This week, on 24 and 25 March 2026, the World Political Analysis Laboratory helped organise the thematic seminar ‘Echoes of Bandung’, in partnership with the Laboratory for Decolonial Debates and Practices at UFRJ, the Laboratory for Media, Culture and International Relations Studies (Lemcri/UERJ), the Laboratory for Asian Studies (LabÁsia/UERJ) and the Nexus Laboratory: Security and Development in Global Politics (Nexus/UFRJ).

The event brought together, at the campuses of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences (IFCS-UFRJ), researchers, students and experts dedicated to the study of global history, decolonisation and South-South solidarity. The guests discussed the legacy of the 70th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference, when the countries of the Global South gathered in Bandung (Indonesia) and proposed their own alternative to the bipolar world of the Cold War: non-alignment.

Among the seven conferences organised as part of the seminar, LABMUNDO contributed in particular to the panel discussion Brazilian Foreign Policy and Bandung, held in the Jaime Antunes Auditorium at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH-UERJ). The panel consisted of our coordinator, Prof. Pablo Saturnino (DRI-UERJ), and LABMUNDO researcher Renata Albuquerque Ribeiro (IE-UFRJ), alongside Monica Lessa (PPGRI/UERJ) and Adriano de Freixo (PPGCP/UFF).