A terceira sessão do Seminário de Estudos Avançados - Ciclo de Conferências terá lugar no dia 9 de dezembro. Vicenzo Cicchelli (Centre Population & Développement - IRD/Université Paris Cité) será o orador convidado neste seminário sobre o tema A World on Edge: Between Openness and Closure in Global Processes. Na Sala Maria de Sousa do ICS-ULisboa, a partir das 10h30. Consulte o programa completo deste ciclo de conferências.

Starting with major debates about the challenges and implications of globalisation for national societies, this seminar will explore the global context in which major events, such as global crises, are unfolding. Although the world is more open, connected, and interdependent than ever before, it is also more conflictual, divided, and fragmented. While unified in terms of global capitalist infrastructure and transnational circulation, the world is also deeply divided in terms of ideology, values, and politics. The seminar will address three interrelated lines of reflection: first, the tensions between centres and (semi)peripheries, focusing on the new forms of conflict at work in the global arena; second, the interplay of scales, considering the macro level of infrastructure, the micro level of agency (including questions of resistance, emancipation, cosmopolitanism, and withdrawal), and the meso level of institutions caught between national and transnational logics; and third, the dialectic between the materiality of capitalist production and the imaginary of global ideological and cultural forms.

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité and a Research Fellow at the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED, Université Paris Cité / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)). He is the former General Secretary of the European Sociological Association, the founder of Research Committee 15, “Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology,” at the European Sociological Association (ESA), and is the former Director of International Relations at the Global Research Institute of Paris (GRIP, Université Paris Cité). At Brill, he is Editor-in-Chief (with Sylvie Octobre) of the Global Youth Studies series (https://www2.brill.com/gy).