Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes (8A1C-2215-3C3B)

Curriculum Vitae

Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes

Rui Lopes is a researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC, NOVA-FCSH), of which he is currently Vice-Director, having previously headed the research group Culture, Identities & Power and the research line Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Historical Studies of Birkbeck, University of London. He works on contemporary history, particularly on Cold War culture, transnational anticolonialism, and the international dimension of the Portuguese dictatorship and empire. He has a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as well as a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from the same institution (both completed in 2012). Along with being the PI in the project 'Amilcar Cabral, from Political History to the Politics of Memory' (2016-19 ) and co-PI in the project 'Censorship(s): an analytical model of censorial processes' (2022-23), he has developed the FCT-funded individual projects 'The Portuguese dictatorship and colonialism in western audiovisual fiction, 1933-1974' (2016-21) and 'Visualising the Cold War: Transnational production and circulation of visual spy fiction, 1960s-80s' (2022-28). He has published one peer-reviewed monograph, three peer-reviewed book chapters, and eight peer-reviewed articles, with one more in press. He has co-edited the special dossier ‘Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: International, Transnational, and Global Dimensions’ and the edited volume 'Globalising Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anti-Colonial and Post-Colonial Politics'. He was Graduate Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow at the LSE, and Lecturer at Birkbeck as well as at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was managing editor for the journal Cold War History and he is currently in the editorial boards of the multilingual, peer-reviewed, open access SCOPUS journals Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (which he co-founded) and Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (where he is the editor of the 'Essays' section).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes

Citation names

Rui Lopes
Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8A1C-2215-3C3B
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8894-9733

Email addresses

ruilopes@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
German	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Italian		Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2007 - 2012/01/31 Concluded	International History (Doctor of Philosophy) London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom "Between Cold War and Colonial Wars: The making of West German Policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship, 1968-1974" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	No revisions
2010 - 2012 Concluded	Higher Education (Postgraduate Certificate) London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2006 - 2007/06/18 Concluded	História [History] (Pós-Graduação) Major in História Contemporânea Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2005/09 - 2006/02 Concluded	Erasmus exchange programme (Outros) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2002 - 2006 Concluded	História Moderna e Contemporânea [Modern and Contemporary History] (Licenciatura) Major in Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - 2028	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2016/12/02 - 2021/11/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01 - 2023/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
	Birkbeck University of London Department of History Classics and Archaeology, United Kingdom
2022 - 2023	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
	Goldsmiths University of London Department of Politics, United Kingdom
2009/10 - 2013/05	Assistant (University Teacher)	London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
	London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2010/09 - 2011/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
	Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09 - Current	Vice-President	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2020/03 - 2022/12	Head of Research Line 'Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology & Communication'	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/01 - 2019/12	Head of Research Group 'Culture, Identities & Power'	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/07 - Current	Honorary Research Fellow	School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
	School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
2014 - Current	Member of Editorial Board	Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, Portugal

2024/09 - 2024/12	Visiting Fellow	New York University Remarque Institute, United States
	New York University Remarque Institute, United States
2020/06 - 2024/07	Editor of the 'Essays' section & Member of Editorial Board	Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, Portugal

2011 - 2013	Managing editor	Cold War History, United Kingdom
	LSE IDEAS, United Kingdom

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/06 - 2016/11	Portugal in the audiovisual fiction of the New State's democratic allies SFRH/BPD/85145/2012 Post-doc	Concluded
2007/10 - 2011/09	Between Cold War and Colonial Wars: The making of West German policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship, 1968-1974 SFRH/BD/35798/2007 PhD Student Fellow	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2028	Visualising the Cold War: Transnational production and circulation of visual spy fiction, 1960s-80s 2021.04264.CEECIND Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/12 - 2021/11	The Portuguese dictatorship and colonialism in western audiovisual fiction, 1933-1974 IF/01579/2015 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/07 - 2019/12	Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to the Politics of Memory PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014 Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/03 - 2026/03	ExPORT – Exporting Portugal. Estado Novo’s Cultural Diplomacy in the United States (1933-1974) 2022.08653.PTDC Researcher ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Ongoing
2022/12 - 2023/12	Materia: towards a critical lexicon of materiality in the arts and heritage EXPL/In2Past/2023/02 Researcher	Concluded
2022/01 - 2023/12	CEMA – Censorship(s): an analytical model of censorial processes EXPL/COM-OUT/0831/2021 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Lopes, Rui. West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974: Between Cold War and Colonialism. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. Published • 10.1057/9781137402080
Book chapter	Lopes, Rui; Natalia Telepneva. "Introduction". In Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 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 Rui Lopes. "Possíveis Cronologias da Guerra [Possible Chronologies of the War]". In A Guerra Guardada: Fotografia de Soldados Portugueses em Angola, Guiné-Bissau e Moçambique, 1961-1974, 31-39. Portugal: Tinta-da-China, 2024. Published Rui Lopes. "From Caligari to Wertham: When EC's Horror Comics Feared for Their Own Survival". In Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books - Red Ink in the Gutter, 9-21. New York, United States: Routledge, 2022. Published Rui Lopes. "Passados sinistros e futuros extraordinários: Portugal no cinema fantástico estrangeiro [Sinister pasts and extraordinary futures: Portugal in foreign fantastic cinema]". In O Quarto Perdido do MOTELX - Os Filmes do Terror Português (1911-2006). Portugal, 2022. Published Lopes, Rui. "Iconic City Thrillers: Encoding Geopolitics Through Cinema". In The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons, 111-128. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. In press Rui Lopes; Inês Galvão; José Neves. "Entre Medo e Modernidade: Resistência em Amílcar Cabral [Between Fear and Modernity: Resistance in Amílcar Cabral]". In Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência: Edição revista e comentada [Analysis of Some Types of Resistance - revised and commented edition], 107-128. Lisbon, Portugal: Outro Modo, 2020. Published Lopes, Rui. "Orientalismo à Hollywood: Macao como ficção colonial [Hollywood Orientalism: Macao as colonial fiction]". In A colecção colonial da Cinemateca. Campo, contracampo, fora-de-campo [Cinemateca's colonial colection: shot, reverse shot, out of shot], 192-201. Viseu, Portugal: Cine Clube de Viseu, 2018. Published Lopes, Rui. "The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama". In (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, 131-149. United Kingdom: Peter Lang UK, 2017. Published Rui Lopes. "Portugal na ficção cinematográfica americana durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial [Portugal in American film fiction during World War II]". In Arte & Discursos dos factos aos relatos construídos por estrangeiros acerca de Portugal, 89-95. Portugal: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2015. Published Lopes, Rui. "A Participação da República Federal da Alemanha na Construção da Barragem de Cabora Bassa: Implicações Políticas e Económicas [The Federal Republic of Germany's Participation in the Construction of the Cabora Bassa Dam: Political and Economic Implications]". In Outros Horizontes: Encontros luso-alemães em contextos coloniais, 93-109. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições Colibri, 2009. Published
Book review	Rui Lopes. "A Coleção Colonial da Cinemateca / The Cinemateca's Colonial Collection". Review of A Coleção Colonial da Cinemateca / The Cinemateca’s Colonial Collection 106 (2022): 139-140. https://www.fiafnet.org/images/tinyUpload/2022/04/JFP106-2022-04-20-WEB.pdf. Published Lopes, Rui. "The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans. A Captivated Audience?". Review of The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans. A Captivated Audience? 55, 2 (2020): 455-456. Published • https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009420913498k Lopes, Rui. "Marcello Caetano and the Portuguese “New State”: A Political Biography". Review of Marcello Caetano and the Portuguese 'New State': A Political Biography 97, 3 (2020): 451-452. Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2020.1762463 Lopes, Rui. "The Cold War. Historiography, Memory, Representation". Review of The Cold War. Historiography, Memory, Representation 5 (2017): 207-215. http://www.praticasdahistoria.pt/pt/numeros/praticas-da-historia-no-5-2017/jarausch-ostermann-etges-the-cold-war-historiography-memory-representation/. Published Lopes, Rui. "Para uma revisão da história dos laços entre o socialismo do Norte e Sul da Europa [For a revision of the history of the ties between the socialism of Northern and Southern Europe]". Review of El amigo alemán: El SPD y el PSOE de la dictadura a la democracia 44 (2014): 123-127. http://www.ipri.pt/images/publicacoes/revista_ri/pdf/ri44/n44a12.pdf. Published Lopes, Rui. "Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror". Review of Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror 13, 4 (2013): 568-570. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2013.849025. Published Lopes, Rui. "Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: European and Global Responses". Review of Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: European and Global Responses 28, 2 (2010): 256-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghp110. Published • https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghp110
Edited book	Rui Lopes; Barros, Víctor; José Neves. O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral [The World of Amilcar Cabral]. Portugal: Fora de Jogo. 2024. Published • Editor Lopes, Rui; Telepneva, Natalia. Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury. 2024. Published • Editor Lopes, Rui; Galvão, Inês; Neves, José; Cardoso, Carlos; Fernandes, Raúl; Cabral, Amílcar. Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência - Edição Revista e Comentada [Analysis of Some Types of Resistance - revised and commented edition]. Lisbon, Portugal: Outro Modo. 2020. Published • Editor
Journal article	Rui Lopes. "The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe's transnational identity". Intelligence and National Security 37 4 (2022): 581-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2022.2065608. Published • 10.1080/02684527.2022.2065608 Rui Lopes. "Retconning the History of Covert Operations: Spy Comics at the End of the Cold War". Cold War History 22 2 (2022): 215-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2021.1933951. Published • 10.1080/14682745.2021.1933951 Lopes, Rui; Barros, Víctor. "Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: International, Transnational, and Global Dimensions". The International History Review 42 6 (2020): 1230-1237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1703118. Published • 10.1080/07075332.2019.1703118 Lopes, Rui. "Jogo e conspiração em Hollywood: o Portugal que não foi [Gambling and conspiracy in Hollywood: The Portugal that was not]". Aniki : Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento / Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 6 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v6n1.425. Open access • Published • 10.14591/aniki.v6n1.425 Lopes, Rui. "‘Must we all remain helpless?’: Superman vs. the Nuclear Threat in the Late Cold War". ImageText 10 2 (2019): http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v10_2/lopes/. Open access • Published Rui Lopes. "Fado and Fatima: Salazar's Portugal in US Film Fiction". Film History 29 3 (2017): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.29.3.03. Published • 10.2979/filmhistory.29.3.03 Lopes, Rui. "An Oasis in Europe: Hollywood Depictions of Portugal during the Second World War". Journal of Contemporary History 52 2 (2017): 375-398. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022009415609680. Published • 10.1177/0022009415609680 Rui Lopes. "«I don’t believe in seeking distance from your own time». A talk with Odd Arne Westad about the limits and challenges of Popular History. Interview by Rui Lopes". Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past 4 (2017): 221-235. http://www.praticasdahistoria.pt/issues/2017/4/08_PDH_04Westad.pdf. Open access • Published Rui Lopes. "‘A fabulous speck on the Earth's surface’: Depictions of Colonial Macao in 1950s' Hollywood". Portuguese Studies 32 1 (2016): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/portstudies.32.1.0072. Published • 10.5699/portstudies.32.1.0072 Lopes, Rui. "Accommodating and Confronting the Portuguese Dictatorship within NATO, 1970-4". The International History Review 38 3 (2016): 505-526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2015.1046388. Published • 10.1080/07075332.2015.1046388
Journal issue	Lopes, Rui; Victor Barros. "Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: International, Transnational, and Global Dimensions". The International History Review 42 6 (2020): Published • Coeditor
Magazine article	Lopes, Rui. "O elusivo fim da Guerra Fria [The Cold War's elusive end]", Imprópria, 2014
Manual	Rui Lopes. Fado - História d'uma Cantadeira [Fado, a Singer's Story]. Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual. 2021. Published Rui Lopes. Adeus Lenine! [Good Bye Lenin!]. Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual. 2021. Published
Newspaper article	Rui Lopes. "Amílcar Cabral e os ventos da Guerra Fria [Amilcar Cabral and the winds of the Cold War]", Público, 2023, P2
Thesis / Dissertation	Rui Lopes. "Between Cold War and Colonial Wars: The making of West German policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship, 1968-1974". PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/359/.
