War and propaganda in the XXth Century

Propaganda represented the sacrifice of soldiers in war and praised the power of the country. It has been around these images that all over the world entire populations were mobilized on the expectation of victory. Through the static image of printed posters or the newspaper news projected in cinemas all over the globe, governments sought to promote a patriotic spirit, encouraging the effort of individual sacrifice by sending a clear set of messages that directly appealed to the voluntary enlistment in the armies, messages that explained the important of rationing essential goods, of the intensification of food production or the purchase of war bonds, exacerbating feelings, arousing emotions and projecting an image divided between the notion of superiority and the idea of fear of the opponent. From press, in the First World War, to radio in World War II, to television and cinema from the 1950s onwards, propaganda proved to be a weapon as deadly as those managed by soldiers in the battlefield. That’s why it is essential to analyse and discuss the topic of War and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century. This conference is organized by the IHC and the CEIS20 and is part of the Centennial Program of the Great War, organized by the IHC, and the International Centennial Program coordinated by the Imperial War Museum in London.

Winning the war for talent: Does CSR matter in the recruitment process?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Humor and the framing of the public sphere and public opinion in Portugal (1797-1834)

In his Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment (1784), Kant puts forward his belief that the vocation to think freely, which humankind is endowed with, is bound to make sure that “the public use of reason” will at last act “even on the fundamental principles of government and the state [will] find it agreeable to treat man – who is now more than a machine – in accord with his dignity”. The critical reference to La Mettrie (1747), by opposing the machine to human dignity, will echo, in the dawn of the 20th century, in Bergson’s attempt to explain humor. Besides being exclusive to humans, humor is also a social phenomenon. Freud (1905) assures that pleasure originated by humor is collective, it results from a “social process”: jokes need an audience, a “third party”, in order to work and have fun. Assuming humor as a social and cultural phenomenon, this paper intends to sustain that it played a role in the framing of the public sphere and of public opinion in Portugal during the transition from Absolute Monarchy to Liberalism. The search for the conditions which made possible the critical exercise of sociability is at the root of the creation of the public sphere in the sense developed by Habermas (1962), whose perspective, however, has been questioned by those who point 2 out the alleged idealism of the concept – as opposed, for example, to Bakhtin (1970), whose work stresses diversity and pluralism. This notwithstanding, the concept of public sphere is crucial to the building of public opinion, which is, in turn, indissoluble from the principle of publicity, as demonstrated by Bobbio (1985). This paper discusses the historical evolution of the concept of public opinion from Ancient Greece doxa, through Machiavelli’s “humors” (1532), the origin of the expression in Montaigne (1580) and the contributions of Hobbes (1651), Locke (1690), Swift (1729), Rousseau (1762) or Hume (1777), up to the reflection of Lippman (1922) and Bourdieu’s critique (1984). It maintains that humor, as it appears in Portuguese printed periodicals from 1797 (when Almocreve de Petas was published for the first time) to the end of the civil war (1834) – especially in those edited by José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa but also in O Piolho Viajante, by António Manuel Policarpo da Silva, or in the ones written by José Agostinho de Macedo, as well as in a political “elite minded” periodical such as Correio Braziliense –, contributed to the framing of the public sphere and of public opinion in Portugal.

Impérios Digitais: dos Choques Culturais Anglo-Portugueses aos Jogos de Vídeo de Estratégia

À medida que o mundo Ocidental se apresenta cada vez mais subjugado ao primado da tecnologia (Forman, 2007:1), a possibilidade de ignorar o crescente impacte da Ludologia vai-se gradualmente inviabilizando. Através da adopção de uma perspectiva anglo-portuguesa, a presente dissertação focar-se-á no amplamente popular jogo de vídeo Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World (2013). Ao (re)interpretar as relações luso-britânicas no espaço de tempo compreendido entre 1890 (Ultimatum britânico) e 1910 (implantação da Primeira República Portuguesa), a presente dissertação tem em vista não só estudar a imprensa periódica portuguesa e inglesa, mas também demonstrar o modo como o jogo de vídeo em questão permite ao jogador desconstruir o “prepotente” domínio britânico sobre o “little Portugal”. Neste contexto, atribuir-se-á um lugar de destaque ao evolucionismo de Herbert Spencer. Profundamente respeitado por toda a Europa, durante a segunda metade do século XIX e princípios do século XX, o pensamento spenceriano revelou-se fundamental para compreender, por um lado, e em toda a sua extensão, o discurso jornalístico de finais do século XIX e inícios do XX, e, por outro, a narrativa e a estética do jogo Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World. De um modo geral, a presente análise visa, acima de tudo, questionar o cariz pós-colonial do jogo de vídeo sob observação e, simultaneamente, a sua capacidade de desafiar, de forma subversiva, o que pode ser tido como uma arrogante soberania britânica sobre um Portugal militar, económica e politicamente indefeso.

