Manuel Garcia Ruiz (2B12-C5BC-BD0D)

Curriculum Vitae

Manuel Garcia Ruiz

Manuel Garcia-Ruiz is a Researcher in Sociology at the Center of Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-Iscte) in Lisbon. He has been visiting professor at different universities, and he has been appointed as a scientific advisor for different departments, organizations and projects. His research has four (4) main topics: (i) Nightlife, festivals, and tourism (ii) city branding, culture-led regeneration strategies, artwashing and commodification of the arts, (iii) artistification, culture and artistic careers of emergent professionals, and (iv) methods and methodologies with special attention to research at night time. He is the author of several papers and chapters on the emergent field of Night Studies, and the editor of different publications on urban studies, night studies and cultural sociology. He is cfounder and coordinator of the International Night Studies Network (INSN), Coordinator of the Rede de Etnografia Urbana (Etno.Urb), and the Director of the Urban Audiovisual Festival (UAF). He is also a reputed festival advisor, specialized in art in the dark and in the night, and a well-known talent curator in the field of new media and light art.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Manuel Garcia Ruiz

Citation names

Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2B12-C5BC-BD0D
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2141-2525
Google Scholar ID: KkorTF8AAAAJ
Researcher Id: ABG-2088-2020
Scopus Author Id: 57222385706

Email addresses

manuel_ruiz@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://vanhoben.com/ (Personal)
https://twitter.com/vanhoben (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences
Social Sciences - Economics and Business
Humanities - Arts
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography
Social Sciences - Media and Communications
Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Catalan (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
French	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Italian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Dutch	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Romanian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Gestual language	Intermediate (B1)			Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/07/04 Concluded	Sociologia (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal "Festivales de Luz, entre cultura y turismo. Una etnografía en dos festivales de luz portugueses." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Unanimously approved with distinction
2020/10/01 Concluded	Curso Network Science School (NSS) (Outros) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019 Concluded	Network Analysis (Outros) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2018 Concluded	Análise de Dados em Ciências Sociais (Pós-Graduação) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 Concluded	Cultura e Comunicação (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "Steps towards an urban speech" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17 valores
2010 Concluded	Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas (Licence) Universitat d'Alacant, Spain

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/07/04 - Current	Researcher (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
2018/11 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Centro de Investigación Básica en Psicología, Uruguay
	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2016 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal

2016/09/01 - 2024/07/04	Research Trainee (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

2021/11/02 - 2024/02/29	Researcher (Research)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
	LIDA – Research Laboratory in Design and Arts, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09/06 - 2024/09/30	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2021/11 - 2021/12	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación, Uruguay
	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2018/11 - 2019/01	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/09/01 - 2022/02/28	Festivales de Luz, entre cultura y turismo. Una etnografía en dos festivales de luz portugueses. SFRH/BD/121842/2016 COVID/BD/151746/2021 10.54499/COVID/BD/151746/2021 PhD Student Fellow ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/06/22 - 2018/06/28	TICYUrb 18/1/71 Researcher ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2016 - Current	ETNO.URB Urban Ethnography Network [ETNO.URB Rede de Etnografia Urbana] No number Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Costa, Guilherme. "The Taxi Driver And The City. (Post)Pandemic Navigations Of Lisbon. An Ethnography Approach Of The Night Appropriation". In Seeing Like a City/Seeing the City Through, edited by Bednarczyk, Anna; Kajdanek, Katarzyna. