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PhD in Cultural Studies

Agata Wiórko holds a Bachelor’s degree in Slavistic studies and a Master’s degree in Cultural studies from the University of Gdańsk, and a Master’s degree in Art Criticism from Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk. Currently works as a cultural producer, assistant curator and photographer. She is a Junior Researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of UCP. Previous research projects have focused on a critical reflection on nudity onstage in contemporary Polish art, and later on the concept of the flâneur and its contemporary performative readings. Her PhD research focus is on locality, nomadism and communication from the perspective of the city as a cultural device. Her main interests are the street, contemporary walkscapes, artistic placemaking and cultural strategies for urban creativity.

Amani Maihoub was born and raised in Tartous, Syria. She is a junior researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of UCP. Her research is funded through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). She holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in International Performance Research (Erasmus Mundus) from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Arts in Belgrade. She majored in Music and English in her undergraduate studies at Central College. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Failed Architecture, Crannóg Magazine, and others.

Ana Dinger holds a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine-Arts (Lisbon University) and a post-graduation in Contemporary Art by the Catholic University of Portugal. She also has training in dance, having completed the first year of the Superior School of Dance (2003/2004) and the Choreographic Research and Creation Course of ForumDança (2003, Porto). Her research is focused on strategies of perpetuation of performance-related artistic work and is funded by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology).

Ana Trincão is a doctoral student in Culture Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Superior Schooll of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR)(1999/2004),  a  M.A. (Soda) in Dance from the  Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT-UDK-HSF)(2010/2012) where she conducted a research on body and sound relationships – “Making Visible the Invisible” and the Choreographic Research Course of Fórum Dança in Oporto. (2005/2006). Trincão was a DanceWEB scholarship holder at Impulstanz Festival, an invited artist at “Pointe to Point”  organized by ASEF and Alkantara in Lisbon (2009) and  resident artist at the 4 AIR Ibero-American in México(2011). She is a member of the artistic research group Interferencias wherewith she published  “El libro -Interferencias-The book”(2012). Trincão was part of Sowing Seeds project in India, where she worked with the female community of Jetpur(2013). In 2014 she was awarded the research residency E:motional Rethinking Dance. Trincão´s Work, intersects  dance and visual – arts and has been presented in Portugal, Spain, Germany, India, Mexico, Brazil and Romania. Currently she is working with the Lisbon based sound collective “SAS Radio Orkestra”, with the Berlin based “Choreographic Radio”  and creating  a new performance work “Unbearable eloquence”. Her main fields of interest are performance and gender studies.

Annimari Juvonen holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Helsinki, and a Master’s degree in Anthropology of Human Rights and Social Movements from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her previous research projects have focused on both textual and visual discursive practices within the international human rights movement. The doctoral project focuses on visual acts and objects as contributors to the flow of the discourse on social justice, the ways in which contemporary societal and global concerns become discursive through artistic initiatives and regimes of publicity, and the rhetorics and narratives inherent in visual communications. Her research interests include visual culture, cultural resistance, and identity politics.

Clara Caldeira holds a BA and a MA degree in Communication from the New University of Lisbon. She worked as a journalist and scriptwriter for television in Portugal, as well as a freelance translator. She is working on her thesis about the photographic representation of the portuguese colonial war. Her main research topic focuses on memory construction as a connection between totalitarian regimes in the past and present democracies. She is also interested in contemporary discourse practices, such as media and art communication, namely in their symbolic order construction and in terms of their importance as resistance formats, and in their social tensions in society.

Cristina Gil is a PhD researcher in Culture Studies, at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. She did her Master Degree on Deaf Communities, Education and Signed Languages in the University of Barcelona (2010) and holds a bachelor degree in Translation and Interpretation of Portuguese Sign Language from the School of Higher Education of Setúbal (2007). She has worked as a Sign Language Interpreter as well as an academic professor in higher education. She is now a researcher in Deaf Studies in subjects that encompass Deaf Culture, Deaf Identities, and Deaf Leadership.

