Paulo Raposo
Professor Auxiliar Department of Anthropology (ECSH)
Integrated Researcher Centre for Research in Anthropology - Iscte (ECSH) [Research Group Pratices and Politics of Culture]
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Academic Management Positions
Position Unit/Area Begin Date End Date
Coordenador do 2º Ano Bachelor Degree in Anthropology 2025-09-01 2026-09-01
Director Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Anthropology 2021-09-01 2022-09-01
Director Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Anthropology 2019-09-01 2021-09-01
Director Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, pólo do ISCTE-IUL (CRIA-IUL) 2019-05-09 2021-10-02
Membro (Docente) Plenário da Comissão Científica 2019-05-09 2022-05-09
Membro (Docente) Comissão Científica 2019-05-09 2022-05-09
Coordenador de ECTS Department of Anthropology 2016-09-01 2017-09-20
Sub-diretor Department of Anthropology 2016-07-31 2018-07-17
Membro (Docente) Comissão Científica 2016-06-12 2017-06-02
Director Postgraduate Seminar in Interactive Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking 2016-05-20 2018-05-20
Director Bachelor Degree in Anthropology 2015-09-01 2017-09-01
Director [8422] Anthropology (PL) 2014-09-01 2016-09-01
Sub-diretor Department of Anthropology 2014-07-31 2016-07-31
Director Bachelor Degree in Anthropology 2013-09-01 2015-09-01
Membro (Docente) Comissão Científica 2013-06-12 2016-06-12
Coordenador do 3º Ano Bachelor Degree in Anthropology 2012-09-01 2013-09-01
Director [046] Visual Digital Culture 2012-05-15 2013-09-01
Coordenador do 3º Ano Bachelor Degree in Anthropology 2011-09-01 2012-09-01
Director [087] Performance Studies 2011-02-01 2013-02-01
Research Networks
Research Network Name Representative Role Period
Plural Brasil Institute membro Since 2013
Professional Associations
Association Period
Network of Iberoamerican Anthropologists 2020 - 2024
Portuguese Anthropological Association 2020 - 2023
Brazilian Anthropological Association 2020 - 2023
EASA - European Association of Social Anthropologists 2020 - 2024
SIEF - Societé International d'Ethnologie et Folklore Since 2008
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA-IUL) Since 2008
Performance Studies International 1999 - 2000
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) 1994 - 2006
Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (CEAS) 1987 - 2007
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Meeting (In)Common Heritage. Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives and Legacies for More-Than-Human Futures CRIA , In2Past e Chaia 2025
Member of scientific event committee Conference LIBERATION, INDEPENDENCE: DECOLONIZATION? 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference Participatory Health Research Meeting CRIA e CIES 2025
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - Trajectories of a creative process: intersections with the exchanges and encounters of knowledge experienced in the Brazilian cerrado (benzedeiras, raizeiras and midwives) CRIA 2025
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Seminar - Racism in Portugal with Djuzé Neves CRIA 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Congress Writing and Research: Transits between Brazil and Portugal CRIA 2025
Coordination of non-scientific event Debate Session Open Class - I Came From Away (sound documentary/PodCast) CRIA; Departamento de Antropologia do ISCTE 2024
Coordination of non-scientific event Art Exhibition/Installation Desodisseia CRIA ; Erro Grupo; Goethe Institut de Lisboa 2024
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - Female protagonists in contemporary research: perspectives from anthropology CRIA, Casa do Comum 2024
Coordination of non-scientific event Conference Meeting with Maria Galindo / Lisbon 1-3 July 2024 Casa do Comum; Sirigaita; Damas, Sitio; Curtas à tarde; e CRIA 2024
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - Launch of the Webdoc Black Fabulations CRIA 2024
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Aesthetics of Resistance: Photography/Performance (Talk with Karina Bidaseca and Doris Difarnecio; presented by Paulo Raposo) Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística 2023
Member of scientific event committee Art Exhibition/Installation Images and cities in visual dialogues: Campos de Goytacazes and Lisbon LAV CRIA-Iscte e LEEA UENF 2023
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Art Exhibition/Installation Images and cities in visual dialogues: Campos de Goytacazes and Lisbon LAV CRIA-Iscte e LEEA UENF 2023
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - "Racialzed Performances. How many bodies does it take to become a black woman?" CRIA / NAVA 2023
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Performative Interview with Guillermo Goméz-Peña and Balitrónica conducted by Paulo Raposo, Fernando Matos Oliveira and Ricardo Seiça Salgado CRIA, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente e LIPA-UC 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Art Exhibition/Installation Pandemic Chronicles: A Divination Ritual with Guillermo Gomèz-Peña and Balitrónica (performance conference) CRIA, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente e LIPA-UC 2023
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Workshop Etnographies and ethnographical experimentation CRIA 2023
