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Development Studies Book Club | Niketche: A Story of Polygamy | Paulina Chiziane
In March 2025, CEsA—the Center for Studies on Africa and Development (ISEG Research)—launched its first book club under the “Development Studies” banner, coordinated by researcher Susana Brissos, a visiting assistant professor at ISEG—University of Lisbon….
Today | Development Studies Seminars 2026 | Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital Markets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Topic: Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital Markets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Speaker: Paolo Mauro (World Bank Group) Date: March 25, 2:30 p.m. | Mar 25th, 2:30 p.m. Location: ISEG (Amphitheater 3, Quelhas…
4th CPLP-Africa Conference for Young Researchers | Workshop: “Creating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
As part of the 4th CPLP-Africa Conference of Young Researchers, the workshop “Creating in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Authorship, and Critical Thinking” will take place—an initiative aimed at promoting reflection on the use…
Launch of Mundo Crítico No. 13 | Informality and the Economy(ies) of Life | March 25
Issue No. 13 of “Mundo Crítico – Journal of Development and Cooperation” aims to spark a discussion on the issue of informality and its relationship to development and international cooperation. As in previous issues, the…
Development Studies Seminars 2026 | “Dialogues with Economic Anthropology: Claude Meillassoux in Mozambique” | March 19
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, has promoted research conducted in the fields of study covered by ISEG’s Master’s Program in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI) and the University of Lisbon’s…
Telling Our Stories: Audiovisual Narratives on Democracy and Citizenship | March 20–27
A multimedia exhibition that brings together short documentary films, photography, and an interactive digital map to highlight the cultural, civic, and political participation of African and Afro-descendant communities in Portugal. Developed as part of the…
Development Studies Seminars 2026 – “Financing Firm Growth: The Role of Capital Markets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, has promoted research conducted in the fields of study covered by ISEG’s Master’s Program in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI) and the University of Lisbon’s…
The traveling exhibition “Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonizing the Imagination” opens on February 24, 2026, at 4:30 p.m., at the Francisco Pereira de Moura Library (ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics & Management)
CEsA – Center for Studies on Africa and Development / ISEG Research announces the opening session of the traveling exhibition “Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonizing the Imaginary: Portuguese Colonialism in Africa—Myths and Realities,” conceived, curated, and coordinated…
TransatlanticLab – CEsA joins a consortium of universities and institutions from Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in a Horizon Europe project to investigate the legacies of colonialism
Our researcher, Professora Iolanda Évora, Ph.D., has joined a consortium of universities and institutions from Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean to develop the research project TransatlanticLab-101235830, HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01, which aims to examine, from a material perspective,…
THE ABCs OF COOPERATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO
UA Library – Hélène de Beauvoir Room – February 12–27 The Alphabet of Cooperation – Concepts, Stories, Images is a collective work that invites critical reflection on current issues related to development cooperation. Bringing together…