Website	Rui Lopes; Laranjeiro, Catarina. Mediações Modernas: Arte, Tecnologia e Comunicação [Modern Mediations: Art, Technology and Communication]. 2022. https://sites.dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/mediacoes-modernas/.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/07/10	When Hollywood Came to Lisbon: Selling Portugal Through American Cinema	Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) 53rd Annual Meeting Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/12/13	The transnational path of an imaginary anti-colonial war: the case of Queimada (1969)	Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD) (Rome, Italy)
2023/11/27	Amílcar Cabral e a oposição internacional ao regime do Estado Novo e às suas políticas coloniais [Amilcar Cabral and the international opposition to the New State regime and its colonial policies]	Congress of the Associação de Professores de História [History Teachers Association] Associação de Professores de História
2023/08/06	Touristic thrillers: integrating southern Europe through 1960s’ spy films	Branding Mediterranean Europe: Tourism, Transport, and National Identity, 1945-1990 Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno, Greece)
2023/01/14	Amílcar Cabral: dimensões internacionais da luta’ [Amilcar Cabral: international dimensions of the struggle]	Amílcar Cabral e a História do Futuro [Amilcar Cabral and the History of the Future] Cultra ; Assembleia da República (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/01/18	Transnational Thrills, Illiberal Intrigue and Colonial Codes: the politics of European spy films, 1962-1975	International History Seminar Institute of Historical Research (United Kingdom)
2021/10/22	Post-screening discussion of the film Castro’s Spies (2020)	DocLisboa Film Festival DocLisboa Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/21	O sinuoso percurso geopolítico de Queimada (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969) [The sinuous geopolitical path of Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)]	10th Annual Conference of AIM – Associação da Imagem em Movimento AIM – Associação da Imagem em Movimento (Portugal)
2019/12/07	Filming (in) Portugal. European Filmmakers' Engagement with the Estado Novo in the 1960s-1970s	50th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/11/13	Quem entra e quem sai: o Muro de Berlim e outros muros [Who leaves and who stays: the Berlin Wall and other walls]	Special lecture Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco (Carnaxide, Portugal)
2019/11/07	Eurocentrism and History	History, Social Sciences and Postcolonial Theory Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/10/02	Screening and discussion of the films Octobre (1992) and Rostov-Luanda (1997)	BEAST International Film Festival BEAST International Film Festival (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/16	Eurospy: um caso limite no estudo do cinema e da história transnacional contemporânea [Eurospy: a test case in the study of cinema and transnational contemporary history]	Xth Annual Conference of AIM - Associação da Imagem em Movimento [Association of the Moving Image] Associação da Imagem em Movimento (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2019/04/23	Macau no cinema e na televisão Americana dos anos 50 [Macao in American cinema and television from the 50s]	Representações Visuais da "Ásia Portuguesa": Perspectivas Críticas [Visual Depictions of "Portuguese Asia": Critical Perspectives] Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/02/21	Quem entra e quem sai: o Muro de Berlim e outros muros [Who leaves and who stays: the Berlin Wall and other walls]	Special lecture Escola Básica Marquesa d’Alorna (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/02/07	Silvas, bigodes e barretinas: o olhar português sobre outras portugalidades [Silvas, mustaches and barretinas: the Portuguese look at other Portugalities]	História da Cultura em Portugal no século XX: Industrialização, massificação, mediações [History of Culture in 20th-Century Portugal: industrialization, massification, mediations] Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/11/15	(Dis)connections: Cold War and Decolonisation	Socialism and decolonization in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau Centre Régional Francophone de Recherches Avancées en Sciences Sociales (Bucharest, Romania)
