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He has a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon. He is a full professor at the FLUL Department of Philosophy. Among his most relevant works are: «History of Portuguese Philosophical Thought» (dir.) 5 vols; «Portugal as a Problem», 4 vols.; «The Idea of Nature in Portugal in the 18th century»; and, with Rámon Gutiérrez, «Iberian School of Peace: the Critical Consciousness of the Conquest and Colonisation of America».

Last updated: October 2016.

Associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Master’s degree and PhD in Human Ecology. She is an integrated researcher at CICS.NOVA, author of the essay «Food Waste», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, a member of the Advisory Panel of the National Committee on Combating Food Waste and president of the Society for Human Ecology.

Last updated: September 2019

She is an anthropologist and is particularly interested in the Anthropology of Heritage and Tourism, Islam and gender patterns.
She is an associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA).
She did fieldwork in Morocco, Mauritania and southern Portugal, with shorter incursions in Brazil and Senegal.
She coordinated several national and international research projects in the areas of heritage and its intersection with tourism, organised exhibitions and supervised a number of theses.
She has published several articles and books, including «Castles on the Port Side: Ethnographies of African Heritage and Portuguese Memories».

Last updated: December 2023

Alexandre Soares dos Santos was born in Porto in 1934 and died in Lisbon in August 2019. He attended the Lisbon Law Faculty and began working as a trainee manager at Unilever N.V. in 1957, having had internships in Germany and Ireland. This was the beginning of an international career at Unilever, which included working as Marketing Director for Unilever Brasil between 1964 and 1968. In 1968, he returned to Portugal to join the Board of Directors of Grupo Jerónimo Martins as Delegate-Director, before taking on the role of Chairman of the Executive Committee, which he held along with the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2013. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation until his death.

Novelist, essayist and poet.
She did a History course at St Olaf College and got a PhD in English at Columbia University. She has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oslo and Stendhal-Grenoble and Gutenberg University-Mainz.
Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, the highlights of these being «The Summer Without Men», «What I Love» and «The Blazing World».

Historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He is a professor of History at Columbia University.
He studied Classical History and Philosophy at Oxford, International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre and has a PhD in Modern History from Oxford (1988).
He published «Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe» (Allen Lane) in 2008, which won the LA Times Book Prize for History the same year.
His most recent book is «What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home» (Other Press, 2017).

Nuno Félix da Costa: A psychiatrist, he was a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine (Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Psychophysiology, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience).
He has published more than ten books of prose and poetry since 1995. He is the author of four photo books, the last of which was "Portugal was like this", (Cortex Frontal, 2024).
He has had painting, photography and painting on photography exhibits since 1983 in several dozen solo and collective exhibitions.
He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

Last update: october 2024

She is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition – Heritage, Arts and Cultures at Nova University Lisbon.
She has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the same university, she was a researcher at the National Institute of Agrarian Research between 1976 and 2009 and a visiting professor of Food Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) from 1996 to 2003.
She coordinated and co-authored the following works: «Food Tradition and Innovation»; «Nature, Gastronomy & Leisure»; «The Mediterranean Algarve»; «Lives and Voices, of the Sea and of Fish»; «Food, Nature and Landscape».

Last updated: April 2024