Category: Defenses

  • Congratulations, Giulia!

    Congratulations, Giulia!

    Giulia Paglia successfully defended the MA internship report “The Role of Alternative Media in Institutional Communication for Young Audiences – Factanza media case study” on 3 December, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Amadea!

    Congratulations, Amadea!

    Amadea Kovič successfully defended the PhD thesis ”Visualizing gender through contemporary art: The cases of Portugal and Slovenia” on 16 September, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Leonardo!

    Congratulations, Leonardo!

    Leonardo Hilsdorf successfully defended the PhD thesis “Creativity as performance: On the cultural conditions of western art music interpretation” on July 24, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Zohar!

    Congratulations, Zohar!

    Zohar Iancu successfully defended the PhD thesis “On the Borderlands of Culture: Israeli Migrants beyond the Tejo” on May 28, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Alfredo!

    Congratulations, Alfredo!

    Alfredo Brant successfully defended the PhD thesis “Photographic Poiesis: Transformative Knowledge of African Photographic Practices” on May 23, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Mar!

    Congratulations, Mar!

    Maria Valentina Vallejo Castro successfully defended the MA thesis “Counterhegemonic Collectivities in the Arts: Reimagining Cultural Production Through Mingas De la Imagen” on May 21, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Nazaré!

    Congratulations, Nazaré!

    Maria de Nazaré Valente de Sousa successfully defended the PhD thesis “Música, Identidade Cultural e Globalização: A Construção de uma Identidade Portuguesa na Música dos Deolinda” on May 20, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Jad!

    Congratulations, Jad!

    Jad Khairallah successfully defended the PhD thesis “Dialogue on Shock and Culture: The Queer Case of Beirut” on May 7, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Maria Gabriela!

    Congratulations, Maria Gabriela!

    Maria Gabriela Sinclair Espino successfully defended the MA dissertation “The Re-Imagination of Museums: Towards Decoloniality in Contemporary Art Museums in Central America and the Caribbean” on March 26, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Akinyemi!

    Congratulations, Akinyemi!

    Akinyemi Abimbola Akinola successfully defended the MA dissertation “Nyam: (Re)claiming African culinary heritage to create an African – American culinary identity and (re)stor(y)ing African diaspora food memories” on March 18, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Dela!

    Congratulations, Dela!

    Dela Mießen successfully defended the MA internship report “Guardians of the Past, Gatekeepers of the Future? A Study on the Cultural Foundation of German Federal States” on March 18, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Giulia!

    Congratulations, Giulia!

    Giulia Degiorgi successfully defended the MA dissertation “Compromise and Contradiction, Striving in A System One Condemns? A Case Study of The Radical Leftist Bookshop Piena Libreria in Lisbon” on March 10, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Benedita!

    Congratulations, Benedita!

    Benedita Homem de Gouveia successfully defended the MA dissertation “The paradox of print: Salted books and the revival of physical independent bookshops in a digital age” on February 26, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Eva!

    Congratulations, Eva!

    Eva Cabañas Pinto successfully defended the MA internship report “Subcultural dance in arts institutions: The potential of mutualistic relationship” on February 24, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Bruno!

    Congratulations, Bruno!

    Bruno Castro defended the MA internship report “Intervenção Museológica na Preservação do Artesanato Etíope: Projeto de Estágio ‘Craft Atlas Ethiopia’” on January 27, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Katharina!

    Congratulations, Katharina!

    Katharina Maria Richtsfeld successfully defended the MA dissertation “How projects funded by the European Union address the idea of European identity and culture” on January 23, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Francisco!

    Congratulations, Francisco!

    Francisco Henriques Santos Gomes successfully defended the MA internship report “The pedagogical dimension of film festivals: The L.A. rebellion movement in LEFFEST 22” on January 23, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Diana!

    Congratulations, Diana!

    Diana Fulvia Maria Danielli successfully defended the MA internship report “‘New’ museums of contemporary art in Lisbon: Crossing borders between art and politics through internationalization” on January 22, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Andrea!

    Congratulations, Andrea!

    Andrea Delle Monache successfully defended the MA internship report “Exploring the synergy between the electronic music industry and dance music culture: The example of Lisbon” on January 22, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Filipa!

    Congratulations, Filipa!

    Filipa Rodrigues successfully defended the MA dissertation “Traveling myths: Reading, rewriting, and receiving the myth of Medusa in contemporary times” on January 21, 2025.

  • Congratulations, João!

    Congratulations, João!

    João Oliveira successfully defended the PhD dissertation “The Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa and the Idea of India: Culture and Society (2010-2020)” on January 21, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Emma!

    Congratulations, Emma!

    Emma Hallemans successfully defended the MA dissertation “Thinking in, about and through atmospheres: A research on the atmosphere of the camino de Santiago de Compostela” on January 8, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Rhian!

    Congratulations, Rhian!

    Rhian O’Sullivan successfully defended the MA dissertation “Cartographic culture: Mapping relations between the Irish state and it’s ‘Culturescape’ from empire to e-commerce” on January 6, 2025.

  • Congratulations, Leonor!

    Congratulations, Leonor!

    Leonor Terenas successfully defended the MA dissertation “Fiction writing amidst today’s demand for representation: ‘Authenticity’ in young adult (YA) literature” on December 18, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Teresa!

    Congratulations, Teresa!

    Maria Teresa Conceição da Costa successfully defended the PhD thesis Para uma cultura visual do farol: Uma abordagem semiótica a partir do bilhete-postal ilustrado on November 29, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Hugo!

    Congratulations, Hugo!

    Hugo Simões successfully defended the PhD dissertation A solid mass of humanity, all on velvet: Humour, comedy and life in P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves Saga on October 11, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Nina!

    Congratulations, Nina!

    Nina Danilova successfully defended the PhD dissertation Watching Oneself Live: Contemporary Art Negotiating The Temporality Of Déjà Vu on October 29, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Emma!

    Congratulations, Emma!

    Emma Legaye successfully defended the MA dissertation “From Patrimonialisation to Depatrimonialisation: Crafting a New Narrative to Rethink Cultural Heritage Preservation in a Global Context” on October 15, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Dzifa!

    Congratulations, Dzifa!

    Dzifa Peters successfully defended the PhD thesis “Tropes of Polarity: Visual Representation of Afrodiasporic Identities” on September 10, 2024.

  • Congratulations, Reuben!

    Congratulations, Reuben!

    Reuben Connolly Ross successfully defended the PhD thesis “The Global Street: Reflections on Visual Culture, Urban History, and the Right to the City” on June 4, 2024.