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Under revision Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Lights On Romania: Dynamics of Proximity Tourism in Cultural and Urban Activation". In Understanding Nighttime Tourism, edited by Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi., 57-81. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024. Published • 10.4337/9781035322749.00008 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Martins, João Carlos; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme. "The touristification of Lisbon's nightlife: Impacts on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage". In Handbook on Tourism-Gentrification, edited by Gravari-Barbas, Maria; Guinand, Sandra, 92-111. London, United Kingdom: Handbook on Tourism-Gentrification, 2024. In press Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.. "The Multiple Facets of Nighttime Tourism". In Understanding Nighttime Tourism, edited by Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi., 1-15. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024. Published • 10.4337/9781035322749.00005 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "The future of nighttime tourism: More than challenges". In Understanding Nighttime Tourism, edited by Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi., 156-161. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2024. Published • 10.4337/9781035322749.00013 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Martins, João. "The demonization of nightlife: Pandemic panic and youth responses in Portugal and Spain". In COVID-19: Pandemic pitfalls and possibilities, edited by Ryan, Michael, 91-104. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023. Published • 10.4324/97810033026436 Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Sánchez-Fuarros, Iñigo; Martins, João Carlos; Pires, Cristiana Vale; Nofre, Jordi.. "Governing ‘the Night’ in Post-COVID-19 Lisbon: Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties.". In Policy and Planning, edited by Filion, Pierre, 47-58. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press, 2021. Published • 10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1p7.11
Conference abstract	Pires, Cristiana Vale; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.. "Queer Nights at Lisbon A Socio-Historical Perspective of Night as a Space-Time for Gender Liberation". Paper presented in III International Conference on Night Studies, Lisboa, 2022. Published Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Leve-me a casa, se faz favor An ethnography of (post)pandemic taxi drivers experience in night hours in Lisbon". Paper presented in III International Conference on Night Studies, Lisbon, 2022. Published Pereira, Ana Patrícia Faria; Cachado, Rita; Gonçalves, Renata; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Ferro, Lígia. "Doing Urban Ethnography in a changing world: building bridges between Portugal and Brazil". Paper presented in 15th ESA Conference \| Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures, Barcelona, 2021. Published Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "The Public Space Artists' Paradox: Commodification of Art in Light Festivals". Paper presented in 15th ESA Conference \| Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures, Barcelona, 2021. Published Garcia Ruiz, M.. "The Construction of the Field of Light Art". Paper presented in Abstract Book \| 14th ESA Conference \| Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging, Manchester, 2019. Published Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Reinventing a municipality by creating a festival of light. Case study, Loulé.". Paper presented in Creative tourism dynamics: connecting travellers, communities, cultures and places, Faro, 2019. Published Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Ethnographic fieldwork using mobile technologies: case study of a Portuguese light festival". Paper presented in ETHNOARTS - Etnographic Explorations of the Arts and Education, Porto, 2017. Published
Conference paper	Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Art(s) in the City. Chronicles of a Spray Can". Paper presented in Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity, --, 2014. Published • 10.13140/2.1.3668.8961
Conference poster	Macedo, Maria ; Aguirre, Roberto; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Rodriguez, Y. "Cambio y distribución social de metáforas en el español uruguayo". Paper presented in Jornada de Investigación de Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento (JICCC), 2023. Aguirre, Roberto; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Rodriguez, Yliana; Castillo, Mauricio; Macedo, Maria Noel. "Uruguayan Spanish metaphors with the verb “dar”: a study on change and social distribution. Change and social distribution of figurative language on Uruguayan female population.". Paper presented in 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, 2020.
