Speakers

Luís Miguel Oliveira de Barros Cardoso

Professor

Luís Miguel Oliveira de Barros Cardoso

Professor
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Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal

MIT

Luís Miguel Cardoso holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures, in the speciality of Comparative Literature from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was Dean of the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal, between 2010 and 2018 and Deputy Director of the Master in Media and Society. He was President of ARIPESE, Association of Reflection and Intervention in the Educational Policy of Higher Education Schools in Portugal (2015 – 2018). Professor at the Department of Language and Communication Sciences at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal, he has been a professor of Higher Education since 1995 and is currently a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon and CARE - Research Centre on Health and Social Sciences. His main areas of teaching and research are Sciences of Language and Communication, Pedagogical Innovation, Literacies, Education, Higher Education and Social Responsibility, and Literature and Cinema, under which published articles and book chapters and made presentations in Portugal and several countries, including USA, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Georgia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland, Romania, Canada, Vietnam, Turkey, Ukraine, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Australia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Panama, Japan, China, Czech Republic, India and Pakistan. He is a member of several international organizations and associations, as well as a member of the editorial board of international journals in the areas of Language and Communication Sciences, Comparative Literature, Literature and Cinema, Literacies and Education.

Michele Biasutti

Professor

Michele Biasutti

Professor
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Padova University, Italy

MIT

Michele Biasutti PhD is Full Professor at Padova University.He was scientific director of research projects funded by the Inter-University Center of Excellence for Educational Research and Advanced Training, of a two-year university research project and has participated in several national research projects including the Prin (2002) on the evaluation of university teaching.At an international level he was scientific director and coordinator of research units of about ten projects including "ISSEMT", Curriculum planning in higher education for sustainable development in the framework of the Bologna process funded by UNESCO BRESCE and by REIC (Bosnia Herzegovina), and three-year European Tempus projects (EACEA) such as LMPSM (coordinated by the University of Iasi, Romania), RUCAS (coordinated by the University of Crete, Greece).He is Coordinator of the National Unit of the European project Education for sustainable development in Protected Areas, coordinated by the University of Athens (Greece) and of the ERASMUS + CCSAFS projects (coordinated by the University of Crete, Greece), EducaMigrant, coordinated by Uşak İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü (Turkey), Out of the Net coordinated by Zespol Szkol i Placowek Specjalnych ZSiPS, (Poland), Beyond The Limits: Developing Entrepreneurship via Creativity in Schools, (Sakarya Üniversity).Associate Editor of International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Frontiers in Psychology, Sustainability and editorial board member of Musicae Scientiae (Sage); JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (JASS); Psych, Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability.He is the author of over 200 publications including volumes and essays mainly with a single name or as first author in international journals with IMPACT FACTOR such as British Journal of Music Education (Cambridge University Press), Computers & Education (Elseiver), Creativity research journal (Taylor & Francis), Educational Technology & Society, Educational Technology Research and Development (Springer), Environmental Education Research (Taylor & Francis), Frontiers in Psychology, Giornale di Gerontologia, Giornale italiano di Psicologia (Il Mulino), Hearing Research (Elseiver), International Journal of Music Education (Sage), International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (Emerald), International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (Wiley), Journal of Education for Teaching (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Research in Music Education (Sage), Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (De Gruyter), Musicae Scientiae (Sage), Music Education Research (Taylor & Francis), Pedagogy, Culture & Society (Taylor & Francis), Psychology of Music (Sage), Research in Dance Education (Taylor & Francis); Rivista di Musicoterapia (Edizioni Minerva Medica); Rivista di Psicologia, Small Group Research (Sage), Technology, Pedagogy and Education (Taylor & Francis), Tecnologie Didattiche, The Arts in Psychotherapy (Elsevier), The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (Taylor & Francis), Thinking Skills and Creativity (Elseiver).Michele Biasutti is at the top nationally among the Professors of the scientific disciplinary sector (M-PED / 04 Experimental Pedagogy) for citations, H-index (Perish) and for number of publications in international journals with IMPACT FACTOR.

Paulo Batista

Professor

Paulo Batista

Professor
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Universidade de Évora, Portugal

MIT

Dr. Paulo Batista holds a PhD in Documentation from the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain), along with multiple master's degrees and postgraduate qualifications in Information and Documentation Sciences, Archival Science, Documentation, and Information Society Law. He is currently undertaking postdoctoral research in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Brasília, Brazil. He serves as Senior Technician at the Lisbon Municipal Archives and Guest Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, where he coordinates postgraduate programs in Cultural and Educational Promotion in Archives and Libraries, as well as Architectural Archives. He is also an Integrated Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora (CIDEHUS.UÉ), coordinating the Heritage(s) and Literacies Research Group. Dr. Batista is a Corresponding Academician of the Portuguese Academy of History and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Architectural Archives Section of the International Council on Archives. Throughout his distinguished career, he has held positions in major Portuguese archival and heritage institutions and has contributed extensively to archival science, cultural heritage, architecture, and historical studies. He has authored and co-authored numerous books and nearly 100 scholarly publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings. An internationally recognized scholar, he has delivered keynote and invited lectures across Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. His recent research and publications focus on architectural archives, cultural heritage, urban history, cartography, museums, and the preservation of documentary heritage.

Bradley C Freeman

Professor

Bradley C Freeman

Professor
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Sunway University, Malaysia

MIT

Professor Bradley C. Freeman is Professor at Sunway University, Malaysia, where he has also served as Associate Dean (Education) and Programme Leader for postgraduate programmes in Creative Arts and Media. Prior to joining Sunway, he was Professor of Communication & Information Studies at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School for Communication at the American University in Dubai and Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Professor Freeman formerly served as Editor of Culture, Media & Film for Cogent Arts & Humanities, a Taylor & Francis journal. He has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and books, including Singapore Radio: Then & Now and, most recently, The Anatomy of Online Communities. His research spans radio and audio media, digital culture and online communities, media industries, and international communication. Professor Freeman is a graduate of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh and was an exchange student at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He has been an invited speaker at universities and research centres across Asia and the Pacific, including Fudan University in Shanghai, China; the University of the Philippines Diliman; and Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, among numerous other institutions. He was also selected as a Taiwan Research Fellow and conducted research while attached to Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan.