Prof. Ineke Sluiter

Professor of Greek at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts and Society

Ineke Sluiter is Distinguished Leiden Professor of Greek at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on ancient ideas on language, public debates, and the use of value discourse, and connections between classics and the modern world. She leads the Gravitation Grant research program: Anchoring Innovation. Winner of the Spinoza prize 2010. She is a former President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and of the Academia Europaea.

Ana-Cristina Santos

Ana-Cristina Santos is a Sociologist and Senior Researcher with Habilitation in Human Rights at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where she is Co-Director of the Feminist Studies Doctoral Programme and Chair of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Research Line. After being awarded 2 grants by the European Research Council (in 2013 and in 2022), she now leads TRACE, centred on LGBTQI+ ageing in Southern Europe, funded by ERC. Cristina is also an elected member in her second mandate of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association, working in the areas of Communication, International Relations and Postgraduate Studies, and chairing the committee on Public Sociology, Diversity and Sustainability. Her most recent books are: The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities (2020); The Tenacity of the Couple Norm (UCL Press, Open Access, 2020); LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe: Citizenship, Care and Choice (Palgrave, Open Access, 2023); and A Research Agenda for Sexuality and Aging (Edward Elgar Publishing, Open Access, forthcoming 2026).

Contacts:

https://www.ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/ana-cristina-santos

BlueSky: @anacristinasantos.bsky.social

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