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He is part of the LanCog group at the University of Lisbon Philosophy Centre. Also at this university, he is a professor in the Philosophy Department at the School of Arts and Humanities, where he teaches Ethics, Modern Philosophy and Critical Thinking. He is the author of «From the Universe's Point of View», as well as articles in the area of Ethics. He organised the anthologies «Do Animals Have Rights?» and «The Ethics of Abortion».

Last updated: January 2024

Rui Passos Rocha is a freelance digital marketeer. He published his book «Histórias Que as Ruas Contam». (Stories the Streets Tell) in 2025.
He studied Communication Sciences, Political Science and Information Visualisation.
He has worked in institutional communication in the areas of politics, society, culture and higher education (Casa da América Latina, ISCTE and Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos).

Last update: may 2026

Journalist and writer. She is the author of the books «The Things», «Jonah’s House», «Going Back Home with Manuel António Pina» (ed. Abysmo), «Produções Fictícias – 13 Years of Failure» (ed. Oficina do Livro), «Anthology of Portuguese Humour» (co-org.; ed. Text), «The Lost Word» (il. Marta Madureira; ed. Skyscrapers), «José Saramago – Man-River» (il. João Maio Pinto; ed. Pato Lógico/INCM) and «Wrinkles and Marks» (il. Nicolau; ed. APCC).

Last updated: May 2017

Journalist, writer and commentator. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Russian History from Moscow State University (Lemonossov), where he went to live in 1977. He then devoted himself to the translation of literary and political works and in 1989 he began to report for TSF, having been the correspondent for the «Publico» newspaper in Moscow. He returned to Portugal in 2015. He is currently a commentator on SIC and SIC News, the «Observador» newspaper and Antena 1 radio. He has written several books, including «Russia and Europe: Part of the Whole», published by FFMS. He received the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic in 2013.

Last updated: August 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.

He is director of the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, where he co-founded and chaired the Literary Theory programme and teaches Literature Theory. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Chicago. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. He has written several books, articles and essays.

Last updated: January 2024

She is a writer and author of novels, short stories, chronicles and plays. Her awards include the Fernando Namora/Estoril Sol Literary Prize, the PEN Clube Fiction Award, the dst Grand Prize in Literature and the Tavares Rodrigues Urban Novel and Romance Award. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and was a secondary school teacher. She was born in Lisbon in 1954.

Last updated: January 2024