{"id":97850,"date":"2021-09-06T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/isabel-capeloa-gil-at-the-atlantic-talks\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T07:00:45","slug":"isabel-capeloa-gil-at-the-atlantic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/isabel-capeloa-gil-at-the-atlantic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabel Capeloa Gil at the Atlantic Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isabel Capeloa Gil is the Dean of the Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa<\/a> and President of the International Federation of the Catholic Universities. Upon the return of the Atlantic Talks, we spoke to the Dean about the differences between the higher education system in Europe and the United States and the path that Portuguese universities must follow to reach new heights.<\/h3>\n

She was born in \u00cdlhavo, but grew up in Macau, where she lived the 25th of April at a distance, along with other remarkable events in the history of the region: the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon, and the death of Mao Tse-Tung.<\/p>\n

She wouldn’t come back to Portugal until 1981, as a teenager. Two years later, she began a career that would leave her linked to the academic field: she graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures and holds a Master’s degree in German Studies from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, <\/a>has a PhD in German Studies from Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias Humanas at the Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa of Lisbon.<\/a><\/p>\n

Studied at Ludwig Maximilian Universit\u00e4t,<\/a> in Munich, Bavaria, and the University of Chicago,<\/a> Chicago, Illinois, was a Visiting Professor at major universities in Italy, Ireland, Rio de Janeiro, and Macau, and a Visiting Researcher at Wissenschaftskolleg,<\/a> in Berlin, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.<\/a> Since 2010 she has been an Honorary Fellow of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.<\/a><\/p>\n