International Seminar

Algorithmic Power and Artificial Intelligence: Symmetries and Asymmetries between the Global North and South

November 14, 2025, 09h15-18h00

Room 2, CES | Alta

Programme

9:30 - Opening of the event - Inês Amaral (FLUC/CES) and Juliana Moroni (FLUC/CNPq)

9:45 - 11:20 - Round Table 1: Inês Amaral (FLUC/CES) and Mariana Cláudia Broens (UNESP) with Sofia José Santos (FEUC/CES) as moderator.

11:20 - 11:30 - Break

11:30 - 13:00 - Presentation of Papers. Moderation by Rita Basílio de Simões (FLUC/CES)

Artificial intelligence strategies and digital educational reforms in Brazil: implications for teacher training - Paula Gonçalves Felicio (State University of Maringá and University of Barcelona); Jani Alves da Silva Moreira (State University of Maringá)

Digital Education and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and perspectives in public educational policies in Brazil and Spain - Andreia Machado Castiglioni de Araújo (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA / University of Barcelona - UB); Maria Helena Silveira Bonilla (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA); Geo Saura Casanova (University of Barcelona - UB)

Opacity, overfitting and scale: questions surrounding the automation of writing - Ana Marques (University of Coimbra)

Automation and the reconfiguration of work: the case of autonomous shops - João Pedro Pereira (University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE-IUL); Ana Viseu (NOVA-FCSH); Pedro Silveira Lucas (NOVA-FCSH)

Access to justice in Brazil and judicial decision-making in times of AI: between the right to an explanation of decisions and the right to a human decision - Andréa Abrahão Costa (Federal University of Goiás - UFG)

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:15 - 15:50 - Round Table 2: João Miranda (FLUC) and Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (UNESP) with Juliana Moroni (FLUC/CNPq) as moderator.

Algorithmic Power and Populist Rhetoric: digital co-authorship in André Ventura’s political discourse - Lourenço Silva Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - IPC); Samuel Mateus (University of Madeira - UMa)

Between networks and algorithms: implications of new technologies for contemporary democracy - Jefferson Cirineo Ferreira de Meira (State University of Maringá - UEM); Paula Gonçalves Felicio (State University of Maringá - UEM and University of Barcelona - UB)

Decolonial Feminist AI: Epistemologies and Practices from Latin America - Renata Frade (University of São Paulo - USP, University of Aveiro - UA, and University of Porto - U.Porto)

Gender, Algorithms and Resistance in Platform Work: the digital mobilisation of female delivery workers in Brazil in the face of precarious labour and gender inequality - Maria Lúcia Martins Cordeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ)

Psychosocial subversion in the digital sphere: the role of bots and fake accounts in shaping emotion and consensus in post-truth democracies - Paulo Jorge Nogueira Ramos (University of Coimbra - UC)

Digital colonialism and algorithmic racism: the double opacity between the Global North and South - Josilda Carmo Santos (Josy Azeviche) (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA and University of Porto - U.Porto)

15:50 - 17:30 - Session 2. Moderation by Carmen Brotas (UFBA/FLUC)

17:30 - Closing Session – Inês Amaral (FLUC/CES)