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Isabel Simões, Inês Nascimento Rodrigues, Júlia Garraio and Vasco Martins talk with Patrícia Vieira and Carlota Houart about environmental issues and climate change 

Fourth programme of a partnership between Radio Universidade de Coimbra and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), within the scope of the research developed by NHUMEP | Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies Research Group. This collaboration is conducted through the  programme Há Vida(s) Nesta Cidade!, directed by Isabel Simões, and will take place on the last Saturday of each month, starting at 2pm.

The programme can be heard live at  https://www.ruc.pt

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Patrícia Vieira Patrícia I. Vieira is FCT Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra in the NHUMEP research group. Dr. Vieira's research focuses on Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism, Post-Colonial Studies and Literary Theory. She has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She teaches as full professor at Georgetown University. Her books include "States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture" (New York: SUNY UP, 2018); "Portuguese Cinema 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime" (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013); "Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011); and "Cinema no Estado Novo: A Encenação do Regime" (Lisbon: Colibri University Press, 2011). She has co-edited "Portuguese Literature and the Environment" (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019), "The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature" (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2017); "The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World" (New York: Lexington Books, 2015), "Imagens Achadas: Documentário, Política e Processos Sociais em Portugal" (Lisbon: Colibri, 2014) and "Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought" (London and New York: Continuum, 2011). She is currently working on a book project that examines literature about the Amazon rainforest from an ecocritical point of view and preparing a book on this topic: "Zoophytography: Animals and Plants in Amazonian Cultural Productions" (Gainesville: The University of Florida Press, 2022). She is also editing a volume titled "The Environment in Brazilian Culture: Literature, Cinema and the Arts" and a special issue of the "Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies" on "The Amazon River Basin in Contemporary Latin American Culture." For more information, check: http://www.patriciavieira.net/

Carlota Houart  holds a degree in International Relations and an MA in International Relations - Peace, Security and Development Studies by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is a junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, as part of the NHUMEP Peace Studies Group, within the project DeCode/M: "(De)Coding Masculinities: Towards an enhanced understanding of media's role in shaping perceptions of masculinities in Portugal". Her current research interests include: International Relations, peace and conflict studies with a focus on environmental/climate issues and Humanity/Nature relations; gender studies; and media studies.