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Dr. Ana Vera
UCD | University College Dublin
Dr. Ana Vera
UCD | University College Dublin
Ana Vera is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at University College Dublin. Previously, she was Teaching Associate Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and she holds a PhD in Iberian Studies from the University Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first-century Portuguese cinema, examining how films reflect and interpret significant political, social and cultural transformations in the country. Following the publication of her monograph on Portuguese film, her current research explores Iberian cinemas in the context of contemporary multifaceted crises. Additionally, she is studying the exchanges and relationships among women filmmakers in the Iberian Peninsula, particularly along the Galicia-Portuguese axis.
Dr. João Sarmento
Universidade do Minho
Dr. João Sarmento
Universidade do Minho
João Sarmento is a Geographer, lecturing at the Geography Department of the University of Minho since 1999. He received his doctorate in Geography from the University College Cork, Ireland (2001) and his Habilitation from the University of Lisbon (2014). He has published extensively in the fields of Cultural Geography, Postcolonial Studies, Tourism Studies, Urban Studies, and Geographical Thought. His research focuses on Portugal, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He is a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
Dr. Leonor de Oliveira
UCC | University College Cork
Dr. Leonor de Oliveira
UCC | University College Cork
Leonor de Oliveira is an art historian, curator, and researcher at the Institute of Art History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. Her research centres on the transcultural exchanges between Portugal and Britain, Paula Rego’s early creative activity, and more recently on women’s creativity and civic agency in post-revolutionary Portugal. She has been involved in curatorial projects since 2014, having collaborated with Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Museu do Neo-Realismo. Her most recent publications include: “Visual arts and institutions in post-revolutionary Portugal: artistic interventions and the creation of a new museum of modern art," Spanish Cultural Studies (2023); Paula Rego e Salette Tavares: Cartografias da criatividade feminina nos anos 70, exhibition catalogue, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, IHA-NOVA-IN2PAST (2023); “Performing Revolution: Women’s Artistic Agency and Democratization in Portugal (1974–79)," Portuguese Studies, 2022.
Dr. Edimara Lisboa
USP | Universidade de São Paulo
Dr. Edimara Lisboa
USP | Universidade de São Paulo
Edimara Lisboa holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Literature, with a focus on Comparative Studies of Portuguese-language Literatures, from the University of São Paulo (USP), where she also completed her Bachelor's degree and teaching certification in Portuguese and Linguistics. She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in Literary Studies at São Paulo State University (UNESP), during which she taught undergraduate, graduate, and extension courses. She is a member of the research group "Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Portuguese" (CPCP/USP), the "Research Group on Dramaturgy, Cinema, Literature, and Other Arts" (GPDC-LoA/UNESP), and the "Arts Research Unit" at the University of Beira Interior (iA*/UBI). She is co-editor of the book Literatura portuguesa contemporânea: entre ficções e poéticas (Appris, 2020) and the author of articles and essays in the fields of Portuguese Studies and Portuguese-language Literature and Film Studies. This semester, she is teaching the graduate course "FLC6459: The April 25 Revolution in Portuguese Literature and Cinema," at the invitation of Dr. Aparecida de Fátima Bueno, in the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters at USP.
Miguel Dores (Filmmaker)
Miguel Dores (Filmmaker)
Miguel Dores graduated in Art Studies: Comparative Arts and Cultures from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. In 2013, he immigrated to São Paulo, Brazil, where he became involved in notable audiovisual projects. Among these were Visto Permanente, a video archive documenting immigrant cultural expressions in the city, and Microcine Migrante, an itinerant exhibition project exploring immigration through spaces used and occupied by immigrants. While in São Paulo, he deepened his interests in visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking, and migration studies.
Returning to Lisbon at the end of 2017, Miguel Dores initiated "CineSur," an audiovisual exhibition project focused on Latin American filmographies. He also completed a master’s in Anthropology: Visual Cultures at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. As part of his master’s studies, he directed his first ethnographic documentary, Alcindo, as a final project.
The promotional images used for the event were created by Portuguese illustrator Marta Nunes and were used with permission. The illustrations featured in this programme are part of Marta Nunes's series 25 Dias para a Liberdade (2023). To explore more of her work, click https://www.martanunes.work/.
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