Catarina de Castro Laranjeiro (3B1B-F392-12F3)

Curriculum Vitae

Catarina de Castro Laranjeiro

Catarina Laranjeiro is a CEEC (Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus) junior researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC, NOVA-FCSH) with the project "African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow" (2020.00202.CEECIND). She works on vernacular cinema, particularly in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and their diasporas communities in Portugal. At the IHC, she co-heads the Research Line 'Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication', and she integrated the research project "Amilcar Cabral, from Political History to the Politics of Memory" (PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/5214). She holds a Ph.D. in Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Following a transdisciplinary academic path, she holds a degree in Social Psychology from the University of Lisbon and a Master of Media and Visual Anthropology from Freie Universitaet Berlin. She was the editor of the "Exhibitions and Film Festivals" section and a member of the editorial board at Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image. She has published one peer-reviewed book, seven peer-reviewed articles (3 in SCOPUS/Web of Science journals, and seven book chapters. As a filmmaker, she directed the film "Pabia di Aos" (2013) and co-directed "Fire in the Mud" (2022). She has participated in several projects that interlace anthropology, cinema, and visual arts. Her main research interests focus on colonial and postcolonial cinema, vernacular cinema, home movies, memory politics, and gender studies.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Catarina de Castro Laranjeiro

Citation names

Laranjeiro, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3B1B-F392-12F3

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)
Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013 - 2019 Concluded	Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship (Doutoramento) Major in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal "Between Images and Spirits: Encounters with the Memory of Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with honors
2011 - 2013 Concluded	Master of Arts Visual and Media Anthropology (Master) Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Germany "We, the War" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2010 - 2012 Concluded	Digital Visual Cultures (Pós-Graduação) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	18
2008 - 2012 Concluded	Cinema / Moving Image (Curso médio) Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Portugal
2006 - 2007 Concluded	Photography (Curso médio) Escola Oficina da Imagem, Portugal
2001 - 2006 Concluded	Psicologia (Variante Psicologia Social, do Trabalho e das Organizações) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/06/01 - 2027/05/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2019/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

2012/05/01 - 2012/11/30	Research Assistant (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2008/07/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Berlin Social Science Center, Germany

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/01/01 - 2012/11/30	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Turismo do Porto e Norte de Portugal, Portugal

2010/11/01 - 2011/03/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Associação Solidariedade Imigrante, Portugal

2009/04/01 - 2010/07/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Fundação Fé e Cooperação, Portugal

2008/09/01 - 2009/03/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude, Portugal

2008/10/01 - 2008/12/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Fundação Aga Khan, Portugal

