The conference The End of Empires? Cold War Diplomacies, Trajectories of Development and the Formation of the Third World, organized by Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Department of History (Brown University) and Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon) and sponsored by Luso-American Foundation (FLAD), will be held 6th and 7th May 2011 at Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, Pembroke Campus, Brown University, USA.