Master Class

Epistemologies of the South: theoretical and methodological challenges

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES)

March 18, 2016, 16h00

Auditorium, Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra

Free entrance (within the limits of available seats).

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Bio note

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, born in Coimbra, on November 15, 1940, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.

He is director of the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum.

His most recent project - ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences - is funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. 

He has published widely on globalisation, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German and Chinese.