2018/11/15	Screening and discussion of the film Spell Reel (2017)	Socialism and decolonization in theformer Portuguese colonies of Angola,Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau Centre Régional Francophone de Recherches Avancées en Sciences Sociales, Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania)
2018/06/03	Portugal na ficção audiovisual norte-americana durante o Estado Novo [Portugal in North-American audiovisual fiction during the New State]	Encontro Ciência ’18 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/06/01	On (geo)politics and third worldism	The “Third World”: Past and Present Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/04/04	“This is Not Anti-Americanism, It’s Anti-Reaganism”: DC Comics vs. The Cold War	International Studies Association 59th Annual Conference International Studies Association (San Francisco, United States)
2018/03/02	Screening and discussion of the film Labanta Negro (1966)	Amílcar Cabral: O “Combatente Anónimo” pelos Direitos Fundamentais da Humanidade [Amilcar Cabral: The "Anonymous Fighter" for Humanities Fundamental Rights] NOVA-FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/02/18	A Representação de Macau Colonial no Cinema de Hollywood Durante os Anos 50 [The Depiction of Colonial Macao in 1950s' Hollywood Cinema]	Cinema Macau. Passado e Presente [Cinema Macao. Past and Present] Fundação Oriente (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/01/26	Lisbon as an Iconic Setting of Romantic Intrigue	The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future Open University of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2017/11/13	Reimagining Lisbon during World War II: Hollywood’s adaptation of The Conspirators	From Text to Screen and Back to Text – Film and Literature: The Portuguese Context’ King's College (London, United Kingdom)
2017/10/07	Screening and discussion of the film Macao (1952)	Cinemateca Portuguesa Cinemateca Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/03/16	A Ásia no Cinema Ocidental [Asia in Western cinema]	Images of Asia in Portuguese Cinema Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/12/09	Fado e Fátima: A cultura salazarista no cinema de Hollywood [Fado and Fatima: Salazarist culture in Hollywood cinema]	VII Simpósio Internacional Cinema e Humanidades [VII International Symposium Cinema and Humanities] CIAUD – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/11/19	“Serving a Horrible President in Disgusting, Filthy Wars Abroad”: DC Comics vs Reagan’s Cold War	Transitions 7: New Directions in Comics Studies Birkbeck, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2016/09/06	Cold War revisionism in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)	V Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine. Escenarios del Cine Histórico [V International Conference of History and Cinema: Settings of Historical Cinema] Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2016/05/28	Lisbon as a Site of Cold War Intrigue in US Film Fiction	Cold War Cities University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2015/09/04	The city of echoes and shadows: The political implications of Hollywood's depiction of espionage in Lisbon during World War II and the Cold War	Spying on Spies: Popular Representations of Spies and Espionage Warwick Business School (London, United Kingdom)
2015/07/17	Hollywood depictions of Portugal and Spain during World War II	V Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Contemporánea Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2014/10/09	Portugal na ficção cinematográfica americana durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial [Portugal in American film fiction during World War II]	Arte & Discursos: dos factos aos relatos construídos por estrangeiros acerca de Portugal Instituto de História de Arte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/03/01	Setting up the ‘Portugal-Tribunal’: How the West German protest movement embraced the struggle against Portuguese colonialism	Resisting War in the 20th Century Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/11/01	“‘A fabulous speck on the Earth's surface': Hollywood’s depictions of Macao during the Portuguese dictatorship	Media and the Portuguese Empire Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/11/09	As batalhas d’A Batalha – órgão de expressão de emigrantes portugueses na RFA [The battles of Batalha - a vehicle for expression of Portuguese migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany]	Ecos das Migrações: Memórias e Representações dos Migrantes (Sécs. XIX-XXI) Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/06/23	A campanha contra Portugal na NATO, 1970-1974 [The campaign against Portugal in NATO, 1970-1974]	Portugal nos Últimos Dois Séculos ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/06/15	NATO's debate over Portuguese resistance to decolonisation, 1970-1974	Decolonisation Workshop Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London, United Kingdom)
