The Political Ecology Network is organizing the IV Political Ecology Meeting on the theme Territories and Resistances, from May 23 to 25 in Coimbra, and from May 30 to June 1 in Lisbon.

The seminar Ethnography as a Technique, organized by the Diversidades Research Group, will take place at Biblioteca Nacional on June 26th and 27th. See the full schedule full schedule.

No dia 2 de junho, o workshop To Resume/Reprendre: Urban Futures in the Era of the Congolese Anthropocene terá lugar a partir das 18h, no Auditório Sedas Nunes do ICS-ULisboa e online. O evento é organizado pelo Urban Transitions Hub, no âmbito da Summer School Inhabiting the surrounds. Filip de Boeck (University of Leuven) será o orador.

No dia 3 de junho, o workshop Figuring Rebellion and the Technical ends of Blackness terá lugar no Auditório Sedas Nunes do ICS-ULisboa e online, a partir das 18h. O evento é organizado pelo Urban Transitions Hub, no âmbito da Summer School Inhabiting the surrounds, e contará com os oradores Ana Rita Alves (Universidade Lusófona) e AbdouMaliq Simone.

On June 4th, ICS-ULisboa will host a seminar in the INSPIRE series, dedicated to the theme Art and the City?. Chiara Pussetti (ICS-ULisboa) and Ricardo Campos (NOVA-FCSH) will be the invited speakers. Starting at 11:00 am, in Room 2 at ICS-ULisboa. The Art and the City? seminar is part of the INSPIRE project’s ongoing seminar series. It takes as its starting point a collective question: Can art give form to the ‘margins’ of the city?

On 6 June, Bernard Harris (University of Strathclyde) will be the guest speaker at the Postgraduate Seminar in History. From 2:30 pm, in Room 1 of ICS-ULisboa and online.

On June 24, the team of the research project Democratic Innovations in Portugal, led by ICS-ULisboa researcher Roberto Falanga, will present the preliminary results of the project at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. The session will start at  2:30 pm, in Room 3, at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. The presentation will be followed by a debate with experts and a Q&A session. Registration is required.

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On June 4th, the public defense of Xinyan Cai’s Master's dissertation in Brazilian Studies, titled Trabalho Escravo no Brasil: As ocupações profissionais dos escravos no século XIX, will take place at ICS-ULisboa. The session begins at 12:00 PM, in Room 3 and online.

On May 26th, the UrbanoScenes Project is organizing the event Imaginar Luanda, Reimaginar o Urbano at Casa da Achada in Lisbon.