Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Master Classes 2022
March 23, 3pm-6pm (GMT) | April 1, 8, 22 and 29 | 2022, 3pm-6pm (GMT+1)
Auditorium of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra + Online, via zoom
Program
Post-colonialism, decoloniality and epistemologies of the south
March 23, 2022 – Wednesday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT)
The place of science in southern epistemologies
April 1, 2022 – Friday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT+1)
Marxism and the Epistemologies of the South
April 8, 2022 – Friday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT+1)
decolonize history
April 22, 2022 – Friday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT+1)
Suffering and loneliness in a multi-pandemic world
April 29, 2022 – Friday | 15:00-18:00 (GMT+1)
ZOOM link for all MAGISTRATE CLASSES> https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/89625934285 | ID: 896 2593 4285
Important note: In the auditorium, access is limited to the number of seats available.
Organization: Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship Doctoral Programs, Human Rights in Contemporary Societies and Sociology of the State, Law and Justice
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biographical note
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a professor in Sociology of Law at Yale University, a retired professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and a distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was also a global legal scholar at the University of Warwick and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He directed the ALICE research project - Strange mirrors, unforeseen lessons: defining for Europe a new way of sharing experiences with the world, a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and competitive international funding for research of excellence in European space.
He is director emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and scientific coordinator of the Permanent Observatory of Justice.
Research topics: Epistemology, sociology of law, post-colonial theory, democracy, interculturality, globalization, social movements, human rights.
His books have been published in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, German, French and Chinese.