On May 14, 2025, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk at the 13th Club Health International Conference on Nightlife, Substance Use and Related Health Issues, held in the vibrant city of Ghent, Belgium. My contribution took place during the opening plenary session and was titled “Spectacularized Nocturnality: The Eventification and Touristification of the Night through Culture-Led MassiveContinueContinue reading “Spectacularized Nocturnality: Presenting at Club Health Ghent”
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Light Festivals and Proximity Tourism: Rethinking the Impact of Nighttime Cultural Events in Portugal
On May 4, 2025, I had the honour and great pleasure of delivering a talk titled “Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Nocturnal Cultural Events: The Role of Light Festivals in Proximity Tourism in Portugal”, as part of the Cities and Creativity seminar series hosted by the Universidade do Algarve in Faro. The session provided an opportunity to share reflections on theContinueContinue reading “Light Festivals and Proximity Tourism: Rethinking the Impact of Nighttime Cultural Events in Portugal”
Lights On Romania: Impacts of a Light Art Circuit
On October 28th, 2020, I had the honour of being the sole speaker at the Night Studies Research Seminar / Seminario de Investigación “Estudios sobre la Noche”, organized by: The Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN-UNAM), Mexico The Institut de Géoarchitecture (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) and the Institut des Amériques, France The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (McGill University), CanadaContinueContinue reading “Lights On Romania: Impacts of a Light Art Circuit”
Documenting the Night: Survey Research at Lumina Light Festival 2017
In 2017, during the Lumina Light Festival in Cascais, I conducted a large-scale survey as part of my ethnographic research on light festivals and nighttime urban experiences. This work would later become a central component of my doctoral thesis in sociology. Recently, Ocubo, the artistic studio and main organizer of Lumina, produced a short video that documents theContinueContinue reading “Documenting the Night: Survey Research at Lumina Light Festival 2017”
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz 