The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with the Embassy of Portugal in Stockholm, invites you to mark the occasion of the 50 year anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution.
When: Friday April 25, 17.00 – 18.30
Where: University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 19, room Dragonen.
Program
17:00 Opening
Evie Papada, Research and Policy Analyst at the V-Dem Institute, and Ambassador Sara Martins, Embassy of Portugal
17:10-17:30 Presentation of the “Democracy Report 2025”
Ana Good God, Data Collection Coordinator at the V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
17:30-18:00 “Portugal's Carnation Revolution of 1974-75 and the Start of the “Third Wave of Democratization”
Tiago Fernandes, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and researcher at the Center for International Studies (CEI) at the University Institute of Lisbon – ISCTE, Portugal
18:00-18:30 Discussion and Q&A
Moderated by Fabio Angiolillo, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg and the V-Dem Institute
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Tiago Fernandes (PhD European University Institute, Florence, 2009) is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) and Head of the V-Dem Regional Center for Southern Europe. He works on the politics of democracy, social movements and civil society, and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton, the Juan March Foundation (Madrid) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
In 2024 he edited Democratic Quality in Southern Europe: France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain (University of Notre Dame Press) and authored Portugal 1974-1975: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Democracy (Lisbon, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation).
His current research focuses on the comparative analysis of civil society mobilization against authoritarian takeovers in 19th and early 20th centuries Southern Europe; the impact of social revolution on democracy and authoritarianism; and postcolonial transformations in lusophone Africa (with Olukunle Owolabi, Villanova University).
