ISEG CESA - Centre for Africa and Development Studies/ISEG Research is organising a seminar on Beyond the Security-Development Nexus: The risks and consequences of militarizing aid in Post-Conflict Development Programs, on 18 June, from 18.00 to 20.00, in ISEG's Novo Banco Room (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
As part of the Development Studies Seminars 2025, the seminar will include as keynote speaker Asif DawarProfessor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the National Defense University in Pakistan.
The seminar will be held in English.
Free admission, subject to availability.
Further information available on this link.
On 18 June, an extraordinary session of the ISEG Research Seminars '25 will be held from 15.00 to 16.00, in Novo Banco Lecture Theatre (Quelhas, 4th Floor).
The seminar will feature Theophilos Papadimitriou and Periklis Gogasboth from the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), who will present the article "An Introduction to Machine Learning for Economics and Explainable AI".
Free admission, subject to room capacity.
This seminar provides an introductory overview of the fundamental concepts of machine learning, along with current trends in the field - specifically, Explainable AI (XAI). It aims to provide foundational knowledge and highlight recent developments that are shaping the use of ML in economics.
ISEG ADVANCE/ISEG Research is organising the CISTI 2025 - 20th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, which will take place from June 16 to 19, at ISEG.
The conference will have as keynote speakers Manuela Aparicio, Vice-Rector for Education at NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, who will talk on the subject of Gen AI in Education and Research, and Megha Bushan, from the Universidad de Seville (Spain), who will talk on the topic AI-Driven Quality Assurance: Enhancing Software Product Line Through Defect Management.
The programme of the conference will include:
Participation in the event is subject to prior registration.
Further information available HERE.
CESA - Centre for Africa and Development Studies/ISEG Research is organising the 'Slow Down or Perish: The Economics of Degrowth' seminar on June 23rd, from 18.00 to 20.00, in ISEG's Lecture Theatre 24 (Francesinhas 1 Building, 2nd Floor).
As part of the Development Studies Seminars 2025, the seminar will include as keynote speaker Timothée Parrique, economist and researcher at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
The seminar will be held in English.
Free admission, subject to availability.
Further information available on this link.
As part of the celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the Economic Alumni of ISEG, will be held on June 26th, on Portugal's Political and Economic Challenges" conference, part of the cycle of conferences "Where are the world, Europe and Portugal heading?".
The session will take place in the CGD Auditorium (Quelhas Building, 2nd Floor), and is scheduled to start at 6pm. Antonio Mendonça, Augusto Mateus, Manuel Mira Godinho and Vitor Bento as speakers.
Free admission, subject to prior registration on this link.
In partnership with CEMAPRE, ISEG is hosting the international conference Stochastics & Computational Finance 2025 - new trends from Academia to Real-World Applicationswhich takes place from September 2-5, 2025.
SCF 2025 will focus on cutting-edge research in financial and computational mathematicsIt will also highlight emerging and innovative areas. The event will bring together academics from top international research institutions and aims to be a bridge between theory and practice, addressing contemporary challenges such as the risk associated with climate change and sustainable finance.
The program includes plenary lectures, thematic sessions, mini-symposia and poster presentations.
Important dates:
More information is available at official conference website.
CESA - Centre for Africa and Development Studies/ISEG Research is organising the 'Dialogue on Islam and Politics in Mozambique' seminar on June 5th, from 18.00 to 20.00, in the ISEG Auditorium 3 (Quelhas, 2nd Floor).
Together with the Inevitable Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Mozambique after Independence book launch and as part of the Development Studies Seminars 2025, the seminar will include the speakers Éric Morier-Genoud, the author of the book, specialist in Lusophone Africa and Professor at Queen's University Belfast (UK), and Sandra Araújo, Anthropologist, Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa. The moderators will be the Professors and CEsA Researchers Isabel Castro Henriques and Joana Pereira Leite.
The seminar will be held in Portuguese.
Free admission, subject to availability.
Further information available on this link.
The UECE/ISEG Research, the REM/ISEG Research as well as ISEG is organising the "13th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments", which will take place on 4 July, from 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., in ISEG.
The conference will focus on the themes of economic and financial adjustments, macroeconomic imbalances, country-specific issues and challenges to monetary and fiscal policies, and will hear from keynote speaker George Hondroyiannis (Bank of Greece and Harokopio University of Athens).
Participation in the event is subject to prior registration.
Further information available on this link.
The Association for Public Economic Theory (APET), in partnership with ISEG, is organising the "PET 2025 - International Conference on Public Economic Theory", which will take place at ISEG, from 23 to 25 June.
Dedicated to public economic theory, the conference will include keynote speakers Svetlana Boyarchenko (Texas University), Daniel Kovenock (Chapman University), Dorothea Kübler (WZB Social Science Center Berlin and TU Berlin), Diego Moreno (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Kevin Reffett (Arizona State University) and Pierre Pestieau (Université de Liège and CORE), who will be honoured for his contribution to public economics and the Journal of Public Economic Theory (JPET).
Further information HERE.
The UECE/ISEG Research organizes the 14th edition of the conference "The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications", which will take place at ISEG, from June 18th to 20th.
Each year, the conference brings together world-renowned academics to present and discuss research work in the field of game theory, with the 2025 edition having the following themes keynote speakers Joel Sobel (University of California San Diego), Marina Halac (Yale University) and Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke University).
Participation is subject to prior registration. Find out more and secure your place HERE.
