Decorre dia 19 de Junho pelas 16:30h na Sala de Aulas 2 do ICS o Seminário Europa-Asia "The British overseas educational policy and the Chinese response in Hong Kong in the late 19th century: Sun Yat-sen as a case study" por Hong-yuan Chu, Ph.D., Professor da National Taiwan University e Investigador da Academia Sinica. Moderado por João de Pina Cabral (ICS-UL) o Seminário Europa-Asia é organizado por Luís de Sousa (ICS-UL)

Call for Papers: Deadline December 31st, 2010
Convenors: António Costa Pinto (ICS/UL), Luís Nuno Rodrigues (CEHC/ISCTE), Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC/UNL), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (ICS/UL), Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies).

No âmbito do ciclo de seminários Escola e Modernidade, decorre dia 17 de Março pelas 14:30 na Sala de Aulas 2 do ICS a sessão com o tema  "In search of authenticity: uncertainty and risks behind students' vocational choices" com a participação de Mª Manuel Vieira, ICS-UL, José Resende, FCSH-UNL e  Lia Pappámikail, ICS-UL

We consider the relationship between economic development and political regime, tracing through the history of the debate amongst modernization theorists, its challengers, its revisionists, and the outright skeptics of any relationship. We acknowledge the importance of the contributions of those who argue that economic development causes democracies to emerge, as well as the importance of new work suggesting the entire relationship is spurious, driven instead by the specific country histories.

From late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, Spain and Portugal struggled to define the extension of their American domains. Having first secured papal bulls and having signed a bilateral treaty confirming, albeit with changes, a monopoly, for the next 500 years the monarchs, bureaucrats, experts, military men, religious personal and inhabitants of these two powers could not agree what this monopoly meant and how it was to be implemented. This indetermination led to a massive local involvement.