2012/05/19	A política da RFA em relação ao Estado Novo durante o marcelismo, 1968-1974 [FRG's policy towards the New State during Marcelism, 1968-1974]	I Congresso Anual de História Contemporânea Rede de História Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/03/02	Entre a guerra fria e as guerras coloniais: a política da RFA em relação à ditadura portuguesa, 1968-1974 [Between the cold war and the colonial wars: the policy of the FRG towards the Portuguese dictatorship, 1968-1974]	VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/11/11	Confronting Portugal within NATO, 1970-1974	Portugal e as Organizações Internacionais Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/06/27	The Impact of Neue Ostpolitik in West Germany's Approach to Afro-Portuguese Détente	Southern African Historical Society 23rd Biennial Conference 2011 Southern African Historical Society (Durban, South Africa)
2011/06/20	Trapped between Cold War and Colonial War: West German approaches to the Portuguese colonial problem, 1968-1974	The End of the Portuguese Empire in a Comparative Perspective Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/01/17	West German-Portuguese Relations in the Era of Détente, Ostpolitik and Colonial War, 1968-1974	Post-Graduate Student Conference German Historical Institute (London, United Kingdom)
2008/09/27	Willy Brandt’s West Germany and the Portuguese Colonial Wars of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau	After Empire? Rethinking the Post in Postcolonial Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2008/06/16	Bonn and Lisbon: Military Cooperation between Willy Brandt’s West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship	South-East Hub for History Postgraduate Conference University of Reading (Reading, United Kingdom)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/09 - Current	Amílcar Cabral - uma biografia das biografias [Amílcar Cabral - a biography of biographies] Co-supervisor	History (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/09 - 2022/01	A presença do cinema brasileiro no cinema cubano na década de 1960: uma perspectiva histórica a partir do presente [The presence of Brazilian cinema in 1960s' Cuban cinema: a historical perspective from the present] Supervisor	History (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2014/03/27 - Current	Oficina de História e Imagem [History and Image Workshop - monthly interdisciplinary seminar about the articulation between images and historical research] (2014 - 2021) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21	Workshop Materia: towards a critical lexicon of materiality in the arts and heritage 3 (2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21) Workshop (Co-organisor)	IN2PAST, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/08	Deciphering Censorship. From regulation to the production of invisibilities, from the archive to the Internet: an interdisciplinary approach (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/08) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Portugal
2023/07/17 - 2023/07/18	Workshop Materia: towards a critical lexicon of materiality in the arts and heritage 2 (2023/07/17 - 2023/07/18) Workshop (Co-organisor)	IN2PAST, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/05/26 - 2023/05/27	Workshop Materia: towards a critical lexicon of materiality in the arts and heritage 1 (2023/05/26 - 2023/05/27) Workshop (Co-organisor)	IN2PAST, Portugal UCL University College of London, United Kingdom
2023/05/12 - 2023/05/12	Workshop ‘Cortes e não só… O Cinema Internacional durante o Estado Novo (1933-1974)’ [Cuts and more… International Cinema during the New State (1933-1974)] (2023/05/12 - 2023/05/12) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal ANIM - Arquivo Nacional das Imagens em Movimento, Portugal
2023/03/10 - 2023/03/10	Screening and discussion of the film Divided Heaven (1964) (2023/03/10) Other	Birkbeck University of London Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, United Kingdom
