Antónia Pedroso de Lima graduated in Anthropology at ISCTE (Lisbon, 1987), has a MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University (Tarragona, 1991), an MA in Sociology of the Family ISCTE (1993), Ph.D in Anthropology (ISCTE 2001) and Habilitation in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2020). She is the Head of the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE, where she is based since 1989, former President of CRIA, the National Research Centre in Social Anthropology (Portugal), former member of the scientific Committee of Openedition (CNRS) and founder of the LusOpenedition (Lusophone Countries) and former member of the National Committee for the Intangible Heritage (Portuguese Ministry of Culture). She is the Director of the Interdisciplinary MA Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies. Specialist on kinship theory, gender and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima is the author of numerous publications on family in Portugal (focusing both on working class neighbourhoods, middle class families and economic elite), gender, emotions, care, austerity and precarity. Her present research interests are on family relations, gender, care, social reproduction and precarity. Since 2014 Antónia pedroso de Lima is one of the directors of Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival, the first Portuguese film festival dedicated to women in cinema.
N.B. A complete biographical list of 14 earlier research projects may be consulted in my CIÊNCIA-VITAE curriculum (online).
Brian Juan O'Neill is a retired Full Professor of Anthropology at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL). A native New Yorker of Irish, Andalusian, and Puerto-Rican ancestry, following undergraduate studies in his home town and postgraduate training in Great Britain he has resided in Portugal since 1982. His early research on Galicia and Trás-os-Montes focused on linguistic domination, folktales, marriage strategies, bastardy, and patterns of inheritance. Subsequent research contemplated mortuary rituals, biographical methods, ethnic minority groups in Portugal (gypsies and East-Timorese), practice theory, and reflexive anthropology. Currently he is analyzing the kristang Creole population in the so-called Portuguese Quarter of Malacca (Malaysia), poorly known either as the purportedly direct descendants of sixteenth-century Portuguese colonists or (worse yet) even more erroneously simply as authentic Portuguese. Via critical anthropology, he seeks to disentangle the multiple, superimposed identities of this singular minority of Eurasians, as well as deconstruct the plethora of reductionist stereotypes which they have accumulated over time and, indeed, in some cases even internalized. A careful reader of the hyper-critical works of the ethnologist-sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the anthropologists Edmund Leach and Jack Goody, his latest work resuscitates the category of Eurasia. Linked to global history, a comparative anthropology can unmask the myth of the role of Europe as the hypothetically major world-system, thus revealing more intimate cultural ties, formerly ignored or even consciously whitewashed, between East and West. He has published 20 articles in specialized journals and 14 in conference proceedings,11 chapters in books and 7 volumes (some of which now being second or third editions). 99 items of technical production are listed. He has participated in 3 events in Portugal, and has received 6 prizes and/or honors. In his professional activities he has collaborated with 17 co-authors in scientific works.
Catarina Frois é Professora Associada (com Agregação) do Departamento de Antropologia. É autora de vários livros e artigos nacionais e internacionais com especial ênfase para a esfera das políticas de segurança, encarceramento, controlo e tecnologias de vigilância.
Francisco Vaz da Silva works on symbolic representations, which he mostly addresses in the fields of fairy tales, religious art, and comparative anthropology. His books include Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales (2002), Archeology of Intangible Heritage [2008], The Meanings of Enchantment: Revisiting Wondertale Symbolism (2023), and an annotated seven-volume collection of European fairy tales, Contos Maravilhosos Europeus (2011-2013). He has published extensively in professional journals, encyclopedias, and companion volumes in America and Europe. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (2016), the University of Reykjavik (2013), and the University of California at Berkeley (2001/2002) and Los Angeles (2009). He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Research grant (1999) and a Faculty Research Grant from the Portuguese Studies Program at UC Berkeley (2001/2002). He serves in the editorial board of Cosmos (UK), Cultural Analysis (USA), Marvels & Tales (USA), and Narrative Culture (USA). [Updated 2023/08/23.]
Inês Lourenço, PhD in Anthroplogy ( ISCTE/IUL, University Institute of Lisbon), is a researcher at Centre for Research in Anthropology/University Institute of Lisbon. Her research is focused on the Hindu Diaspora in Portugal supported by fieldwork carried out in Portugal and in India since 2000. Other topics of interest are the consumption of Indian commodities, such as Bollywood, and on the related social uses of culture in the Portuguese society. Her current research is the processes of patrimonialization of communities of Indian origin in Portugal, in an articulation between museology and anthropology.
Nélia Dias has a Maitrîse en Anthropologie et Sociologie by the Université René- Descartes /Sorbonne and a PhD by the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Pierre Nora.
She is member “Petroculture’s Intersections with The Cultural Heritage sector in the context of green transitions” (PITCH) - december 2023/ november 2027. The project is co-financed by the EU Horizon Europe program and the UK Research & Innovation for a total of 3.283.000 euros. She was part of the CHEurope 'Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe', H2020 Marie Curie, MSCA ITN, Nr - 722416 ( 2017-2021).
She is currently director of the Conselho Cientifico of IN2PAST - Laboratory for Research in Heritage, Art, Sustainability and Territory) and member of the Conseil d'Orientation Stratégique du Musée du quai Branly (2024-2027).
She has been -invited Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly (2024), Visiting Fellow at the University of Saint-Andrews ( February -April 2018) , Directrice d'études associée at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/ Ecole Normale Supérieure ( October/ December 2017), International Visiting Fellow - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia (2016) e Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) where she conducted, along with F. Vidal, the project 'Endangerment and its consequences', published as Endangerment, Diversity and Culture ( Routledge 2016).
In 2009, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University ( New Orleans) fall semester.
She was between 1998 and 2001 member of the Conseil du Patrimoine Ethnologique, Ministère de la Culture (France) and is, since 2019, member of the Conseil d'Orientation stratégique de l'École Universitaire de Recherche (EUR).
She was director of the PhD program in Anthropology Politicas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia, between ISCTE-IUL and NOVA / FCSH, and three research centers :CRIA, IELT e INET-md between 2013 and 2020.
He holds a PhD in Anthropology and his Professor in the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil in 2009-10 and 2017-18 and Federal Fluminense University in 2014. He was Vice-President of the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and Diretor of CRIA-IUL. He is Director of the Audiovisual Laboratory at CRIA-ISCTE. He has made several investigations in Portugal, Spain and Brazil working on themes such as body, ritual, heritage, tourism and, above all, in the area of cultural performances, artistic practices and political activism. He has been collaborating with diverse structures and artistic events.