Participation and Democracy

In partnership with the UNPOP/Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra project

Free admission

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Teatrão and the UNPOP/CES-UC project organize this conference that, based on the season of presentation of "Revolution (Provisional Title)" in Coimbra, intends to reflect on the form and quality of the democratic participation of current societies. The UNPOP project, coordinated by researcher Cristiano Gianolla - curator and moderator of this conference - has been dissecting the narratives of populist emotion and their impact on the political behaviour of citizens, and therefore seemed to us the perfect partner to look at the evolution of citizen participation in the exercise of democracy in Portugal since 1974.

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Participants:

- Gonçalo Guerreiro. Director, dramaturg and responsible for the scenography of the show REVOLUTION (provisional title); He is artistic director of Elefante Elegante, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. He has a degree in Actor Training from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and a degree in Theatre of Movement from the École Lassaad, in Brussels.

– Marcela Uchôa. Investigadora do Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos da UC. Doutora em Filosofia Política pela Universidade de Coimbra, mestre em Filosofia, licenciada em Direito e Filosofia. Possui especialização em Direitos Humanos e estratégias para paz pela Universidade C’a Foscari – Veneza. Colunista regular no O Público. Foi professora universitária nas áreas de filosofia do direito, ética, filosofia da educação e direitos humanos na Faculdade do Vale do Jaguaribe e Faculdade Cearense. Ativista de DH, feminista e anticapitalista com trabalhos de ação humanitária em Lesbos (2016) e Palestina (2017), com especial interesse no acolhimento de mulheres e crianças.No ativismo académico foi vice-presidente da Associação dos pesquisadores e estudantes brasileiros em Coimbra APEB-Coimbra 2016-2017, e membro da EBRAC-Coimbra (Esquerda Brasileira em Coimbra).

- Tiago Alves Costa. He is a poet, writer and translator. He has published "Žižek goes to the Gym" (Através Editora, 2019 / Macondo Editora, 2020 (Brazil)), - Honourable Mention at the Glória de Sant'Anna International Poetry Prize 2020, "Emergency Mechanism "(Através Editora, 2016) - Honourable Mention at the Glória de Sant'Anna International Poetry Prize 2017 - and the short story book "W.c constricted" (Grupo Criador, 2012).His work has appeared in several anthologies and he has collaborations in film.
In 2021 he debuts in theatre writing with the play "O Cubo" produced by the Galician company "Elefante Elegante". He participates frequently as Guest Teacher in Creative Writing courses in the EOI of Galicia, since 2017. Since 2021 he coordinates the communication department of Através Editora (editorial seal of the Galician Language Association). He is editor and co-director of the digital arts and letters magazine Palavra Comum, since 2018. He is a member of the Galician Language Association (AGAL) and the first Portuguese to be part of the Asociación de Escritoras y Escritores en Lingua Galega (AELG). He graduated in Advertising from ISCET (Portugal) with a Postgraduate degree in Creativity and Innovation from Tompkins Cortland Community College (USA).

- Vanda Amaro Dias. D. in International Relations: International Politics and Conflict Resolution from the University of Coimbra, is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, integrated in the thematic line (Semi)Peripheral Capitalism: Crises and Alternatives, and Assistant Professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (FLUC). She is also Deputy Director of the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of FLUC, Coordinator of the Section of European Studies and Deputy Director of the Degree in European Studies. Her main research interests focus on peace studies, security studies, foreign policy, the European Union, Russia and Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus).

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Moderator
- Cristiano Gianolla. Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC), where he integrates the thematic line on Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. Cristiano is Senior Researcher of the UNPOP project (FCT, 2021-2024), co-founder of the "Inter-Thematic Group on Migrations", co-coordinates the research group "Epistemologies of the South" and coordinating editor of Alice News. Cristiano teaches "Democratic Theories and Institutions", and "Critical Intercultural Dialogue" at the Faculty of Economics of the UC and his current research interests focus on the theme of emotions and narratives in democratic processes.

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