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The Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI) at ISCAP – P.PORTO proudly announces the launch of its latest academic publication: Cultural Studies: Inter-Multi-Trans-Pan-Anti-In-Disciplinary Studies, coordinated by Clara Sarmento, with Bruna Saadé Diniz, a graduating student of the Master’s in Intercultural Studies for Business. The book, published by Edições POLITEMA in 2025 (PDF ISBN: 978-989-9226-03-6), will be officially launched on June 27, at 4:30 PM, during the IV Congress of the National Network in Cultural Studies (RNEC), to be held at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon. The full event programme is available at: https://fcaati.ulusofona.pt/rnec/programa.
Featuring a preface by Ana Cristina Mendes, President of the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), entitled If Not Now, When? Cultural Studies in Times of Crisis, and a postface by Maria Manuel Baptista, President of the RNEC, titled Against Fear, Reimagining the Common – Cultural Studies in Network, this work offers a critical, innovative, and undisciplined approach to the field of Cultural Studies.
The chapters compiled in this volume stem from a selection of papers presented at the III RNEC Congress, organized by CEI in July 2024 at ISCAP-P.PORTO. The National Network in Cultural Studies represents a growing academic community of research centres, higher education institutions, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that, over recent years, have established Cultural Studies as a dynamic and foundational field of contemporary critical thinking in Portugal. The III Congress, which gave rise to the texts now published, fostered the recognition of this vibrant academic network in close articulation with both national and international institutions and scholars.
The structure of the book is organized around three major thematic sections – New Epistemologies, Critical Practices and Pedagogies, and Interventions and Resistances – reflecting the plurality of discourses and methodologies that define Cultural Studies today. This volume stands as a substantial and diverse contribution to academic research and practice, emerging from the margins, networks, collaborations, and forms of dissent that characterize the field.
The publication features contributions from thirty-three authors, from different countries and academic disciplines. In alphabetical order, they are: Ana Cristina Mendes, Ana Margarida Cruz da Silva, António Pernas, Beatriz Yaunner, Carina Cerqueira, Clara Sarmento, Daiana Sigiliano, Diana Gonçalves, Erika Gonçalves, Fátima Pacheco, Gabriela Borges, Helena Ferreira, José Campos Amorim, José Rodolfo Lopes da Silva, Lana de Araújo Gomides, Lanfeng Zhou, Laura Tallone, Luisa Kreche, Mariangela Momo, Maria Manuel Rocha Teixeira Baptista, Mário J. Avelar, Matthias Amman, Miguel Babo, Patrícia Ignácio, Rita Himmel, Rodolfo Gomes Pereira, Rui Alexandre Grácio, Sandra Ramos Cerqueira, Sara Pascoal, Telmo Ferreira, Thaís Azevedo and Thales Reis Alecrim.
This publication reaffirms CEI’s ongoing commitment to the production of critical, collaborative, and international knowledge at a time when Cultural Studies emerge as an essential tool for understanding the present and imagining possible futures.