Advanced Training Course
Europe as idea and practice

December 4th and 5th , 2009, CES Seminar Room

 
Coordination: Clemens Zobel

Contacto: clemens.zobel@ces.uc.pt


Registration closed


Presentation

This advanced training course has for aim an analysis of Europe understood from a double viewpoint, as ideological entity and as a body of institutional practises. This exercise shall involve two thematic axes: (1) understating the diversity of perspectives parting from the “inside” and realizing how they are negotiated from the “outside”, namely as what pertains to the South – and in this extent postulating, at the same time, that through the colonial experience and migratory dynamics the “outside” has continuously structured the “inside”; (2) exploring the challenge of thinking Europe whilst field of experimentation of ideas and practices that pursue equality. In both cases, it deals with examining the existence of Europe at different levels: local, regional, national and transnational, parting from the principle that these levels contract with each other; it also deals with positioning practices and ideas regarding Europe in a short, medium and long time span, exploring the permanence and the transformations of the models that have established themselves in the last five centuries since the beginning of European expansion.


Registration

General Public: 50 Euros

CES Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students: 30 Euros

 
Deadline for Registration

November 26th, 2009

 
Programme

 
 
December 4th

9:30 – 9:50 | Introduction: Clemens Zobel

Portraits I

9h50-10h30 | Paula Meneses, “Europe seen from the ‘South’”

10h30-11h20 | Discussion

11h20-11h30 | Coffee-Break

The challenge of equality I

11h30-12h10 | Virginia Ferreira, “Policies of employment and gender equality i the European Union”

12h10-13h00 | Discussion

13h-14h30 | Lunch

The challenge of equality II

14h30-15h10 | Isabel Estrada Carvalhais, “Europe na post-national citizenship”

15h10-16h | Discussion

16h-16h20 | Coffee-Break

Portraits II

16h20-17h | Pedro Gois, “Europe and Cape-Verdean’s transnational identifications”

17h-17h50 | Discussion

 
December 5th

Portraits III

10h-10h40 | Mathias Thaler, "Secularism in Europe: Conceptions and Realities”

10h40-11h30 | Discussion

11h30-11h40 | Coffee-Break

11h40-12h20 | Maria-Benedita Basto, “The outside inside: Edward Said and the exercising the counterpoint in the idea of Europe”

12h20-13h10 | Discussion

13h10-14h30 | Lunch

The challenge of equality III

14h30-15h30 | Marta Araújo and Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, “Public policies and conceptions regarding (anti-)racism in Europe”

15h30-16h20 | Discussion

16h20-16h30 | Coffee-Break

16h30-17h10 | Giovanni Allegretti, “The appropriation of a southern model in Europe: considerations on the diffusion of participatory budgets”

17h10-18h | Discussion