Other Activities
2024 - Organizer and moderator, Workshop "Reading Walking as a Political Practice: Notes on Urban Everyday Life, Situatedness, and Spatial Agency" by Elisa Mozzelin, CES, Coimbra, May 2, 2024
2024 - Reviewer, Práticas da História journal
2024 - Session Chair, paper session "Theory and History", 2024 Biannual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 8, 2024
2023 - Chair, Seminar ["Theories of architectural history in professional education: (anti)disciplinarity and criticism"] "Teorias da história da arquitetura no ensino profissional: (anti)disciplinaridade e crítica" by Pedro Paulo Palazzo, CES, Coimbra, March 7, 2023
2023 - Co-chair, session "Legacies of Wartime Villagization" (with Rui Aristides Lebre), International Conference "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes", Lisbon, January 19, 2023
2023 - Co-coordinator, extension program "CES Vai à Escola"
2023 - Elected member of the Parents' Council of the German School at Porto
2023 - Elected Member, Permanent Committee of the CES Scientific Board
2023 - First Discussant, PhD Dissertation in Architecture ["Domestic Architecture in Dialogue: The Role of Portuguese Colonisation in the Form of Building and Inhabiting the Contemporary Domestic Space in Guinea-Bissau."] "Arquitetura Doméstica em Diálogo: O Papel da Colonização Portuguesa na Forma de Construir e Habitar o Espaço Doméstico Contemporâneo na Guiné-Bissau", Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (Advisors: Ana Vaz Milheiro and Ana Silva Fernandes)
2023 - Grant Evaluator, Cariplo Foundation, Milano, Italy
2023 - Interview with António Tomás (University of Johannesburg), "Tecnografias" Podcast, May 2, 2023
2023 - Invited Speaker, ["Recalling the Colonial Legacy for the Rural Development of Angola: Villagization by the Portuguese Army in the Liberation War, 1961-1975"] "Recordar o Legado Colonial para o Desenvolvimento Rural de Angola: Os Aldeamentos do Exército Português na Guerra da Libertação, 1961-1975", Friday Debate of the Development Workshop Angola, July 21
2023 - Lecture at High School, CES Vai à Escola session ["Shacks and Clandestines: Divided Cities in Portugal and in Europe"] "Barracas e Clandestinos: Cidades Divididas em Portugal e na Europa", School Group Dr. Mário Sacramento, Aveiro, March 20, 2023
2023 - Member, Scientific Committee, 2023 PNUM ("Portuguese-Language Urban Morphology") conference, Lisbon, 13-14 September
2023 - Member, Scientific Committee, V International Seminar on the History of Hospital Architecture, coordinated by Paulo Providência (DARQ and CES-UC), Coimbra, September 7-8, 2023
2023 - Reviewer, Análise Social journal
2023 - Reviewer, Cadernos de Geografia journal
2023 - Session Chair, Hybrid Session "Cartography of Colonial Rural Development in Africa", 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Denver, USA, March 26, 2023
2022 - Chair, session A3 ("Nations and Ruptures"), IASTE 2022, Singapore, December 15, 2022
2022 - Invited speaker, "Politics of Housing after 1945 in Portugal and the USA: the Legacy of a Disjunctive Dialogue", 3rd Fulbright Alumni, Conference Cycle, March 3, 2022
2022 - Invited speaker, "Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism" (with Rui Aristides Lebre), Race and Architecture Lecture Series, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley, April 15, 2022
2022 - Invited speaker, "Strategic Hamlets in Portuguese Guinea: Their Designed Intent and the Afterlife" (with Rui Aristides Lebre), Decolonization Seminars, CSU Bakersfield, May 3, 2022
2021 - Co-chair, Session "Rural-Urban Relations: For a Postcolonial Language of Diversity in Social Space-Time" (with Emiliana Marques), 14th Luso-Afro-Brazilian conference (CONLAB), Coimbra, September 15-17, 2021
2021 - Discussant, dissertation prospectus defense in History, "The city in dispute: the struggle for housing in Belém do Pará (1985-2010)", Cauê Morgado (Chair: Rui Bebiano), FLUC, February 4, 2021
2021 - Discussant, PhD dissertation defense, "Architecture of Peace: Staging Reconciliation in Post-War Aleppo", Mounir Affaki (Chair: Susana Lobo), May 26, 2021
2021 - Instructor, Berufsberatung Konkret 10 a/b session "Architecture and Urbanism: Practice and Academia", German School of Porto, July 6, 2021
2021 - Instructor, CES Goes to School session "Shacks and Clandestines: Divided Cities in Portugal and in Europe", Economy C course of the 12th grade, Oliveira do Bairro High School, November 10, 2021
2021 - Invited speaker, conference "Public Space, Why?", organized by the Ordem dos Arquitectos in the Garagem Sul of the CCB in Lisbon, for the opening of the exhibition "Habitar Portugal 12-17", October 8, 2021
2021 - Invited speaker, presentation of the book "Chinese Village Life Today" by Gonçalo Santos (Life Sciences Department, U. Coimbra), Café Santa Cruz, Coimbra, October 30, 2021
2021 - Manuscript reviewer for University of Michigan Press, November 2021
2021 - Member, CES' Observatory of Crises and Alternatives, from 2021
2021 - Membro, IASTE Advisory Council, a partir de 2021
2021 - Reviewer, Fulbright Portugal grants, March 2021
2020 - Arguente, defesa de tese de doutoramento em Media Digitais, "Curating-with: Artistic Methodologies for Social Innovation and Community-Focused Acts of Care, Maintenance, and Repair", Michelle Kasprzak (Orientadora principal: Sandra Silva), Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 17 de Julho de 2020
2020 - Discussant, Master's Thesis in Architecture defense, "City as a Shelter: Reflecting on Europe's Urban Inclusion of Refugees, the Case of Berlin", Paula Chaves (Chair: Rui Aristides), Fall 2020
2020 - Invited lecture, on the topic "Empire in the City? Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism Today", at the Instituto, an artistic project supported by the Criatório program of the municipality of Porto, Portugal, July 23, 2020
2020 - Moderador, seminário "Bairros autoproduzidos nos países de língua oficial portuguesa: um estudo preliminar sobre Cabo Verde, Angola e Moçambique - o caso de Luanda" por Alex Magalhães, CES, 3 de Dezembro de 2020
2020 - Orador convidado, Seminário "Conciliação do trabalho científico com a pandemia" do Ciclo de Seminários Conversas Desconfinadas, CES, 19 de Junho de 2020
2020 - Seminário "Teoria da arquitetura como género literário no século XIX" por Pedro Paulo Palazzo, CES, 17 de Setembro de 2020
2019 - Arguente, defesa de projecto de tese de doutoramento em Arquitectura, "Architecture without the city in the age of urbanisation", Ricardo Camacho (Orientador principal: Paulo Providência), Departamento de Arquitectura, 12 de Junho de 2019
2019 - Arguente, defesa de projecto de tese de doutoramento em Arquitectura, "Do espaço de culto ao culto do espaço: sagrado e profano em questão nos séculos XX e XXI em Portugal", Alessandra da Silva (Orientador principal: Vítor Murtinho), Departamento de Arquitectura, 14 de Junho de 2019
2019 - Arguente, defesa de projecto de tese de doutoramento em Sociologia, "A Cidade na Era do Risco Ecológico: O Antropoceno e o Espaço Urbano, Brasília e Lisboa", Lucas Pereira (Orientador principal: Carlos Fortuna), Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 11 de Dezembro de 2019
2019 - Arguente, defesa de Tese de doutoramento em Educação "Cantos, Danças, Rodas e Resistência na Comunidade Coral Trovadores do Vale", Pedro Dutra (Orientadora principal: Maria Waldenez de Oliveira), Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil, 21 de Fevereiro de 2019
2019 - Comentador, Fórum Ensino Superior e Ciência do SNESup, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa, 6 de Abril de 2019
2019 - Comentador, Laboratório "Cidade/Arquivo: Espaço Expectante", 3ª edição do ciclo de encontros O que é o Arquivo, Biblioteca de Marvila da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, 3 de Abril de 2019
2019 - Coordenador, Sessão "Peripheral Infrastructures", Conferência Internacional "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes", Lisboa, 16 a 18 de Janeiro de 2019
2019 - Docente, visita de estudo em Coimbra, Estágio Ciência Viva 2019 "Jovens Cientistas Sociais: Um olhar crítico sobre a financeirização da habitação em Portugal" (organização: Ana Cordeiro Santos), 9 de Julho de 2019
2019 - Editor das recensões, revista Travessias: Revista da AILPcsh (desde 2018)
2019 - Moderador, Sessão "Democracia, Direitos, e Cidadania Global", 1º Colóquio de Integração Internacional do Sul Global da AILPcsh, Coimbra, 4 de Outubro de 2019
2019 - Revisor, revista VLC arquitectura, desde 2019
2017 - Local Advisor, PhD Dissertation in Education ["Songs, Dances, Circles, and Resistance in the Choral Community Trovadores do Vale"] "Cantos, Danças, Rodas e Resistência na Comunidade Coral Trovadores do Vale", Pedro Dutra, Visiting Student of the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (Chair: Maria Waldenez de Oliveira), Spring 2017