On May 23, Eduardo Rivera Pichardo (Rutgers University) will be the guest speaker at the Postgraduate Seminar in Social Psychology. The theme for this session will be The Social Psychology of Colonial Ideologies: Internalized Oppression, Historical Negation, and the Pervasiveness of Coloniality Beliefs. Starting at 2:30 p.m., online.

On May 8, Dario Nardini (University of Padua) will be the guest speaker at a seminar organized by the Diversities Research Group on the topic Sport, the body and masculinity through the lens of cultural anthropology. Starting at 11:00 a.m., in the Maria de Sousa Room at ICS-ULisboa and online.

On May 15, the SHIFT Research Group welcomes Thiago Silva (Visiting Researcher at ICS-ULisboa and Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais) as the speaker in a seminar dedicated to Governance in Renewable Energy for Territorial Regeneration: An Analysis of Possibilities and Risks in the Post-Disaster Context of Brumadinho-MG. Starting at 2:30 p.m., in the Maria de Sousa Room at ICS-ULisboa and online.

On May 21, the SHIFT Research Group is organizing a seminar on the theme Planetary Stewardship in View of Earth-Space Sustainability. Xiao-Shan Yap (Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) will be the guest speaker. Room 3, ICS-ULisboa and online.

On May 12, the debate Shall We Talk About Rent Control?, organized by Rede H – National Housing Studies Network, will take place at ICS-ULisboa. The debate aims to foster a broad public discussion on the public policies needed in the field of housing. Moderated by Sofia Branco (Lusa), it will offer different perspectives on rent control and the conditions for its success.

The event starts at 5:30 p.m., at the Maria de Sousa Room, ICS-ULisboa.

On May 7, ICS-ULisboa will host the seminar Machines in Tea Gardens: Legacies of Labour in the Colonial South Indian Tea Plantations, jointly organized by the Research Groups Diversities and Empires and the History of Science, Technology and Environment Group from IHC-NOVA FCSH. John Bosco Lourdusamy, from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, will be the guest speaker. The event starts at 11 a.m., in the Sedas Nunes Auditorium.

On May 20, the LIFE Research Group will have Kuai Shen (ICS-ULisboa) as a guest speaker of the seminar Weaving and attuning to the rain shelters of tamya añanku: an inverted multisensory experience. The session starts at 11 a.m., in Room 2 at ICS-ULisboa and online.

On May 23, the LIFE Research Group and the Responsible AI Seminars will host a joint seminar on Ethical Assemblages of Artificial Intelligence: Controversies, Resistance, and Networks in Facial Recognition. Helena Machado (CIES-Iscte) will be the guest speaker. The session will take place at 11 a.m. in Room 1 at ICS-ULisboa and online.

On May 15, Álvaro Sánchez-García (University of Salamanca) will be the guest speaker at the SPARC Research Group Seminar. The topic of the session will be Of Fields and Ballots: Agricultural Workers' Voting in Comparative Perspective. The seminar will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Room 2 at ICS-ULisboa and online (ID: 975 6636 2593, pass 124396). 

On May 13, Joana Vilaça (PhD Student in Migration Studies at ICS-ULisboa) will be the guest speaker at the LIFE Research Group Seminar. The topic of this session will be Ukrainian Women in Portugal: an empirical analysis of their participation in the labour market. From 11 a.m., in Room 2 at ICS-ULisboa and online.