Programme

5th december | 20h30
Venue | Casa do Professor, Avenida Central (Braga)
Movie session “The young Karl Marx”, by Raoul Peck | Green Wine of honours
Presented by Manuel Sarmento (IE – UM)

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6th december |
Venue | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar (Braga)

EEUM Auditorium (Engineering School)

9H30
Participants onsite registration

9H45
Opening Ceremony
Institutional Representatives

 

10H15
Opening Lecture
Cédric Durand (CEPN-CNRS – University of Paris 13)
Commentator: Isabel Estrada (EEG – UM)

 

12H30
Lunch break

 

14H15

Thematic Panel 1 | EEUM Auditorium

Marx’s dialectical and historical materialism: unity, contradiction, change and utopia
Moderator: Ana Brandão (ICS – UM)
Commentator: Teresa Mora (ICS – UM)

Thematic Panel 2 | Sala de Atos ICS

Work, technology and changes driven by the “industry 4.0”
Moderator: Ana Paula Marques (ICS – UM)
Commentator: Miguel Portela e João Cerejeira (EEG – UM)

Break

16H00

Thematic Panel 3 | EEUM Auditorium

Capital and social struggles: economy, politics, society and the State
Moderator: Sílvia Sousa (EEG – UM)
Commentator: José Manuel L. Cordeiro (ICS – UM)

Thematic Panel 4 | Sala de Atos ICS

Capitalism, globalisation and imperialism: unequal development, inequalities and social exclusion
Moderator: Albertino Gonçalves (ICS – UM)
Commentator: Almerindo Janela Afonso (IE – UM)

Coffee Break

EEUM Auditorium

17H45

Plenary Session
Marxism and Social Sciences in Portugal: agendas, deconstructions and reconstructions
João Rodrigues (CES-UC)
José Madureira Pinto (FE – UP)
Fernando Rosas (FCSH – UNL)
Manuel Carlos Silva (ICS – UM)
Manuel Loff (FLUP – UP)
Manuela Tavares (CIEG – ISCSP)
Moderator: Luís Vicente Baptista (FCSH – UNL)

20H00 | Panorâmico Restaurant (University of Minho)
Symposium dinner 

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7th december |
Venue | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar (Braga)

9H00

Thematic Panel 5 | EEUM Auditorium

Capitalism, social and environmental crisis and socialismo
Moderator: Fátima Moura Ferreira (ICS – UM)
Commentator: Cristina Matos (EEG – UM)

 

Thematic Panel 6 | Sala de Atos ICS

Philosophy, social sciences and  new research objects from the Marxist legacy
Moderator: Joel Felizes (ICS – UM)
Commentator: Joaquim Costa (ICS – UM)

Coffee break

EEUM Auditorium

10H45
Plenary session
Marxism and the colonial question: liberation struggles, paths and balance
Eduardo Costa Dias (ISCTE – IUL)
Fernando Bessa Ribeiro (ICS – UM)
Ivonaldo Leite (Universidade Federal da Paraíba)
José Carlos Venâncio (UBI)
Paulo de Carvalho (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais – Universidade Agostinho Neto)
Víctor Kajibanga (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais – Universidade Agostinho Neto)
Moderator: Wladimir Brito (ED – UM)

13H00

Lunch break

14H45
Controversy roundtable
Marx and politics: the view of the political parties
Bloco de Esquerda (BE)
Centro Democrático Social (CDS)
Partido Comunista Português (PCP)
Partido Social-Democrata (PSD)
Partido Socialista (PS)
Pessoas – Animais – Natureza (PAN)
Moderator: Luís Cunha (ICS-UM)

Coffee break

17H00

Book Release
Desigualdades sociais e políticas públicas: homenagem a Manuel Carlos Silva
 | Presented by Graça Carapinheiro (ISCTE – IUL) & Francisco Mendes (ICS – UM)

18H00

Closing conference
Veit-Michael Bader (Universidade de Amesterdão)
Commentator: Francisco Louçã (ISEG – UL)

Symposium programme (pdf)