Florinda Matos , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has been recognized for her contribution to the Journal of Knowledge Management  (JKM) as co-author of the article 'Digital Transformation: The Role of Generative AI in the Evolution of Knowledge Management Systems'. This recognition also reflects the collaborative work with researchers Graciele Tonial, Aline Pletsch and Leani Koch, highlighting the importance of international scientific cooperation in knowledge management, intellectual capital, and innovation. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) constitutes an emerging domain with potential implications for organisational knowledge management (KM). Whilst the absorptive capacity (ACAP) framework is well-established, understanding of how GenAI is applied to the processes within its dimensions remains fragmented. This study mapped and synthesised existing knowledge about GenAI in knowledge management processes, considering the dimensions of absorptive capacity (recognition, acquisition, assimilation, transformation and application). The study offers a preliminary theoretical contribution by identifying the pattern of dimensional asymmetry in emerging literature on GenAI-mediated ACAP, wherein technological democratisation may challenge assumptions of traditional KM theories. For practice, evidence suggests that organisations may consider ACAP readiness assessment in implementation, prioritising the development of knowledge assimilation capabilities through structured validation protocols.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to the public presentation of Lorenzo Macagno's research project: 'Conexões entre arquitetura, antropologia e artes plásticas: um estudo de caso (Matalana, Moçambique)' (Connections between architecture, anthropology, and fine arts: a case study (Matalana, Mozambique)). The presentation will take place on 16 March 2026 at 10:00 at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 4, Room B226. The present research aims to explore the connections between architecture, anthropology, and the visual arts. The work seeks to show how African knowledge informed architectural knowledge and practices in late colonial Mozambique (between the 1950s and 1970s). At the same time, it aims to analyse the contemporary effects of these connections and their impact on southern Mozambique, more specifically in Matalana, in the district of Marracuene. This research project is supported by: Acordo ERC-CONFAP, Fundação Araucária de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Estado do Paraná (FA), Proc. nº 23075.065655/2025-11.

DINÂMIA’CET-ISCTE is proud to announce the successful public defence of Eduardo Corales's doctoral thesis, entitled "POWERPOINT: Infraestrutura hidroelétrica em Portugal e o território como projeto”, held this past 3 March 2026, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. The present research addresses the political questions underlying the justification, conception, and construction of selected Portuguese hydroelectric infrastructures between 1943 and 1975. This work helps us to understand the trajectory of hydroelectricity in Portugal and how it merged a political project with a territorial one. Through a historical analysis of decision-making regarding territorial planning and how dams constitute a physical representation of these decisions, the research will examine the reasons why hydroelectric infrastructures were built during specific periods, what the decisive factors were in implementing hydroelectricity, and what the ideological dimension was between Salazar's dictatorship and the infrastructures in this process.   Ultimately, based on a selection of cases from the national hydroelectric grid, the study argues for the close relationship between power, ideology, and energy. This allows us to evaluate why technical capacity, economics, politics, among other factors, converged in such a synchronized manner in the construction of large dams in Portugal at a given moment, and how this might shed light on our present and future energy landscape.

As part of the International Women's Day commemorations, the documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution) — authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório — will have two scheduled screenings over the coming week:   The first screening, promoted by the Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival , will take place on 8 March at 16:00 , at the Cine-Teatro São João, Palmela.   The second screening, promoted by Câmara Municipal do Seixal, will take place on 10 March 2026, at 21:00 , at the Auditório Municipal do Fórum Cultural do Seixal, with free admission upon reservation. The documentary, which is part of the project Gendered power relations in agriculture: how rural women are facing gender inequality and struggling for more just and sustainable agri-food systems – the case of Portugal  (Rita Calvário / DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte), gives voice to rural women who were the silent protagonists of change. Through the testimonies of female farmers, cooperative members, and journalists, it unveils a story of resistance, the struggle for emancipation, and the construction of people's power, during a time when speaking — and acting — was, for many women, a revolutionary act. Both screenings will be followed by a discussion with the authors Rita Calvário and Cecília Honório.

