In the world linguistic panorama, the Portuguese language has a privileged position, either because of the high number of native speakers or because it is the official language in nine countries and an administrative region spread across all continents The growing demographic and economic strength of the countries that make up the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)...

Throughout history, the interaction of peoples and elites, the sharing of language, religion, ideas and the arts have always played a crucial role in international relations. Governments conceived cultural diplomacy as a tool in the service of political and economic objectives , but currently, this is already considered one of the three...

Professor Ângela Barreto Xavier (Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon) is today one of the main Portuguese specialists in Asian History Her Open Class, “Stories from within: Asian dynamics between the micro and the macro”, comes inaugurate the curricular unit of Asian History that integrates the renewed...

Launch session 14 November 2022 – 10:30 am – Auditorium 1 The support and promotion of innovative ideas are key activities for the development of new businesses, strengthening entrepreneurship, and stimulating the local, regional and national economy Considering these principles, the Autonomous University of Lisbon launches the Autonomous Incubator, which aims to...

On the semantics of a dish: moqueca capixaba and the construction of local identity, ES/Brasil Abstract The group of norms and social conventions that regulate production, exchange and the act of eating in a certain society contribute to determine a specific food tradition. , like any other element of culture, is a process,...