2023/03/03 - 2023/03/03	Screening and discussion of the film Ikarie XB-1 (1963) (2023/03/03) Other (President of the Organising Committee)	Birkbeck University of London Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, United Kingdom
2022/02 - 2022/04	Lusophone Africa and the Global Cold War: New International and Regional Perspectives (2022/02 - 2022/04) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
2021/01/09 - 2021/01/09	Histórias Para Um Outro Antes [Histories for Another Before - online round-table] (2021/01/09 - 2021/01/09) Round table (Co-organisor)	DocLisboa, Portugal
2019/03/07 - 2019/11/23	Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência [Analysis of Some Types of Resistance - trio of workshops about the writings of Amílcar Cabral, in Lisbon, Bissau and Praia] (2019/03/07 - 2019/11/23) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Centro de Estudos Sociais Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/21	Novas dimensões no estudo da luta pela independência da Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde [New dimensions in the study of Guinea-Bissau's and Cape Verde's independence struggle - round-table at Fundação Amílcar Cabral, in Cape Verde] (2019/11/21 - 2019/11/21) Round table (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Fundação Amílcar Cabral, Cape Verde
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/31	Film cycle 'contra-tempo' [counter time] (2019/10/03 - 2019/10/31) Other (Co-organisor)	Osdois, Portugal
2019/05/04 - 2019/05/04	Screening and discussion of the film Spell Reel (2017) (2019/05/04)	Centro de Estudos Sociais Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau
2019/02/22 - 2019/02/22	Figurações de Amílcar Cabral: memória, política e cultura [Figurations of Amílcar Cabral: memory, politics and culture] (2019/02/22 - 2019/02/22) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2018/10/03 - 2018/10/31	Film Cycle 'futuros do passado' [futures of the past] (2018/10/03 - 2018/10/31) Other (Co-organisor)	Osdois, Portugal
2017/10/02 - 2018/10/12	Comparative History Challenges [yearly workshops about Comparative History] (2017/10/02 - 2018/10/12) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2018/05/09 - 2018/05/30	Film cycle 'paranóia' [paranoia] (2018/05/09 - 2018/05/30) Other (Co-organisor)	Osdois, Portugal
2018/02/06 - 2018/02/28	Film cycle 'na estrada' [on the road] (2018/02/06 - 2018/02/28) Other (Co-organisor)
2018/01/04 - 2018/01/04	Film cycle ‘O Soviete de Hollywood: quando a América gostava do Estaline’ [The Hollywood Soviet: when America liked Stalin] (2018/01/04 - 2018/01/04) Other (Co-organisor)	RDA, Portugal
2017/10/03 - 2017/10/24	Film cycle 'doce vingança' [sweet revenge] (2017/10/03 - 2017/10/24) Other (Co-organisor)	Osdois, Portugal
2016/10/19 - 2016/11/09	Film cycle 'real/ficção' [real/fiction] (2016/10/19 - 2016/11/09) Other (Co-organisor)	Osdois, Portugal
2016/06/08 - 2016/06/22	Film cycle 'o cinema do cinema' [cinema of the cinema] (2016/06/08 - 2016/06/22) Other (Co-organisor)
2016/05/20 - 2016/05/20	Hollywood depictions of Portugal and Europe [screening of the film The Conspirators (1944), followed by round-table] (2016/05/20 - 2016/05/20) Other (Co-organisor)	Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
2014/09/19 - 2014/09/20	1989 - O ano em que acabou a guerra fria? [1989 - The year the Cold War ended? - Instituto de História Contemporânea's 23rd yearly summer course] (2014/09/19 - 2014/09/20) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2014/05/22 - 2014/05/23	The Carnation Revolution between African Anti-colonialism and European Rebellion [Conference with 22 presentations, 2 keynote speakers, 2 performances and 1 film screening.] (2014/05/22 - 2014/05/23) Conference (Co-organisor)	Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom LSE IDEAS, United Kingdom