Daniela Ambrósio holds a Master Degree in Cultural Management from the School of Arts and Design in Caldas da Rainha. Prior to beginning the PhD program in Culture Studies, she worked in production, communication, and fundraising in arts and design associations, in a publishing and theatre. Her previous investigation focused on the European Capitals of Culture and how the aims of this manifestation of culture had changed since the first year and the importance of monitoring and evaluation to its redesign. Her main research interests are in monitoring, fundraising, strategy, communication and qualitative evaluation of cultural projects.

Elsa Alves is a doctoral student in Culture Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and currently a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from the New University of Lisbon and a M.A. in communication studies from the Catholic University of Portugal, with a dissertation on the visual culture praxis in art museums, based on an internship at the National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy. She has been the research assistant of the international project “Critique of singularity: the catastrophic event and the rhetoric of representation”, between the Catholic University of Portugal, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Kyoto, Japan. Her main fields of interest are visual culture and aesthetics.

Elnaz Shadras holds a Master degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and an Advanced Master degree in Cultures and Development from the K.U.Leuven University of Belgium. After almost a decade of various experiences working in International development organizations in the fields of immigration, integration, gender equality and human rights, she is currently a doctorate researcher in Catholic University of Portugal. Her area of research is focused around immigration, integration in Europe and intercultural societies. Elnaz Shadras is also the founder of the non-profit organization Voices of the World, which supports and implements projects in various fields of cultural development.

Gisela Canelhas holds a BA in Languages, Literatures and Cultures – Spanish and English Studies, from the New University of Lisbon. Her main research topic is the reception of Modernism, focusing on the work of the Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Her main interests are Visual Culture, Cultural Theory, Reception Theory, the representation of identity and the role of cultural industries in democratic and dictatorial regimes.

Gregor Taul is an author and curator based in Lisbon, where he is working on his PhD on Soviet era public paintings at the Lisbon Consortium. Gregor studied semiotics at Tartu University (BA 2005) and art history in the Estonian Academy of Arts and St Petersburg’s Institute of Technology of Design (MA in 2012). Since 2010 he has been active as a critic writing on visual art, public space and architecture. In 2012 he co-authored a book on Estonian murals published by Lugemik; in 2016, the Estonian National Museum published his book on the architecture of the museum’s new building. His main academic research interest is art in public space. Besides Soviet era public art, he is interested in contemporary public art commissions around Europe.

Helena Correia has than 20 years experience in communication design, advertising and publishing, and more recently four years specialising in cultural management of Contemporary Art Museums in Portugal. The focus of her work has been in “transforming” non-profit organizations by incorporating new ways of telling stories, of their collections through mobile technology. Helena’s ongoing projects consist in contemporary art exhibitions which bridge the divide between cultures and latitudes, while activating “memory” through immersive exhibition experiences and replicating knowledge across generations and accessibility issues; consultancy for non-profit organizations, to understand the importance of incorporating technology to communicate their culture of story of their institution, creating better and wider accessibility for the Arts and Culture sector. More recently, she colaborated with the Orient Museum to produce curatorial narratives within the Museum space, designing and producing Asian/Chinese Contemporary Art exhibitions. Her research interests are Globalization, Contemporary Art, Museums, Biennials, Technology, Cyberculture, Literacy, Visual Culture and Cinema.

Ilios Willemars is currently working on a PhD thesis on bodies in digital art, Ilios receives funding through the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology. Important influences are: Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Franz Kafka and Søren Kierkegaard. Conceptual interests are: placeholder(s), replacement, digitalization, suicide, performativity, contagion, the messianic and digital art. Ilios holds a MA degree in Cultural Analysis from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis with a final thesis on the performative effects of the concept of suicide-contagion and its implications on contemporary understandings of democracy. Ilios holds a BSc degree in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam, which was finished with a thesis on modes of subjection of the travelling body at airports.

Jad Khairallah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design (2011) and a Master of Arts in Design (2014) from Notre Dame University-Lebanon, with a dissertation thesis that explored the influential power of visual culture in reforming how the individual aesthetically behaves with relation to contemporary television images. After five years of professional experience in the Interior Design domain, he is currently a PhD researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal in Culture Studies, with a research focus on the visual image and its cultural influence. Through an interdisciplinary model, he is interested in the cognitive perception behind the screen, the relation it holds with its surroundings and the impact visual culture has on identity.

