The Gender Workshop's Feminist Talks aim to showcase the lives and work of people from the most diverse areas of activity, with a focus on Gender equality and women's issues. This talk will feature guests Ariana Furtado and Eliane Godinho on multicultural and antiracist education and pedagogies. 

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Ariana Helena Varela Furtado, born in Cape Verde, grew up in Portugal  and is a primary school teacher  and coordinator at the Escola Básica do Castelo in Lisbon., Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Vicente. She taught for six years in recurrent education – adult literacy. Co-author of the projects “Com a mala na mão contra a discriminação” [With a briefcase in hand against discrimination], Municipal Prize for Human Rights of Children and Young People 2018-2019, and the project “Ge(ne)rando polémica…ou antes pelo contrário” [Gen(der)ating controversy …or rather the opposite), Municipal prize for Human Rights of Children and Young People 20202021. Translator of the following children’s books “O Senhor da Dança” e “O Grão de Milho Mágico” by Véronique Tadjo, “O Colar Mágico” and “O camaleão que se achava feio” by Souleymane Mbodj.

Eliane Godinho | Godinho is a PhD candidate in Feminist Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC) and the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. In 2017, she graduated with a Master's degree in Education from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil (UFPel), with her dissertation: “: O "artesanato de si" de mulheres assentadas do MST: um processo político pedagógico feminista pelo viés da educação popular” [The ‘craft of the self’ of women settlers of the MST: a feminist political pedagogical process through the lens of popular education], linked to the research line Written Culture, Languages and Learning, of the Postgraduate Programme in Education. In 2013, she graduated in Pedagogy from the same university. In 2012, she studied for a semester at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal (IPB). She worked as a pedagogue in the initial grades in the Pelotas municipal school system, was a member of the Gender and Diversity Observatory at UFPel (2014-2017) and the DGenerus Research Group: Centre for Feminist and Gender Studies at the Federal University of Pelotas (2016-2017). She is a member of the Philosophy, Education and Social Praxis Research Group - FEPráxiS/UFPel, in the line of research Dialogues with Paulo Freire and the Education, Gender and Craftwork Research Group - PUCRS, in the line of research Feminist and Gender Studies. She has experience in formal and non-formal education, feminist and gender studies. Her current areas of interest are: feminist and gender studies, popular education, feminist pedagogy, feminist popular education, antiziganism and social movements. She currently holds a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – Portugal and is exclusively dedicated to her research project.