Human Rights in Contemporary Societies | Activities and Conferences

$Culture: Foundational Infrastructure for a Democratic Public Life<span id="edit_48517"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_48517').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=48517" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Western Sahara: human rights and the struggle for independence<span id="edit_48522"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_48522').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=48522" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Memory, Reconciliation, and Resistance: Anti-Colonial Politics and the Mandela Legacy in Post-Apartheid South Africa<span id="edit_46972"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_46972').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=46972" ); });</script></span>$

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

$State in Capitalism<span id="edit_46205"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_46205').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=46205" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Palestine: the tomb of international law?<span id="edit_46750"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_46750').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=46750" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Law, rights: the Critique of law in Latin America<span id="edit_46338"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_46338').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=46338" ); });</script></span>$

Workshop

Law, rights: the Critique of law in Latin America

September 26, 2024, 10h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

$Racism and Presidential Elections in the United States<span id="edit_45757"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_45757').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=45757" ); });</script></span>$

Seminar

Racism and Presidential Elections in the United States

Ollie Johnson (Wayne State University)

June 19, 2024, 15h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

$Biocultural Myths about Poverty<span id="edit_45034"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_45034').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=45034" ); });</script></span>$

Seminar

Biocultural Myths about Poverty

Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois - Chicago)

March 11, 2024, 14h30

Room 1, CES | Alta

$Frames of Intersectionality: An analysis of the Inter-American Court’s decisions on violence against women<span id="edit_44794"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_44794').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=44794" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Writing as an act of resistance to colonial violence: from Iran to Australia<span id="edit_44061"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_44061').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=44061" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Change Everything! Racial Capitalism, Abolition, and the Case for Militant Scholarship<span id="edit_39220"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_39220').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=39220" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Memory and Change in times of crisis<span id="edit_41049"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_41049').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=41049" ); });</script></span>$

Open Lecture

Memory and Change in times of crisis

Emily Keightley

Francisco Ferrándiz

December 9, 2022, 10h00-13h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

$Suffering and loneliness in a multipandemic world<span id="edit_37471"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_37471').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=37471" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Decolonizing History<span id="edit_37469"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_37469').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=37469" ); });</script></span>$

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

$Marxism and the epistemologies of the South<span id="edit_37467"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_37467').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=37467" ); });</script></span>$

Master Class

Marxism and the epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/FEUC)

April 8, 2022, 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

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

$The place of science in epistemologies of the South<span id="edit_37465"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_37465').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=37465" ); });</script></span>$

Master Class

The place of science in epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/FEUC)

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

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

$Postcolonialism, decoloniality and epistemologies of the South<span id="edit_37463"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_37463').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=37463" ); });</script></span>$

Lecture

Postcolonialism, decoloniality and epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES/FEUC)

March 23, 2022, 15h00-18h00 (GMT)

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

$Can human rights legal mobilization be decolonized? Notes in the light of intersectionality and epistemologies of the South<span id="edit_36863"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_36863').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=36863" ); });</script></span>$

Seminar

Can human rights legal mobilization be decolonized? Notes in the light of intersectionality and epistemologies of the South

Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES/USF)

January 14, 2022, 17h00 (GMT)

Online

$Transitional Justice and Human Rights: Goals and Challenges in a Historical Perspective<span id="edit_35700"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_35700').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=35700" ); });</script></span>$

Seminar | Doctoral Programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies

Transitional Justice and Human Rights: Goals and Challenges in a Historical Perspective

Natália Bueno (CES)

November 30, 2021, 15h00-17h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

$A Being that was not made to suffer: on the difference of the human and the differences between humans<span id="edit_35529"><script>$(function() { $('#edit_35529').load( "/myces/user/editobj.php?tipo=evento&id=35529" ); });</script></span>$

Seminar | DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

A Being that was not made to suffer: on the difference of the human and the differences between humans

João Arriscado Nunes (CES/FEUC)

November 22, 2021, 15h00

Room 1, CES | Alta