Jan Swierkowski is a mix scholarship holder of the FCT International Doctoral Program in Culture Studies at UCP. He holds a MA in astronomy from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland and is Honorary Ambassador of the University.  He is an active curator and work in the field of art & science, science outreach and education since 2004. At the moment Jan is conducting R&D in digital projects focused on possible applications of multimodal metaphors and contemporary art in natural sciences.He was also holder of scholarships in the field of culture from Polish Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Municipality of Torun and Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodoship.

Joana Mayer received her B.A in Performing Arts from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, and holds a Master degree in Communication and Cultural Management from the Catholic University of Portugal. Her doctoral project focuses on how cultural normative models take part in cultural programmes and how they contribute to the construction of the contemporary city – taking Lisbon as a case study. She currently holds a scholarship from the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) to develop her investigation. Her research interests lie in the field of culture and arts’ policy, culture management in the city context, and the politics of cultural programming.

Kristine Dizon was awarded the J. William Fulbright/Camões Institut Scholarship for post-graduate studies in clarinet and orchestral conducting at the Escola Superior de Música Artes e Espectáculo with António Saiote. Ms. Dizon holds a Masters degree in Clarinet Performance at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and degrees in European History and Music at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In 2014, Kristine was a research finalist for the International Clarinet Association where she presented her research on “The Chronological Clarinet: The Musical Identities of Widor, Milhaud, Smith, and Mandat.” She is currently a candidate for the International Doctoral Program for Cultural Studies through the Faculty of Human Sciences. Her primary research focus is Portuguese folk music, its function in Portuguese culture and connection to national identity by connecting how newly commissioned Portuguese works, composers, traditions, and nationalism foster our understanding of identity through music and culture.

Maria Ana Carneiro holds a Master’s degree in Urban Design: Art and Society from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Public Art Studies from the University of Southern California. She received her BA in Communication from the Catholic University of Portugal.Her doctoral project, Under the title “Images of media and their contribution to the construction of the cultural memory of Camarate”, analyses the discourse of visual imagery published in the Portuguese press around the plane crash, which occurred in Camarate on the evening of 4^th of December 1980. Among five others the Prime Minister of Portugal and the Minister of National Defense died. This study is situated within Culture Studies, using research methods from Media Studies and a theoretical background from Memory Studies.

Maria Luísa Falcón holds a BA in Theatre Production Management from the School for Theatre and Cinema, Lisbon (2007) and an MA degree in Cultural Practices from New University of Lisbon (2009), where she wrote a dissertation on ‘Alternative Performance Spaces and their Place in the City of Lisbon’. Her current PhD project, developed at the Lisbon Consortium, focuses on non-conventional performative spaces in Lisbon and investigates performative cultural projects that use empty or derelict spaces located in Lisbon to create or to show new theatre works. These are places of creativity where new aesthetics emerge. Key aspects of this project are: the occupation of unconventional spaces by contemporary theatre groups, the characteristics of each space on the development of artistic projects and the networks between artists of different companies.

Maria de Nazaré Sousa holds a degree in Portuguese Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Beira Interior. At the same institution, she received an MA in Documental Sciences with a dissertation entitled “The evolution of western musical notation in the History of the Book until the invention of the press”, which linked different cultural areas, such as Music History and the History of the Book. Her main research interests include Cultural Theory, Music Studies, culture programming as well as new digital platforms of information.

Matthew Mason is a PhD Candidate in Culture Studies at the Lisbon Consortium. He received a BA in French and Italian from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent in Brussels. His research is informed by an interest in the political and economic history of capitalism and its material manifestation(s) in culture and everyday life. He is interested in urban studies and the city as a site of contestation and identity formation, as well as in architectural developments which further inform understandings of the above. His research areas include, but are not limited to, globalisation and representations of the city in film and literature and the political implications of postmodernism

Nataliya Hovorkova holds an MA degree in Contemporary Art from the Catholic University of Portugal and a Specialist degree in Design from Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing(IADE). She graduated with a Bachelor in Economy and Enterprise from National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev.

Reuben Ross has a background in Film Studies and Visual Anthropology. In addition to academic roles, he has worked as a filmmaker and photographer and is currently a PhD candidate at the Lisbon Consortium with a grant from FCT. His research deals with urban visual culture and the politics of migration; visual research methods are central to his work.

Sara Magno has been developing artistic work in photography, video, and installation since 2011, having attended several artistic residencies as well as presenting work internationally. She studied Art History at the University of Lisbon. She finished her Masters Theses on Contemporary Documentary and the Archive at the New University of Lisbon. She finished the Independent Study Program at Maumaus – School of Visual Arts. She studied Photography and Video at Ar.Co, Center of Communication and Visual Arts, in Lisbon and also at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam. At the moment Sara Magno is doing a PhD in Cultural Studies at The Lisbon Consortium with a FCT scholarship.  Her main interests are the use of documental images in the field of art and the relationship between art and political issues.

Sofia da Costa Pessoa holds a Degree in  Public Relations and Advertising (INP), and a Graduation in  Arts and Management from the Administration National Institute – INA. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Museology and Museography from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, with a dissertation on the work of the Portuguese contemporary designer António Garcia (2006).  She was the scientific curator of the exhibition and catalogue titled “Zoom in / zoom out – Antonio Garcia, Designer” held at MUDE – Fashion and Design Museum (2010). She worked at Lisbon’ 94 European Capital of Culture (1994),  Expo’98 International Exhibition (1998) and at a Graphic and Communication Arts Studio. Her main areas of interest are Culture and Aesthetics studies, Museology and Museography and Graphic Design. She holds a  PhD Grant from the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) to develop her doctoral project on the “Musealization of Popular Art in the 21st Century”, which aims to think, problematize and define a productive strategy for the musealization of Popular Art in the current century. It will resort to a mixed theoretical anchorage, combining museology studies and the museography presently applied in museums of this typology, with a broader analysis of the contemporary cultural phenomenon based on Cultural Studies. The project will seek to present a new paradigm for the musealization of Popular Art, considering the museological practice of the museum, in order to remove the musealization of Popular Art from a retrograde nationalist model, proposing the instantiation of a contemporary Popular Art museum, characterized by the dynamics of globalization, through the macro and meta narrative of Cultural Studies.

Sofia Pinto (Sophie Pinto) holds a BA in Acting from The Lisbon Theatre and Cinema School (2007), and a Master degree in Culture Studies from The Catholic University of Portugal (2015), with a dissertation thesis on street art and the Berlin Wall. In 2014 she was granted a FCT scholarship in scientific initiation research at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC). She has worked as a performer, director, producer, translator and as a teacher. She is currently a PHD candidate at The Lisbon Consortium with a FCT scholarship. Her main interests are performing arts, urban art practices, resistance and culture, and visual culture.

Sónia Pereira holds a BA in Communication Studies from the New University of Lisbon and a Masters Degree in Culture Studies from the Catholic University of Portugal. She is a junior member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) and she is currently a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at the Faculty of Human Sciences. Her main research interests include cultural theory and popular music studies. She is currently developing her doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabel Capeloa Gil, on discourses of war and resistance in popular music. Looking at three specific case studies (Green Day, Muse and 30 Seconds To Mars), her thesis seeks to analyze different articulations of the topics of war and resistance as these have come to occupy a significant place within the production and circulation of rock music in the first decade of the new millennium, and interrogate their contribution to the formation of new discourses and forms of (in)visibility of war within popular culture, as well as their implications and effects in the production of new discourses of resistance.

Teresa Costa holds a BA in Modern Languages and Literature (University of Lisbon). She concluded her master in 2003 with a dissertation on William Carlos Williams, which focused specifically on the influence of visual arts and artists on the early works of the poet (Open University, Lisbon). Though generally interested in Literature and the Visual Arts, her preferred topics include man-made heritage, too, which – in part – accounts for her choice of research object. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Culture Studies at the Lisbon Consortium and is researching on postcards and lighthouses. In specific terms, her project will study an individually assembled corpus of postcards with depictions of Portuguese lighthouses (those located along the shores of continental Portugal). The global aim of the project is to arrive at a complex meaning of the lighthouse departing from its postcarded renderings.

