On June 26 and 27, 2025, Lusófona University in Lisbon hosted the IV Congress of the National Network for Cultural Studies (RNEC), bringing together around 100 researchers from Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries.
Organized by CICANT in collaboration with the Centre for Communication and Letters of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo) and the Virtual Museum of Lusophony (University of Minho), the event focused on the theme “Lusophone and Ibero-American Cultural Studies as a Field of Research in Science, Culture, and the Arts”.
Over two days, the congress featured around 30 presentations across three main thematic axes: digital technologies and the arts; colonialism and decoloniality; and transcultural identities shaped by migration and media. The programme also included institutional sessions that reinforced the connection between academia and cultural policy.
A key moment of the event was the launch of Estudos Culturais: Estudos Inter‑Multi‑Trans‑Pan‑Anti‑In‑Disciplinares, edited by Clara Sarmento with a postface by Maria Manuel Baptista, president of RNEC. The publication gathers 33 authors and reflects emerging approaches in Cultural Studies.
With support from several institutions across the Lusophone and Ibero-American worlds, the congress also contributed to ongoing efforts to establish a European Network for Cultural Studies (ENICS).
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