Speakers

Juliana Blasi Cunha
PhD in Social Anthropology from PPGAS/USP and PNPD-Capes postdoctoral fellow at PPGSP/UENF-Brazil. I am currently on leave for research abroad as a guest researcher at ISCTE-CIES-IUL, Lisbon-Portugal. I work with themes related to Urban Anthropology and, more specifically, with favelas, housing policies, associativism and socio-spatial segregation. I am a collaborating researcher at GEAC/USP and LeMetro/UFRJ.

Patricia de Menezes Cardoso
Doctoral candidate in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship at CES/FEUC.  During the last 18 years she has participated in the struggles for the right to land and housing in Brazil. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Institute of Urban Law and is a collaborating lawyer at the Forum of Traditional Communities of Angra, Paraty and Ubatuba.

Ricardo Luiz Chagas Amorim
Economist at USP, master and doctor at UNICAMP. He was an IPEA researcher, director at the Ministry of Social Development and analyst at ABDI, an agency of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. He was a professor at the Mackenzie, PUC-SP and FACAMP universities. Has studies in Brazilian Economy and Development Theory. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CES.

Valeria Ena
PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon. She began to research the process of construction of Rio de Janeiro's favelas in 2013 while completing her final honours dissertation for the Bachelor of Philosophy at the Università Statale di Milano. Valeria earned both her Bachelor and Master in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano.

Velha Capital 
* Mediator: Carlos Guerra Júnior "Mossoró"
* José Miguel - Cultural producer at Jazz ao Centro and creator of the Digital Archive of the Historic Centre of Coimbra.
* David Mendes "Eterno" - Founder of the collective Velha Capital, has taken action in prisons and schools in the city, and organised As Beiras do Hip Hop, an annual event that includes rap groups from small cities as well as villages and hamlets on the outskirts of Coimbra.
* Ruze Soldado Zeru - A pioneer Rapper from the city of Coimbra, who has been active since 1993. Ruze has two EP's and an album recorded. He is the creator of the "União vs Exclusão" Project, which took place in the early 2000s and held cultural activities in the social housing projects of Relvinha and Rosa. His pioneering group, "Da Kilander Ghetto", contemplated Angolan immigrants, who worked in the city and were outside the university context.
* Vera Silva - Feminist activist, director of social inclusion activities in prisons and participant in the punk movement.
* CódigAtómiko - This association aims to carry out artistic and socio-educational activities with youngsters in the Ingote borough, in Coimbra. This borough is mainly formed by Roma, an ethnic group that suffers great social stigma in Portugal. In this way, the association was born with the purpose of overcoming the structural invisibility and allowing social inclusion and protagonism to the residents of the borough.
* Fernando Lobo - Designer and poet.