Colloquium

Between the State and the Uma Lulik: spaces of identity, power and justice in Timor-Leste

November 16, 2017, 09h30

Room 1, CES | Alta

Programme

9h30 | Welcome

9h45 | Opening by the CES Executive Director, João Paulo Dias

10h00 | 1st Session – Challenges and dilemmas in the building of the Timorese State and justice system  (Moderator: Marisa Ramos Gonçalves, CES)

Conceição Gomes, Paula Fernando, Marina Henriques (CES) | Tribunals and Democracy in Timor-Leste

Maria Paula Meneses (CES) | Sovereignty, Identities and Legal Pluralism: Community Justices and the Construction of the Timorese State

Teresa Cunha (CES) | Hau bele! A feminist contribution towards the thinking of State, identity and memory in independent Timor-Leste

11h00 | Discussion


11h20 | Coffee break


11h50 | 2nd Session – Democratic Transitions, Foreign Interventions, and Post-Independence Elections  (Moderator: Sara Araújo, CES)

Paula Duarte Lopes (CES) | Timor-Leste as a successful democratisation story, or is it?

Rui Feijó (CES/IHC-UNL) | Local Democracy, Power and Legitimacy. A perspective on the suku elections of 2016 and the new articulations between the local communities and the state

Carla Luis (CES) | The electoral system in Timor-Leste: what impact on peacebuilding?

12h50 | Discussion


13h15 | Lunch break


15h00 |3rd Session – Legal pluralism and the protection of women's rights (Moderator: Teresa Cunha, CES)

Sara Araújo (CES) | Timorese women between the modern State, international law and community law. Irreconcilable contradictions or constructive hybridities?

Conceição Gomes, Paula Fernando, Marina Henriques (CES) | Courts and Domestic Violence in Timor-Leste

15h40 Discussion


16h00 Coffee break


16h30 | 4th Session – Building of identities, conceptions of justice, rights and cultural policies from the Uma Lulik (Moderator: Maria Paula Meneses, CES)

Abel Santos (UNTL/ FLUP) | Local dynamics and cultural identity in the Ermera District peasants' movement demands for agrarian reform

Renata Nogueira (UnB - University of Brasília) | Cultural policies and 'Uma Lulik' in post-colonial Timor-Leste: dilemmas and controversies

Marisa Ramos Gonçalves (CES) | Memories, kultura and modernity: towards conceptions of justice and rights in Timor-Leste

17h30 | Discussion

18h00 | Closing

18h15 | Cocktail