Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers Wins Best LGBTQ+ Film at Your Way Film Festival (Malta)
The documentary film Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers, directed by Ana Cristina Santos and Nuno Barbosa, has been awarded Best LGBTQ+ Film at the Your Way Film Festival, an annual international event dedicated to showcasing independent cinema from around the world. Produced within Project TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time, the film […]
Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers Wins Film of the Year at the dezanove Awards 2025
The Documentary Film Outlasting has been awarded Film of the Year at the 16th edition of the dezanove Awards, a key distinction within Portugal’s LGBTQI+ media and cultural landscape. dezanove is an independent digital media platform dedicated to LGBTQI+ issues, with a sustained role in fostering visibility, critical reflection and collective memory in Portugal since […]
World Premiere: Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers at Queer Porto International Film Festival
The Documentary Film Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers had its world premiere on 8 November 2025 at Batalha Centro de Cinema (Sala 2), as part of Queer Porto 11 – International Queer Film Festival. Produced within Project TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time, Outlasting brings together the life stories of older LGBTQI+ […]
Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers Wins Best LGBTQ+ Film at AIMAFF
The Documentary Film Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers, directed by Ana Cristina Santos and Nuno Barbosa and produced as part of the Project TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time, has been awarded Best LGBTQ+ Film at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival (AIMAFF). Following its world premiere at Queer Porto 11 […]
European Sociological Association Executive Committee Meeting at the University of Palermo (Italy)
The Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association (ESA) met in Palermo, Italy, on 11–12 September 2025, in collaboration with the University of Palermo, bringing together leading sociologists from across Europe. Ana Cristina Santos, Principal Investigator of TRACE – Tracing Queer Citizenship Over Time, participated in the meeting as an elected member of the ESA […]
European Sociological Association Executive Committee Meeting at the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
TRACE’s Principal Investigator, Professor Ana Cristina Santos, contributed to the organisation of an ESA Executive Committee meeting held at the University of Coimbra, in collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies (CES-UC). The gathering brought together leading sociologists from across Europe to reflect on current challenges and discuss future directions for Sociology in Europe.
Doctoral Project Defense “Agroqueer: LGBTQI+ Lives in Rural Portugal Over Time” by Pedro Fidalgo
PhD candidate Pedro Fidalgo successfully defended his doctoral project at the PhD Programme in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (III-UC). Pedro Fidalgo’s dissertation, “Agroqueer: LGBTQI+ Lives in Rural Portugal Over Time” documents queer life stories in rural Portuguese contexts, highlighting experiences often overlooked in mainstream queer research and […]
Doctoral Project Defense “No Country for Older Queers: The Lived Experience of Ageing LBTQ+ Women in Sardinia and Sicily” by Irene Massa
PhD candidate Irene Massa successfully defended her doctoral project at the PhD Programme in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (III-UC). Irene Massa’s dissertation, “No Country for Older Queers: The Lived Experience of Ageing LBTQ+ Women in Sardinia and Sicily,” explores the realities of ageing […]
Strategic Meeting for Theoretical and Methodological Planning
On 6 and 7 February 2025, the TRACE research team met in Curia for a strategic meeting dedicated to the theoretical and methodological preparation of the project’s analytical phase. Over two intensive days of immersive teamwork, the team held three in-depth working sessions, including a key meeting with the International Advisory Board, with the participation […]
Joana Brilhante won the 2024 Young Scholar Award by the European Sociological Association (ESA)
The European Sociological Association (ESA) awarded Joana Brilhante the 2024 Young Scholar Award. This award by ESA distinguises her paper ”’Out[side], loud and proud!’: An insular approach to LGBTQ narratives and experiences” on LGBTQ+ narratives in insular contexts, and her ongoing work as a researcher at project TRACE, at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), […]