To mark the World Portuguese Language Day, CICANT and the Virtual Museum of Lusophony will host an international webinar titled “Between Voices and Movements: The Portuguese Language in a Changing World”, on May 5 at 6:00 p.m. (Lisbon time), via the Zoom platform at the following link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/8102785007
The webinar will feature presentations by Carla Maciel, from the Pedagogical University in Maputo (Mozambique); Regina Brito, from Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo (Brazil); and Lurdes Macedo, from Universidade Lusófona, Porto University Center. The session will be moderated by Isabel Macedo, from the University of Minho (Portugal).
Carla Maciel is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication, Language and Arts at the Pedagogical University in Maputo, Mozambique. She holds a degree in Linguistics and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois, with a specialization in training Portuguese and English teachers in Mozambique. In her publications and public engagements, she has advocated for a pluricentric approach to Portuguese language teaching, one that embraces the linguistic richness that Africa—and especially Mozambique—brings to the language’s culture.
Regina Brito holds a Postdoctoral degree from the University of Minho and a Master’s and Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo. She is an Associate Professor at Mackenzie University (Brazil), where she serves as General Coordinator of Graduate Studies and leads the International Interinstitutional Doctorate Program (DINTER-CAPES) with the National University of East Timor. She leads the Tordesillas Doctoral College in Languages, Societies, and Cultures and coordinates the CNPq research group “Culture and Linguistic Identity in Lusophony.”
She is a member of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony (Portugal), the Commission for the Promotion of Portuguese Language Content of the CPLP | Brazilian Book Chamber, and the Public Policy Commission of ABRALIN. She is Director of the Portuguese on Paper project (CLEPUL – University of Lisbon) and a Guest Researcher at CEL – University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.
Since 2001, she has been dedicated to studies on Lusophony, with an emphasis on language policy, Portuguese varieties, linguistic-cultural identity, and academic cooperation initiatives in East Timor, where she has been involved in teaching, research, outreach, and internationalization projects for over two decades.
About the speakers
Lurdes Macedo holds a PhD in Communication Sciences with a specialization in Intercultural Communication from the University of Minho and completed a postdoctoral program in Communication for Development (C4D) at the same university. She is a full researcher at CICANT – Research Centre for Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies at Universidade Lusófona, where she coordinates LABCLIP, a lab dedicated to studying the intercultural Portuguese-speaking community. She is an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona – Porto University Center, where she has been teaching since 2008. She was a researcher at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre, participating in projects such as “Memories, Cultures and Identities: The Past and Present of Intercultural Relations in Mozambique and Portugal” (2018–2022) and “Identity Narratives and Social Memory: (Re)constructing Lusophony in Intercultural Contexts” (2009–2013). Her main research interests include intercultural communication, the Portuguese-speaking cultural space, and art and culture in anti-colonial, post-colonial, and decolonial resistance.
Isabel Macedo is an Assistant Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre at the University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and a degree and master’s in Educational Sciences. Her current research combines intercultural communication and decolonial perspectives to explore the challenges of contemporary migration and the representations conveyed through cinema. She is co-coordinator of the project “Migrations, Media and Activism in Portuguese: Decolonizing Media Landscapes and Imagining Alternative Futures” (FCT, 2022–2026) and Director of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, a platform for academic cooperation in science, education, and the arts within the Portuguese-speaking countries. She has published nationally and internationally on cinema, interculturality, memory, (anti)racism, and education. She coordinated the Intercultural Communication Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom; 2018–2022) and is Director of the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (with Rita Ribeiro).