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Visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Humanities. He is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies at the same university. His areas of interest include literary journalism, the history of journalism and written reporting.
He has a PhD in Communication Sciences, he worked at the European Commission in Brussels and he was a research fellow at Nova University Lisbon.
He is the author of several publications and the FFMS Portrait «A Library, a Second Home».

Last updated: January 2024

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

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

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, becoming the first Turkish writer to receive this award. In addition to being a writer, he is Professor of Literature at Columbia University. He studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and journalism at Istanbul University, but never pursued either of these professions. He lived in the US between 1985 and 1988, where he attended Columbia University in New York and also the University of Iowa for a short time. He currently lives in Istanbul, where he was born in 1952.

Last updated: January 2024

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

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

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.

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 is FFMS' Content and Portal Manager.

Last updated: may 2026