Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick and Guest Professor of Sociology and History at Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden, Gurminder K. Bhambra is Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, between November 7 and 11 2016. In this seminar she focused on how the failure to take into account colonial and imperial histories creates inadequate social science concepts.