Vera Herold holds a Bachelor in Music at Conservatório Nacional de Música, Lisbon, 1986; Post-Graduation in Arts Administration at Instituto Nacional de Administração, Oeiras, 1990; MA in Culture Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 2016. Worked at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Projet LUMIERE (MEDIA Programme EU) and Expo 98. Leader and participant in many cultural projects, for both governmental and private institutions, as owner and manager of production company and artists’ agency VHProduções. Freelance writer for several newspapers and magazines, as well as collaborator in the educational department of the Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art in Luxembourg. Fields of interest: cultural memory studies, opera studies, culture and affects/emotions, migrations and translation, literary translation.

Verena Lindemann holds a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Lisbon and a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Hagen (Germany). She obtained her MA in Translation Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and at Justus Liebig University Giessen and a member of the Lisbon Consortium as well as the European PhDnet in Literary and Cultural Studies. Her PhD thesis focuses on how different contemporary memory media represent, remember or (re)construct the refugees’ presence in Lisbon during World War II. She is a junior member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she has collaborated in the organization of scientific conferences and research projects. Her main research interests include Migration Studies, Memory Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Theory and Portuguese Studies.

MA in Cultural Studies

Orsola Vannocci (1992) is currently a student at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she attends a Master in Culture Studies – Management of the Arts and Culture. Vannocci was born in Italy, where she got a bachelor degree in Foreign Literatures in the University of Florence, with the thesis “Satire and Censorship during Salazarism”. Her main area of interest is the relationship between cultural identity, conflict and politics and how it is translated into art. Besides being a student, she also works in a contemporary art center in Lisbon, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa.

Alumni

PhD Students

2017

• Gaspare Trapani: “Silvio Berlusconi e o Berlusconismo. Uma proposta de leitura”
  
• Ana do Carmo: “Literary representations of forced migrations – Cross-cultural Portuguese and German memoryscapes”

2016

• Ana Fabíola Maurício: “30 Years of Culture, Art, and Metamorphoses. The Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Reshaping of Lisbon’s Culturalscape”
• Leonor Sá: “Infâmia e Fama: O Mistério dos Primeiros Retratos Judiciários em Portugal” (Museum curator responsible for the “Portuguese Judiciary Police Museum). Prize “THE LISBON CONSORTIUM/BPI Thesis Publication”

2015

• Ana Cristina  Cachola: “Representações da Identidade Portuguesa na Arte Contemporânea. Pós-imagens entre o Pedagógico e o Performativo” (Independent Curator and Lecturer in the Post-Graduation in Curatorship and Arts Programming – UCP)
• Paulo de Campos Pinto: “Iconografia eucarística da reforma católica na pintura das igrejas da diocese de Lisboa: séculos XVII e XVIII” (Assistant Professor in Art History at School of Human Sciences)
• António Pinto Ribeiro: “A Representação de África através da Literatura de Viagens Europeia e Norte Americana de 1958 a 2002” (Independent Curator)
• Maria Amélia Cruz: “A construção de «adolescência» no romance juvenil contemporâneo português e alemão”
• Tânia Ganito:”The Evocations of Silence: Traces of Memory in the Art of Zhang Xiaogang” (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Portugal in the Asian Studies Program and at Institute for Social and Political Studies in the Anthropology Program)
• Beatriz Hernández: “Las Shanghai Beauties: Cuerpos heterotópicos e identida- des catalogadas para la “Mujer Moderna” de principios del silo XX” (Lecturer in the Asian Studies program at the Catholic University of Portugal)

2014

• Miguel Quadrio Ferro de Matos: “Dispositivo Crítico: Condições de possibilidade da crítica jornalística de teatro em Portugal” (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal)
• Daniela Agostinho: “Visual Captivity. The (In-)Visibility of the Concentration Camp and the Right to Look. The Case of Ravensbruck” (recipient of the Lisbon Consortium/BPI Thesis Award) (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal/Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen)
• João Borges da Cunha: “Representação, Imersão e Interiores: culturas de espaço em To the Lighthouse e Buddenbrooks” (Lecturer in Architecture at Universidade Lusófona)
• Rui Brás: “Agón, Pathos, Katharsis – A memória das origens nos filmes de exílio de Andrei Tarkovsky” (Lecturer in Film Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal and IPAM)

2013

• Diana Gonçalves: “The Representation of 9/11 and the Critique of Singularity in American Culture” (recipient of the Lisbon Consortium/BPI Thesis Award). (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal)

