Biography

Lior Zisman Zalis is a PhD candidate in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship at the Center for Social Studies, the University of Coimbra with the project "Insurgent Spiritualities and Enchanted Politics", funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He holds an MA in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art and Thought from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (2019), a degree in Critical Theory and Museum Studies from the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museu de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, and a degree in Law with a speciality in "State and Society" from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a collaborating researcher of the POLICREDOS Working Group and of the Laboratory for the Study of Anthropology of Politics (UFMA). He has worked as a researcher at the Center for Human Rights at PUC-Rio (NDH) in projects in the field of memory studies and monitoring of human rights violations and has collaborated with spaces such as MACBA, Hangar, La Escocesa, among others. He moves in the interdisciplinary field between Cultural Studies, Anthropology, History, and Sociology namely in its articulations with conceptions of religion, politics, post-colonialism and materiality.