To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Centre for Social Studies is organizing an international conference at the University of Coimbra, which is also intended as a tribute to  Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the founder, scientific director and spiritus rector of the Centre.

It will take place from 7th to 10th of November at the Centre of Social Studies (FEUC & UC Rectory Auditorium, Coimbra).

The conference will have the duration of three and a half days. For the first day, a call for papers, directed primarily at young researchers, is being issued. In the following days, the conference will assemble four round tables featuring researchers and intellectuals who have been invited to reflect on several transversal topics of high relevance for the present and future of research in the social sciences and the humanities in a globalized world.

In the spirit of the activity of the Centre during the last 40 years, the congress aims at opening a wide space for debate on some crucial topics of contemporary reflection that may help equate possible dimensions of a concretely imagined future.

Keynote speakers: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Françoise Vergès, Isabelle Stengers, Shiv Visvanathan, Hugh Lacey, Mogobe Ramose, Rajeev Bhargava, Susan George, Gustavo Esteva, Elisabeth Mpofu, Ramón Grosfoguel, João Cezar Castro Rocha, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Peter de Souza.