We are delighted to invite you to the 2nd Doctoral Students’ Colloquium “Ethnographic Perspectives,” organized by the Research Group “Diversidades” based at ICS-ULisboa. The event will take place on October 8th and 9th, 2026, in the Maria de Sousa room at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon.

The group is mainly composed of anthropologists and social scientists who work in fieldwork and archival research, engaging in comparative ethnographic analysis and anthropological theoretical thinking, with an emphasis on race, gender, migration, environmental and urban studies. This initiative, in continuity with the one Colloquium of 2025, aims to create a comfortable space in which early-stage researchers can present and share their ethnographic trajectories through a biannual event.

Through this colloquium we hope to gather plural perspectives on fieldwork, open a dialogue between PhD students in Portugal who are using ethnographic approaches in their research and learn more about each other's works. The Colloquium is open to doctoral students from various fields in the social sciences and humanities who incorporate ethnography into their research. It is also open to PhD researchers at different stages of their projects - from the initial proposals to questions that arise from ethnographic analysis and the final writing of the thesis.

No conference fee is required to participate. 

We look forward to your participation,
Antonio Pedro de Barros, Chiara Beneduce, Shams Wang, and Matteo Vivi (DANT-ULisboa)