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - Thinking Ethnographic Experimentation CRIA 2023
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Art, Anthropology and Mental Health Meeting Teatro Inclusão Social, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, APSS e CRIA 2022
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle I Cycle of Dialogues with Images - The futures of photography in anthropology CRIA / NAVA 2022
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - (De) beating Fado CRIA 2022
Member of scientific event committee Conference COMBART - International Conference on Art, Activism and Citizenship CICSNova da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa; Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto 2022
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones - The colonial wound: on the bad encounter and necropoetic gestures CRIA 2022
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Workshop Hackathon - Interactive Webdoc Course CRIA - Iscte 2022
Member of scientific event committee Conference COMBART - International Conference on Art, Activism and Citizenship CICSNova da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa; Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto 2021
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones CRIA - Iscte 2021
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Confinaria - Ethnographies in a time of pandemic CRIA 2021
Member of scientific event committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia Since 2020
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Opening Class - Public anthropology: ethnographic challenges in social intervention contexts CRIA - Iscte 2020
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Contact Zones Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia 2019 - 2020
Member of scientific event committee Conference 7th Biennial Network Conference: Afroeuropeans: Black In/Visibilities Contested ISCTE-IUL 2019
Member of scientific event committee Conference Congress 2019 Portuguese Anthropological Association APA 2019
Member of scientific event committee Other Type of Event Ethnographic Film Screening at 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia 2019
Member of scientific event committee Conference Dissident bodys - Rebel Cities Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia 2019
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Dissident bodys - Rebel Cities 2019
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Workshop "Sensible Cartographies, Tools for intervening in Public Space" with Santiago Cao (Argentina) PPGAS - UFSC 2018
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle Film Screening - Rebel Cities PPGAS - UFSC 2018
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Workshop Interactive Ethnographic Documentary ISCTE-IUL 2016
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference Art and Politics Reload? CRIA 2016
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Workshop Workshop - Performativity and Sensivity Licenciatura Antropologia ISCTE 2014
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference No Performance's Land - Dialogues between anthropology and art CRIA-ISCTE 2011
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Member of scientific journal editing staff Cadernos Naui 2358-2448 -- Since 2020 Portuguese
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
Lusophone University (Cultural Heritage - PostGraduation Cultural Intangible Heritage ) Portugal (Lisboa) Invited Teacher - Lecturer (Conference) 2022
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration) Portugal (Lisboa) Visting Professor (6h teaching module Postgraduation Course in Intangible Cultural Heritage) 2020
Lusophone University (Cultural Heritage (History)) Portugal (Lisboa) Visiting Professor (Lecture - Theater and Cultural Performances ) 2018
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Anthropology) Brazil (Florianópolis) Visiting Professor (Lectures - Post Graduation on Anthropology) 2017 - 2018
Lusophone University (Cultural Heritage (History)) Portugal (Lisboa) Visiting Professor (Lecture - Theater and Cultural Performances ) 2017
Lusophone University -- short course at Post-graduation on Intangible Cultural Heritage 2014 - 2015
Fluminense Federal University -- Free and short course on Public Space, political performances and mediatization (department of Anthropology) 2014
Lusophone University -- short course at Post-graduation on Intangible Cultural Heritage 2013 - 2014
Lusophone University -- short course at Post-graduation on Intangible Cultural Heritage 2012 - 2013
Santa Catarina Federal University -- Invited Professor - Course on Ritual and Performance (post graduate program on Anthropology, 1 semester) 2009
High School of Theater and Cinema -- Invited Professor - Course on Theater and Anthropology (Master Program of Theater and Education and Theater and Community) 2005 - 2009
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Screening and discussion on films by Michèle Stephenson e Joe Brewster (Rada Studio) Screening and debate with the directors 2025
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event How to awaken the desire for revolution? | Meeting with Maria Galindo member of the organization team (cultural production) 2025