2006/09 - 2007/07	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/01/02 - 2022/12/31	Co-Head of Research Line 'Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication'	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	FOCOS - Photography, Community and Social Sustainability \| FOCOS - Fotografia, Comunidade e Sustentabilidade Social "SUBMITTED"	Submitted
2025/01/01 - 2026/06/30	Popular Diaspora Films: Towards a New Cine-Geography of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area 2023.11438.PEX Principal investigator	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/10/01 - 2017/12/31	Between Images and Spirits: Encounters with the Memory of Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau PD/BD/52253/2013 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/05/01 - 2012/11/30	Immigrants and social support services: technologies of citizenship in Portugal PTDC/CS-ANT/101179/2008 Research Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/07/01 - Current	African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow 2020.00202.CEECIND Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/07/01 - 2019/12/31	Amílcar Cabral, da História Política às Políticas da Memória PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014 Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom Sorbonne Université, France Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Laranjeiro, Catarina. Dos Sonhos e das Imagens: A Guerra de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Dreams and Images: The War of Liberation in Guinea-Bissau]. 2021. Published
Book chapter	Laranjeiro, Catarina. "“Teleteatros” e “Teatros filmados”: fluxos audiovisuais entre países de origem e diásporas". In Vidas em Português memória, identidade e cidadania na era digital, edited by Silvia Frota; Murilo Guimarães. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2025. In press Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Bernardo, Luís. "Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: O início e o fim da história [Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: the beginning and the end of History].". In Fernando Matos Silva. O cinema a fazer realidade [Fernando Matos Silva. Cinema making reality]., 265-278. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições da Cinemateca, 2024. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Cunha, Paulo; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. "(Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture". In Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics, edited by Natalia Telepneva; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2024. Accepted Pedro Aires de Oliveira; Laranjeiro, Catarina. "A luta de guerrilha em Angola, Guiné e Moçambique". In Crepúsculo do Império – Portugal e as Guerras de Descolonização, edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira e João Vieira Borges. Lisboa, Portugal: Bertrand Editora, 2024. Published Lopes, Rui; Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Cunha, Paulo. "(Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture, 1975-80". In Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "A luta de libertação, o cinema de propaganda e o que os filmes deixaram por contar...". In Um outro jornalismo é possível: «media» alternativos em Portugal, edited by José Nuno Matos; Filipa Subtil; Carla Baptista, 87-96. Lisboa, Portugal: Cooperativa Outro Modo, 2024. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Cuba e a Luta de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau". In O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral, edited by Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes; José Neves; Victor Barros, 99-110. Lisboa, Portugal: Fora de Jogo, 2024. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Ficar sem chão...". In História Oral e Metodologias da História Contemporânea: contributos para o Estudo dos Arquivos de Teatro, edited by Ana Bigotte Vieira, 35-40. Lisboa, Portugal: Centro de Estudos de Teatro, 2024. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina ; LIESELOTTE VIAENE; Miye Tom. Corresponding author: LIESELOTTE VIAENE. "The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia". In Sexual Misconduct in Academia: Informing an Ethics of Care in the University, edited by Erin Pritchard; Delyth Edwards, 208-225. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Colonial War/Liberation Struggle in Guinea Bissau: From Personal Photographs to Public Silences". In Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies), edited by Afonso Dias Ramos; Filipa Lowndes Vicente, 369-372. United Kingdom: Palgrave macmillan, 2023. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Novas visualidades e resistências: partir do que os amuletos nos mostram para chegar ao que os amuletos escondem". In Modos de Ser, Modos de Fazer: Conexões Parciais entre Antropologia e Arte, 315-338. Lisboa, Portugal: Etnográfica Press, 2022. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "From the Tabanca to Bissau, from Bissau to the Diaspora: Social narratives in the Bissau-Guinean popular cinema". In Contemporary Lusophone African Film, 131-44. 2020. Published Galvão, Inês; Laranjeiro, Catarina (3B1B-F392-12F3). "Gender Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Participation On and Off the Liberation Record". In Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History, edited by Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Roque, Ricardo; Domingos, Nuno, 85-122. Lisboa, Portugal: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-19167-2_4 Laranjeiro, Catarina. "(In) visible Dialogues between Death and Nation-State". In The Struggle is not over yet, edited by César, Filipa; Faria, Nuno; Hering, Tobias, 209-233. Berlim, Germany: Archive Books, 2018. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Bernardo, Luís. "Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: o início e o fim da História [Acto dos Feitos da Guiné: the beginning and the end of History]". In A Colecção Colonial da Cinemateca [The Cinematheque Colonial Collection], edited by Piçarra, Maria do Carmo, 88-103. Viseu, Portugal: Cineclube de Viseu, 2018. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Etnografia Visual da Guerra Colonial/ Luta de Libertação na Guiné- Bissau [Visual Ethnography of the Colonial War/ Liberation Struggle in Guinea]". In O Império da Visão. Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860-1969) [The Empire of Vision. Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860-1969)], edited by Vicente, Filipa Lowndes, 435-445. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições 70, 2014. Published
Journal article	Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Screening Gender in Bissau-Guinean Vernacular Filmmaking". TOMO- Dossiê Gênero, sexualidade e resistência nas artes: olhares desde o Sul global (2023): 1-16. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Bissauwood: devising alternative modes of production and distribution". Revista Comunicação e Linguagem 57 (2022): 112-127. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Arma diplomática e ficção: as mulheres nos filmes da Luta de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau [Diplomatic weapon and fiction: women in Guinea-Bissau’s Liberation struggle films]". Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens - Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Journal of Communication and Languages- ] 54 (2021): 47-64. Open access • Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Imaginários Anticoloniais e Pós-coloniais: o Cinema de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Anticolonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries: Liberation Cinema in Guinea-Bissau]". Revista Tomo [Journal Tomo] 37 (2020): 119-144. Open access • Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "The Cuban Revolution and the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau: Images, Imaginings, Expectations and Experiences". The International History Review (2019): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1706185. Published • 10.1080/07075332.2019.1706185 Cunha, Paulo; Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Guiné-Bissau: do cinema de Estado ao cinema fora do Estado [Guinea-Bissau: from State cinema to cinema outside the State]". Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual [Rebeca- Brazilian Journal of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies] 1 1 (2017): 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/periferia.2009.3421. 10.12957/periferia.2009.3421 Laranjeiro, Catarina. "How many nations are we able to imagine?". Colonial imaginaries: propaganda, militancy and “resistance” in the cinema. Comunicação & Sociedade [Communication & Society] 29 (2016): 93-105. Open access • Published Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Resenha: Lourenço, Eduardo. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado. [Review: Lourenço, Eduardo. Do colonialismo como nosso impensado.]". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [Critical Journal of Social Sciences] 106 (2014): 182-185. https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/5953. Published Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Vasconcelos, Catarina. "Imagens, Memórias e Histórias ou o que significa dizer “ Eu Sou da Mouraria” [Images, Memories and Stories or What it means to say “I'm from Mouraria”]". Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia [Art and Anthropology Notebooks] 1 (2012): 42-51. https://journals.openedition.org/cadernosaa/712. Published
Journal issue	Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Inês Sapeta Dias. "Somos sempre a vida póstuma dos outros: mapa para uma pró-memória". Revista Comunicação e Linguagem 61 (2025): Under revision • Coeditor Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Inês Sapeta Dias. "How to inhabit a ruined map? Critical methodologies to approach image production in the domestic realm". Comparative Cinema 24 (2024): https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/209. Under revision • Coeditor
Newspaper article	Laranjeiro, Catarina. "Cuba e a luta de libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Cuba and the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau]", Público, 2023, ANÁLISE - SÉRIE O MUNDO DE AMÍLCAR CABRAL (VIII), https://www.publico.pt/2023/05/14/mundo/noticia/cuba-luta-libertacao-guinebissau-2048927.
Report	Castro, Fernanda; Baptista, Maria Manuel; Almeida, Alexandre Rodolfo Alves de; Silva, Carlos Guardado da; Gomes, Nelson P.; Santos, Clara; Carina Cerqueira; et al. 2022. Dossier da Rede Nacional de Estudos Culturais (RNEC). Castro, Fernanda; Baptista, Maria Manuel; Almeida, Alexandre Rodolfo Alves de; Silva, Carlos Guardado da; Gomes, Nelson P.; Santos, Clara; Carina Cerqueira; et al. 2022. Dossier da Rede Nacional de Estudos Culturais (RNEC) (Dossier of the National Network of Cultural Studies (RNEC)).
Website	Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes. Mediações Modernas: Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação [Modern Mediations: Art, Technology and Communication]. 2022.. 2022. https://sites.dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/mediacoes-modernas/..

