Scientific Events

Organisation of scientific events

Organization of Conference "Wartime Villagization in Colonial Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau: Spatial Histories of Rural Africa", CES-Lisbon, 03 to 03 November by 2023.

Organization of Roundtable "Decolonizing Research on Rural Space", Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, 24 to 24 January by 2023.

Organization of "Housing and State in Portuguese-Language Countries: Legacies and Challenges", "Facebook" page of AILPcsh, 01 to 01 July by 2021.

Member of the Organizing Committee of Investigação, docência e formação: Que desafios para as universidades e centros de investigação?, Coimbra, 03 to 03 July by 2019 (com Teixeira de Melo, Ana; Pato Carvalho, Claudia; Ribeiro, Raquel; Castela, Tiago).

Organization of O Lugar das/os Investigadoras/es na Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, 06 to 06 February by 2019.

Member of the Organizing Committee of IASTE 2018 "The Politics of Tradition", Coimbra, 04 to 07 October by 2018 (com AlSayyad, Nezar; Gillem, Mark; Figueira, Jorge; Castela, Tiago).

Organization of Segundo Colóquio "Por Novas Mobilidades na Cidade: Pluralidade e Democratização", Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 20 to 20 January by 2017.

Member of the Organizing Committee of 9.º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos "África Hoje: Tempos e Espaços de Transformação", Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 11 to 13 September by 2014 (com Maria Paula, Meneses; Calafate Ribeiro, Margarida; Pires Laranjeira, José Luís; Florêncio, Fernando; Schurmans, Fabrice; Castela, Tiago; Sena Martins, Bruno ).

Organization of Colóquio "Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique: Understanding Planning and Government in Unequally Divided Cities, 1945-2010", CES-Lisboa, 14 to 15 July by 2014.

Organization of Colloquium "For New Mobilities in the City: Histories, Plans and Activisms", Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), 18 October 2013.

Organization of Symposium "Space in the Democratization of Justice", University of Évora (Portugal), 20 September 2013.

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Conference "Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilisations, Interventions", Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), 28 to 30 June by 2012 (com Duxbury, Nancy; Canto Moniz, Gonçalo; Barca, Stefania; Grigolo, Michele; Allegretti, Giovanni; Castela, Tiago; Sgueo, Gianluca).

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Conference "Spaces of History/ Histories of Space: Emerging Approaches to the Study of the Built Environment", Department of Architecture of the University of California, Berkeley (USA), 30 April to 01 May 2010 (com Allweil, Yael; Castela, Tiago; Chu, Cecilia; Hsu, Huey Ying; Robinson, Clare).

Presentations in scientific events

Castela, Tiago (2024), "Making and Practicing Villagization Camps in Wartime Angola, 1961-1985", paper presented at IASTE 2024, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 05 to 09 January.

Castela, Tiago (2023), "[Recurring Crisis? For a History of the Government of Housing in Portugal after 1945] Crise Recorrente? Por uma História do Governo da Habitação em Portugal Após 1945", paper presented at Seminar More than Houses #01, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, 28 to 28 April.

Castela, Tiago (2023), "Subjectivity Policies: Comparing Housing after 1945 in Portugal and the USA", paper presented at Housing (and) Crisis: Interdisciplinary Dialogues for Theory and Policy, CES, Coimbra, 13 to 13 April.

Castela, Tiago (2023), "[Politics of Subjectivity: Housing After 1945 in Portugal and the USA] Políticas da Subjectividade: Habitação Após 1945 em Portugal e nos EUA", paper presented at 6th Annual Political Economy Meeting: Dependences, Asymmetries and Territories, Vila Real, 27 to 28 January.

Lebre, Rui Aristides; Castela, Tiago (2023), "Wartime Forced Villagization Camps in Guinea-Bissau: Their Intent and Afterlife", paper presented at 2nd International Conference "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes", Lisbon, 18 to 20 January.

Castela, Tiago; Lebre, Rui Aristides (2022), "Disruptive Villagization in Late Colonialism: Spatial Ethnography for a Postcolonial Cartography?", paper presented at IASTE 2022, Singapore, 14 to 17 December.

Lebre, Rui Aristides; Castela, Tiago (2022), "A War on Villages: Legacies of Portugal's Wartime Villagization in Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at IASTE 2022, Singapore, 14 to 17 December.

Castela, Tiago (2022), ""In war for the conquest of peace": The legacy of villagization camps in Angola, 1961-1985", paper presented at 11.º Iberian Congress of African Studies, Lisboa, 06 to 08 July.

Castela, Tiago; Lebre, Rui Aristides (2022), "Manuals of global counterinsurgency in late colonial war: guiding the architecture of Portugal's forced resettlement camps in Africa, 1961-74", paper presented at EAHN 2022, Madrid, Spain, 15 to 19 June.

Castela, Tiago (2021), paper presented at Housing and State in Portuguese-Language Countries: Legacies and Challenges, "Facebook" da AILPcsh, 01 to 01 July.

Ribeiro, Raquel (2021), "Covid-19 Pandemic and Housing: Preliminary Results", paper presented at NECES Day, Coimbra, 23 to 23 April.

