photography and Indentured Labour" within the international workshop "Imagined Pasts: Colonialism, Photography and
Archives" [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2019/11/04 - 2019/11/05)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2019/09/25 - 2019/09/25 | Film screening "Portuguese in Hawaii" by Nelson Ponta-Graça following by roundtable and debate [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2019/09/25 - 2019/09/25)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
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A Casa dos Açores em Lisboa, Portugal |
2019/06/26 - 2019/06/29 | Advanced Summer School "Along and Against Archival Grains" with professor Ann Laura Stoler [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573
& ERC "MEMOIRS" AdG 648624] (2019/06/26 - 2019/06/29)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal |
2019/06/04 - 2019/06/07 | [Panel convenor] "Body making, body hacking: enhancement technologies and (post?)human presents" (2019/06/04 - 2019/06/07)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal |
2019/03/26 - 2019/03/27 | "Mobile Labour" Symposium - ethnographic and analytic approaches to the worlds of mobile labour [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573]
in collaboration with the EASA network Anthropomob
(2019/03/26 - 2019/03/27)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2018/04/24 - 2018/04/24 | Film screening Saudade (1991, 57') followed by public debate [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2018/04/24)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2018/04/19 - 2018/04/19 | Public debate "Violência e Direitos Humanos no Brasil: a situação das minorias" on the phenomenon of public space's depoliticization
and its impact on Brazil's democratic stability [under ERC "COLOUR" AdG 695573] (2018/04/19 - 2018/04/19)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Coletivo Andorinha - Frente Democrática Brasileira de Lisboa, Portugal Casa do Brasil de Lisboa, Portugal |
2017/07/05 - 2017/07/07 | 2017 Biennial Meeting of the EASA Medical Anthropology Network "Bodies in transition. Power, Knowledge and Medical Anthropology" (2017/07/05 - 2017/07/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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European Association of Social Anthropologists - EASA, United Kingdom |
2017/06/15 - 2017/06/16 | 8th MAYS international conference "Medical Anthropology Beyond Academic Borders" (2017/06/15 - 2017/06/17)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS network), United Kingdom The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Edinburgh Center of Medical Anthropology, United Kingdom |
2016/06/23 - 2016/06/24 | 7th MAYS international conference "Intergenerations, temporalities and medical anthropology" (2016/06/23 - 2016/06/24)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS network), United Kingdom Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2015/01 - 2015/12 | FORA DE SÉRIE - seminars on anthropology and cross-disciplinary research (2015/01 - 2015/12)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/09/13 - 2023/09/14 | [Online Attendance] Disability Innovation Summit: Inclusive Interactions
Congress
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"Bringing together global experts and new voices to share big ideas and ask the question: What next for disability innovation?"
University College London, United Kingdom
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2019/11/22 - 2019/11/23 | [Invited speaker] Neurodiversity in Global Perspective: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice
Round table
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Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice
American Anthropological Association, United States
Canadian Anthropology Society, Canada |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2020/11/19 | [Principal Examiner] Master thesis "Autismo sem ismo: a neurodiversidade e a experiência interior por uma etnografia não normativa"
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Mayne Souza Benedetto (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023 - Current | Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa | Società editrice il Mulino S.p.A |
2021 - Current | Interface – Comunicação, Saúde, Educação | Universidade Estadual Paulista – Unesp (Departamento de Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu) |
2018 - Current | Medicine Anthropology Journal (2405-691X) | Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology |
2018 - Current | Práxis Educativa (1809-4031) | Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa |
2016 - Current | Etnográfica |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2022/12 - Current | Transforming Care Network (TCN) | |
2020 - Current | SDS - Society for Disability Studies | Member |
2019/04 - Current | CASCA - Canadian Anthropology Society | Member |
2016 - Current | EBANO Collective | Ethnography Based Art Nomad Organization | Member of the general assembly, treasurer |
2014 - Current | MAYS - Medical Anthropology Young Scholars | Member |
2013 - Current | EASA - European Association of Social Anthropology | Member |
2013 - Current | APA - Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia | Member |
2012 - Current | Research Group "Diversidades: Etnografias no mundo contemporâneo", Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa | Member |
2011 - Current | SMA - Society for Medical Anthropology | |
2010 - Current | MAE - Medical Anthropology Europe | Member |
2015 - 2017 | [Network Coordinator at EU level and contact person at ICS-ULisboa] MAYS Medical Anthropology Young Scholars | Network coordinator |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2021/06/28 - 2021/06/30 | II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMbART: Gramaticas e Politicas de Resistencia | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
2020/06/25 - 2020/06/26 | I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMbART: Art, activism and citizenship | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
2017/06/15 - 2017/06/16 | 8th MAYS international conference "Medical Anthropology Beyond Academic Borders" | Edinburgh Center of Medical Anthropology, University of Edinburgh |
2016/06/23 - 2016/06/24 | 7th MAYS international conference "Intergenerations, temporalities and medical anthropology" | Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023 - Current | Chair of the Module "Interactions in context: ethnographic methods" of the Postgraduate course "Methods of Social Research" [MetodICS] | (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2022 - Current | Digital Ethnography [MetodICS] | Métodos de Investigação Social (MetodICS) (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2022 - Current | A ética nos contextos etnográficos [MetodICS] | Métodos de Investigação Social (MetodICS) (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2024/02/29 - 2024/02/29 | Ethics in Qualitative Research | Design para a Sustentabilidade (Mestrado integrado) | Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2023/09/29 - 2023/12/15 | Seminário de Investigação em Antropologia/ Seminar on Anthropological Research, PHD in Anthropology/ Doutoramento em Antropologia da Universidade de Lisboa (DANT.ULISBOA) | (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2023/05/11 - 2023/05/11 | Digital Ethnography | Design para a Sustentabilidade (Mestrado integrado) | Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
2022/06/15 - 2022/06/15 | Doing remote fieldwork: an introductory course on digital methods for anthropology [Master EUROSUD] | The International Master in South European Studies - EUROSUD (Master) | University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy Aix-Marseille Université, France |
2019/10/31 - 2019/10/31 | Lecture "Thinking the body as a "project": biotechnologies and human enhancement practices" | Licenciatura em Biologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Biociências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Portugal |
2018/05/17 - 2018/05/17 | Lecture "Bodies, biomedicine and health policies: anthropological perspectives" | Programa de Formação Universitária para Seniores (Outros) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2023/05 - 2023/05 | [member of the committee] Procedimento concursal de âmbito internacional para ocupação de um posto de trabalho de investigador/a
doutorado/a de nível inicial no ICS-UL (Projecto EXPORT FCT 2022.08653.PTDC)
Evaluator
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2022/04/06 - 2022/04/06 | International referee for the obtention of the Doctor Europaeus certificate [PhD candidate Karin Giannotta - Doctoral course
in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies]
Evaluator
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Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy | |
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/28 | [Principal Examiner] PhD project of Ana Beatriz Zimmermann Bomilcar "Entre gestos e vozes (anti)capacitistas: experiências
de acessibilidade e usos de tecnologia digitais"
Evaluator
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ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2019 - 2020 | [tutor] Master's dissertation "A bassa voce. Percorsi di relazionalità in un quadro di terapia infantil" at Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia (IT) | Caterina Battilana |
Distinctions
Award
2021 | ECS AWARD 2021 [merit] - Social Sciences Extension Award for the videoclip " Plantas que produzem pessoas" [under the European
Researchers' Night initiative]
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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Other distinction
2011 | PhD Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2009 | Erasmus grant at EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales and Paris 8 (France)
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
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