Programme

Postcolonialism, decoloniality and epistemologies of the South
23 March 2022 - Wednesday | 15h00-18h00 (GMT)

The place of science in epistemologies of the South
1 April 2022 - Friday | 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

Marxism and the epistemologies of the South
8 April 2022 - Friday | 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

Decolonizing History
22 April 2022 - Friday | 15h00-18h00 (GMT+1)

Suffering and loneliness in a multipandemic world
29 April 2022 - Friday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT+1)

ZOOM link for all MASTER CLASSES> https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/89625934285 | ID: 896 2593 4285

Important information:

1) In the auditorium, access is limited to the number of seats available.

2) Simultaneous translation (Portuguese-English) available >> Devices available at the entrance to FEUC auditorium; select the English channel of the “simultaneous translation” option of the bottom menu]
 

Organisers: Doctoral Programmes Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship, Human Rights in Contemporary Societies and Sociology of the State, Law and Justice

Bio note

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish. His most recent project ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council, one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. Boaventura de Sousa Santos also writes lyrics for rap, as shown in his book Rap Global (Rio de Janeiro, Aeroplano, 2010; Confraria do Vento, 2019).