Master Class
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Master Classes 2020
March 27 to May 22, 2020
Auditorium, Faculty of Economics UC | ONLINE STREAMING
Class 1 – March 27, 2020
Between utopia and myopia
Class 2 – April 3, 2020
21st century colonialism
Class 3 – April 30, 2020
21st century marxism
Class 4 – May 8, 2020
Time: reversal, acceleration, deceleration
Class 5 – May 22, 2020
Time and post-abyssal methodologies
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Master Classes being taught in digital format, the podcast of each one will be available on the Channel of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra on YouTube in the week following each one.
Bio note
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.
He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish.
His most recent project ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council, one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe.
Research topics: Epistemology, sociology of law, postcolonial theory, democracy, interculturality, globalisation, social movements, human rights.
His books have been published in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, German, French and Chinese