Events

Organization of Symposiums and Meetings:

2025-2026

• Book launch Walter Leal Filho, Hélder S. Lopes, Marina Prieto Lencastre, Rui Estrada, Diogo Vidal (Eds) (2025). "Composing Worlds: Humanities, Health and Wellbeing in the XXI Century Towards a More Sustainable World", Springer. October  2025, UFP.

• Open Class "Climatic Activism, imagination and communication in teenagers" with Daniela Ferreira da Silva (UM) & Diogo Vidal, UA, 26 November 2025.

• Webinar in Criminology with Ana Sani, UFP, December 2025.

• Webinar "Mental health and contact with nature: theory and practice" with Carla Fonte  (UFP/FCHS) & Rita Pereira (Plant2Care). 7 January 2026, 17h.

• Webinar "Circadian rythm, sleep, health and modern life " with Clelia Franco (ABN) & Marina Lencastre, UFP, 25 February 2026, 17h.

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• Composing Worlds 2026. International Virtual Symposium on Mental Health, Humanities and Nature. 28-19 April 2026.

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2024-2025

• Biophilia, Green Spaces and Health. The Case of Healing Gardens with Marina Lencastre. Conference-lecture at Faculdade de Ciências da University of Porto, 25 September 2024.

• Alter Nativas — Construyendo 'futuros posibles' with Juan del Rio, Rui Estrada, Marina Lencastre, Diogo Vidal, Elsa Simões. Documentary and debate on energetic transition, UFP, 16 October 2024.

• Nature and Health. The Instituto Árvores Vivas with Juliana Gatti. Webinar and debate, UFP, 20 November 2024.

• Communication and Menace to the Public Space with Rui Estrada. Webinar and debate, UFP, December 2024.

• Project of Volunteer Management with Álvaro Campelo e Sónia Fernandes, Pista Mágica- Escola de Voluntariado. Podcast UFP, January 2025.

• Interdisciplinary Project of a Therapeutical Garden for the Hospital- School UFP with Paulo Farinha Marques and Marina Lencastre. Seminar at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, 17 February 2025.

• Selling (and buying) without guilt? A discursive analysis of persuasion in sustainable advertising campaign. Webinar with Elsa Simões,  31 March 2025.

• Stages: Drama, Psychodrama and Catharsis with Eduardo Barroso, psychodramatist and artist. Roundtable, UFP. 3 April 2025.

• https://www.ufp.pt/coloquio-no-ambito-do-projeto-compor-mundos/

• Expressions of Change: Artistic Intervention in Vulnerable Communities with  Gloria Jolluskin and Isabel Silva. 24 April 2025.

• https://www.ufp.pt/palestra-sobre-expressoes-de-mudanca-intervencao-artistica-em-comunidades-vulneraveis/

• Project of Healing Gardens at the School-Hospital Fernando Pessoa with Paulo Farinha Marques, Maria José Curado, Juliana Gatti, Marina Lencastre, Diogo Vidal. Conference and workshop, HE. May 2025.

• Composing Worlds 2024. International Virtual Symposium on Humanities, Environment, Health, and Well-being. UFP, 15-16 Maio 2024.

• https://composingworlds24.fundacaofernandopessoa.pt 

Videos of the Symposium:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV95e8DccK4

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8r1HeKWO0k

• Lançamento dos ebooks "Compor Mundos. Humanidades, Bem-estar e Saúde". UFP, 18 de Abril 2023.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGS7kY-Q3F8.

Participation in Congresses and Meetings:

• Marina Lencastre - Invited Participation in the Opening Panel of the International Congress Criminology, Victimology, and Justice , UFP, 2025.

• Marina Lencastre & Rui Estrada - Invited participation for a commented talk on the film Sick of Myself at the Jornadas sobre o Narcisismo organized by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Clínica, ESE-UP, 5 de Abril 2025.

• https://sppc.pt/seminario-narcisismos-na-contemporaneidade/

• Marina Lencastre - Communication "On the network project Composing Worlds. Humanities, Health and Well-Being. Focusing the relations between nature and mental health" in III Jornadas de Psicologia, UFP, 3 de Dezembro 2024.

