The next Meeting on Migratory Experiences will take place on the afternoon of 26 February 2026, starting at 4:00 p.m., at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon.

VENUE
Room B226, Building 4 (Iscte)

SPEAKER
Andrea Imaginario
Autónoma University of Lisbon and Central University of Venezuela

COMMENTARY
Magdalena López
CEI-Iscte and University of Notre Dame (USA)

Biographical Notes

Andrea Imaginario is a doctoral candidate in History at the Centre for Research in Historical Sciences of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, where she is completing her dissertation entitled “History and Representation of Portuguese Culture in Venezuela between 1958 and 1999.” She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and a Magister Scientiarum in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Education of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). She received formal training as a soprano at the Lino Gallardo School of Music in Caracas and is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts of UCV. At this institution, she has also served as Academic Coordinator, Community Service Coordinator, and as a member of the Academic Committees of the Master’s programmes in Latin American Plastic Arts and in Comparative Literature. Her academic work has focused on Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, and Music. She has edited musical albums exploring Luso-Venezuelan interculturality and the relationship between Portuguese music and poetry, for which she was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Association of Luso-Descendants of Venezuela for her contribution to the dissemination of Portuguese culture in Venezuela. Her scientific and cultural output includes one book and several peer-reviewed articles, as well as academic translations from Portuguese into Spanish, conference papers, book chapters, and outreach publications.

Magdalena López (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for International Studies of Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. Her work focuses on contemporary cultural criticism related to the historical experience of the Hispanic Caribbean. She is the author of El otro de nuestra América: imaginarios sobre Estados Unidos en Cuba y la República Dominicana (2011), Desde el fracaso: narrativas del Caribe insular hispano del siglo XXI (2015), and the novel Penínsulas rotas (2020). She has coordinated several collective volumes, including an anthology of Caribbean women writers, and has published extensively in academic journals. She has served as a visiting lecturer at undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Salamanca (Spain), the University of Lisbon (Portugal), the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina), the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), the University of Notre Dame (USA), and Dartmouth College (USA).