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• 21 fév 2019

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Revisiting the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

  Interdisciplinary conference signaling the centennial of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, the worst epidemic crisis on record in Portuguese and world history. The papers to be presented review the available knowledge on the subject, explore new data and point out the open questions regarding a historic event that caused dramatic effects on a global scale.

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• 15 oct 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Geography

  Post-soviet diaspora(s) in Western Europe (1991-2017)

  Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, millions of former soviet citizens crossed the national borders in search of better lives in new countries, in what was the biggest migration tide since the end of World War II. These Post-Soviet migrants were diverse in origins, strategies and expectations. They often represented a challenge to the orthodox views of migration processes, since in most cases these flows could not be easily described and analysed following commonly accepted theoretical frameworks. Everybody seemed to be on the move: labour migrants, political refugees, cross-border traders, “tourists” planning to forget their return... and in a short period, they spread all over Western Europe.

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• 15 fév 2017

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  War hecatomb: effects on health, demography and modern thought (XIXth-XXIst centuries)

  Without an exclusive focus on the two world wars and considering that other major conflicts had direct effects in demography, health and in the modern thought, this conference aims to open the historiographic debate in this almost yet unexplored topic, underlining the situation of countries that did not always played a main role in the military conflicts.

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• 14 jui 2011

  Lisbon

  Study days - Sociology

  Low fertility, families and public policies

  Low Fertility, Families and Public Policies é um seminário internacional organizado pelo Observatório das famílias e das políticas de família (OFAP). Terá lugar no Instituto de Ciências Sociais, em Lisboa, dia 14 de julho de 2011.

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