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JUNE 18TH, 2008 | WEDNESDAY
09:15 -19:00 YOUTH AND THE ROUTES INTO THE FUTURE: PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Centre for Social Studies
19:30 OPENING OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION ‘ATMOSPHERE OF A PLACE’
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
JUNE 19TH, 2008 | THURSDAY
Auditorium of the Faculty of Law
9:30 – 10:00 OPENING SESSION
Fernando Seabra Santos
Rector of the University of Coimbra
Carlos Fortuna
President of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Economics
José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes
President of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Humanities
João Gabriel Silva
President of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Director of the Centre for Social Studies
DELIVERY OF THE 2007 CES AWARD
10:00 – 10:45 INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Philosophy for Sale, Learned Ignorance and Pascal’s Wager
10:45 – 11:00 COFFEE-BREAK
11:00 – 13:00 SESSION I
The Social and Human Sciences: A necessary complementarity?
Chair:
Isabel Caldeira
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Marilena Chauí | "Virtù" against Fortune and Resignation
Philosophy, University of S. Paulo
Graça Capinha | Puzzles e Móbiles
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Miguel Vale de Almeida
Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon
Vítor Neves
Economics, Centre for Social Studies
13:00 – 14:30 | LUNCH
14:30 – 16:30 | SESSION II
Theories and research and intervention methodologies: Studying for transforming?
Chair:
Virgínia Ferreira
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Mary Layoun | Maps of the Now and Here: Envisioning the After-Now and After-Here
Literary Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
José Manuel Mendes | Beyond Narratives and Technologies: Unutterable Networks and the Role of Resistance
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Cláudio Torres
Archaeology, Archaeological Campus in Mértola
Marisa Matias
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
16:30 – 17:00 | COFFEE-BREAK
17:00 – 19:00 | SESSION III
Interculturality and post-colonialisms: is equality possible within difference?
Chair:
Maria Ioannis Baganha
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Rámon Grosfoguel | From Postcolonial Studies to Decolonial Studies: Decolonizing the Western Concept of Universality
Sociology, UC Berkeley
Maria Paula Meneses | Forms of Knowledge and Translation in Africa: Challenges to Interculturality
Anthropology, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Ana Gabriela Macedo
Comparative Literature, University of Minho, Portugal
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
JUNE 20TH, 2008 | FRIDAY
Auditorium of the University of Coimbra
10:00 – 12:00 | SESSION IV
The University of the future: is there a place for the Social and Human Sciences?
Chair:
Carlos Fortuna
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Valentin Mudimbe | And Simonides said: "It is the City that educates Humans." -On the Soul of Today's University, a Personal Statement
Philosophy, Duke University, USA
António Sousa Ribeiro | A Ceiling among the Ruins? The Humanities in a University for the 21st Century
Literary Studies, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Luiza Cortesão
Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
Elísio Estanque
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
12:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH
14:00 – 16:00 | SESSION V
Social policies and new public risks: Is it possible to combine complexity with equity?
Chair:
Pedro Hespanha
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Shiv Visvanathan | Democracy, Diversity and the Body Politic: The emergence of Biotechnology as an imagination in India
Anthropology, Dhirbhal Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Hujarat
Sílvia Portugal | Under/on the Policies which do not Protect Us: New Risks and Challenges Facing Sociological Theory
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Graça Carapinheiro
Sociology, ISCTE, Lisbon
João Arriscado Nunes
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
16:00 – 16:30 | COFFEE-BREAK
16:30 – 18:30 | SESSION VI
Governance and contemporary social dynamics: A world of diversities or of homogeneities?
Chair:
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
Law, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Bruno Amable | The Lisbon Agenda: the end of the European model(s) of capitalism?
Economics, Université de Paris I, France
José Reis | Maps of Diversity. Beyond Globalisation and the "shrinking" of the World
Economics, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
António Manuel Figueiredo
Economics, Porto, Portugal
José António Bandeirinha
Architecture, Centre for Social Studies
20:00 | CONFERENCE DINER
Casino Figueirense
22:30 | CONFERENCE CONCERT
Casino Figueirense
António Pinho Vargas (piano)
solo & duo with José Nogueira (sax)
JUNE 21ST, 2008 | SATURDAY
Auditorium of the University of Coimbra
9:15 – 11:15 | SESSION VII
Globalization, peace and democracy: Are there possible alternatives to violence?
Chair:
Fernando Ruivo
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
Speakers:
Chantal Mouffe | Agonistic politics in a multipolar world
Political Science, University of Westminster
José Manuel Pureza | What use do Peace Studies serve?
International Relations, Centre for Social Studies
Comments:
Rui Tavares
Ecole Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales
Cecília M. Santos
Sociology, Centre for Social Studies
11:15 – 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK
11:15 – 11:30 ROUNDTABLE
Outlining futures
Chair:
Tiago Santos Pereira
Science and Technology Policy Studies, Centro de Estudos Sociais
Speakers:
Emir Sader
Sociology, Chair of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Teresa Cruz e Silva
History, Chair of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Lígia Amâncio
Psychology, Vice-chair of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Helga Nowotny
Science and Technology Studies, Vice-Chair of the European Research Council
EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNCIL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA (CODESRIA) AND CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS (CES)
Adebayo Olukoshi
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
CLOSING SESSION
José Mariano Gago
Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education