2012

• Elisabetta Colla: “Xiangshan Xianzhi: Fontes Locais Chinesas para uma História Cultural de Macau (1661-1796)” (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and University of Lisbon)

2011

• Vanda de Sousa: “The Hours, a escrita para a morte: de Virginia Woolf a Stephen Daldry“

2010

• Inês Espada Vieira: “Memória do tempo e dos textos. Os artigos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester na imprensa (1927-1940)” (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal – Coordinator of the BA in Applied Languages)
• Jorge Vaz de Carvalho: “Sinais de Fogo de Jorge de Sena: Uma Poética em Formação” (Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal – Coordinator of Artistic Studies)

MA Students

2017

 

• Joana Hortas: “Intervenção Urbana e Cultura: entre a intenção e o impacto. O caso do Largo do Intendente Pina Manique em Lisboa?”

 

2016

• Inês Teixeira: “Participation as an exercise of citizenship: the Case of Bairro do Castelo”
• Niklas David Völker: “Memorizing Equatorial Crossings: Lusophone Postcolonialities in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu and Zeze Gamboa’s O Grande Kilapy
• Vera Herold: “ANNA NICOLE: An opera(?) between tradition and transgression. A multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary enquiry into an ambiguous work”
• Irene Helm: “Creative Class” de Richard Florida e “Creative Cities” de Charles Landry”

2015

• Gisela Canelhas: “Histórias com Música: Implementação de Oficinas de Música e Teatro Musical na Fábrica das Histórias”
• Sofia Pinto: “Cidades Transientes, Cidades Resilientes: A Trajectória Conjunta da Street Art e do Muro de Berlim”
• Ekaterina Smirnova: “The Discreet Charm of Surrealism in Eastern European Animation: When Repression Fosters Creativity”
• Carolina Rolão Preto:  “Curadoria no século XXI: Museus, Galerias e Espaços Alternativos”

2014

• Corinna Lawrenz:  “Violência e Representação: desafios e estratégias em 48 de Susana de Sousa Dias” (Head of the Film Department at Goethe Institut – Lisbon)
• Gabriela Altaf: “As Belas que me Perdoem… Marcas do Feio na Contemporaneidade” (Independent Documentary Filmmaker)
• Joana Marques da Costa: “Ambiente em exposição. Estudo de públicos da exposição Tartarugas – a viagem” 
  
• Matilde Caldas: “Usos da cultura em projectos de regeneração urbana. O caso da Praça do Martim Moniz – Lisboa” (Doctoral Student at the Lisbon Consortium – recipient of a Millennium BCP Foundation Grant)

2013

• Ana Catarina Amado de Freitas: “Der gefährliche Augenblick: A Visualidade do Perigo e da Morte Iminente na Cultura de Weimar” (FTBS Advogados – Law Firm)
• Ana Margarida Sécio: “África enquanto lugar de memória em Portugal: o espaço e o tempo nas obras de Pedro Valdez Cardoso, Vasco Araújo e Francisco Vidal” (IMT Gallery – London)
• Rita Alexandra de Sousa Pedro: “Os eventos enquanto instrumentos de dinamização da cultura”

2012

• Isabel Ricardo: “Arqueologia Preventiva: Modelos e Perspectivas ao Serviço de memória cultural” (Cascais Municipality)
• Marta Martins: “As artes performativas na construção da memória cultural. O caso do espectáculo VALE” (Member of the Cultural Association ‘Arte em Rede’)

2011

• Livia Corti Tavares:  “Discursos da Europa para o novo milénio – análises contrastivas”
• Rui Afonso: “O percurso Lírico do protagonista de Peregrinação, de Fernão Mendes Pinto, em Por Este Rio Acima, de Fausto Bordalo Dias”

2010

• Jorge Gouveia: “As ideias Pós-modernas em Relatório Minoritário e Pulp Fiction”
• António Quadros Ferro: “A Ideia de Cultura no pensamento de António Quadros” (António Quadros Foundation)
• Sónia Pereira: “Rock Music and Toxic Discourses: A Case-study of Toxicity, by System of a Down” (Doctoral Student and Research Assistant at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture)