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Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle to screen award-winning documentary “48” by Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias on 8 February, 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 8 February, will…

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Application period open for the Master’s in Development and International Cooperation and the PhD in Development Studies – 1st Phase, 2025/2026

The first phase for applications to the Master’s in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI) and the PhD Programme in Development Studies (PDED) – academic year 2025/2026 – is now open. Both programmes maintain a close…

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“We, together”, newsletter No. 7 from Oficina Global

The path to change towards a better, fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable world is a collective endeavour. Our work at Oficina Global was born from the need to build bridges between academia and the many…

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Joana Pereira Leite/CEsA is a guest speaker at the launch of the book Basic Income for Disasters and Climate Change in Africa: Agrarian Risk Reduction and Adaptation

The economist and historian, retired professor from ISEG-ULisboa and researcher at CEsA, Professor Joana Pereira Leite, participated as a guest speaker at the launch of the book Basic Income for Disasters and Climate Change in…

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Season’s greetings from CEsA and a Joyful 2025!

  Season’s greetings from CEsA and a Joyful 2025! Click here to download our Season’s Greetings postcard. We would like to invite you to subscribe the CEsA Agenda (click here), our weekly newsletter, and to…

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CEsA researchers publish book on the dialogue between the Indian Ocean and written and visual narratives produced in Lusophone spaces

Researchers Ana Mafalda Leite (FLUL/ULisboa and CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa), Elena Brugioni (UNICAMP), Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa), and Marta Banasiak (UNICAMP and CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) co-author volume 20 of the series Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World, published by Peter Lang…

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Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle - "48" Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle - Screening of the documentary "48"
Date: February 8, 2025, at 10 a.m.
Venue: Auditorium 2, ISEG (Rua do Quelhas 6, Quelhas building, 2nd Floor). Free attendance. ... Feb 8 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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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 Uma viagem sobre a investigação e a inovação no turismo Uma viagem sobre a investigação e a inovação no turismo Abstract:
This chapter aims to succinctly outline the evolution and trends in the type of research that has been conducted, its connection to knowledge innovation issues, and, above all, whether this trend aligns with the major lines of action in the tourism sector at the international View Publication The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World: Literary and Cultural Intersections The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World: Literary and Cultural Intersections Abstract:
Working from the premise that the Indian Ocean shapes new transnational imaginative geographies, this volume analyses how visual and written narratives from Lusophone, or rather «Lusotopic», spaces – Portugal, Mozambique, East Timor and Goa – point to productive critical dialogues with existing theories in Indian View Publication DEZ AR MAR / TEN SEA AIR DEZ AR MAR / TEN SEA AIR View Publication

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