Castela, Tiago (2021), "Architecture as development expertise in Portugal's Housing Fund, 1969-1982", paper presented at 4th Meeting of Portuguese Association for Political Economy [APEP], virtual, 28 to 30 January.

Castela, Tiago (2021), "Social Space-Time and Film as Research", paper presented at Thinking Out Lab: Art, Performance and Spoken Essays, Colégio das Artes, 05 to 05 November.

Castela, Tiago (2020), "Architecture as a state expertise: imagining a new tradition in Portugal's Housing Development Fund, 1969-1982", paper presented at IASTE 2020: Virtual Traditions, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 03 to 06 September.

Castela, Tiago (2020), "Urban Histories of Debt and Plural Learnings", paper presented at 3º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política (APEP), Porto, 30 January 01 February.

Lebre, Rui; Castela, Tiago (2020), "Rule in Portugal's forced resettlement camps in Guinea-Bissau", paper presented at 1ª Intersectional Conference Encarceramento e Sociedade, Coimbra, 29 to 31 January.

Castela, Tiago; Abreu, Cesaltina; Monteiro, Eurídice; Mello, Marina; Cardoso, Ricardo; Freire, Jacqueline (2019), "Que educação superior e produção de conhecimentos em ciências sociais e humanas no século XXI? A experiência da AILPcsh e dos CONLAB.", paper presented at 19º encontro da Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (AULP), Lisbon, 03 to 05 July.

Castela, Tiago (2019), "A Invenção da Periferia entre Lisboa e Maputo, 1945-1975", paper presented at Colóquio Periferias e Suas Transformações Recentes, Coimbra, 05 to 05 February.

Castela, Tiago (2014), ""Império nas Cidades: Memoriais do Colonialismo em Portugal e em Moçambique"", paper presented at IX Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos (África Hoje: Tempos e Espaços de Transformação), Coimbra (Portugal), 13 October.

Castela, Tiago (2014), ""Peripheries in a History of Urban Futures: Planning for the Government of Informal Spaces in Late Colonial Mozambique"", paper presented at 16ª conferência da IPHS (International Planning History Society), Saint Augustine, Florida (EUA), 22 July.

Castela, Tiago (2014), "O Conhecimento do Planeamento Espacial na Democratização do Estado: Examinando o Governo da Divisão Desigual de Cidades", paper presented at VIII Congresso Português de Sociologia (40 Anos de Democracia(s): Progressos, Contradições e Prospetivas), Évora, Portugal, 16 April.

Castela, Tiago (2013), ""Espaço e Etnografia na Investigação sobre a democratização do aparato da justiça" ["Space and Ethnography in research on the democratization of the justice apparatus"]", paper presented at Symposium "Space in the Democratization of Justice", University of Évora (Portugal), 20 September.

Castela, Tiago; Meneses, Paula (2013), ""Naming the Urban in Twentieth-Century Mozambique: Towards Spatial Histories of Aspiration and Violence"", paper presented at Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa Conference, Lisbon (Portugal), 05 to 06 September.

Castela, Tiago (2013), ""The Periphery in Planning: Urban Aspirations and the Right to Urban Life in the Government of Suburbs in Mozambique, 1945-2010"", paper presented at 5th European Conference on African Studies, Lisbon (Portugal), 27 to 29 July.

Castela, Tiago (2012), ""Self-building for a New Europe: Workers' Suburbs and the State in European Development"", paper presented at IASTE 2012 (Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments), Portland, Oregon (USA), 04 to 07 October.

Castela, Tiago (2012), ""Governing the Social and Practices of Design: A New Coimbra in Postwar European Development"", paper presented at Teaching through Design Workshop, Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra, 06 to 19 September.

Castela, Tiago (2012), ""A Ilegalização da Produção Informal de Espaços na Formação de Cidadanias Desiguais" ["The Illegalization of the Informal Production of Spaces in the Formation of Unequal Citizenships"]", paper presented at International Conference Right(s) and Inequalities, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 23 to 24 April.

Castela, Tiago (2010), ""Imperial Garden: Planning Practices and the Utopia of Luso-Tropicalism in Portugal/Mozambique"", paper presented at IASTE 2010 (Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments), Beirut (Lebanon), 15 to 18 December.

Castela, Tiago (2010), ""Architecture as Experimentation: Creating Suburban Environments under Conditions of Informalization in the Lisbon Area, 1958-1997"", paper presented at 1st International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network, Guimarães (Portugal), 17 to 20 June.

Castela, Tiago (2009), ""Citizenship and the Economy of Spatial Illegalisms in Late Twentieth Century Portugal"", paper presented at 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA (USA), 02 to 06 December.

Castela, Tiago (2009), ""'Clandestine' Land Commodification and Class Formation in the Lisbon Area, 1960-1990"", paper presented at AAG 2009, Las Vegas, NV (USA), 22 to 27 March.

Castela, Tiago (2008), ""Contending Tradition: Working-Class Extensions of the City in 20th Century Portugal"", paper presented at IASTE 2008 (Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments), Oxford (United Kingdom), 12 to 15 December.