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Development Studies Book Club on African Literatures celebrates 50 years of African Independences

The CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG Research) will launch its first book club in March 2025, under the Development Studies theme and coordinated by Susana Brissos, assistant Professor at ISEG –…

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April session of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle to screen the documentary ‘Fogo no Lodo’ at the National Museum of Ethnology with free admission

The 2024/2025 season of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle has been running since November 2024, hosting cineclub-style sessions to explore the legacies and memories of decolonisation. The next session, scheduled for 5 April, will feature…

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Recording of the DS Seminar “Tourism Competitiveness and Sustainability in Cape Verde: 2 paths, 1 destination” available on CEsA’s YouTube Channel

The Development Studies Seminar “Tourism Competitiveness and Sustainability in Cape Verde: 2 paths, 1 destination” (A Competitividade e a Sustentabilidade Turísticas em Cabo Verde: 2 caminhos, 1 destino, original title, in Portuguese) took place on…

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Development Studies Seminars 2025 | A Competitividade e a Sustentabilidade Turísticas em Cabo Verde: 2 caminhos, 1 destino

The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in…

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Development Studies Seminars 2025 | 30 Years of TICAD Through the Lenses of Self-Reliance and South-South Cooperation

The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in…

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Luís Pais Bernardo presents a seminar at the 2nd Research Workshop on the Global Gateway Initiative at the Technical University of Munich

CEsA researcher, PhD in Sociology, and Political Science specialist Luís Pais Bernardo delivered the seminar Connecting Markets: Business Power and the EU Global Gateway at the 2nd Workshop on the Global Gateway Initiative, held on…

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Clube de Leitura Development Studies: "Terra Sonâmbula" Development Studies Book Club on African Literatures: “Terra Sonâmbula”
Date: 23 April, 2025, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 209 – Francesinhas 1 Building, ISEG (Lisbon) ... Apr 23 View Event Development Studies Book Club on African Literatures: "Nós, os do Makulusu" Development Studies Book Club on African Literatures: "Nós, os do Makulusu"
Date: 31 March, 2025, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 209 - Francesinhas 1 Building, ISEG (Lisbon) ... Mar 31 View Event Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle – Fogo no Lodo ('Fire in the Mud') Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle – Screening of the documentary Fogo no Lodo ('Fire in the Mud')
Date: 5 April, 2025, at 10 a.m.
Venue: Auditorium of the National Museum of Ethnology (Avenida Ilha da Madeira Lisbon 1400-204). Free attendance. ... Apr 5 View Event Conference ’50 Years of Mozambican Literature' Conference ’50 Years of Mozambican Literature: Trajectories and Creative Practices’
Date: October 9-10, 2025
Venue: Room 1, congress area, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ... Oct 2025 View Event Exhibition 'Deconstructing colonialism, Decolonizing... Exhibition 'Deconstructing colonialism, Decolonizing the imagination'
Exhibition: October 29, 2024 to November 2, 2025
Venue: Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon
... Nov 2025 View Event International Colloquium at University of Évora International Colloquium “O Português e as Línguas Nacionais nos Países Africanos e em Portugal (1975-2025). Meio Século do 25 de Abril em Portugal e da Independência das ex-Colónias Africanas”
Date: July 2nd to 4th, 2025
Venue: University of Évora ... Jul 2025 View Event

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Working Paper 202/2025: Manual básico SPSS: como o utilizar de forma rápida e fácil Working Paper 202/2025: Manual básico SPSS: como o utilizar de forma rápida e fácil Abstract:
This manual aims to explain a quick and effective way to use IBM SPSS Statistics for data entry, management and analysis. In other words, the way in which data can be approached in the field of social sciences using descriptive statistics, demystifying its use.
Cite this View Publication A Opinião Pública e a Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento Portuguesa A Opinião Pública e a Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento Portuguesa Abstract:
Almost 20 years after the first public opinion poll on the role of Development Cooperation, particularly Portuguese Cooperation, we have launched a new study to find out what Portuguese society thinks about this sector, at a time when a new strategic cycle of Portuguese Cooperation View Publication Working Paper 201/2025: A Glance at International Challenges of Refugee Crises in the New Millenium Working Paper 201/2025: A Glance at International Challenges of Refugee Crises in the New Millenium Abstract:
This study investigates the intricate relationship between forced displacement and human development. By examining refugee outflows from key regions, this paper seeks to comprehend the factors driving these movements and their development implications. Employing a qualitative case study methodology, the research focuses on the five View Publication Entre eu e Deus by Yara Costa: An Unprecedented Representation of the Island of Mozambique Entre eu e Deus by Yara Costa: An Unprecedented Representation of the Island of Mozambique Abstract:
This article aims to dissect the documentary Entre eu e Deus with the primary objective of demonstrating that the director sets out to challenge images, representations and crystallized perceptions of the Island of Mozambique, Mozambican cultural identity and Islamic fundamentalism, and that she succeeds in View Publication Claude Meillassoux em Moçambique: a propósito de uma carta a Marcelino dos Santos Claude Meillassoux em Moçambique: a propósito de uma carta a Marcelino dos Santos Abstract:
Claude Meillassoux, the founder of French economic anthropology, and Marcelino dos Santos, an important leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), met in Paris in the 1950s, when they were both studying with the Africanist Georges Balandier. In 1977, the year of Meillassoux’s first visit View Publication African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império Abstract:
This article compares the trajectories of different women who crossed the Casa dos Estudantes do Império (CEI), a formal institution created in Lisbon by students from the colonies with the support of the Portuguese dictatorial regime in 1944, that became a platform for anti–colonialism. Due View Publication

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