Sumários
Diminished Expectations and Transitions
11 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Oil shocks: The end of post-war economic boom in western Europe in the 1970s. The paradoxes of economic downturn: social discontentment and cultural challenges. The return of civil and political unrest: Left-wing terrorism in Western Europe. Violent nationalism in Spain (ETA) and United Kingdom (IRA), and anti-capitalism fight in Germany (Baader-Meinhof Group), Italy (Brigate Rosse). End of dictatorship and transition to democracy in the Southern periphery of Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece)
Diminished Expectations and Transitions
11 Novembro 2025, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Oil shocks: The end of post-war economic boom in western Europe in the 1970s. The paradoxes of economic downturn: social discontentment and cultural challenges. The return of civil and political unrest: Left-wing terrorism in Western Europe. Violent nationalism in Spain (ETA) and United Kingdom (IRA), and anti-capitalism fight in Germany (Baader-Meinhof Group), Italy (Brigate Rosse). End of dictatorship and transition to democracy in the Southern periphery of Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece)
The Golden Age of European Growth
28 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Characteristics of economic growth in Europe between 1945 and 1973. Eastern Europe: industrialization and stagnation. Economic globalization and international commerce from a European point of view. Social transformations in post-war Europe: population growth, domesticity, gender issues and migrations from the periphery. Material culture and mass consumption: the growth of the middle classes. Welfare capitalism and inequality in Europe.
The Golden Age of European Growth
28 Outubro 2025, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Characteristics of economic growth in Europe between 1945 and 1973. Eastern Europe: industrialization and stagnation. Economic globalization and international commerce from a European point of view. Social transformations in post-war Europe: population growth, domesticity, gender issues and migrations from the periphery. Material culture and mass consumption: the growth of the middle classes. Welfare capitalism and inequality in Europe.
Decolonization Process
21 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Examine the end of colonial European empires, a chapter within the history of Imperialism. Discuss the dilemma of postwar empire: could an imperial regime adopt a more democratic form of governance, a more nuanced concept of sovereignty, and still remain imperial? Question how did European societies experience both decolonization processes and post-colonial realities? Analise how the USSR and the United States acted in relation both to western European states and to the spaces opened up by declining empires.