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios  has just released its Spring Special Issue (March 2026), on the subject of " Naturalizar, reconectar, reimaginar: rios urbanos como espaços de transformação urbana ” (Naturalize, reconnect, reimagine: urban rivers as spaces for urban transformation), organized Nagayamma Aragão, Luciana Bragança and Natasha Cabrera. Available here . The Editorial Team at CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Submissions are continually available online and conducted upon registration on the website. Please check our author guidelines for directions regarding format and presentation standards, and refer to our editorial policies for details on the peer-review process. Published materials are covered by a Creative Commons CC-BY licence. Authors will be duly notified of acceptance/revisions required and encouraged to keep in contact with the editorial team should any unforeseen situation occur.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION From November 10 to April 15, 2026.   DATES  July 13th and 14th, 2026  VENUE Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto  Bringing together Brazilian, Portuguese and other national researchers, the VI International Meeting of the All the Arts Network | All the Names , which will take place in the city of Porto, on July 13th and 14th, 2026, proposes to reflect on the place of popular culture and the aesthetics of "bad taste" in contemporary cultures. Starting from popular expressions such as pimba and brega as finished examples, this meeting invites a critical analysis of what are the sound, visual and performative margins of culture and the arts today, questioning the mechanisms of distinction, hierarchization and artistic legitimation that define them.  In recent decades, the so-called "bad taste" has been recurrently associated with a popular, kitsch, sentimental and melodramatic aesthetic, often devalued by the cultural elites - as Bourdieu already told us in his seminal works - but deeply rooted in the collective imagination. Today, we are witnessing a revaluation and revival of these expressions, as artists, DJs, producers and curators rescue the peripheral, the pimba , the brega , the arrocha or the tecnobrega , transforming it into a symbol of identity and belonging, of memory and nostalgia. Between nostalgic celebration and critical reappropriation, the revivalism of popular culture - in these times of war and ruins - raises questions about memory, authenticity, class, gender, regionalism and the (de)coloniality of taste. This time, this Meeting proposes a plural and interdisciplinary debate on these expressions, convening the views of sociology, anthropology, musical studies, cultural studies, communication and performing arts, among others.  The fulcrum lies in the need to think of the pimba, the peripheral and the brega not as anomalies, but as devices of memory and resistance, forms of expression that reveal the contradictions of late modernity, globalization and the hierarchies of taste. Thus, the aesthetics of "bad taste" emerges, here, as a language of subversion, that is, as a space where excess, sentimentality and irony destabilize boundaries between the erudite and the popular, the urban and the rural, the national and the transnational.  This time, the event will bring together researchers and creators from different areas — such as sociology, anthropology, philosophy, urban studies, architecture, visual arts, music, literature and technology — who explore both Lusophone popular cultures ( pimba, brega, funaná, kizomba, kuduro, sertanejo, popular fado, among others) and their revivals and recontextualizations in cinema, visual arts, fashion, the internet and youth cultures. So, continuing the mission of the All the Arts | All the Names , this VI International Meeting encourages innovative and critical approaches that intersect art, science and society from the Global North to the Global South in a (counter) (de)colonial impetus. Since its creation in 2016, the Meeting has been working towards convergence, communication and exchange between researchers and research networks on art in the areas of sociology, anthropology, economics of culture, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, history and the arts, among others. In this way, the presentation of research results and debates around art, its spaces and hierarchies; the relations between art and the public sphere; cultural institutions and artistic practices in contemporary culture; the connections between sociology, anthropology and contemporary art, among others; street arts, graffiti, the city and youth; urban landscapes, arts and cities; curatorships, engagements and artistic identities; art criticism; cultural and artistic diversity; identities, cultures, diasporas and nationalities; art and globalization; art, technology and the (dis)enchantments of the world; documentary film and ethnographic narratives; objects, memories, heritages and collections; perspectives on the body, gender and fashion in contemporary times; the questions of expanded poetics and resistance music; theater, creation, language and contestation; the festivalization, the events and the cosmopolitanism of contemporary culture; underground and subversive artistic manifestations; publications on art and social life; the role of the arts in social inclusion; the relations between artistic action and cultural policies and the development of territories.  HOW TO SUBMIT Proposals should be sent to the following email address: todasartes.congresso@gmail.com We recommend consulting the congress website for detailed information regarding submission guidelines, thematic areas, and updated deadlines. Event Brochure - English Event Brochure - Portuguese

