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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