Seminar

The State of Racism in Portugal: debating the anti race discrimination law 

February 28, 2020, 11h00

Museum of Aljube Resistance and Freedom (Lisbon)

Programme

11h00 | Presentation of the COMBAT Project: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra)

11h30-13h00 | Opening Conference: Thula Pires (Pontifical Catholic University - Rio de Janeiro)

14h30-16h00 | Implementing anti racial discrimination law in Portugal: the institutionalised denial of racism
COMBAT Team: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Ana Rita Alves, Sara Gaspar, Inês Oliveira

16h15-17h45 | Administrative and criminal law in face of the intervention of security forces: security policies, anti-blackness and anti-romanyism
COMBAT Team: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Ana Rita Alves, Sara Gaspar, Inês Oliveira

18h00-20h00 | The present future of anti-racism 20 years after the law against racial discrimination - a talk with social movements and local-based associations: Mamadou Ba (SOS Racismo), Anabela Rodrigues (Theatre of the Oppressed Group - GTO LX), José Baessa De Pina (Activist) and Geovani Djanco (community organiser, Rinchoa - Linha de Sintra)