Research Programs

Define an horizon of mobilizing research to reading full-scale description of contemporary Portuguese society is the purpose of the Research Programs, which have a multiannual, interdisciplinary and intergroup nature. In 2013, the CEIS20 started two Research Programmes:

Program 1 – Two Centuries of Liberalism, 1820-2020: Forms of State, Social Movements and Subjectivation Devices

The program uses as chronological reference the establishment of liberalism in Portugal as a starting point for a general approach (firstly, a European approach) of the complexity of Liberalism as regime, thought and attitude.

The program brings together scholarly work, conceptual reflection and the analysis of multiple decisive occurrences for configuring new subjectivities. The collection of sources, publishing of classical texts, research on historical modes of building the Nation-State, the analysis of social movements on an expanded geographic scale, research of key transformations in the fields of education, cultural practices, intellectuals, health policies, knowledge and scientific practices, arts, public space and international relationships are a few of the dimensions of a Programme that is designed to be endowed with a strong forward-looking dimension.

Program 2 – Movement: People and Ideas Between Places

It gathers research projects that seek to identify, value and investigate processes of mobility of people and ideas. Migrations and exiles, in all their variety of conditions (political, social, economic and cultural), are the object of special interest.

The Programme also encourages research projects based on a post-colonial conscience, that develop an approach to the relationships between spaces and identities, bounded by the irreducible problem of the "origin" and by the purpose of enlisting the study of the circulation of people, goods and ideas in the deepening of cross-national and cross-cultural concerns.