Conference
Civil Society and Postcolonialism: a debate on paradigms towards the understanding of Latin America
August 4th to 6th, 2009, Federal University of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte
Presentation
The aim of the conference Civil Society and Postcolonialism is to establish a productive dialogue between European, African and Latin-American scholars that work upon literature in civil society and literature on Postcolonialism so that the contact between scholars from both political academic streams may offer an exchange of epistemological positions among them and the remaining participants of the Conference.
Programme
August 4th
MORNING
Participants welcome reception and registration
AFTERNOON
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
14.00 – 14.30 Opening
UFMG Rector
University of Coimbra Rector
14.30 -16.30 – Opening Conferences
Civil Society under the perspective of post-colonialism
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – CES-Coimbra
Postcolonialism under the perspective of civil society
Prof. Leonardo Avritzer – Prodep-UFMG
Commentary: Profa. Heloísa Starling - UFMG
16.30 – 17.30 - Debates
august 5th
MORNING
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
10.00 - 11.15
Table: Paradigms for understanding Latin America
Prof. João Feres Júnior - IUPERJ
Prof. Jose Mauricio Domingues – IUPERJ
11.15 - 12.00 - Debates
AFTERNOON
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
14.00 - 15.15
Table: Africa seen through Latin America and Latin America seen through Africa
Profa. Paula Meneses – CES- Coimbra
15.15 - 16.00 - Debates
EXTRA
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
16.30 - 18.00 (room 01) – Immigration, Identity and Postcolonialism
Session Articles:
Immigrant political participation in the Portuguese postcolonial context (Giovanni Allegretti);
Displeasing civil society: theoretical notes on (in)civility (Luciana Ballestrin);
What is there beyond identities? Belongings and becomings between Bolivian immigrants in São Paulo (Geraldo Adriano de Campos);
Acritical and critical whiteness: racial supremacy and the anti-racist white (Lourenço Cardoso).
18.00 - 19.00 (room 04) – Youth, university and Postcolonialism
Session articles:
A glance on youth from Minas Gerais (Juarez Dayrell, André Golgher, Simone Grace de Paula, Ana Amélia Labourne, Raquel Alvares);
Social movements’ popular university: (re)cognizing towards dialogue (Ana Maria Prestes Rabelo).
August 7th
MORNING
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
10.00 - 11.15
Table: Knowledge and collective action
Maria Vanete Almeida – Social Mobilizer - LAC
Prof. Miguel Arroyo - UFMG
11.15 - 12.00 - Debates
AFTERNOON
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
14.00 - 15.15
Table: Etnic and Racial Movements in Latin América
Prof. Claudia Mosquera – National University of Colômbia
Prof. Kiran Asher - Clark University
Prof. Nilma Gomes - UFMG
15.15. - 16.00 - Debate
EXTRA
Venue:"Conservatório da UFMG"
16.30 - 18.00 (room 02) – Postcolonialism and Black Identity
Session Articles:
From the emergence of black scholars to the intellectual decolonialization in the area of Brazilian racial relations (Sales Augusto dos Santos);
Traditional afro-descendent communities and the right to territory: a comparative study between Brazil and Colombia (Alexandre Sampaio, Carlos Eduardo Marques, Lílian Gomes, Ricardo Álvares);
The black women movement of Belo Horizonte in the construction of a postcolonial Brazil (Michele da Silva Lopes);
Decolonizing knowledge and penal powers: reviewing an everyday genocide (Felipe Heringer da Motta).
18.00 - 19.30 (room 04) - Liberalism, Acknowledgement and social Movements in Latin America.
Session Articles:
Researching leisure in Latin America (Christianne Gomes, Rodrigo Elizalde, Alicia Ramos);
Liberalism’s metamorphoses and contemporary judicial acknowledgement in Latin America: the limits of State refounding ideas and internal decolonialization (Aurea Mota);
Social movements and decolonialism (Liliam Huzioka, Ricardo Pazello);
Acknowledgment policy and truth committees: reflections from the cases of Peru and Guatemala (Silvia Maeso).
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