This second edition of the international seminar Lectures on Social Contract will be held within the scope of the CIDEHUS group and is planned to take place in April 2024 at the University of Évora. The scientific summit is dedicated to bringing together different specialists who analyse the discursivities of decision-making developed in medieval towns and other local instances of political governance. The goal of this seminar is centred in exploring the dynamics between the local and the central spheres of power, following an understanding on how those dynamics build their communication strategies from communal institutions side to interact with —or, even though, resist to— their so-called sovereign authorities.

Organized by Rogerio Tostes | Hermínia Vilar