2013/11/22 - 2013/11/22	The Road to Democracy in Southern Europe: The International Dimension [Workshop in the framework of LSE IDEAS' Southern Europe International Affairs Programme] (2013/11/22 - 2013/11/22) Workshop (Co-organisor)	LSE IDEAS, United Kingdom Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2012/06/19 - 2012/06/19	The international dimension of Southern European Dictatorships: Spain, Portugal and Greece in the Cold War system, 1968-1975 [Workshop in the framework of LSE IDEAS' Southern Europe International Affairs Programme] (2012/06/19 - 2012/06/19) Workshop (Co-organisor)	LSE IDEAS, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2019/04/24	Entre as imagens e os espíritos: encontros com a memória da guerra de libertação na Guiné-Bissau [Between images and spirits: encounters with the memory of the liberation war in Guinea-Bissau] (Thesis) Arguer	Catarina de Castro Laranjeiro (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/05/31	Socialismo, nação e religião. Movimentos anticoloniais no contexto imperial português e francês (1945-1975) [Socialism, nation and religion. Anticolonial movements in the Portuguese and French imperial context (1945-1975)] (Thesis) Arguer	Sofia Brilhante Vieira Lisboa (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020/03 - Current	AIM – Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers	Member
2017/10 - Current	Aleph – network of critical research of colonial images	Member
2016/05 - Current	CCW – Cultures of the Cold War	Member
2012/01 - 2013/12	Southern Europe International Affairs Programme	Co-founder & member

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/06 - 2023/06	Writing the Past	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2023/01 - 2023/05	Colonialism and Non-Western Political Thought	(Bachelor)	Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
2022/10 - 2023/05	Imagining the Cold War: Popular Culture and the Making of Contemporary Europe	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2023/01 - 2023/04	Rise of the Modern State	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2023/02/07 - 2023/02/07	The Contemporary World	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2022/11/14 - 2022/11/21	Colonialism, Power, Resistance	(Bachelor)	Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
2022/03/17 - 2022/03/17	The Modern World	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2022/01 - 2022/03	Approaching the Past	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2022/01 - 2022/03	The Contemporary World	(Bachelor)	Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
2020/09/06 - 2020/09/06	História de uma Tese de Doutoramento [History of a PhD Thesis]	History (Doctor of Philosophy)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/05/07 - 2020/05/07	Ciclo Africano do Império: Colonialismo, Guerra e Descolonização no Portugal Contemporâneo [The Empire's African Cycle: Colonialism, War and Decolonisation]	History (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/11/14 - 2019/11/14	History	(Ensino secundário)	Escola Secundária de Camões, Portugal
2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30	Modernidade, Artes e Espaço Público [Modernity, Arts and Public Space]	História (Doutoramento)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019/04/09 - 2019/04/09	Cinema: Leituras e Contextos [Cinema: Readings and Contexts]	Film Studies summer course (Outros)	ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/11/21 - 2018/11/21	Modernidade, Artes e Espaço Público [Modernity, Arts and Public Space]	History (Doutoramento)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2017/11/22 - 2017/11/22	Modernidade, Artes e Espaço Público [Modernity, Arts and Public Space]	History (Doutoramento)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2017/02/14 - 2017/02/14	History	History (Ensino secundário)	Escola Henriques Nogueira, Portugal
2014/09/14 - 2014/09/14	1989 - O ano em que acabou a guerra fria? [1989 - The year the cold war ended?]	History summer course (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2012/09 - 2013/05	International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989	International History (Bachelor)	London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2011/09 - 2013/05	LSE100: The LSE Course	LSE100 (Bachelor)	London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2009/09 - 2012/05	International History of the Cold War, 1945-1975	International History (Bachelor)	London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2010/09 - 2011/05	Africa in the Global Political Economy	International Relations (Bachelor)	Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/10 - 2023/08	Figurinos e textura especial: design e arte no Cinema Português dos últimos 50 anos [Costumes and special texture: design and art in the last 50 years of Portuguese cinema]	Caterina Cucinotta

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2017/08 - 2017/09	Primeiras Obras L.M. Ficção 2017 [evaluation and selection of film projects for funding by the Portuguese state]	Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, Portugal