Boa Londres é esta : em torno das revoltas populares de 1381 e 1383

Um dos fenómenos com que o especialista ou simples interessado na Baixa Idade Média europeia mais frequentemente se depara é, sem dúvida, a caracterização desse século XIV que a voz abalizada de Duby crismaria de “viragem” (Duby 1989: 173) como marcado pela instabilidade, precaridade e incerteza próprias de todo um mundo composto de mudança. Respigando ao acaso algumas obras produzidas pela historiografia inglesa, esperam-nos etiquetas e descrições como Hierarchy and Revolt (Holmes 1975), 2 “Order and Conflict” (Briggs 1985: 82), The Age of Adversity (Lerner 1968), An Age of Ambition (Du Boulay 1970), “the century of war, plague and disorder” (McDowall 1995: 43), etc. Elucidativo é também o subtítulo de um romance histórico de Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror. The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (Tuchman 1980). Descontando o que nesta representação possa existir ou subsistir de subjectivo ou convencional, o século XIV foi, ainda assim, dentro e fora de Inglaterra, um período de profundas tensões, convulsões e mutações de ordem demográfica, económica, social, laboral, política e religiosa; fustigado pela Peste Negra (1348-49), por insurreições populares como a Jacquerie (1358), os Ciompi (1378), os Maillotins (1382) ou a Revolta dos Camponeses (1381), por cisões religiosas e teológicas como o Grande Cisma do Ocidente (1378-1417) e o aparecimento dos lollards, a partir da década de 1370.

Do the psychological impacts of war cause poverty?: Evidence from Mozambique

This paper evaluates the extent to which war-related psychological distress causes poverty. The endogeneous nature of mental distress is addressed by using exposure to the civil war in Mozambique as an instrument. It is found that exposure to war has a significant and positive long-lasting impact on mental distress. Furthermore, the causal impact of war-related psychological distress on income and wealth is shown to be significant, negative, and nonnegligible. One standard deviation increase in mental distress decreases income by half a standard deviation. These findings are robust to alternative specifications, including the use of an alternative database on the incidence of PTSD in Mozambique.

Espírito Santo Saúde: The bidding war

This case study describes the current situation of Espírito Santo Saúde, which involved an eventful takeover process. The company initially went public on February 2014 and later that year, due to the financial situation of its holdings it had to be sold. The bidding war began in August 2014, after Ángeles announced the first offer. Other participants who also pitched bids include José de Mello Saúde, UnitedHealth and Fosun. Furthermore, the potential projects Espírito Santo Saúde was considering implementing prior to the sale and the current situation of the healthcare industry in Portugal, will also be analysed.

An outbreak of Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis - Linnaeus, 1758) envenoming in Southeastern Brazil

Introduction Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), are cnidarians capable of discharging intracellular organelles filled with venom, resulting in severe envenomation in humans. Methods We report the clinical and therapeutic aspects of 331 accidents involving Portuguese man-of-war in an outbreak on the coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Results The clinical manifestations of envenomation were rare and mild and mostly local, systemic reactions; there was a low rate of late complications. Conclusions The consequences of envenomation were of moderate severity, and first aid measures were effective in controlling the pain. Outbreaks of accidents involving Portuguese man-of-war occur periodically in the area without a clear explanation.

Determinação da medida da pena privativa de liberdade: um olhar crítico a partir do direito anglo-saxónico

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências Jurídicas - Área de Ciências Jurídicas Públicas