Provisional Program

10:00-10:30
Opening Session
Manuel Carvalho da Silva (Coordenador CES-Lisboa)
Natália Carrascalão (Ambassador of Timor-Leste in Lisboa) ([to be confirmed]
Susana de Matos Viegas (ICS/University of Lisboa)

10:30-11:00
Chair: Lucio Sousa (Open University, Lisboa)
Daniel Schroeter Simião (University of Brazilia)
Agency, Gender and Individuation: tensions between law and legal sensibilities in Timor-Leste

11:30-12:00 – Coffee break

12:00-13:00
Chair: Ricardo Roque (ICS/ Univesity of Lisboa)
Judith Bovensiepen (University of Kent at Canterbury)
Lulik, Animism and Transgressive Sacred – revisiting Durkheim in Timor-Leste

13:00-15:00 – Lunch break

15:00-16:00
Chair: Nuno Canas Mendes (ISCSP/University of Lisboa)
Henri Myrttinen (Mauerpark Institut, Berlin)
Contested Narratives of Power, Shadow States and Parallel States. Sagrada Familia, CPD-RDTL and the Timor-Leste State.

16:00-16:30 – Coffee break

16:30-17:30
Chair: Paulo Castro Seixas (ISCSP/University of Lisboa)
Susana Barnes (Monash University, Melbourne)
A reflection on the reassertion of customary land claims to land in Timor-Leste since independence and implications for the land law

17:30-18:30
Chair: Rui Graça Feijó (CES, University of Coimbra)
General comments
David Hicks (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Michael Leach (Swinburne University, Melbourne)

20:30 Symposium dinner

Convenors: Susana de Matos Viegas (ICS/UL); Rui Graça Feijó (CES/UC)

Activity within the research project "Co-habitations: dynamics of power in Lautém (Timor-Leste)"