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Imagem da vida na cidade do Porto sob os arcos dos edifícios, 1984. Crédito: Nuno Félix da Costa.
Imagem da vida na cidade do Porto sob os arcos dos edifícios, 1984. Crédito: Nuno Félix da Costa.
Portugal was like this

The memory of a recent Portugal, one that we no longer recognise, in 17 photos. Photos taken on trips to the north and south of the country and on the...

19/11/2024
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O passado pela frente
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Yochai Benkler
He is Professor of Legal Business Studies at Harvard Law School and at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. He has played a crucial role in characterising the function of the information commons and decentralised collaboration for innovation, information production and freedom in the networked economy and society. He has advised governments and international organisations on innovation and telecommunications policy and sits on the boards of directors or advisory boards of several non-profit organisations.

Last updated: November 2023
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Philosopher, jurist and social theorist, he is Professor at Harvard Law School and was twice Minister of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Brazil. He studied at Harvard University, where he completed an LL.M (Master of Laws) and an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Legal and Social Sciences from the Law Faculty of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published dozens of works on democracy and politics.

Last updated: November 2023
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Gilles Lipovetsky
A French philosopher, he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Grenoble and one of the European thinkers who has most influenced social analysis. He was a member of the French National Council for School Programmes and a member of the Society Analysis Council with the French Prime Minister. He is a consultant to the French Association for Management Progress.

Last updated: November 2023
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Catarina Gonçalves
Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023
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Joana Pontes
She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023
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Andreia Barbosa
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.
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Rita Figueiras
She is a researcher in the area of Political Communication, a professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and coordinator of the PhD in Communication Sciences at the same university. She is also a professor and visiting researcher at several international universities.
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Mário Augusto
He was born in Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia in 1963. He has been a journalist since 1986 and writes and presents several programmes on SIC, TV Cine and RTP. He was deputy director of RTP 3. In addition to television, he works with several newspapers and magazines and is a radio chronicler, having spent much of his career working in the dissemination and analysis of cinema. He was the founder of SIC and he made several documentaries and wrote scripts for television. He works at RTP full time. He is the author of several film books, «Rear Window» and «As If It Were A Novel», as well as biographies of actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Philip Seymor Hoffman.
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Antony Beevor
British writer and historian. He studied Military History and served as an officer before leaving the army to write after five years.
He has published four novels and thirteen non-fiction books. His work is published in 34 foreign languages and has sold over eight and a half million copies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.
He was a professor at the University of Cambridge, Birkbeck College and the University of Kent. In 2014, he won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, presented by the Military Museum and Pritzker Library and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Service to History in 2016. In 2017, he was knighted on the New Year’s Honour List.

Last updated: November 2023