Marianne Myrbostad successfully defended the MA project “Life Stories Emerging from Musical Experience – A Study of Kristiansund Municipality School of Arts Impact on Life Stories of Former Pupils and Their Influence on Community” on 25 March, 2026.
Category: MA
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Congratulations, Stafaniya!
Stafaniya Lisouskaya successfully defended the MA internship report “Curating Hospitality: Insights from Kunsthalle Lissabon” on 24 March, 2026.
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Congratulations, María!
María Moreno Navarro successfully defended the MA dissertation “She Who Walks: Negotiating the Gaze of the Flâneuse in 21st-Century Street Photography” on 23 March, 2026.
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Congratulations, Lea!
Lea Breyer successfully defended the MA dissertation “Performative Memorializing: Staging Trauma and Remembering
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Congratulations, Emma!
Emma Mistrangelo successfully defended the MA dissertation “Paris and the Post-Brexit Art Market: A Case Study on Perceptions and Symbolic Value” on 12 March 2026.
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Congratulations, Anca!
Anca Usurelu successfully defended the MA dissertation “Resonant Fields – Attuning to Sonic Worlds and Listening as Lived Experience” on 12 February, 2026.
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Congratulations, Francisca!
Francisca Pereira successfully defended the MA dissertation “Ghosts of the Past: Representations of Cultural Trauma and Memory through Folklore in Contemporary Horror Cinema – The Case of La Llorona (2019)” on 9 February, 2026.
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Congratulations, Alberto!
Alberto Blanco successfully defended the MA dissertation “The Discursive Role of Display: Curatorial Practices and Meaning in Exhibitions” on 6 February, 2026.
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Congratulations, Milana!
Milana Teterevenkova successfully defended the MA dissertation “From Collective Action to Self-Care: The Impact of Therapy Culture on Public Disengagement in Russia” on 26 January, 2026.
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MA students curating an exhibition in collaboration with CAM
The MA students in Culture Studies of The Lisbon Consortium are curating an exhibition with the collection of CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian.
The exhibition, which will be held at the Galeria Fundação Amélia de Mello, at the Lisbon campus of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, proposes fragility not as weakness but as an active, revealing condition. Across social, personal, and perceptual dimensions, fragility exposes the tensions that form us; those that bind, unsettle, and ultimately reshape our understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.On 15 January the students visited the reading area of Institution(ing)s to discuss ideas of accessibility in innovative communication strategies with Patrícia Rosas and exhibition narratives with Rita Albergaria and Laurindo Marta.
Students: Amal Abu Nafisah, Anika Borko, Anna-Sophie Löhr, Circé Poisson, Constança Mafra, Direndra Selvanayagam, Giulia Benetti, Hajer Khade, Iana Kardanova, Imani D. Cooper, Justin Stewart Ross, Léanne Charron, Leonor Marques dos Santos Queiroz, Lucille Gerebtzoff, Margarida da Fonseca, Margarida Dias, Margarida Martins Raimundo, Melissa Lieberthal, Natalia del Río, Sarah Tober, Sarah Zammit Munro, Silvia Lomdardini, Tatiana Fraisse, Vítor Fonseca, Yoosun Choi
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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.
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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.
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I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me – Galeria Amélia de Mello, UCP, May 19- July 11, 2025
The exhibition I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me, curated by the MA students in Culture Studies under the supervision of Prof. Luísa Santos is ongoing in Galeria Amélia de Mello, UCP (Library building at campus in Palma de Cima).
The exhibition is organized under the collaboration protocol between CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and The Lisbon Consortium.
‘I Ate Civilization and It Poisoned Me’ presents an introspective and collective exploration of human markings on the landscape through time, and how in turn, the environment imprints itself back on us.
Bringing together thirteen works from the Collection of CAM, ‘I Ate Civilization and It Poisoned Me’ offers a meditative reflection on the ever-evolving relationship between Nature and humans across past, present, and future. Presenting artists from different geographical and temporal locales, this exhibition weaves narratives that evoke our enduring dialogue with the natural world. The displayed works are situated along a spectrum of interconnected ideas: coevolution and coexistence (between the environment, humans, and technology); memory and fragmentation (of spaces, places, and landscapes); fragility (of memories, heritages, times, and humans’ relationships with Nature); alongside transformation and renewal (of natural, human, and emotional processes).
The opening of the exhibition was held in the presence of the Rector of the University and the Director of the Lisbon Consortium, Prof. Isabel Capeloa Gil; Executive Trustee of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins; and the Director of CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Benjamin Weil.
Artists: Ana Jotta, Carlos Bunga, Carlos Roque, Cecília Costa, Clara Menéres, Hugo Canoilas, João Louro, Jorge Queiroz, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Maria Capelo, Mónica de Miranda, Sara Bichão and Sara Sadik.
Curators: Csenge Bognár, Camilla Calamai, Carlotta Ceraudo, Elsa Damas, Marie Fassbender, Gaete Ganay, Triniti Goldsmith, Daniel Guedes, Colombe Lecoq-Vallon, Leonor Lisboa, Suzanne Marivoet, Mohamed Nejib Mokaddem, Giulia Paglia, Olga Rogova, César Sarno, Caroline Skäringer, Antonina Stanczuk-Sturgólewska, Elena Suppes, Sofia Talami, Mirian Vanda, Radina Velcheva, Lorena Vest e Anna Zörner.
Exhibition design: Anna Zörner, Camilla Calamai, Marie Fassbender, Mirian Vanda, Radina Velcheva
Coordinator: Luísa Santos
I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me – Galeria Amélia de Mello, UCP (Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisbon), May 19- July 11, 2025.
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Opening |I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me – May 19, 18:00
The exhibition I Ate the Civilization and It Poisoned Me, curated by the MA students in Culture Studies, will open on May 19 at 18:00 in Galeria Fundação Amélia de Mello, UCP.
The exhibition is organized under the collaboration protocol between CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian and The Lisbon Consortium.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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InterCECCtions | Maria Valentina Vallejo (MA) presents Arctic Routes, Southern Ways (28 November 2024, 5pm, Timor)
This month’s InterCECCtions will feature Maria Valentina Vallejo, MA student in Culture Studies, who will be discussing her study conducted as part of CECC‘s research project Arctic Routes, Southern Ways.
Arctic Routes, Southern Ways is a joint research project implemented by CECC members which seeks to compare/contrast two different colonial legacies – the Portuguese and the Norwegian – and create alternative narratives and methods of knowledge production in art institutions and academia.
Hegemonic narratives of the search for national unity in Norway, or the view of a “good” colonialism or “lusotropicalism”, in Portugal, bring these otherwise distant countries close in the way that such experiences have prevailed in many instances of public discourse, policies in institutional practices, in academia and in art institutions. The project will include online meetings, listening sessions in Lisbon and in Bergen, and research visits to Portugal and Norway.
The project puts together two academic institutions (CECC-Universidade Católica Portuguesa and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway) and two contemporary art centres (HANGAR, from Portugal, and Bergen Kunsthall, from Norway), and will organize several scientific activities throughout its lifetime.
Arctic routes was officially launched in 16 January 2024, is coordinated by CECC, financed by an EEA grant and supported by a Globus OpStart grant from the Nordisk Kulturfond.
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