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition	O chão é lava [The floor is lava]. 2024. Além da Ucronia: Histórias Não Vividas do 25 de Abril [Beyond Uchrony: April 25th Unlived Stories]. 2014. MI GO. 2007.
Artistic performance	2021. Álbuns de Guerra. Casa da Memória Guimarães [House of Memory].
Curatorial / Museum exhibition	2025. "Guiné, a Colónia Imaginada. O Espolólio de Álvaro de Barros Geraldo".
Visual artwork	Laranjeiro, Catarina. Pabia di Aos. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Leite, Marta. Grafting. Laranjeiro, Catarina (3B1B-F392-12F3); Vasconcelos, Catarina. I am from Mouraria or Seven Ways to Tell and Save Histories. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Barroca, Daniel. Fire in the Mud.

Other

Other output

Álbuns de Guerra (série para portal foto-sintese.pt). Coordenadora e editora da série proposta por Catarina Laranjeiro e Tânia Dinis para o portal foto-sintese.pt. 2021. Laranjeiro, Catarina ; Dinis, Tânia. https://foto-sintese.pt/albuns/albuns-de-guerra.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/05/15	Diasporas Popular Films: New Approaches Towards a Decolonization of the Gaze	Ethnocineca Film Festival Ethnocineca (Wien, Austria)
2024/05/02	Fire in the Mud (film presentation)	Révolution des Oeillets. 50 ans aprés... Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)
2023/12/11	Diplomatic Weapon or Fiction? The role of women in the filmography of the PAIGC liberation struggle.	Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization AAMOD (Rome, Italy)
2023/11/25	A sombra, torrentes de sonhos e imagens [The shadow, torrents of dreams and images]	Encontro de Tipografia [Tipographic Worlds] Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/30	Mulheres de fogo, no lodo [Women of fire, in the mud]	Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Women in decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing] Hangar (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09/24	Ein Nations Födelse [O Nascimento de uma Nação]: O filme fundacional da nação	The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de História Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/07	Circumventing censorship in Guinea-Bissau: Popular Cinema taking the floor,	Decifrando censuras. Da regulação à produção de inexistências, do arquivo à internet: uma abordagem interdisciplinar Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de História Contemporânea (Portugal)
2023/05/24	De Cuba a Cuba: do Alentejo ao Caribe ·	De Cuba a Cuba: do Alentejo ao Caribe · Festival Imaterial (Portugal)
2023/03/02	Dos Teleteatros a Bissauflix	Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/12/12	Arriscando Bissauwood: outras Leituras sobre a História Contemporânea da Guiné-Bissau	V Colóquio Internacional de Cinema e História [V International Colloquium on Cinema and History] (São Paulo, Brazil)
2022/11/22	Bissau-Guinean vernacular films in transnational flow	Camões, IP (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2022/02/09	Bissau-Guinean Liberation Struggle: Through its militant/diplomatic imagens: french support, cuban imaginaries, algerian secrets	Art by Translation (Torres Vedras, France)
2021/12/19	Álbuns de Guerra [War Albuns]	Conferência Internacional Fotografia e História [International Photography and History Conference]. University of Madeira
2021/11/09	Entre o Norte e o Sul. Entre o quente e o frio. Nada é tão simples: Reflexões históricas, teóricas, temáticas e estéticas, talvez contemporâneas, sobre cinemas africanos. [Between North and South. Between warm and cold. Nothing is so simple: Historical, theoretical, thematic and aesthetic, perhaps contemporary, reflections on African cinemas.]	Grupo de Trabalho Cinemas Pós-Coloniais e Periféricos [Postcolonial and Peripheral Cinemas Working Group]
2021/10/19	Produção Audiovisual, Nação e Diásporas [Audiovisual Production, Nation and Diasporas]	História da África em debate [African history in debate] Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
2021/09/04	Cinema Vernacular Bissau Guineense [Bissau-Guinean Vernacular Cinema]	Oficina Perdidos e Achados [Lost and Found Workshop] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/07	Álbuns de Guerra [War Albuns]	Mulheres nas descolonizações: modos de ver e saber [Women in decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing] Hangar- Centro de Investigação Artística [Hangar- Center for Artistic Research] (Portugal)
2020	Visões de Guerra e Contracultura [Visions of War and Counterculture]	Galeria Zé dos Bois [Zé dos Bois Gallery] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020	Os Filmes da Luta de Libertação Guineense: Arma Diplomática ou Etno-Ficção? [The Films of the Bissau-Guinean Liberation Struggle: a Diplomatic Weapon or Ethno-Fiction?]	Seminário Ciência & Império [Science & Empire Seminar] CIUHCT/ ICS - UL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019	Fotografia, Cinema e Etnografia [Photography, Cinema, and Ethnography]	VII Seminário Cultura, Ciência e Política em Portugal no Século XX [ 6th Seminar on Culture, Science and Politics in Portugal in the 20th Century] CICS - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019	Novas Dimensões no Estudo da Luta pela Independência da Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde [New Dimensions for the Study on the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde]	Fundação Amílcar Cabral [Amílcar Cabral Foundation] (Praia, Cape Verde)
