Event brings together Germany, Brazil, Canada and U.S. researchers
From Sept 21 – 23, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies (Propesq) will be promoting the Symposium World in Motion: Democracy, Human Rights and Violence Prevention, in partnership with Fulbright and the Institutional Project of Internationalization (PUCRS-PrInt). The first day of the event will include in-person activities at the Auditorium of Building 50, and the following two days will be filled with online activities via Zoom.
The speakers include Prof. Dr. Peter Beattie, from Michigan State University (USA), who has been awarded the Fulbright Chair in Democracy, Human Rights and Violence Prevention at PUCRS. Other researchers with similar interests in institutions such as California State University (USA), Universität Bonn (Germany) and York University (Canada) will also be joining in.
The event will be an opportunity to discuss and present several issues related to different graduate programs at the University, with a focus on PUCRS-PrInt’s area World in Motion and social and historical issues related to democracy, human rights and violence prevention, including migration, slavery and reconciliation.
The event is at no charge for faculty, students and the community in general. Click here to register. The lectures will be delivered either in English or Portuguese. No interpreting will be provided. Attendees will be entitled to a certificate of completion. If you have any question, please send an email to [email protected].
2 PM: Opening Session
2:10 PM: Session The Sequence of Reforms Connected to Human Rights: Corporal Punishment, Death Penalty, and Slavery in Brazil and the USA in the 19th Century – Prof. Peter Beattie (Michigan State University, Fulbright)
2:50 PM: Commentator: Prof. Claudia Fay (PUCRS)
3 PM: Break
3:30 PM: Session Fields of Fire: Emancipation & Resistance in Colombia – Prof. Louis Esparza (California State University, Los Angeles, Fulbright Interdisciplinary Network)
4:30 PM: Commentators Prof. Rodrigo Azevedo and Emil Sobottka (PUCRS)
5:10 PM: Documentary Spoken Childhood by Prof. Hermílio dos Santos (PUCRS)
6:30 PM: Closing
2 PM: Opening Session
2:10 PM: Session Reconciliation: Conflict Transformations in Social Orders – Prof. Stephen Connerman (Universität Bonn)
2:50 PM: Commentators Prof. Roberto Pich and Luis Rosenfield (PUCRS)
3 PM: Roundtable with researchers and faculty
3:45 PM: Closing
2 PM: Opening Session
2:10 PM: Session From violence and forced mobility resulting from slavery to archival democratization: The case of Angola – Prof. José Carlos Curto (York University)
2:50 PM: Commentator Prof. Marçal Paredes (PUCRS)
3 PM: Roundtable with researchers and faculty
3:45 PM: Closing
