Moderator: Silvia R. Maeso (CES)

Abstract

This International Seminar will address debates around education, history and the production of knowledge. Bringing together experts from various disciplines (especially of History and Sociology) with work in education and political involvement in the struggles for power/knowledge, the seminar will seek to open the debate beyond the dominant conceptual frameworks, emphasizing the historical struggles of African diasporas in Portugal and Brazil.

Interventions:

- A in/visibilidade do racial nos manuais escolares de história em Portugal [The in/visibility of racial history in school textbooks in Portugal] -     Marta Araújo (CES Researcher)

-A formação dos professores e os estudos das diásporas africanas no Brasil e em Portugal [Teacher training and studies of African diasporas in Brazil and Portugal] - Benjamin de Paula – (CES Postdoctoral Researcher; Associate professor at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia - FACED/UFU)

- Movimentos sociais e educação: o movimento negro brasileiro [Social movements and education: the Brazilian black movement] - Amilcar     Araújo Pereira (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ)

-"Negro" e "não-negro" na sala de aula de História no Brasil ["Black" and "non-black" in History classroom in Brazil] – Warley da Costa (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ)

Registrations are free but mandatory

Organisation: Marta Araújo (CES), Silvia R. Maeso (CES) and Benjamin de Paula (CES/UFF)