Master Class

The Global Polarisation around queer rights

Dennis Altman (La Trobe University, Melbourne)

October 21, 2026, 16h00

Auditorium 2, Student Hub

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

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

Cybersecurity, pandemic and «social engineering»: an incursion into the place of technology in society

Pedro Xavier Mendonça (CNCS / UNIDCOM-IADE)

April 11, 2025, 17h00-19h00

Sala Keynes, Faculty of Economics - UC

Seminar

Challenges for a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: Power, Myths and Representations

Helena Machado (Universidade do Minho / CVTT-ISCTE)

April 4, 2025, 17h00-19h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics - UC

Seminar

Integrating social sciences into technoscience projects: risks and benefits

Ana Delicado (ICS-ULisboa)

March 28, 2025, 17h00-19h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics - UC

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

Inaugural Lecture of the Doctoral Programmes in Sociology, and Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

DNA technologies and Criminal Investigation: Controversies and Expectations

Filipa Queirós (CES)

October 18, 2024, 17h00

Sala Gonçalves da Silva, Faculty of Economics - UC

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

Lecture

Controversies around (bio)medical assistance to reproduction: at the crossroads between Sociology of Health and Social Studies of Science and Technology 

Catarina Delaunay (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)

May 12, 2023, 14h00

Anfiteatro 4.1, Faculty of Economics - UC

Lecture

The places of science in data capitalism and the surveillance society

Helena Machado (Universidade do Minho)

May 5, 2023, 14h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics - UC

Lecture

The Murmurs of the Outside: Uncivilised Thinking for a Planetary Age

Martin Savransky (University of London)

February 17, 2023, 14h30

Keynes Room, 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

CES-UC DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES INAUGURAL LECTURE

After Disenchantment: Science, Education, and la Vita Activa

Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)

October 22, 2021, 14h30

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

Lecture

Pandemics and rare diseases: STS perspectives

Rob Hagendijk (University of Utrecht/University of Amsterdam)

May 27, 2021, 17h00 (GMT +01:00)

Online

Conference | Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

The independence of central banks: a political economy story

Adriano do Vale (Universidade de Paris)

April 30, 2021, 14h00 (GMT +01:00)

Online event

Conference | Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

The liberalisation trap - Brazil's quasi-stagnation while East Asia continues to grow

Luís Carlos Bresser-Pereira (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, S. Paulo)

April 16, 2021, 14h00 (GMT +01:00)

Online event

Conference | Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

Digitisation: some Portuguese structural problems

João Cravinho

April 9, 2021, 10h00 (GMT +01:00)

Online event

Conference | Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

The Latin American debate on industrialisation and structuralist political economy

Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos (Instituto de Economia, UNICAMP Universidade de Campinas)

March 12, 2021, 10h00 (GMT)

Online event

Conference | Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation

The new character of dependency (dependency 4.0)

Leda Paulani (Faculdade de Economia e Administração, Universidade de S. Paulo)

March 5, 2021, 14h00 (GMT)

Online event