Moderator: Gustavo Garcia-López, CES
 

Programme

Marcela Uchôa: Hellenistic philosophy in the formation of the concept of nature in Karl Marx

Sérgio Martín Tapia: Marxism and Nature: A Materialist View

Jonas Van Vossole: Nature, Gender and Race from the approach to Imperialism in Rosa Luxemburg

Mónica Soares:The Antinomies of Nature and Political Subjectivity: Reflections from Critical Theory

Bio notes:

Marcela Uchôa | Works in Humanities with emphasis on Political Philosophy, Law and Political Science. She holds a PhD in Political Philosophy from the University of Coimbra - Portugal. She is an integrated member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the University of Coimbra (IEF). Master in Philosophy at the Federal University of Ceará.

Jonas Van Vossole | PhD in Democracy in the 21st Century (Sociology), CES/FEUC.  He holds a Master in International Relations (2010) by the University of Ghent, and a Master of Science in Complementary Studies in Economics (2011) by the University of Ghent and a Degree in Political Science (2009) Universiteit Gent.

Sérgio Martín Tapia | Lawyer, Notary and Actuary from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Master in Sociology from the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Alfonso Vélez Pliego. Master in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Master in Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy from the Universita degli Studi di Genova. PhD candidate in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is, since 2010, a member of the research group "Crítica Jurídica Latinoamericana". His areas of interest are human rights (concept, categories and practices), the relationship between law, morality and power. Marxist visions of law and legal pluralism in Latin America.

Mónica Soares | Psychologist. PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra with a FCT grant (SFRH/BD/116001/2016), in the area of sociology, through which she attended the Alfonso Vélez Pliego Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (Puebla) as a visiting student. Previously, between 2013 and 2016, she was a researcher and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Portuguese Catholic University (Porto) and, between 2016 and 2017, a mobility researcher by the ERASMUS MUNDUS programme funded by the Carl Von Ossietzky University (Oldenburg). She works in the area(s) of social sciences with emphasis on psychology, political science and criminology around issues related to social movements, autonomy and utopia; feminist studies; psychology of morality; psychology of justice; political psychology and political subjectivity.