Edited book	Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.. Understanding Nighttime Tourism. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2024. Published • Editor Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.. III International Conference on Night Studies: book of abstracts. Lisboa, Portugal. 2022. Published • Editor Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.. II International Conference on Night Studies: book of abstracts. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2021. Published • Editor Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.. Proceedings. II International Conference on Night Studies. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2021. Published • Editor Garcia Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.. Book of Abstracts of the I International Conference on Night Studies. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2020. Published • Editor Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.. ICNS Proceedings. Lisbon, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2020. Published • Editor Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Henriques, C.; Chaves, H.; Oliveira, A.; Ferreira, A.; Colombo, A.; Santos, S.; Santos, R.. Book of abstracts of the Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2018. Published • Editor Garcia Ruiz, M.; Chaves, H.. TransFearCity: insecurity, migrations and racism. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2018. Published • Editor Oliveira, A.; Garcia Ruiz, M.. DiverCity: diversity in the city. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2018. Published • Editor Garcia Ruiz, M.; Henriques, C.; Chaves, H.. CollectiveCity: the right to the city: 50 years later. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2018. Published • Editor Garcia Ruiz, M.. ProductCity: the city as a product. Lisboa, Portugal: CIES-IUL. 2018. Published • Editor
Journal article	Acedo, Albert; Naranjo-Zolotov, Mijail; Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Caravanning in Grau de Castellón, Spain: Navigating between regulatory ambiguities and the saturation of recreational vehicle areas". Tourism Management (2025): Submitted Mazorra-Rodriguez, Alvaro; Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Where are you going, Lavapiés? : Gentrification, tourism, and displacement in the historic center of Madrid". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios (2025): Open access • Submitted Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Light, Culture and Tourism. Light Festivals Across Time: From Traditional to Post-Traditional". World Leisure Journal (2025): Open access • Submitted Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "From Darkness to Prosperity: The Contribution of Light Festivals in the Fight against Seasonality". Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research (2025): Open access • Submitted Mazorra, Alvaro; Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2025): Open access • Submitted Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Light Festivals in Portugal: night, tourism, and culture". PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (2024): Open access • Accepted Mazorra-Rodriguez, Alvaro; Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Gentrification and touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and consequences of a unique simultaneity in today’s Southern Europe". Journal of Urban Affairs (2024): Accepted Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Neon and Nostalgia. Mi-e Dor De Tine and the creation of (trans)national emotional narratives.". Philosophy of the City Journal 2 (2024): 60-71. Open access • Published • 10.21827/potcj.2.5 Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Festivals of Light, between culture and tourism: An ethnography in two Portuguese light festivals". The European Sociologist 51 (2024): https://www.europeansociology.org/european-sociologist/issue/current/doing-sociology/204edcd7-a2ea-4007-befc-2b195d1c1405. Open access • Published Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "O que nos dizem as manifestações dos táxis? Reflexões em torno de um objeto sociológico". Plataforma Barómetro Social 3 3 (2024): http://www.barometro.com.pt/2024/01/06/o-que-nos-dizem-as-manifestacoes-dos-taxis-reflexoes-em-torno-de-um-objeto-sociologico/. Published Vale Pires, Cristiana; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.; Gomes, Filipe Couto. "A century of queerness after dark: a historicized sociology of LGBTQ+ nights in Lisbon (1920-2020)". Sexualities (2024): 1-19. Open access • Published • 10.1177/13634607241287425 Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "The 'Post-pandemic Night Taxi Driver':: A New Research Agenda within the field of Night Studies". Sociologia (2024): Submitted Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Nofre, Jordi.. "Cuando se enfría la noche. Sobre la turistificación del antiguo barrio rojo de Cais do Sodré y la autenticidad de la vida nocturna de Lisboa.". Estudios Turísticos 228 (2024): 79-100. Open access • Accepted Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Mercado, Alejandro; Nofre, Jordi.. "Nocturnal cities : past, present, and future". Forum Sociológico 43 (2023): 1-9. http://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/11709. Open access • Published • 10.4000/ sociologico.11709 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Mercado, Alejandro. "Nocturnal futures : a necessary reflection in times of uncertainty". Forum Sociológico 43 (2023): 1-12. http://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/11953. Open access • Published • 10.4000/sociologico.11953 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Nightlife Studies". Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture: Dancecult 15 1 (2023): 93-112. https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.05. Open access • Published • 10.12801/1947-5403.2023.15.01.05 Nofre, Jordi.; Martins, João Carlos; Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme. "Una aproximación geográfica a los impactos de la turistificación del ocio nocturno en el barrio de Cais do Sodré, Lisboa". Estudios Geográficos 84 294 (2023): 1-20. https://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/1128. Open access • Published • 10.3989/estgeogr.2023135.135 Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Garcia Ruiz, M.. "O Código da Noite". Equatorial, Revista Do Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Antropologia Social 10 8 (2023): 1-1-13. Open access • Published • 10.21680/2446-5674.2023v10n18ID30385 Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Martins, João. "The Biosecuritization of the Tourist City Some. Reflections from and about Lisbon Nightlife". ACME 22 2 (2023): 992-1014. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2181. Open access • Published Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, M.. "The urban ecological transition and the future of Europe's nightlife industry". World Leisure Journal 65 (2022): 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2022.2162112. Open access • Published • 10.1080/16078055.2022.2162112 Nofre, Jordi.; Martins, João Carlos; Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Costa, Guilherme. "Cuando la turistificación mató la noche en Cais do Sodré (Lisboa)". Ábaco, Journal of Culture and Social Sciences 112-113 (2022): 82-91. https://revista-abaco.es/abaco-112-113-event-places-espacios-de-ocio-y-lugares-memorables/. Published Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Raposo, Otávio; Martins, João Carlos; Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.. "Lazer noturno e resistências juvenis em tempos de (pós-)pandemia: o caso dos jovens do bar Antù em Lisboa". Antropolítica 54 3 (2022): 118-142. https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/article/view/54935. Open access • Published • 10.22409/antropolitica2022.i3.a54935 Nofre, J.; Garcia Ruiz, M.; Sánchez, I; C.. "Hopes and uncertainties in the nightlife industry of post-Covid-19 Europe". Finisterra – Revista Portuguesa de Geografia (2020): https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/20160. 10.18055/Finis20160 Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Festivales de luz y eventos de luz en Portugal. Entre cultura y promoción turística del territorio". Fórum Sociológico 35 (2019): 41-50. http://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/8810. Published • 10.4000/sociologico.8810 Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Reflexões sobre os Festivais de Luz em Portugal". Plataforma Barómetro Social (2019): http://www.barometro.com.pt/2019/08/02/reflexoes-sobre-os-festivais-de-luz-em-portugal/. Published
Journal issue	Garcia-Ruiz, M.; Nofre, Jordi.; Mercado Celis, Alejandro. "Nocturnal Cities : Past, Present, And Future". Forum Sociológico 43 (2023): https://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/11343. Published • Editor
Newspaper article	Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Nofre, Jordi.; Vale Pires, Cristiana; Sánchez-Fuarros, Iñigo. "A noite já não é o que era", Publico, 2020, P3 - Cronica, https://www.publico.pt/2020/08/05/p3/cronica/noite-ja-nao-1927181.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Festivales de Luz, entre cultura y turismo. Una etnografía en dos festivales de luz portugueses.". PhD, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/32266. Garcia Ruiz, M.. "Steps towards an urban speech". Master, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10950.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/09/18	Abordajes metodológicos para el estudio de la noche.	Ciclo de Reuniones y Conferencias CiPsi Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República de Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay)
2024/08/27	Instrumentalization of Light Festivals by Portuguese Municipalities: An Ethnographic Perspective (2015-2023)	16th ESA Conference Tension, Trust and Transformation European Sociological Association (Porto, Portugal)
2024/08/27	Night Taxi Drivers as 'Culture Brokers': Implications for the Nocturnal Tourism	16th ESA Conference Tension, Trust and Transformation European Sociological Association (Porto, Portugal)
