Programme - Parallel Sessions

Parallel Sessions I

25 June 2026, 17:00 – 19:00

Session 1: Modesty and Contract (Room 2.1) *
Chair: Elisa Lopes da Silva (Institute of Contemporary History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon / IN2PAST)

Modesty and Promiscuity: Women in 14th-Century Portugal
Nuno Alexandre Ribeiro (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra)

The Legal Construction of the Female Body in 19th-century Prostitution in Porto
Duarte Camões  (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto)

“Never ask a woman for cash outright, only prostituted men do that”: Gendered Morality and Transactional Intimacy in Socialist Yugoslavia
Anita Buhin (Institute of Contemporary History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon / IN2PAST)

Adultery in the Civil Code of 1867 – The Differing Interpretation of Spouses’ Sexual Duties
Míriam Afonso Brigas (Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon / Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences)

Session 2: Sex and the City (Room 4.1) *
Chair: Andrea Peniche (A Coletiva)

Intersectionality and the City: Black Women’s (lack of) Right to the City in Salvador
Gabriela Santiago Xavier (Federal University of Bahia – UFBA)

Hegemony, Law and Recognition: LGBTQIA+ Demands in Brazilian Agrarian Reform
Nilson Florentino Júnior (National Youth Secretariat / University of Brasília)
Paulo Gracino de Souza Junior (University of Brasília)

A Sex-housing Fiction, and or the Law?
André Luis Carrilho Nucci (Federal University of Bahia / University of Lisbon)

Session 3: Reasoning and Mobilisation (Room 4.2)
Chair: José Borges Reis (University of Coimbra)

The Gestalt of Exclusion: Triadic Legitimacy in the Eugenic Records of the American West
Kochav Koren (Duquesne University)

Scientific Argumentation in the Parliamentary Debate on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in Portugal
Alice Nogueira Nunes (School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon)

Sex, Gender, and the Law: Conceptual and Methodological Tensions in Researching Anti-Gender Mobilisations
Ian Puis Farrés (Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations of the Ramon Llull University – URL)

Parallel Sessions II

26 June 2026, 09:30 – 11:00

Session 4: Care and Control (Room 3.1)
Chair: Elisa Lopes da Silva (Institute of Contemporary History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon / IN2PAST)

The “Bad Mother” as a Sexualised Legal Figure in Child Welfare Proceedings
Madalena Cid Teles (Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra / Centre for Social Studies)

Care, the Forgotten Debate in Latin-American Social Law
Cristina Muñoz Zeas (Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra / Centre for Social Studies)
Gabriela Estefania Riera Robles (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – CIES-ISCTE)

Session 5: Pornography and Representation (Room 4.4) *
Chair: Vânia Álvares (High Council of the Public Prosecution Service / School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon)

Revenge porn: the spiral of dehumanisation in two Brazilian narratives
Natália Lima Ribeiro (University of Hamburg)

Case Study: History of Sexual Activism and Contemporaneity with Content Creators in Portugal
Beatriz Pontes dos Santos Mello (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra)
Sabrina Brezolin Pedroso (University of Coimbra)
Maria Jorge Santos Almeida Rama Ferro (University of Coimbra)

Cybersexual Crimes: Proposal for a Typology and Analysis in Portuguese Criminal Law
Rui Caria (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria)

Session 6: Will and Consent (Amphitheatre 3.2) *
Chair: Jorge Silva Santos (Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon / Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences)

Always no, Always yes – Forms of Consent and Sexual Freedom in Portuguese Law
António Brito Neves (Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon / Supreme Court of Justice / Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences)

Only ‘yes’ means ‘yes’ – but does ‘yes’ always mean ‘yes’? Reflections on Article 166 of the Criminal Code and Romantic Relationships in Prison
Filipa Samões Azevedo (Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon)

Apocalyptic and Declared: Biopolitics, Neurodiversity and Geschlechtswille in the Post-War Era
Joana Duarte Bernardes (University of Coimbra)
 

_{* The session includes papers presented in Portuguese.}