Master Class

The Global Polarisation around queer rights

Dennis Altman (La Trobe University, Melbourne)

October 21, 2026, 16h00

Auditorium 2, Student Hub

Seminar

Sex Work and Feminisms in Brazil: A Conversation with Monique Prada

Monique Prada (Escritora, ativista, trabalhadora sexual brasileira)

October 20, 2026, 16h30 (GMT+1)

Online event

INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE CES-UC DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES

The voice from the forest: Yanomami knowledge and the future of the climate 

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami (Líder indígena, escritor, Presidente da Hutukara Associação Yanomami)

October 19, 2026, 16h30

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics - UC

Seminar

Bajubá, the secret language of Brazilian travesties

Amara Moira (Escritora, professora de literatura e ativista brasileira)

March 25, 2026, 15h00 (GMT)

Online event

Film Session + Debate

«Racismo, uma descolonização em curso» [Racism, an ongoing decolonisation] by Joana Gorjão Henriques and Mariana Godet 

January 24, 2026, 18h00

Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo (Coimbra)

Seminar

Dissident memory-justice mobilizations: anti-Black LGBT political violence and resistance in contemporary Brazil

Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES/USF)

January 9, 2026, 10h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

CES-UC

Culture: Foundational Infrastructure for a Democratic Public Life

Justin O'Connor (University of South Australia)

October 24, 2025, 14h30

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Seminar

Western Sahara: human rights and the struggle for independence

Mamina Cheij Malainin

Yaguta El-mokhtar Moulay

October 23, 2025, 16h30

Room 1, CES | Alta

Seminar

Memory, Reconciliation, and Resistance: Anti-Colonial Politics and the Mandela Legacy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Ayesha Omar (SOAS)

December 6, 2024, 10h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

CES-UC DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES INAUGURAL LECTURE

State in Capitalism

Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS, Universidade de Londres)

October 25, 2024, 15h00

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Lecture on International Law and Palestine

Palestine: the tomb of international law?

Francesca Albanese (Relatora Especial da ONU)

October 4, 2024, 14h30

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics - UC + Live streaming

Workshop

Law, rights: the Critique of law in Latin America

September 26, 2024, 10h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

Seminar

Racism and Presidential Elections in the United States

Ollie Johnson (Wayne State University)

June 19, 2024, 15h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Seminar

Biocultural Myths about Poverty

Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois - Chicago)

March 11, 2024, 14h30

Room 1, CES | Alta

Seminar

Frames of Intersectionality: An analysis of the Inter-American Court’s decisions on violence against women

Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES/USF)

January 11, 2024, 10h30

Room 2, CES | Alta

Inaugural Lecture of CES-UC Doctoral Programmes

Writing as an act of resistance to colonial violence: from Iran to Australia

Behrouz Boochani (University of New South Wales)

October 27, 2023, 15h00

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

Inaugural Lecture | CES-UC Doctoral Programmes

Change Everything! Racial Capitalism, Abolition, and the Case for Militant Scholarship

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York Graduate Center)

January 20, 2023, 15h00

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

Open Lecture

Memory and Change in times of crisis

Emily Keightley

Francisco Ferrándiz

December 9, 2022, 10h00-13h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Master Class

Suffering and loneliness in a multipandemic world

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/FEUC)

April 29, 2022, 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

Auditorium - Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra + Online, via zoom

Master Class

Decolonizing History

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/FEUC)

April 22, 2022, 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

Auditorium - Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra + Online, via zoom