• https://www.ufp.pt/iii-jornadas-de-psicologia-da-ufp/#programa

• Marina Lencastre - Communication "Reflections on Charisma and the Risks of Populism",  Symposium A3 - Questões contemporâneas que desafiam a Paz Global - Populismos, Felicidade Narcísica, Diversidade e Ambiente, IX CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL PARA EL ESTUDIO DE LA MEDIACIÓN Y EL CONFLICTO, Universidad do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal, Outubro 2024.

• https://congresocuemyc2024.wixsite.com/cuemyc/es

• Juan del Rio, Rui Estrada, Marina Lencastre, Elsa Simões, Diogo Vidal & Álvaro Campelo - Alter Nativas — Construyendo futuros posibles, Roundtable UFP, Outubro 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH03iGMAcKI

• Marina Lencastre - Communication "Biophilia, green spaces and health. The case of healing gardens". Conference-class at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Setembro 2024.

• Digitalisation & Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapeutic Care, NPCE Event 2024 on 29 May 2024, 10-14h (CET) 

• https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81788493474?pwd=Z0MvTmRCbXRFcHVYcXIxVXNUMXFIdz09

• Meeting-ID: 817 8849 3474, Code: 257691

• Oral presentation "Humanidades e os limites do naturalismo" at the IV Meeting Report(h)a. Sapiens, Health and Environment. Natural and Artificial Frontiers. FLUP, October 2021.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhFNBGhxUIA (from 1h25m).

• Presentation of the network project "Compor Mundos. Humanidades, Bem-Estar e Saúde" at the official public presentation of the International Chair of Bioethics. UFP, October 2022.
  https://www.ufp.pt/catedrabioeticaffp/#eventos (from 29'30m).

• Launching of the  ebooks "Compor Mundos. Humanidades, Bem-estar e Saúde". UFP, April 18, 2023.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGS7kY-Q3F8.

• Public recognition of the network project "Compor Mundos" at the Day of the University UFP, June 13, 2023.  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2yeotIlBnU&t=2374s.

• Oral presentation "Biophilia and mental health" at the 2nd World Congress of Integrative Medicine and Health. Rome, September 2023.

• https://icimcongress.org. Vídeo: https://youtu.be/O5b2iJRRFak

• Oral presentation "Compor Mundos. Humanidades, ambiente e saúde no Antropoceno" at the "Colóquio Interdisciplinar Tempos Cruzados. Diálogos entre a História, a Antropologia e a Arqueologia" (CITCEM, SPAE, ADECAP). FLUP, October 24, 2023.

• https://citcem.org/eventos/coloquio-interdisciplinar-tempos-cruzados-dialogo-entre-a-historia-a-antropologia-e-a-arqueologia/

• Oral presentation "Onde está a solidão no século XXI? O reconhecimento social pelo horror" at the Congress "Solidão, Soledade, Solitude, Sozinhice: Problema  pessoal ou escolha pessoal?", CITCEM-FLUP, November, 2023.

• https://citcem.org/chamada-de-comunicacoes-para-o-coloquio-solidao-soledade-solitude-sozinhice-problema-social-ou-escolha-pessoal/

• Moderation of the Jornadas "DesTempos", Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Clínica, Universidade de Lisboa, November, 2023.
  https://www.facebook.com/events/881435059512059/acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D&locale=pt_PT

• Webinars Composing Worlds

1. What is Evolutionary Psychology and How Does It Matter to Health and Well-Being? - Marina Lencastre - July 18, 2023, 17h. 

Supporting document: https://www.rcaap.pt/detail.jsp?id=oai:impactum-journals.uc.pt:article/994.

Vídeo of the webinar: https://youtu.be/zp1s4HBTloc.

2. Ecological and Environmental Themes in Social Media Contents - Elsa Simões - September 6, 2023, 17h. 

Supporting documents: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/15724.pdf; http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/19/pdf/n19a08.pdf; http://bdigital.ufp.pt/bitstream/10284/3155/3/15-27.pdf.

