Ruy Blanes
Associated Researcher Department of Anthropology (ECSH)
Deputy Director Centre for Research in Anthropology - Iscte (ECSH)
Integrated Researcher Centre for Research in Anthropology - Iscte (ECSH) [Research Group Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography]
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Academic Management Positions
Position Unit/Area Begin Date End Date
Sub-diretor Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, pólo do ISCTE-IUL (CRIA-IUL) 2024-06-18 2027-06-18
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Science Communication Session Reflection workshop: Building Spaces of Memory and Dialogue in Angola. The example of the Casa de Reclusão Militar and the future Museum of the Liberation Struggle in Angola CRIA, In2Past, Instituto Nacional do Património Cultural de Angola 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference IV International Meeting of the Environmental Anthropology Network CRIA 2024
Member of scientific event committee Conference EASA2024: Doing and Undoing Anthropology 2024
Member of scientific event committee Conference EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology European Association of Social Anthropology 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Workshop Thematic Line 5 Workshop "Shared Heritage" CRIA, In2Past 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference 4th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers IN2PAST 2024
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference IV Encontro do In2Past 2024
Member of scientific event committee Congress Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (USA) African Studies Association 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference First Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Organizations from South-South Portuguese Speaking Countries Ruy Llera Blanes, Natalia Zawijeska, Líria de Castro 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Seminars Research Group "Environmental Challenges, Ethnography and Sustainability (CRIA): Thursday Debates Ruy Llera Blanes, Luís Silva, Paulo Mendes 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Violence, Memory and Possible Heritagizations. A Debate from Guinea-Bissau and the Lusophone Postcolonial Context Projeto "Forensic Heritage 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference In/Justices: II Meeting of Political Ecology Ruy Llera Blanes, Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Vanessa Iglesias Amorim, Catarina Leal, Filipe Olivais, Joana Martins, Raquel Pereira 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Networking event "IPNA-CSIC - School of Global Studies University of Gothenburg" School of Global Studies University of Gothenburg & IPNA-CSIC 2022
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Divine Mobilities: How Gods and Spirits Move Through the World”, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biannual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Divine Mobilities: How Gods and Spirits Move Through the World”, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biannual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Divine Mobilities: How Gods and Spirits Move Through the World”, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biannual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Afrotopias", Zanzibar, Tanzania. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Afrotopias", Zanzibar, Tanzania. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Afrotopias", Zanzibar, Tanzania. 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop "Conviviality and its Discontents: Rethinking Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Urban Settings", EASA Network of the Anthropology of Religion meeting, Lisbon, 18-19 September 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Symposium "Etnografiando Prácticas Espirituales: Sentido y Compromiso frente a la Utopía", XIV Congreso de Antropología, FAAEE, Valencia, Spain. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop "Conviviality and its Discontents: Rethinking Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Urban Settings", EASA Network of the Anthropology of Religion meeting, Lisbon, 18-19 September 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel "Urban Encounters: Politicizing the Everyday in African Cities", in International Conference Activisms in Africa, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 11-13 January 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel "Urban Encounters: Politicizing the Everyday in African Cities", in International Conference Activisms in Africa, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 11-13 January 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Symposium "Etnografiando Prácticas Espirituales: Sentido y Compromiso frente a la Utopía", XIV Congreso de Antropología, FAAEE, Valencia, Spain. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop "Conviviality and its Discontents: Rethinking Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Urban Settings", EASA Network of the Anthropology of Religion meeting, Lisbon, 18-19 September 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel "Urban Encounters: Politicizing the Everyday in African Cities", in International Conference Activisms in Africa, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 11-13 January 2017. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Symposium "Etnografiando Prácticas Espirituales: Sentido y Compromiso frente a la Utopía", XIV Congreso de Antropología, FAAEE, Valencia, Spain. 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Hospitality from the South", Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop “Utopia, Vitality and Sacrifice”, Stromboli, Italy. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Hospitality from the South", Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop “Utopia, Vitality and Sacrifice”, Stromboli, Italy. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop “Utopia, Vitality and Sacrifice”, Stromboli, Italy. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International Workshop "Hospitality from the South", Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Micro- utopias: exploring connections in anthropology, relationality and creativity”, SIEF Meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Bergen Social Anthropology Seminars, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen 2015 - 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Micro- utopias: exploring connections in anthropology, relationality and creativity”, SIEF Meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Micro- utopias: exploring connections in anthropology, relationality and creativity”, SIEF Meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Bergen Social Anthropology Seminars, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen 2015 - 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Bergen Social Anthropology Seminars, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen 2015 - 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ” The good shepherd. Secularities, religiosities and subjectivities”, at the Conference Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge, European Association for the Study of Religion, Groningen, Netherlands. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Workshop International Workshop "Connections in the Religious Atlantic: Faiths, Encounters, Circulations", Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Anthropological utopias: debating personal, political and idealist expectations in the intersection of theory and ethnographic practice”, European Association of Social Anthropologists Biannual Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Workshop International Workshop "Connections in the Religious Atlantic: Faiths, Encounters, Circulations", Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ” The good shepherd. Secularities, religiosities and subjectivities”, at the Conference Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge, European Association for the Study of Religion, Groningen, Netherlands. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Anthropological utopias: debating personal, political and idealist expectations in the intersection of theory and ethnographic practice”, European Association of Social Anthropologists Biannual Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Workshop International Workshop "Connections in the Religious Atlantic: Faiths, Encounters, Circulations", Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ” The good shepherd. Secularities, religiosities and subjectivities”, at the Conference Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge, European Association for the Study of Religion, Groningen, Netherlands. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel ”Anthropological utopias: debating personal, political and idealist expectations in the intersection of theory and ethnographic practice”, European Association of Social Anthropologists Biannual Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia. 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Session “The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered Leadership in Contemporary Christianity”, American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Chicago. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Session “The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered Leadership in Contemporary Christianity”, American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Chicago. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Session “The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered Leadership in Contemporary Christianity”, American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Chicago. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre. 2013
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia , Vila Real, Portugal. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Religions, Jurisdictions, Sovereignties: ethnographies of religious and political contestations”, Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop “I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion” (with Ramon Sarró and Diana Espírito Santo)”, London School of Economics. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Religions, Jurisdictions, Sovereignties: ethnographies of religious and political contestations”, Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Panel “Religions, Jurisdictions, Sovereignties: ethnographies of religious and political contestations”, Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop “I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion” (with Ramon Sarró and Diana Espírito Santo)”, London School of Economics. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event International workshop “I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion” (with Ramon Sarró and Diana Espírito Santo)”, London School of Economics. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre. 2013
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Workshop “The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission”, at the Congress of the SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore), Lisbon. 2011
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event 2011, host and co-organizer (with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic) of the international workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London. 2011
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event 2011, host and co-organizer (with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic) of the international workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London. 2011
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Workshop “The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission”, at the Congress of the SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore), Lisbon. 2011
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event 2011, host and co-organizer (with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic) of the international workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London. 2011
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Workshop “The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission”, at the Congress of the SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore), Lisbon. 2011
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal. 2009
Awards
Award Description Year
Programa para a Internacionalização das Ciências Sociais 2012, € 5,000. 2012
Estímulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais, 1,720€. 2011
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Member of scientific journal editing staff Lusotopie 1768-3084 -- Since 2024 Portuguese
Member of scientific journal editing staff Etnográfica 2182-2891 Q2 Since 2022 Portuguese
Member of scientific journal editing staff Cultural Anthropology 0886-7356 Q1 (T5) Since 2022 Portuguese
Member of scientific journal editing staff HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2575-1433 Q1 2013 - 2016 English
Scientific journal editor Religion and Society 2150-9301 Q2 2012 - 2019 English
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event The "Problem of Local Autarquias": Current Situation Cycle of debates on political activism and the state of democracy in Angola 2024
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Violence, Memory and Justice. Roundtable of Resistance against the Political Uses of Memory 2023
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event 1st meeting of LGBTIQ+ Organizations from South-South Portuguese Speaking Countries on Human Rights, Sociopolitical and Cultural Integration 2023
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Environmental Justice Forum 2022
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Public Launch of Research Reports on Drought in Southern Angola 2022