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

Memória, Biografia e Nostalgia

April 30, 2025, 17h00

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 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

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

CES-UC Doctoral Programmes Inaugural Lecture

The Thompsonian moment: labour unrest in the Global South

Ruy Braga (Universidade de São Paulo)

October 9, 2020, 14h30 (GMT +01:00)

Online

CES-UC Doctoral Programmes Inaugural Lecture

Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping

Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)

October 10, 2019, 15h00

Paulo Quintela Theatre, Faculty of Humanity and Arts of the University of Coimbra

Seminar

Where Hegel and Fukuyama Were Wrong and Why It Matters

Juozas Kasputis (Polanyi Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg - iASK)

June 4, 2019, 17h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

Inaugural Lecture of the CES-UC Doctoral Programmes

Study, Know, Learn, Hear, Listen, Do? Humanities for Social Studies

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)

October 12, 2018, 17h00

FEUC Auditorium (Coimbra)

Film Session | Debate

«FaSinPat, Fábrica sin Pátron» by Daniele Incalcaterra

November 6, 2017, 14h30

Room 2, CES | Alta

Seminar

Trade Unionism, Politics and Social Relations of Sex/Gender

Maria Lúcia Vannuchi

Sidney Jard da Silva

October 20, 2017, 17h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Inaugural Lecture of the CES-UC Doctoral Programmes

Is Suffering a Source of Global Progress?

Michael Barnett (George Washington University)

October 13, 2017, 15h00

FEUC Auditorium (Coimbra)

Debate

«A Fábrica de Nada» by Pedro Pinho, Luísa Homem, Leonor Noivo and Tiago Hespanha

September 27, 2017, 17h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

CES-UC Doctoral Programmes Inaugural Lecture

Social Inequality in the World: tombs and burial sites

Francisco Bethencourt (King's College, University of London/CES)

October 7, 2016, 15h00

Reitoria da Universidade de Coimbra Auditorium

CES-UC Doctoral Programmes Inaugural Lecture

Democratising the Eurozone

Yanis Varoufakis (Universidade de Atenas)

October 17, 2015, 16h00

Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra Auditorium

Seminar

Public intellectuals & the University: Challenging the global crisis

Neil McLaughlin (McMaster University/ Ontario)

March 24, 2015, 15h00

Keynes Room, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

Lecture

The plebeian instinct: labour, precariousness and social uprisings

Ruy Braga (USP)

February 24, 2015, 15h00

Keynes Hall, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra