Tuesday, March 27

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 10:00 Opening session

João Gabriel Silva, Rector of the University of Coimbra
Miguel Clüsener-Godt, Representative from UNESCO
Jorge Almeida Guimarães, President of CAPES/Brazil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Director of CES
Luis E. Aragón, Milton Santos Chair/CES

10:00 - 10:30 Opening speech

Helena Freitas, Vice-Rector of the University of Coimbra

10h30-10h45 Pause

10h45-11h45 Conference I

Chair: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, CES

Alberto Acosta, Member of Parliament, former President of the National Constituent Assembly, Ecuador

11:45 - 12:05 Debate

12:05 - 14:00 Lunch

Panel I: Amazonia and Sustainable Development: Rio 92 and Rio 92+20

Chair: Stefania Barca, CES

14:00 - 14:30 José Augusto Valladares Pádua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

14h30-15h00 Violeta Loureiro, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

15:00 - 15:20 Debate

Panel II: Amazonia and the new ecological mandate

Chair: Rita Serra, CES

15:20 - 15:50 Eduardo Gudynas, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Centre for Social Ecology (CLAES), Uruguay

15:50 - 16:20 Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves, Federal University Fluminense, Brazil

16:20 - 16:40 Debate

16:40-16:55 Pause

Panel III: Amazonia and geopolitics in a globalized world

Chair: José Manuel Pureza, CES

16:55 - 17:25 Camilo Domínguez, University Externado de Colômbia, Colombia

17:25 - 18:05 Mario Amin, UNESCO Chair, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

18:05 - 18:35 Debate

19:00 Reception

 

Wednesday, March 28

09:00 - 10:00 Conference II

Chair: Francisco Cantos Mengs, OAPN, Spain

Luis E. Aragón, Milton Santos Chair, CES

10:00 - 10:20 Debate

10:20 - 10:35 Pause

Panel IV: Amazonia and the engagement of local actors and institutions

Chair: Paulo Peixoto, CES

10:35 - 11:05 Alex Fiúza de Mello, State Secretary for Science and Technology,  Government of Pará, Brazil

11:05 - 11:35 Armin Mathis, Director, Centre of Advanced Amazonian Studies/Federal University of Pará, Brazil

11:35 - 11:55 Debate

11:55 - 14:00 Lunch

Panel IV: Amazonia and the engagement of local actors and institutions (cont.)

Chair: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, CES

14:00 - 14:30 Xavier Albó, Centre of Research and Promotion of Peasantry (CIPCA), Bolivia

14:30 - 15:00 Juan Carlos Jintiach, Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), Ecuador

15:00 - 15:30 Fernando Vargas, Director of the Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), Bolivia

15:30 - 15:50 Debate

15:50 - 16:05 Pause

16:05 - 17:05 Conference III

Chair: Pedro Hespanha, CES

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, CES

17:05 - 18:15 Debate

18:15 - 18:45 Closing session