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António Barreto was born in Porto on 30th October, 1942. He lived in Vila Real until he finished secondary school, after which he attended Coimbra Law Faculty. He lived in Switzerland as a political exile from 1963 to 1974, graduating in Sociology in 1968. He worked at the University of Geneva and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development before returning to Portugal in 1974. He worked as a professor at the Social and Human Sciences and Law Faculty at Lisbon's Universidade Nova, as a researcher at Universidade Católica and the Social Sciences Institute of Universidade de Lisboa until 2008. He gained his Doctorate in Sociology in 1985 from the University of Geneva. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Portuguese Parliament, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Minister for Trade and Tourism and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. He was also the winner of the Montaigne Prize of 2004. He has been a member of the Academia das Ciências since 2008, Chairman of the Board of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation since 2009 and a columnist for the «Público» newspaper since 1991. His published work includes, «Anatomia de uma Revolução», «Tempo de Mudança», «Sem Emenda», «Tempo de Incerteza», «A Situação Social em Portugal», «1960-1999» and «Anos Difíceis».

D. Manuel Clemente was born in S. Pedro e S. Tiago, Torres Vedras, in 1948. He was nominated Bishop of Porto in 2007. He graduated in History and entered the Olivais Seminary in 1973. In 1979, he graduated in Theology from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and was ordained in the same year. In 1992, he completed a PhD in Historical Theology. Since 1975, he has taught History of the Church at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He has occupied the following positions and ecclesiastical offices: Coadjutor Bishop of the parishes Torres Vedras and Runa in 1980; Vice-Chancellor of the Olivais Seminary from 1989 to 1997; Chancellor of the same Seminary since 1997; Director of the Religious History Study Centre of Universidade Católica Portuguesa; nominated Titulary Bishop of Pinhel and Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarch of Lisbon on 6th November, 1999; Episcopal ordination in 2000; Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon; President of the EpiscopalCommission of Culture, Cultural Assets and Social Communications, elected in 2005. He is the author of the following works: Portugal e os Portugueses (Lisbon: Assírio e Alvim, 2008); Igreja e Sociedade Portuguesa do Liberalismo à República (Lisbon: Grifo, 2002); A Igreja no Tempo (Lisbon: Grifo, 2000); A Igreja no Tempo. História Breve da Igreja Católica (Lisbon, 1978).

Professor Charles Boxer at King’s College London. He has a PhD from the European University Institute, taught at Nova University Lisbon and he was director of the National Library and director of the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris. Among his monographs, we highlight «Racism from the crusades to the 20th century» and «History of Inquisitions», published by Círculo de Leitores in English, French, Italian and Spanish versions.

Last updated: May 2023

Writer, investigative journalist in the cultural area, ethnobotany researcher and nature photographer, she is the author of the books «Stories that Escaped from the Trees», 2012, «With the Wind Blowing Behind the Barrel: When Vineyards and Man Invented Lagoa» (Best Wine Book of the Year, Gourmand Awards 2017) and «Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro – Armed with a Tree», 2020. Her stories are published in literary journals and anthologies and include «The Radiance of the Short Story: Fiction from around the globe», 2018.

He was born in 1986. He has worked in creative advertising and wrote «On the Road», in 2014, published by Abysmo. He has already shown the world 30 of his drawings, in the exhibition «Inspiration Theory», held at MONA in 2015. He also likes to play and listen to music. He defends the art of travelling and believes that this will save the world.

Last updated: May 2016

He is an emeritus professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he was Rector from 1990 to 1994. He is also a doctor «honoris causa», granted by the University of Minho (2015).
Among his recent publications, «Galicia, a Nation Between Two Worlds» (Past & Present, 2019) and «Republican Exile and National Pluralism: Spain, 1936-1982» (Marcial Pons, 2021). He also coordinated «History of Spain» (Critique e Marcial Pons, 2007-2017, 12 vols.) with Josep Fontana.

Film critic, screenwriter, director and manager of the Cinema area for Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture. He is a professor at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and wrote for Seara Nova and Cinéfilo magazines and the A Luta and Expresso newspapers. He currently works with the Diário de Notícias newspaper.

Last updated: November 2023

(1942-2014) He was a lawyer, Secretary of State in the 4th and 5th Provisional Governments, director of RTP1, administrator of INCM, Commissioner-General for the Discoveries Celebrations and Commissioner of Portugal for Expo'92 (Seville), director of the Gulbenkian and a Member of the European Parliament. He was president of the CCB Foundation. Poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. His awards include the Pessoa Prize, the Grand Prize for Poetry and Romance from the APE, the Golden Crown from the Struga Poetry Festival, the Prix Max Jacob Étranger and the Premio Nazionale per la Traduzione. He translated Dante, Petrarch, Benn, Rilke, Walter Benjamin, Shakespeare, Heaney, Lorca, Villon, Ronsard, Racine, Corneille, Molière, Voltaire and Rostand.

Last updated: April 2014

He is a researcher at the Centre for African Studies at ISCTE-IUL. He has a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities and a Master’s degree and PhD in African Studies from ISCTE-IUL. He is a researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the same university.

Last updated: November 2023

He is an emeritus professor at the University of Coimbra School of Arts and Humanities. He has a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from the University of Coimbra and a PhD Honoris Causa from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. He coordinates the research group ""Rethinking the Art of the Historian” in the Centre for History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra. He was director of the ""Journal of the History of Ideas”. He does research work in the areas of Republicanism, Secularisation, Historical Memory, the Theory of History, Historiography, the History of Ideas and Cultural History.

Last updated: November 2023