International Colloquium
Memory, History and Justice
September 15th and 16th, 2009, CES Seminar Room
Presentation
The issue of memory of violence and the means of relating to the past it allows to establish has become one of the main themes of contemporary thought. One of the fundamental aspects of this reflection relates to countries that just out of dictatorships and the difficult pursuit of criteria for individual and collective justice. The colloquium, organized in partnership with the Federal University of Minas Gerais and CES – Latin America, shall provide a loci of interdisciplinary discussion regarding this thematic, parting from contributions of Portuguese and Brazilian researchers.
For further information: ces@ces.uc.pt
Registration
Normal - 20€
Students - 10€
Programme
September 15th
9:00 | Welcome Reception
9:30 | Opening Ceremony
9:45 | Opening Conferences
Paulo Vannuchi (Special Secretary for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (CES Director)
11:00-11:30: Break
11:30-13:30: Right to Memory and to Truth
Round Table with Heloísa Starling (moderator), Vera Rotta, Marcela Elian, Bruno Viveiros and Augusto Borges (UFMG)
13:30-15:00 | Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 | Transition Justice
Round Table with Boaventura de souse Santos (moderator), Paulo Vannuchi, Marilena Chauí (USP), Cecília MacDowell Santos (CES) and Paula Meneses (CES).
18:00-20:00 | Inauguration of Exhibition "Direito à Memória e à Verdade" (Museu de Antropologia da UC)
September 16th
9:30-11:00 | Session 1
Rui Bebiano (CES): “The Great Portuguese” and the avatars of memory
Manuela Cruzeiro (CES): The conflict of memories
Miguel Cardina (CES): Political prisoners in the downfall of the Portuguese Estado Novo: memory, resistance and subjectivity
11:00-11:30 | Break
11:30-13:00 | Session 2
Marta Araújo and Sílvia Maeso (CES): Eurocentrism in Portuguese history manuals
Paula Meneses (CES): Histories, forgetfulness and memories: reconfiguration of identities and colonial fracture
13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 | Session 3
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES): The children of war: post-memory and representations
António Pinho Vargas (CES): Os Dias Levantados
15:30-15:45 | Break
15:45-18:00 | Round Table - Memory, History and Justice
António Sousa Ribeiro (moderador)
Heloísa Starling (UFMG)
Emilio Silva Barrera (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica)
Joana Lopes (Movimento Não Apaguem a Memória)
Sílvia Rodriguez Maeso (CES)
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