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Screening and discussion of ‘Vientos del este’ (Winds from the East), a documentary by Argentine-Palestinian director Maia Gattás Vargas (2023, 74 min, Argentina) organisation and moderation of the discussion about the documentary Vientos del Este 2025
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Closing Seminar of Project Transmalhar (Azores) - Walk and Talk Biennal Two-day seminar for discussion and public presentation of the results of the Transmalhar Project (Supported by Dgartes, Partis) 2025
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event The other side of history. Biographies for a post-colonial future - Installation for the Transatlantic Festival Installation co-authored by undergraduate students from the course of "Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Anthropology" , 2nd year Anthropology at ISCTE, as part of the Transatlantic Festival at the Alcantara Library. 2025
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Cerimonies, Revolution and Memory moderator 2024
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Meeting with Maria Galindo organization and moderator 2024
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Public Anthropology Dialogues - Arts, Heritage and Colonial Wounds Performance in public space followed by debate with anthropologists and other researchers, activists from social movements and associations linked to issues of negritude and post-coloniality 2023
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Podcast Field and Counterfield We urge researchers to think their ongoing ethnographic investigations through dialogues that explore lines of continuity and complementarity as if they were occupying the same reflective space. But we add to this narrative format a second level of anthropological illusion, inviting surprise debaters to offer comments, criticisms and suggestions, supported by the proximity of their thematic and conceptual specialisations. 2021
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Contact Zones - performativities to delay the end of the world Webinar - A conversation around decolonial theatrical and performative projects of original peoples from Canada and Mexico and black collectives from Brazil and Portugal, marked by the presence of women, racialized and engaged persons 2021
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Webinar - Racism in Portugal Seminar "Racism in Portugal" intends to debate racism in the Portuguese context, questioning the production and negotiation of identity categories, racialization processes and the construction of narratives about the nation and the empire. As well as the construction of the "Other", the institutional and structural racism of Portuguese society and its discriminatory actions. 2021
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Webinar - Confinaria: The pandemic and its impacts: a look from the social sciences Confinaria is now a place for conversations in an online format that seeks to propose a close look from the point of view of anthropology and the social sciences at the "syndemic" corona virus and its social impacts. 2021
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Film Screening Rebel Cities Rebel Cities is a film Screening - adopting the title of the famous book by the English geographer David Harvey - that seeks to document and make visible artistic interventions, political engagements and critical research and produce reflections that promote the discussion of the right to the city in the contemporary world. 2018
Products
Product Type Product Title Detailed Description Year
Art Installation/Exhibition/Performance body cave (algar) perf-installation Corpo-Algar on planetary environmental collapse and the collapse of life, the result of extractivism and the necropolitical regimes of global capitalism 2025
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Webdoc Black Fabulations a transmedia platform or media convergence project based on the lives, experiences and reflections of a group of black or non-white women who are simultaneously activists, artists and academics, from their perspective and racial positioning. 2024
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Images and Cities in Visual Dialogues Development of website with a virtual exhibition about works and projects in the field of visual cultures developed in 2 cities - Lisbon and Campo dos Goytacazes - and two laboratories - LAV CRIA-ISCTE and LEEA from UENF (Brazil) 2023
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Cross the Bridge Webdoc - production of a collective interactive documentary about the Rego District on the Klymt platform with the collaboration of the local association Passa Sabi and the formation of Estúdio Crua 2022
Art Installation/Exhibition/Performance Poor Music MÚSICA POBRE – PORTO Filipa Francisco, Filipe Reis, José Luís Bento Coelho, Paulo Raposo, Pedro Tudela, Vera Mantero 08 April 2017 © João Drumond Students from three music schools in Portugal will participate in a 6-month training and creation project entitled “Poor Music,” directed by Filipa Francisco (choreographer), Pedro Tudela (visual and sound artist), Paulo Raposo and Filipe Reis (anthropologists), José Luís Bento Coelho (acoustic engineer), and Vera Mantero (choreographer). 2017