Project Coordinators
Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Institution

Pedro Cardim
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- pedro.cardim@fcsh.unl.pt
Scientific Coordinator

Rodrigo Lacerda
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
- rodrigofernandes@fcsh.unl.pt
Researcher at the Centre for Research Network and coordinator of Politics and of the Practices and Politics of Culture research group in Anthropology (CRIA) . He has been an invited assistant professor at NOVA FCSH since 2017 and held that position at the University of Coimbra from 2019 to 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) and ISCTE-IUL. Completed a postgraduate degree at the National Film and Television School (UK) and a BA (Hons) in Film and Broadcast Production at London Metropolitan University. Co-organized the Amerindian Film Screening ¿ Paths of Indigenous Cinema in Brazil (2019), held at the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and brought the Indigenous curator Ailton Krenak and several Indigenous filmmakers and artists to Portugal. His research areas are visual anthropology, Indigenous cinema, Indigenous ethnology, and heritage.
Scientific Coordinator

Camila Ferreira Marinelli
University of St Andrews
- cfm5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Doctor in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral research examines the potential for dialogue between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge in Brazilian universities. Since 2020, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous academics in Brazil, focusing on knowledge systems and epistemic traditions as experienced by these scholars. She holds an MRes in Social Anthropology from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (2016), and the University of St Andrews, UK (2019), where she explored perceptions of knowledge and the criteria that define it within academia.
Project Manager

Maria de Jesús Lança
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- mariamanguito@fcsh.unl.pt
Project Manager
Carla Pereira
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- carlapereira@fcsh.unl.pt