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Development Studies Seminars 2025-2026 | Industrial Policy and African-based Manufacturing: Institutional dimensions
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…
Interview with Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster for Afrolink: “Film is politics. We want to support a movement where Afro-descendants do not beg to be seen.”
Watch part of the interview with filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, conducted by journalist Paula Cardoso, from the Afrolink portal. The conversation with the award-winning documentary makers took place as part of the “Democracy…
CEsA joins new research project on representations of Islam in Mozambican literature and visual arts
The CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG Research/ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa) is joining a research project in partnership with the CEA – Centre for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique). Entitled…
Applications open for the first Gender Lab Workshop in Lisbon, to be held on 13 and 14 November at ISEG
CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies, within the Research Group Development Studies and Sustainable Transitions of ISEG Research (ISEG/University of Lisbon), is one of the institutional partners of the first Gender Lab Workshop,…
#DemocracyinAction: African and afro-descendant videomakers take part in intensive workshop on Storytelling, Narratives and Power
The official website of the international project #DemocracyinAction: Grassroots Culture, Arts and Cultural Spaces for Political Participation and Expression Online and Offline in a Resilient Europe has been launched. The project is coordinated by Sara…
Development Studies Seminars 2025 | Film Screening and Debate of the documentary “Memories in Exile”
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…
Conference “50 Years of Mozambican Literature” brings Mia Couto, Marcelo Panguana and other leading writers, artists and academics to Lisbon. Check the Full Programme
The CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG Research/ISEG/University of Lisbon) and the Eduardo Mondlane University are pleased to announce the conference “50 Years of Mozambican Literature: Journeys and Creative Practices”, which…
CEsA and ANIGB launch eBook on the informal trade of agricultural products in Guinea-Bissau
The CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG Research/ISEG – University of Lisbon) and ANIGB – National Association of Surveyors of Guinea-Bissau launched, in August 2025, the eBook Informal Trade Circuits of…
CEsA joins new research project on architecture, colonialism, and labour in Africa
The CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG Research/ISEG – University of Lisbon) is joining a new international research project that brings together architecture, anthropology, and the visual arts, focusing on the former…
TransatlanticLab: CEsA joins consortium of universities and institutions from Europe, Africa and the Caribbean in Horizon Europe project to analyse the legacies of colonialism
CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG–University of Lisbon), represented by Professor Iolanda Évora, has joined a consortium of universities and institutions from Europe, Africa and the Caribbean to develop the research…
