Conference Series - Advanced Studies Seminar

Conference Series - Advanced Studies Seminar

The Advanced Studies Seminar is an annual course designed as a space for interdisciplinary dialogue and engagement with cutting-edge research in the social sciences. Its primary goal is to immerse students in innovative perspectives about the complex challenges of the contemporary world.

The programme is structured around the four Thematic Lines of the ICS-ULisboa, which reflect the diversity of issues under discussion: Citizenship, exploring the multiple contemporary challenges faced by both emerging and consolidated democracies; Inclusion and Vulnerabilities, addressing the many webs of social inequality and their consequences; Memories and Legacies, critically examining how social memory is constructed and fostering dialogue between past, present, and future; and  Sustainability, focusing on how to shape sustainable futures through insights into climate change, food security, and urban transformation.

Each seminar combines sessions open to the wider academic community with masterclasses tailored specifically for the post-graduate students. This format encourages active participation, critical engagement, and direct dialogue with researchers from diverse disciplinary and institutional backgrounds. The approach ensures close alignment between learning goals and assessment, which emphasizes attendance, participation, and the preparation of critical essays. In this way, the Advanced Studies Seminar helps students develop and sharpen their theoretical and methodological knowledge, while also strengthening their ability to engage with a wide range of perspectives.

More than a course, the seminar is an intellectual meeting ground and a laboratory for critical reflection. It offers post-graduate students the opportunity to think globally, grapple with the emerging phenomena that define our time, and contribute to the pursuit of more just, inclusive, and sustainable societies.

 

Programme

28 OCT 2025 14:00 Inaugural Session
11 NOV 2025

Jean Segata
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Itália

10:30 Seminar
Genetic taming, subtle extinctions, and the narrowing of Multispecies Futures in Southern Brazil

14:00 Masterclass
Multispecies Health

25 NOV 2025

Eduardo Viola
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Universidade de Brasília, Brasil
Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brasil

10:30 Seminar
The International Political Economy of Cimate Policy in 2025

14:00 Masterclass
Climate Policy and Politics in Brazil in the 2020s

9 DEC 2025

Vincenzo Cicchelli
Centre Population & Développement - IRD/Université Paris Cité

10:30 Seminar
A World on the Edge: Between Openness and Closure in Global Processes

14:00 Masterclass
Living in a Global World: the Dynamics of Cosmopolitan Socialisation

13 JAN 2026

Anabela Carvalho
Universidade do Minho

10:30 Seminar
Communication, Governance and Imaginaries on Climate Change

14:00 Masterclass
Analysing Political and Media Discourses: Approaches, Tools and Skills

24 FEB 2026

Ananya Jahana Kabir
Department of English, King's College London, Reino Unido

10:30 Seminar
The Transoceanic Creole Garden as Decolonial Practice

14:00 Masterclass
Three Keywords for the Creole Garden: Recycling, Resistance, and Repair

17 MAR 2026

Aleksandra Cichocka
University of Kent, Reino Unido

10:30 Seminar
Making the Personal Political: The Role of Narcissism in Political Attitudes and Behaviours

14:00 Masterclass
Using Large Language Models to Track National Sentiments

14 APR 2026

Natália Alves
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa

10:30 Seminar
Constructing Learning Outcomes in Europe: a Multilevel Analysis

14:00 Masterclass
Using the Transversal Participatory Approach: Lessons Learnt from a Research Project

5 MAY 2026

Jan Rovny
Sciences Po, França

10:30 Seminar
Diversity and Democracy: Muslim Minorities and the Support for Democracy in Western Europe

14:00 Masterclass
Democracy and Democratic Backsliding

26 MAY 2026 14:00 Closing Session

 

Application and Enrolment

Students enrolled in Master's and Doctorate Programmes, in any curricular year, may request enrolment in the Cycle of Conferences - Advanced Studies Seminar as an extracurricular unit, gratuitously, by sending an email to gestao.academica@ics.ulisboa.pt.

Students enroled in other programmes and general public may enrol in the Cycle of Conferences - Advanced Studies Seminar, Estudantes inscritos noutros cursos e público geral podem solicitar a inscrição no Ciclo de Conferências - Seminário de Estudos Avançados, being required to pay the application fee (€ 10), enrolment fee (€ 25) and attendance fee (€ 450).

Applications through the ICS FenixEdu platform: https://fenix.ics.ulisboa.pt.
To create a registration, please access https://fenix.ics.ulisboa.pt/accountCreation.
In case you already have a registration, you can recover the access at https://fenix.ics.ulisboa.pt/passwordResetRequest.
In case you already have a student number at ICS, you should use your Campus account credentials. You may recover your access to this account at https://utilizador.ulisboa.pt.

 

Coordination

The programme of the Cycle of Conferences - Advanced Studies Seminar resulta de uma trabalho conjunto dos coordenadores das quatro Linhas Temáticas do ICS-ULisboa: