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

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 April 23, there will be another session of the Animal Wonder Reading Group. The text for this session will be A silent spring, or a new cacophony? Invasive plants as maestros of modern soundscapes by Jacob N. Barney, Grace O’Malley, Gabrielle N. Ripa, Joseph Drake, David Franusich, and Meryl C. Mims. The session will be led by Kuai Shen, researcher at ICS-ULisboa and the ABIDE project.

The round table Das Margens para o Centro: Desigualdades e as crises da (re)produção da vida quotidiana, organized by ICS-ULisboa researcher Vasco Ramos and PhD student in Sociology Francielli Dalprá will take place at IGOT-ULisboa, on June 25. The event is organized with the support of the LIFE Research Group.

On April 9, the Food for Thought Reading Group of the ICS Food Hub will host another session, organized by José Duarte Ribeiro. This time, the text Work in Progress: Power in Transformation to Postcapitalist Work Relations in Community-Supported Agriculture by Guilherme Raj, Giuseppe Feola, and Hens Runhaar will be presented by the author Guilherme Raj. The text is available on this link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10486-8

On April 11, the RIGoP Research Group is organizing a seminar on Preparing for the FCT PhD Scholarship Call. Starting at 11 AM, in Room 2 of ICS-ULisboa and online.