Program

November 27, 2008 | Thursday


9:30 – 10:00 | Opening Session

José Conde Rodrigues, Adjunct Secretary of State and of Justice

Fernando Seabra Santos, Rector of the University of Coimbra

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, General Director of the Center for Social Studies

José Manuel Mendes, President of Scientific Committee of the Center for Social Studies


10:00 – 10:45 | Inaugural lecture – Human rights in light of the challenges of social inequality and cultural diversity

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Centro de Estudos Sociais


10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee-break


11:00 – 12:30 | Session I – The rights to the sustainability of the ways of life and ethics: the North-South relations

Moderator: Catarina Frade, CES

Presenters:
Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam

Nelson Maldonado Torres, University of California, Berkeley

Commentator: Clemens Zobel, CES


12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch


14:00 – 15:30 | Session II – The “new” fundamental rights to the city and to health

Moderator: Giovanni Allegretti, CES

Presenters:
Edesio Fernandes, University College London

António Arnaut, Attorney

Commentator: João Arriscado Nunes, CES


15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee-break


15:45 – 17:15 | Session III – The right to labor with rights

Moderator: Virgínia Ferreira, CES

Presenters:
Alain Supiot, University of Nantes

Nicola Piper, University of Wales Swansea

Commentator: António Casimiro Ferreira, CES


17:15 – 17:30 | Coffee-break


17:30 – 19:00 | Session IV – Human rights and new paradigms of (inter)national security/violence

Moderator: Conceição Gomes, CES

Presenters:
Wladimir Brito, University of Minho

José Manuel Pureza, CES

Commentator: Maria Raquel Freire, CES


November 28, 2008 | Friday


9:30 – 11:00 | Session V – Violence against women and human rights

Moderator: Madalena Duarte, CES

Presenters:
Kamala Kempadoo, York University

Maria José Magalhães, University of Porto

Commentator: Cecília Santos, CES


11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break


11:15 – 12:45 | Session VI – Children’s rights: challenges to human rights

Moderator: Catarina Trincão, CES

Presenters:
Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, University of Minho

Teresa Piconto Novales, University of Zaragoza

Commentator: João Pedroso, CES


12:45 – 14:15 | Lunch


14:15 – 15:45 | Session VII - Racism, discrimination, and the right to cultural diversity

Moderator: Paula Meneses, CES

Presenters:
David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

Shirley Tate, University of Leeds

Commentator: Marta Araújo, CES


15:45 – 16:00 | Coffee Break


16:00 – 17:30 | Session VIII – Legal pluralism and human rights: dialogues among different conceptions of justice

Moderator: Cecília Santos, CES

Presenters:
José Geraldo de Sousa Júnior, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Mathias Thaler, CES

Commentator: Leonete Botelho, Jornal Público


17:30 – 17:45 | Coffee Break


17:45 – 18:30 | Closing Session

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, General Director of the Center for Social Studies

Jorge Lacão, Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Counsel of Ministers