Overview

The Gender Workshops intend to explore the epistemological potential of feminist perspectives in understanding social life from different social, political and cultural contexts.

During each session, the speaker presents and discusses a topic, cross-referencing it with his or her own research or professional and civic activity. In general, this presentation is based on texts or other means of reflection previously available, Followed by a debate with the audience.

Organisers: Catarina Martins and Teresa Cunha (NHUMEP), Ana Lúcia Santos, Ana Oliveira and Luciana Moreira Silva (DECIDe).

Programme
October 26, 2017, 17h00, Room 2, CES | Alta
A feminist perspective of the refugee crisis in Europe 
Marcela da Silva Uchoa (University of Coimbra)

November 30, 2017, 17h00, Room 2, CES | Alta
Gestation for whom? The Feminist Debate on gestational surrogacy
Tatiana Motterle (CES)

December 14, 2017, 17h00, Room 2, CES | Alta
Decolonizing Biblical Texts Is Fundamental: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Fundamentalist Biblical Interpretations 
Isabel Aparecida Félix (CES)

January 25, 2018, 17h00, Room 2,, CES | Alta
Feminist Controversy on Universal Basic Income 
Lina Coelho (CES/FEUC)

February 20, 2018, 17h00, Room 1, CES | Alta
New masculinities - contributions to feminist struggles 
Ângelo Fernandes (President of 'Quebrar o Silêncio')

March 21, 2018, 17h00, Room 2, CES | Alta
Feminist motherhoods, revolutionary motherhoods... Motherhoods for peace 
Magda Sancho Moreno (Worker-Researcher for peace)

April 26, 2018, Room 2, CES | Alta
Feminine autobiography: gender and ethics in "The Road from Coorain" by Jill Ker Conway and "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody
Natália Telega-Soares (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

May 30, 2017, 17h00, Room 2, CES | Alta
Conversation with Black Lesbian Hate Crime Survivors - Township Narratives of Space
Jacqueline Wilson (PhD candidate at Rhodes University, South Africa)