Routledge has published the book entitled Governing Solidarity in European Labour Markets: Atypical Employment and Minimum Wage Reform in Spain and Portugal , edited by Paulo Marques — researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory — in collaboration with researchers Rui Branco, Óscar Molina, and Renato Miguel Carmo. Across Western Europe, the rise of atypical employment has deepened insider–outsider divides. This book asks why two structurally similar countries – Portugal and Spain – pursued different routes to reduce labour market segmentation following the conclusion of the sovereign debt crisis. It argues that the composition of the governing social bloc drives the orientation of reform, while the choice of decision‑making arena (parliamentary law-making versus tripartite social concertation) and the EU’s evolving social governance shape the breadth and depth of reform. Building on the distinction between competitive and inclusive solidarity, the book compares four domains: employment protection and collective bargaining; statutory minimum wages; regulation of ride‑hailing platforms in passenger transport; and the regularisation of precarious public sector work. The analysis covers Portugal’s progressive cycle (2015–2021) and Spain’s coalition years (2019–2025), drawing on elite interviews, content analysis of parliamentary debates and media coverage, and official documents. The findings reveal a targeted, outsider‑focused strategy in Portugal and a more universal re‑regulation in Spain. Governing Solidarity  offers a fresh framework and rich evidence for scholars of political economy and industrial relations, as well as advanced students and policymakers confronting labour market segmentation. The Open Access version of this book, available here .

This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies, held at Iscte from March 3 to May 28, 2026. The series calls for an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in historical, political, institutional knowledge and imagination. It brings together leading scholars in the field of Political Economy to examine the rise of authoritarianism; the politics of quantification; the financialization of the economy and its impact on systems of provision, such as housing; the emergence of asset manager capitalism and growing wealth inequality. Open to all, the Seminar Series on Political Economy is co-organized by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, the Department of Political Economy at Iscte’s School of Social Sciences, and the Portuguese Association for Political Economy. The series will commence on 3 March, featuring the session "Policy expertise under siege: How policy workers manage uncertainty under populism," presented by Samantha Ortiz at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium A306, at 11:00.  The Seminar Series programme is available here .

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte announces the publication of the Policy Paper entitled Qualitative Evaluation of Innovation Ecosystems: Example Portugal , co-authored by Isabel Salavisa , DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher, in collaboration with Bernardete Ribeiro, José Ferreira Machado, Martin Zadražil, Vito Di Noto, Ralf B. Wehrspohn, and Ehrenfried Zschech.   The work presented here has been carried out by the Interface Mission Strategic Monitoring Committee, at the request of ANI - National Innovation Agency, Portugal. In 2024-2025, the Committee carried out the monitoring of the Portuguese technology and innovation centres and collaborative laboratories. A qualitative methodology has been developed to map the research and innovation landscape. This approach complements the conventional quantitative methodology, based on key performance indicators, also used (see Wehrspohn et al, 2025). Full Paper is available here

Iscte –  University Institute of Lisbon will host the Seminar Series Culturas do Habitar: celebrando os 100 anos da Cozinha Frankfurt (1926) —integrated into the Theory and History of Architecture V  curricular unit and coordinated by DINÂMIA'CET researcher Paula André in the Integrated Master's in Architecture at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, from 3 March to 19 May 2026 On the occasion of the centenary of the Frankfurt Kitchen project (1926) by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), within the scope of Ernst May’s (1886–1970) "New Frankfurt" municipal planning, the Seminar Series aims to present (re)readings of dwelling cultures and the methods of communicating them, with approaches centred on exterior and interior spaces in the first half of the 20th century. To this end, specialists in the fields of architecture, the city, landscape, housing, design, furniture, ceramics, typography, and photography have been invited from various universities: the University of Lisbon, the University of Évora, Instituto Superior Técnico, the University of Ribeirão Preto, Lusíada University, and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. Seminar Series Programme available here