2024/07/09	¿Donde vas, Lavapiés? Gentrificación y turistificación extractivista en un caso único del sur de Europa	IV Coloquio Internacional Conflictos Urbanos Red Iberoamericana de Investigacion en Políticas, Conflictos y Movimientos Urbanos. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/06	La turistificación del antiguo ‘barrio rojo’ de Lisboa: Un análisis geográfico del impacto de la industria turística extractivista en el tejido del ocio nocturno del barrio de Cais do Sodré	XV Congreso Español de Sociología Federación Española de Sociología (Sevilla, Spain)
2023/10/11	The Night Owl’s Dilemma. Analyzing the Complexities of Coexistence between Traditional Night Taxi Drivers and App-BasedDrivers in Lisbon	4th International Conference on Night Studies. ICNS.Lx Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (Lisboa, Portugal) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/22	Illuminating Shadows: The Eventification of Southern European Municipalities through Light Festivals	ESA RN27 Midterm Conference Territories, Communities and Sustainability: views from Southern Europe European Sociological Association (ESA), Associaçao Portuguesa de Sociologia (APS), ESA RN27, CICS.Nova, CEIED, Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/21	Caminhos Noturnos. Trajetórias de Vidas (Inesperadas) de Jovens Motoristas de Táxi na Noite de Lisboa	ESA RN27 Midterm Conference Territories, Communities and Sustainability: views from Southern Europe European Sociological Association (ESA), Associaçao Portuguesa de Sociologia (APS), ESA RN27, CICS.Nova, CEIED, Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/04	A geographical analysis of the impacts of the touristification of nightlife in the neighborhood of Cais do Sodré, Lisbon	9th EUGEO Congress Association of Geographical Societies in Europe (Barcelona, Spain)
2023/06/14	Cuando la turistificación mató la noche en Cais do Sodré, Lisboa	SOCANTUR: IV Congreso Internacional sobre Sociología y Antropología del Turismo University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2023/05/26	Festivales de luz, ocio nocturno cultural	Encuentro de Estudios Culturales: La noche y sus metáforas Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, Mexico)
2023/04/21	Festivais de Luz em Portugal: entre cultura e turismo	Ciclo Aula Aberta Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Beira Interior (Covilhã , Portugal)
2023/04	Visitors of Festivals of Light in Portugal	XII Congresso Português de Sociologia \| Sociedades Polarizadas? Desafios para a Sociologia Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/04	Capitalismo de plataforma: uma etnografia das perceções e atitudes dos taxistas noturnos de Lisboa	XII Congresso Português de Sociologia \| Sociedades Polarizadas? Desafios para a Sociologia Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/03/15	Women, work and the male culture: an ethnographic approach of the night taxi driver in Lisbon's city center	International Congress Noz Num¿ University of Brittany (UBO) (Brest, France)
2022/11/25	Night and Light Festivals	Noctis/Noctem: seminario de juventud, genero y violencias en la configuración nocturna Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales. Museo Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Mexicali, Mexico)
2022/10/13	Searching for the "last Friday night": Closing policies during pandemic times	Semin´ário Cidade, Trabalho, e Precariedade CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/07	Leve-me a casa, se faz favor. An ethnography of (post)pandemic taxi drivers experience in night hours in Lisbon	3rd International Night Studies Conference. ICNS.Lx Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/06	Queer Night at Lisbon - A Socio-Historical Perspective of Night as a Space-Time for Gender Liberation	3rd International Conference on Night Studies (ICNS.LX) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/06	The Taxi Driver and the City. (Post)pandemic navigations of Lisbon, an ethnography approach of the night appropriation	V Midterm Conference. Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through. ESA RN37 European Sociological Association (ESA), Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research (Humboldt-University Berlin), Sektion Stadt und Regionalsoziologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie. (Berlin, Germany)
2022/06/14	(Post)Covid nightscapes. An ethnographic review of the tactics adopted by venue owners to survive night closing policies	Towards the Post-Pandemic City? De Montfort University Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) (Leicester, United Kingdom)
2022/05/27	Desocultar a História: A dupla invisibilidade das pessoas LGBTQI+ que usam drogas	40 anos de Despenalização da Homossexualidade: História LGBTI+ em Portugal Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/05/05	Light festivals at the crossroads of the closed street. A netnographic study of the strategies and tactics adopted by light events to survive Covid 19	Congresso Internacional Festas, Culturas e Comunidades: Património e Sustentabilidade University of Minho (Braga)
2021/09/02	Doing Urban Ethnography in a changing world: building bridges between Portugal and Brazil	15th European Sociological Association. European Sociological Association (ESA) (Barcelona, Spain)
