The cycle of virtual extension meetings “Decolonial Dialogical Meetings: Lives and Voices that Matter” begins on Thursday, November 14, with this semester's edition promoted by the research group DESCOM – Decolonial Insurgencies, Communication, Arts and Humanities, from the Department of Social Communication at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. This edition has a transatlantic character, with the participation of guests from Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, with the aim of promoting exchanges of ideas, knowledge, experiences and decolonial and countercolonial emancipatory practices, from a South-South perspective.
Throughout this semester, three meetings will be held between November 2024 and January 2025, always on the Thursday of each month, from 9am to 12pm, via the Google Meet platform. The meetings are open to all interested people, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and from outside.
Registration is free and can be done on the public portal of the Integrated Academic Activities Management System (SIGAA), accessing the link: https://sigaa.ufrn.br/sigaa/public/home.jsf, and following the path Extension – Events – Search Event. It is not necessary to have a connection with the university to register.
The first meeting will be held on Thursday, November 14th, with the theme “The struggle for land and housing in South Africa and Brazil”. Participating will be Mqapheli George Bonono, from Abahlali baseMjondolo (Movement of Residents and Residents of Shacks), from Durban, South Africa, and Camila Moradia, founder of the collective Mulheres em Ação no Alemão, from Rio de Janeiro. The debate will be mediated by professor Antonino Condorelli, coordinator of the DESCOM group, with simultaneous translation from English to Portuguese and vice versa, carried out by students Yasmin Lima and Maria Beatriz França. After the guests' presentations, a debate will be opened with the participating public.
Information about the meetings and the virtual room link will be sent in advance to all registered people.
The Decolonial Dialogical Encounters: Lives and Voices that Matter aim to contribute to confronting historical inequalities and discrimination, considering the intersectionalities of class, gender and race in Brazil and the Global South. Understanding the contemporary world requires listening to the struggles and knowing the worldviews, political thoughts and emancipatory practices of marginalized peoples, in their historical, social, political, economic, cultural, territorial and sexual diversity. We cannot think about transformation or another societal project without embracing decolonial and countercolonial struggles.
The meetings arise in the face of worsening violations of human rights and Mother Earth on the American continent and throughout the Global South. Such violations expose the colonial wound of discrimination and inequalities of gender, race, class and sexuality, as well as the imposition of a Eurocentric vision of the world, which hierarchizes beings and knowledge and threatens to lead the planet to a social, environmental and climatic collapse. The project aims to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences and the production of critical knowledge about Latin America and the Global South, areas marked by the blood of black and indigenous bodies and by a concept of humanity built from the oppression of peripheral peoples.
Between November 2024 and January 2025, the Decolonial Dialogical Meetings: Lives and Voices that Matter will promote three international online meetings, with the aim of stimulating the exchange of experiences, knowledge and practices between social movements in Brazil and South Africa, between black feminist activists and researchers from Latin America and Africa, and between Latin American indigenous activists in the defense of territories and the construction of new possible worlds based on the worldviews of original peoples.
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Decolonial Dialogical Encounters: Lives and Voices that Matter – First meeting
DATE: 11/14/2024
TIME: 9am to 12pm
THEME: The struggle for land and housing in South Africa and Brazil
GUESTS:
Mqapheli George Bonono, Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Residents' Movement), Durban, South Africa
Camila Moradia, Women in Action in Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
LOCATION: Google Meet platform
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