On November 17, the public doctoral defense in Anthropology of Rodrigo Domenech de Souza will take place in the Jorge Gaspar Conference Room at IGOT-ULisboa. The candidate will defend the thesis Time, Experience, and Production in the Machambas of the Nhanombe Valley. The event will begin at 2:30 p.m.

A new session of the Advanced Studies Seminar – Conference Series will take place on May 5, with Ananya Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, Paris) as the guest speaker. The theme will be Diversity and Democracy: Muslim Minorities and the Support for Democracy. The event will take place in the Maria de Sousa Room at ICS-ULisboa, starting at 10:30 a.m. See the full program of this seminar series.

On April 14, another session of the Advanced Studies Seminar – Conference Series will take place. Natália Alves (Institute of Education, University of Lisbon) will be the guest speaker, presenting on Constructing Learning Outcomes in Europe: a Multi-Level Analysis. The session will be held in the Maria de Sousa Room at ICS-ULisboa, starting at 10:30 a.m. See the full program of this conference series.

On March 17, another session of the Advanced Studies Seminar – Conference Series will take place. Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent) will be the guest speaker, presenting on Making the Personal Political: the Role of Narcissism in Political Attitudes and Behaviours. The session will be held in the Maria de Sousa Room at ICS-ULisboa, starting at 10:30 a.m. See the full program of this conference series.

No dia 24 de Novembro, os Grupos de Investigação MEMHIS e Impérios convidam quatro investigadores visitantes no ICS-ULisboa a partilharem as suas perspectivas num seminário conjunto sobre Imagens da História: Culturas Materiais e Visuais.

No dia 21 de novembro, Cristina Chiva (Universidade de Salford) será a oradora de um seminário do Grupo de Investigação RIGoP sobre Autocratization from Below: Illiberal Entrepreneurs in the Third Wave of Autocratization. A partir das 11h, online.

The Palestra Sedas Nunes 2025 will take place on November 27 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. This year, Olivette Otele (SOAS, University of London) will be the guest speaker and will deliver the lecture Representations and Trajectories of African Europeans.

The public defense of Ana Isabel Pires Fernandes’s PhD thesis will take place on December 9, in the Sala de Atos of the Rectory of the University of Lisbon and via videoconference.

ICS-ULisboa, together with its partners in the FoodLink Network, is promoting the 1st FoodLink Conference Series – Seeds to Transform the Food System in Network, a set of three debates bringing together scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to foster a more sustainable, healthy, and resilient region, in line with the Food Transition Strategy approved in 2025.