2019	Presentation of the film "The Return of Cabral"	Seminar to discuss Amílcar Cabral's book "Analysis of Some Types of Resistance" Associação Comunitária Amigos de Safendi (Praia, Cape Verde)
2019	Da tabanca a Bissau e de Bissau à Diáspora: O cinema popular guineense [From tabanca to Bissau and from Bissau to the Diaspora: the Guinean popular cinema]	VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018	Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau	Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity. Art, Materiality and Representation British Museam/SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2018	Guerras Coloniais e Lutas de Libertação: para um olhar pós-colonial [Colonial Wars and Liberation Struggles: towards a post-colonial gaze]	VIII Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [8th Annual Meeting of the Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018	Amílcar Cabral: Representações, Imagem e Memória no Cinema [Amílcar Cabral: Representations, Image and Memory in the Cinema]	Amílcar Cabral: The “Anonymous Fighters” for the Mankind Fundamental Freedoms Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018	Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau	Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity. Art, Materiality and Representation. British Museum/SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2018	Entre imágenes y espíritus: la memoria de la lucha de liberación em Guinea-Bissau [Between Images and Spirits: Encounters in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau]	XIV Conferencia Antropologia 2018 [14th Anthropology Conference 2018] Universidad de Habana [University of Havana] (Havana, Cuba)
2017	(In) visible Dialogues between Cinema and Irãs	Africa Studies Association 60th Annual Meeting (Chicago, United States)
2017	Who was sitting on his head?	Ethnographic Experimentation Fieldwork Devices and Companions 1st Colleex Workshop (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017	Abrir Camino/Cerrar el Cuerpo [Open a Way / Close the Body]	Cátedra de Estudios Africanos del Caribe Universidad San José [University of San Jose] (San José, Costa Rica)
2017	O Invisível e o Moderno: Cinema e Irãs na Luta de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau [The Invisible and the Modern: Cinema and the Spiritual Entities in the Liberation Struggle of Guinea-Bissau]	VII Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [7th Annual Meeting of the Association of Researchers of the Moving Image] Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] (Braga, Portugal)
2017	The Cinema in Guinea-Bissau Liberation Struggle	Sahel Research Group Seminar University of Florida (Gainesville, United States)
2016	Struggling Gender in Guinea-Bissau: Women’s Participation on and off the Liberation Record	Nordic Africa Days The Nordic African Institute (Uppsala, Sweden)
2016	Struggling Gender at the Liberation Front: Questions on Equality and Complementarity in the Making of Guinea-Bissau’s Modern Nation	Resistance and Empire: New Approaches and Comparisons Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais [Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016	In the Past the Future was Better	Falling of the Empire and the Birth through Images of African Nations University of Reading (Reading, United Kingdom)
2016	Presentation of the film “Acto dos Feitos da Guiné”	Rede Aleph Portuguese Cinematheque (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016	African Commandos: The Inability to Look at the Past	Luta Ca Caba Inda: An Archive in Relation. 4th Edition of Encounters Beyond the History International Centre for the Arts José de Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugal)
2015	Confronting vague ideas with clear images: ghosts and memories in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau	Resistances in Movement. Cinemas of Lusophone Africa. European Conference of African Studies (Paris, France)
2015	Confronting vague ideas with clear images: ghosts and memories in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau	Archives of/for the future European Network of African Studies (Lodz, Poland)
2015	Espectros da Luta de Libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Specters of the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau]	V Encontro Anual da Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [5th Annual Meeting Association of Researchers of the Moving Image ] Associação de Investigadores de Imagens em Movimento [Association of Researchers of the Moving Image] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014	Pensar a Guerra e a Luta: Desafios Contemporâneos? [War and Struggle: Contemporary Challenges?]	Grupo de Investigação Impérios, Colonialismo e Sociedades Pós-Coloniais [Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Societies Research Group] Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014	O Silêncio das Imagens ou Pode a Imagem Falar? [The Silence of Images or Can the Image Speak?]	Oficina da História e Imagem [History and Image Workshop] Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea [Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014	Presentation of the film PABIA DI AOS	Seminário de Investigação no Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina [Research Seminar at the Center for Studies on Africa, Asia and Latin America] Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão [Lisbon School of Economics and Management ] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014	The Memory of the Liberation/Colonial War in Guinea-Bissau	The Carnation Revolution: Between African Anticolonialism and European Rebellion Birkbeck University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2014	Presentation of the film PABIA DI AOS	Seminário de Estudos Pós-Coloniais [Post-Colonial Studies Seminar] Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais [Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra] (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014	Memória da Guerra Colonial/de Libertação da Guiné-Bissau como Arqueologia [Memory of the Bissau-Guinean Colonial / Liberation War]	Revolution and Cinema: The Portuguese Exemple Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris, France)
2013	Memória e Fotografia da Guerra de Libertação/ Colonial [Memory and Photography of the Liberation / Colonial War]	IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [4th Congress of Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro [University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro] (Vila Real, Portugal)
2013	Nós, a Guerra [We, the War]	II Conferência Internacional de Cinema de Viana [2nd International Cinema Conference] Associação AO NORTE (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2012	I am from Mouraria or Seven Ways to Tell and Save Histories	Cinema as a materially-embodied structure. Narratives and Social Memory: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Universidade do Minho [University of Minho] (Braga, Portugal)
2012	Memory and Photography: I am from Mouraria or Seven ways to Tell and Save Stories	II Conferência Internacional da Tradição Oral “Oralidade e Património Cultural" [International Conference on Oral Tradition "Orality and Cultural Heritage] Universidade de Évora [University of Evora] (Évora, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/20 - Current	Cabo-Verde e os Caboverdianos no Cinema Português Supervisor of Mário Almeida	Estudos Artísticos (PhD) Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	Paving the Streets to the “Women’s Revolution”: A History of Women’s Movements in Independent Sudan Supervisor	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2023/09 - Current	History, Urban Space and Belonging: African historical commemoration in Lisbon’s public spaces. Supervisor	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2023/09/30 - 2027/09	Os álbuns de fotografias e a guerra: Moçambique 61-63, Angola 65-67 . Co-supervisor	History (PhD) Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/04/04 - Current	Cuba and the Global Revolution: Experiences and connections with Portuguese-speaking countries (2024/06/07) Conference	Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/07/01 - Current	Mostra de Teleteatro Guineense [Guinean Teletheater Showcase]. (2023/09/02 - 2023/10/04) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/11/02 - 2025/09/26	Conferência Das lutas anticoloniais às lutas do quotidiano: lugares das mulheres nos 50 anos das independências (2024/12/31 - 2025/09/26) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2024/06/01 - 2025/04/04	Das Guerras ao Pós-25 de Abril: Os Militares em Territórios em Convulsão (2024/04/01 - 2025/04/04) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/01/04 - 2022/06/01	An International Conference organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory, and the Department of History of Art at University College London (2022/05/23 - 2022/05/25) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/01/04 - 2022/05/31	An International Conference organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory, and the Department of History of Art at University College London. (2022/05/24 - 2022/05/25) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Art, Cinema and Animism in Modernity and Extra-Modernity (2018 - 2018) Conference (Co-organisor)	British Museum/SOAS, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016	Re-significar experiências e implicar futuros: o cinema, a fotografia e a música em reflexões pós-coloniais [Re-signifying experiences and implying futures: cinema, photography, and music in post-colonial reflections]. IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia in Coimbra [4th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] (2016 - 2016) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Perspectivas Pós-Coloniais: velhas e novas opressões, resistências e utopias [Post-Colonial Perspectives: old and new oppressions, resistances and utopias]. IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [4th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association] (2016 - 2016) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/05/17 - Current	Fire in the Mud (film presentation) Festival	Ethnocineca Film Festival
2024/05/03 - Current	Fire in the Mud (film presentation) Festival	Jean Rouch International Film Festival Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, France
2021/11/24 - Current	Samson Kambalu's films and installations compel us to take a comparative look at the different ways of thinking in African and European territories, examining the way in which images and history are conceived and produced. Taking as our background the exhibition of this artist in our galleries, we will join three researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH) together in a debate, encouraging us to think about the questions raised by his work. Conference	SITUACIONISMOS, CINEMAS E OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS [SITUATIONISM, CINEMAS AND OTHER STORIES]

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/10/28	Catarse (Cinema) (Thesis) Main arguer	Isabela Pereira Santos (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
2023/01/16	Questões de Género em Contexto Anticolonial: Mulheres na Luta de Libertação Nacional de Angola (Thesis) Arguer	Ana Filipa Henriques Correia (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2022/09/15	«Sweet Are the Waters: Ogiek Rights to Land and Development and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Court Ruling» (Thesis) Main arguer	Diana Takácsová (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/01/27	Os Diálogos entre o Cinema Novo Brasileiro e o Cinema Revolucionário Cubano (1959/1969). (Thesis) Arguer	Bruno Falci Bitarelli Medeiros (Master)

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/05/27 - Current	Genealogy
2024/04/04 - Current	Humanities
2023/02/01 - Current	Reviewer a book proposal at Bloomsbury Publishing
2022/12/21 - Current	Visual Anthropology Review
2023/11/14 - 2023/11/16	ANTROPOLÍTICA (Revista Contemporânea de Antropologia)
2022/08/01 - 2022/09/01	Topoi. Revista de História

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022/05/01 - Current	VEREDAS- Mostra Itinerante de Cinema Português [VEREDAS- Itinerant Exhibition of Portuguese Cinema]
2020/09/01 - Current	Oficina de História e Imagem [History and Image Workshop]
2013 - Current	Núcleo de Antropologia Visual e da Arte [Visual and Art Anthropology Group]

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020/09/10 - 2022/10/11	Mediações Modernas: Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação [Modern Mediations: Art, Technology and Communication]. This thematic line focus on the discussion, study, and elaboration of different forms of historical representation, inside and outside (and in the interstices) of the academy, with particular emphasis on productive interactions with the field of arts, technological resources, and audiovisual objects. Coordinator
2014 - 2017	FACA - Anthropology, Cinema, and Arts Festival Member	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2020/09/29 - 2020/10/02	40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival	Visual Anthropology and Arts Laboratory (NAVA)
2017 - 2017	Ways of Doing, Ways of Being: Artistic Practices in and with Visual Anthropology	Museu Nacional de Etnografia [National Museum of Ethnology]
2015 - 2015	5th International Colloquium of Doctoral Students: Emerging Powers, Continuities and Transformations	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais [Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra]

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/05/01 - Current	The main objective of the WiS-H project is to work towards an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers of corruption in Spain and Portugal. To this end, through an analytical study, the whistleblowing environment in both countries will be analysed, and mutual learning and cooperation between competent authorities and civil society organisations will be facilitated to monitor and support the implementation of European rules on whistleblower protection.	Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (NOVA School of Law) , Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30	Reviewer a book proposal at Bloomsbury Publishing

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/11 - Current	History in the public sphere	(Mestrado integrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2021/11/25 - Current	Visual Anthropology	Visual Anthropology (Mestrado)	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/05/25 - Current	Mulheres na Guerra [Women in War]	Discursos da Violência [Discourses of Violence] (Doutoramento)
2020/11/18 - Current	VIII SEMANA INTERNACIONAL DE ESTUDOS AFRICANOS E AFRO-BRASILEIROS [8th INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF AFRICAN AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES]	Cinema Africano e da Diáspora [African and Diaspora Cinema] (Licence)
2023/11/04 - 2023/12/29	Oral History Short Course	(Master Universitario)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal
2021/11/05 - 2021/11/29	Oral History	Master	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Outros Cinemas, Outros Mundos: Para uma Compreensão Policêntrica da Produção Cinematográfica em Contextos Pós-Coloniais e Indígenas [Other Cinemas, Other Worlds: For a Polycentric Understanding of Cinematographic Production in Postcolonial and Indigenous contexts]	Dos Cinemas Coloniais ao Movimento do Terceiro Cinema [The Colonial Cinema and the Third Cinema Movement]	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Imagens em Conflito: Política, Memória e Império [Conflicting Images: Politics, Memory and Empire]	Fotografia: Arquivo, Teoria e História [Photography: Archive, Theory and History]	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Drawing and Video Workshop	Photography and Drawing Workshop on Memories of the Liberation Struggle	Casa dos Direitos, Guinea-Bissau

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2020 - 2020	Award Portuguese Anthropological Association "Margot Dias e Benjamim Pereira” 2019 Evaluator	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Ethnographic Film Exhibition at the 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association Evaluator	Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2023/11/07 - Current	TV report on the documentary, Fire in the Mud, directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, which won the the Prize for Best Film on a Theme Associated with Cultural Practices and Traditions and the Intangible Heritage of Humanity at the DOC LISBOA 2023 International Film Festival.
2023/10/18 - Current	Interview on RTP AFRICA's Bemvindos programme, about the documentary Fire in the Mud.	RTP AFRICA'
2022/03/28 - Current	Convocar a história [Invoke History]

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020/06/01 - 2022/06/01	ANIKI- The Portuguese Journal of Moving Image

Distinctions

Award

2023	Apoio a Projetos Novos Media Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
2023	Prémio para Melhor Filme de Temática Associada a Práticas e Tradições Culturais e ao Património Imaterial da Humanidade Fundação INATEL, Portugal
2021	Programa de Apoio à Ação Cultural [Cultural Action Support Program] Republica Portuguesa Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte, Portugal
2020	Virgínia Quaresma- International Award in Cultural Studies International Network in Cultural Studies (RIEC), Portugal
2020	Apoio a Novos Criadores em Teatro [Support for New Theater Creators] Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2018	Documentary Production Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Portugal
2015	Documentary Writing and Development Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA), Portugal
2013	Ph.D. Grant Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012	Ethnographic Film Production (Master Thesis) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology/ Freie Universität Berlin, Portugal
2010	Grant Inov-Mundus Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD), Portugal
2007	Grant Leonardo da Vinci Agência Nacional Erasmus, Portugal
2004	Grant Erasmus Agência Nacional Erasmus, Portugal