International Colloquium
Care, Class and Trauma
September 14, 2026, 09h30
Faculty of Arts and Humanities - UC
Programme
9:30 - 10:00 - Opening and Welcome
10:00 - 11:00 - Marcela Uchôa (IEF-UC): Care and Exception: The Politicisation of Reproductive Labour
Discussant: Bruno Padilha (IEF-UC)
11.00 - 12.00 - João Mattos (FEUC): Burnout and the Medicalisation of Working Conditions
Discussant: Marcela Uchôa (IEF-UC)
12.00 – 13.00 - Jonas Van Vossole (CES-UC): A Political Ecology of Eco-Trauma and Class
Discussant: Irina Velicu (CES-UC)
13:00 – 14:30 - Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 - Duarte Rolo (Université de Paris / ESE João de Deus): Suffering, Work and Politics
Discussant: Bernardo Ferro (IEF-UC)
16:15 17:45 - Catherine Liu (UC Irvine): Traumatised: The New Politics of Public Suffering
Discussant: Jonas Van Vossole (CES-UC)