Vídeo of the webinar: https://youtu.be/rKHBT1M0kxc.

3. Ecological Knowledges, Health and Citizen Science - Helder Silva Lopes & Diogo Guedes Vidal - October 11, 2023, 17h.  

Supporting documents: https://rlec.pt/index.php/rlec/article/view/4051   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00029/full
Vídeo of the webinar: https://youtu.be/0kl6k9poA3w

4. Landscape: Perception and Experience of the Territory - Paulo Farinha Marques - November 9, 2023, 15h. 

Supporting document: https://www.fc.up.pt/ap/biodiv-city/.
Vídeo of the webinar: https://youtu.be/pcvIEnfR9F4

5. Health Anthropology: A Reflection on the Body - Álvaro Campelo - February 22, 2024, 18h.

Supporting document:  https://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/18123.pdf

6. Narrative Bioethics and Medicine: Dialoguing Perspectives - Susana Magalhães - April 9, 2024, 17h.

Supporting documents: http://www.barometro.com.pt/2019/12/23/a-espessura-dos-cuidados-de-saude-a-luz-da-medicina-narrativa/Susana Teixeira Magalhães; https://publi.ludomedia.org/index.php/ntqr/article/view/237; https://www.unifeso.edu.br/editora/pdf/47014555a284149595730af7e664faf4.pdf
Vídeo of the webinar: https://youtu.be/jB1GR_5-BSc

7. Nature and Health. The Institute Árvores Vivas (Brasil) - Juliana Gatti - November 20, 2024, 17h.

https://www.ufp.pt/natureza-e-saude-a-acao-da-associacao-arvores-vivas-brasil/

Supporting document:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINaKT-9OfE; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtS7iCmw5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtS7iCmw5U  ;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINaKT-9OfE ;  https://arvoresvivas.org/2024/06/27/conheca-propostas-adolescentes-emergencia-climatica/  ; https://www.unicef.org/brazil/relatorios/comentario-geral-26-comite-dos-direitos-da-crianca  ; https://www.vertentes.org/criancas-no-g20/  ; https://arvoresvivas.org/2024/11/04/criancas-e-natureza-novo-manual-da-sbp-e-american-academy-of-pediatrics-conta-com-a-participacao-da-clica-e-instituto-arvores-vivas/ 

Vídeo of the webinar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkR7Iw-Xpc

8. Communication and Menace to the Public Space - Rui Estrada -  December 17, 2024, 17.30h.

Supporting document:

9. Selling (and buying) without guilt? A discursive analysis of persuasion in sustainable advertising campaign. Webinar with Elsa Simões,  March 31, 2025, 17h.

https://www.ufp.pt/vender-e-comprar-sem-culpa-a-linguagem-da-persuasao-nas-campanhas-sustentaveis/

Supporting documents:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5908 https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5970 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/6 Reformation / ‘About Ref’. https://www.thereformation.com/sustainability/oh-hi.html?_gl=1*i7iuvp*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkN--BhDkARIsAD_mnIq3IF5mn6EJIeH-B70VUI-pzqmbJqqwYpyGjFaY-Lmh9gDFahgxReMaAu0sEALw_wcB

Video of the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Hwm7wSbOs

10. Mental Health and Contact with Nature: Theory and Practice - Carla Fonte  (UFP/FCHS) & Rita Pereira (Plant2Care) - January 7, 2026, 17h.

Supporting documents: https://revistataeonline.weebly.com/uacuteltimo-volume.html; https://esp.apacsci.com/index.php/esp/article/view/1869.

Video of the webinar:

11. Circadian rythm, sleep, health and modern life. Webinar with Clelia Franco (UFPE e H. Oswaldo Cruz UPE; Academia Brasileira de Neurologia) - February 25,  2026, 17h. 

Supporting documents: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40419761/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35659077/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07420528.2025.2501339; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38962617/

Video of the webinar:

12. Webinar with Elsa Simões - Mars 2026.