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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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Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle to screen award-winning Mozambican documentary “A Memory in Three Acts” on 8 March at ISEG, 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 March 8, will…

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CEsA Working Paper investigates the complex relationship between forced displacement and human development

The research concludes that the most urgent factors driving forced migration are political violence, particularly civil conflicts, and climate change—both exacerbated by economic crises, food insecurity, and infrastructure damage. How has refugee outflow evolved internationally?…

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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 February 8, will…

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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 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 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

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