2021/09/01	The Public Space Artists' Paradox: Commodification of Art in Light Festivals.	15th European Sociological Association. European Sociological Association (ESA) (Barcelona, Spain)
2021/06/21	Festivals of light and the rupture with the ordinary urban space. The creation of ephemeral places thru emotional ambiences.	SIEF2021: Breaking the Rules: Power, Participation, Transgression International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Helsinki, Finland)
2021/04/16	Challenges and opportunities for re-starting nightlife during and after the pandemic: The case of Lisbon	A light in the dark: Perspectives on Helsinki by night University of Helsinki. Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. City of Helsinki - City Hall (Helsinki, Finland)
2021/03/31	Cultural events against tourism seasonality. Case Study "Luza, Algarve International Festival of Light"	XI Congresso Português de Sociologia \| Identidades ao rubro: diferenças, pertenças e populismos num mundo efervescente Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/03/29	Festivals of Light and the touristification of the urban night	XI Congresso Português de Sociologia \| Identidades ao rubro: diferenças, pertenças e populismos num mundo efervescente Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/01/27	Festivals of Light, between creativity and city branding	IV Midterm Conference. Urban Theory and Urban Praxis: Past, Present and Possible Futures European Sociological Association (ESA) – Research Network 37 (Urban Sociology), University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
2020/12/14	Lights on Romania, history of a bottom-up project	Urban development and crisis management . Reflections from the humanities and the social sciences Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)
2020/10/28	Lights on Romania: impacts of a light art circuit	Estudios sobre la noche/Night Studies/Etudes sur la nuit CISAN-UNAM (Mexico, Mexico)
2020/07/14	Lights on Romania: Bottom-up festival of lights	Virtual Symposium: Light installations, magic and heritage Canterbury Christ Church University (Canterbury, United Kingdom)
2019/12/05	The art of path-making	IX Graduate Conference in Cultural Studies: Building Narrative Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/11/28	Fieldwork in Festivals of Light	Cursos de Iniciação ao Trabalho de Campo Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/08/22	The construction of the Field of Light Art	14th ESA Conference. Europe Beyond Boundries, Barriers and Belonging Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2019/05/16	Arte luz, uma arte em plural	Os novos caminhos da Sociologia da Arte Instituto de Sociologia. Faculdade de Letras. Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/16	The artist as ethnographer de Hal Foster	ETNO.Urb Readings Instituto de Sociologia. Faculdade de Letras. Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/12/05	El gusto en los Festivales de Luz	El gusto en los Festivales de Luz Facultad de Psicologia. Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay)
2018/11/29	Urban Audiovisual Festival, Mobilidade e cinema	Viver em Mobilidade. (Com)passos, rumos e políticas Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2018/10/04	Festivais de luz e eventos de luz, formas diferentes de iluminar a cidade	Arte Urbana no Plural Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Leiria, Portugal)
2018/06/08	Lumina Cascais, local impact of a creative international event	CREATOUR, 2nd International Conference. Emerging and Future Trends in Creative Tourism. Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/05/14	Quando o Festival de Luz encontra o Sociólogo.	Gestão Cultural e Criação Artistica Instituto de Sociologia. Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/04/11	Le concept d’auteur dans le festival de lumière. Auteurité partagée entre les acteurs en scène.	Participation, cooperation and collaboration in cultural sectors. Université Paris 13. Université Sorbonne Paris cité. Réseau des jeunes chercheurs du labex ICCA (Paris, France)
2018/04/06	Light festivals and the ephemeral cultural urban landscape. Case study of Lumina Cascais	1º Congresso Ibero americano em estudos de Paisagem Instituto de História Contemporânea, FCSH-UNL (Sintra, Portugal)
2018/03/16	Festivals of Light, leisure alternatives for nightlife	Jornada para a Noite Faculdade de Letras. Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/12/14	Festivals of Light, Portuguese nightscape alterations	1st Young Researchers’ Meeting in Heritage and Territory Studie Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/08/25	Ethnic diversity and the experience of urban life	Culture in Urban Space University of Greenland, Island Dynamics and Copenhagen University. (Cophenague, Denmark)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/07/29 - Current	Taxi-drivers as brokers of tourism nighttime narratives. An ethnography of Lisbon's experimental night economies Supervisor of Guilherme Teixeira Da Silva Costa	Sociology (PhD) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/10/11 - 2024/10/11	Safer Spaces Lab - Designing harm reduction and gender-responsive models of care in nightlife and festival environments (2024/10/09 - 2024/10/11) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	International Night Studies Network, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Kosmicare, Portugal
2024/10/09 - 2024/10/11	5th International Conference on Night Studies (2024/10/09 - 2024/10/11) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	International Night Studies Network, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2024/08/27 - 2024/08/30	16th ESA Conference "Tension, Trust, and Transformation" (2024/08/27 - 2024/08/30) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Sociological Association, France Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia, Portugal
2023/12/06 - 2023/12/07	Comunicación y divulgación de la ciencia (2023/12/06 - 2023/12/07) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2023/10/11 - 2023/10/13	4th International Conference on Night Studies (2023/11/11 - 2023/11/13) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	International Night Studies Network, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21	Ferramentas para a divulgação científica (2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Sociologia, Portugal
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/08	3rd International Conference on Night Studies (ICNS.LX) (2022/10/06 - 2022/10/08) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal
2022/04/21 - 2022/04/21	I International Night Studies Network Mid-Term Conference (2022/04/21 - 2022/04/21) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	International Night Studies Network, Portugal
2021/10/06 - 2021/10/08	2nd International Conference on Night Studies (2021/10/06 - 2021/10/08) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/08/31 - 2021/09/02	Covid-19 and the night in the Tourist City: Present and Future (2021/08/31 - 2021/09/02) Conference (Co-organisor)	Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2021/04/20 - 2021/04/22	Herramientas para la divulgación de la producción científica (2021/04/20 - 2021/04/21) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2020/07/02 - 2020/07/03	1st International Conference on Night Studies (2020/07/02 - 2020/07/04) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal
2020/05/28 - 2020/05/30	III Urban Audiovisual Festival. Noite e Cidade (2020/05/28 - 2020/05/30) Festival (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/06/27 - 2019/06/30	II Urban Audiovisual Festival (UAF): Urban Mobilities (2019/06/27 - 2019/06/30) Festival (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/12/11 - 2018/12/11	Herramientas para la divulgación de la producción científica (2018/12/11 - 2018/12/11) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2018/06/18 - 2018/06/22	Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (2018/06/18 - 2018/06/24) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal
2018/06/15 - 2018/06/17	I Urban Audiovisual Festival (UAF): Urban Conflict (2018/06/15 - 2018/06/18) Festival (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/11/14 - 2024/11/14	NIGHT(S)-Science: An Academic View on Nightlife Round table	Viena after Dark Vienna Club Comission, Austria Stadt Wien, Austria
2024/09/25 - 2024/09/25	Reclamar a Cidade Round table	MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, 2024 MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2023/10/01	Culture of Nightlife Conference Round table	Culture of Nightlife Conference. Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Municipiului Timi¿oara, Romania Grow Timi¿oara 2023, Romania Ministerului Culturii, Romania
2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30	Night Culture, Night Policies and Night Futures Conference	Culture of Nightlife Conference. Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Municipiul Timi¿oara, Romania Ministerului Culturii, Romania Daisler Association, Romania
2023/09/27 - 2023/09/27	Why Measure The Impact Of The Night As Cultural Heritage, And How Can We Do It? Round table	MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, 2023 MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, Portugal
2023/09/27 - 2023/09/27	Will Tourism Turn The Cultural Sector Into An Events And Marketing Department? Round table	MIL - LISBON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC NETWORK, 2023 MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, Portugal
2023/04/18 - 2023/04/18	Integração dos GIS na investigação sobre a diversão nocturna: Desafios e soluções. Seminar	Informação Geográfica para a gestão municipal: casos de estudo Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022/11/12 - 2022/11/12	Review Night(S)-Science Conference	Nights 2022 Stadt Zürich, Switzerland Swiss Bar and Club Commission, Switzerland
2022/11/11 - 2022/11/11	Night Studies. A very short Induction Conference	NIGHT(S)-SCIENCE Stadt Zürich, Switzerland Swiss Bar and Club Commission, Switzerland
2022/11/11 - 2022/11/11	Portugal is (not) different: The Why, What, and How of Measuring the Economic, Social, Cultural, and Emotional Values of Nightlife Conference	More Than Music – The Values Of Club Culture And Live-Concerts / Nights 2022 Stadt Zürich, Switzerland Swiss Bar and Club Commission, Switzerland
2022 - 2022	Safety, Not Surveillance: Towards More Inclusive And Safer Nights Round table	MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, 2022 MIL - LIsbon International Music Network, Portugal
2021/12/07 - 2021/12/07	Night Studies 101 Conference	Cities after Dark VibeLab, Germany
2021/11/26 - 2021/11/26	Knowledge production and knowledge transference between Night Actors Conference	StadNach Ach - RESurrection StadNach Ach, Germany Berlin City Hall, Germany Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany LIVEKOMM, Germany
2020/11/11 - 2020/11/11	UAF: Cidade e Noite Round table	Ciudade e Noite ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal Associação Descalçada, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09	Security Management in Light Festivals Round table	International meeting of light festival directors Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Portugal
2016/09 - 2016/09	Changing Urban Space: Perspectives on Videomapping and Projections Round table	Spectrum Network Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Portugal
2013/10/08 - 2013/10/08	Half-done city [The city has never been inaugurated and it will never be finished] Round table	Close, Closer Trienal de Arquitectura, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12	O que pode um corpo sem juízo? Opacidade, êxtase e resistência através da experiência musical coletiva numa rave queer em Lisboa (Thesis) Arguer	Sérgio Álvarez Vales (Master) Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2024	Micromobilidade Elétrica e Contributos para a Governança Urbana: Análise Comparativa e Prospetiva de Lisboa, Madrid e Cluj-Napoca (Thesis) Main arguer	Emanuel Cristian Adorean (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022 - Current	Current issues in tourism (1747-7603)	Taylor & Francis
2024 - 2024	Alteridades ( 0188-7017)	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa
2024 - 2024	Dancecult (19475403)	Dancecult Research Network
2023 - 2023	EMPIRIA. Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales (1139-5737)	School of Political Sciences and Sociology at UNED
2022 - 2022	Tourism geographies (1470-1340)	Taylor & Francis

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	ESA. European Sociological Association	Member
2016 - Current	Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020/10/01 - Current	International Network on Night Studies Coordinator	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/12/01 - Current	La Red de Investigadores sobre la noche Member	Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) - UNAM, Mexico
2017/05/01 - Current	Etno.Urb Coordinator	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
2016 - Current	LXNIGHTS Member	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/10 - Current	II Jornada de Investigación Estudiantil en Psicología	Instituto de Fundamentos y Métodos en Psicología, Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República
2024/11/20 - 2025/02/03	International Congress Noz Breizh	Université Bretagne Occidental
2024/07 - 2024/09	Vienna After Dark	Vienna Club Commission
2023/10/18 - 2024/03/19	International Congress "Smart Noz"	Université Bretagne Occidental
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/30	I Jornada de Investigación Estudiantil en Psicología	Instituto de Fundamentos y Métodos en Psicología, Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República
2022/11/24 - 2023/03/16	International Congress "Noz Num"	University of Brest
2023/02/13 - 2023/02/15	I Congreso: Una mirada transversal del ocio nocturno con perspectiva de género	University of Valencia
2022/11/10 - 2022/11/12	NIGHT(S) Science Conference	Bar & Club Kommission Zürich
2022/08 - 2022/09	Nocturnal inequalities: social practices, uses of space, stakeholders and changes of urban spaces at night	University of Montpellier

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/09 - 2024/09	Métodos de agrupamiento en análisis multivariado	Psychology (Doctor of Philosophy)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2023 - 2024/01/25	Turismo sensorial e turismo noturno	Turismo sensorial e turismo noturno (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/02/21 - 2022/06/10	Geografias da Noite Urbana \| Geographies of the Urban Night	Geografias da Noite Urbana (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/11/08 - 2021/11/30	Métodos de agrupamiento en análisis multivariado	Psychology (Master)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay
2018/11/28 - 2018/12/19	Métodos de agrupamiento en análisis multivariado	Psychology (Master)	Facultad de Psicología Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2018/12/20	Festivals of Light Today	Lights on Romania
2018/02/28	Festivais de luz, muito mais do que um evento de luz	ISCTE News

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022/02 - Current	The European Sociologist (2415-6426 )	European Sociological Association

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2021/07/19 - 2021/07/21	Ser Cientista Social em tempos de Pandemia. CienciaViva & CIES-Iscte	Group of 5 prospecting secondary students