José Afonso and José Carlos Capinam: Unsuspected poetic encounters to the sound of the guitar
On 5 December , at 5 pm (Portugal), the seminar ‘José Afonso and José Carlos Capinam: Unsuspected poetic encounters to the sound of the viola’ will be held via Zoom platform, with the participation of Professor Edilene Matos and the moderation of Professor Moisés de Lemos Martins. The meeting proposes a dialogue between the poetics of José Afonso and José Carlos Capinan, poets marked by a rebellious lyricism. On the one hand, the poetics of José Afonso, whose work - widely recognised throughout Portugal and beyond - is strongly associated with the political impact of his songs, which represent an essential milestone in Portuguese culture. On the other hand, Capinan's poetic work, which moves between that of the lyricist and that of the interpreter of his land, including that musicalised, rhapsodic, giving meaning to thinking about his country. Both poets based their lives on the trinomial Poetry, Love and Revolution.
Communitas Debate: ‘Journalism and Disasters’
On November 29, at 4 pm, Communitas will organise a conversation on journalism and disasters in the Auditorium of the School of Engineering (UMinho-Gualtar, building 16). This event aims to provide an open space for informed discussions about civil protection activities and strategies, the media nature of environmental disasters, and science’s critical look at the impact of news coverage of extreme weather events on civil society.
MILObs seminar ‘Disinformation and young people: building a critical evaluation tool’
On 4 December, starting at 2pm, MILObs will host researcher Sandra Moura (Centre for Communication, Tourism and the Arts at the Federal University of Paraíba - Brazil) for another edition of the MILObs seminars. The session is entitled ‘Disinformation and young people: building a critical evaluation tool’ and will take place in person at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho (laboratory 008). Admission is free.
GENTEEL Project – Graphic Novels Against Gender Violence – selected in the Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains Competition
The GENTEEL project - Graphic Novels Against Gender Violence - is one of those selected for the Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains competition, launched in 2023 by the FCT. Having been awarded second place in the Arts panel, it will be carried out by a research team that brings together academics with recognised experience in the fields of comic book studies, visual culture and gender studies, as well as significant experience in qualitative social science methodologies applied to the field of education. The team includes Nicoletta Mandolini as principal investigator, as well as Cristina Álvares (CEHUM - UMinho), Ece Canli (CECS - UMinho), Alice Balbé (CECS - UMinho) and Daniel Cardoso (Universidade Lusófona Lisboa).
Seminar ‘University Extension: challenges and potential for formulating training policies in culture’
The seminar ‘University Extension: challenges and potential for the formulation of cultural training policies’ will take place on 10 December at 3pm as part of the PolObs Culture 2024 Seminar Cycle - Connecting Doctoral Projects with Cultural Policies. The event will be broadcast via Zoom here. This session's guest is Marize Figueira, a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho, where she is carrying out her doctoral research into how university extension can contribute to the articulation and democratisation of training processes for cultural agents and managers in Brazil.
Interview with Rafaela Granja: the E-MONITORING project
‘E-MONITORING: Electronic surveillance in the criminal justice system: projected futures and lived experiences’ is one of the most recent projects taking place at CECS. The research, coordinated by Rafaela Granja, is the result of FCT's Restart programme. In this first edition of the FCT programme, 143 applications were assessed and only 31 projects were approved for funding. In an interview, Rafaela Granja explains the aims of this research, as well as the expected social impacts.
IX Meeting of Young Researchers in Modern History
The IX Meeting of Young Researchers in Modern History (EJIHM) will be held on 26, 27 and 28 June 2025 at the Gualtar campus in Braga . This is a biennial meeting of young academics, researchers and students in Modern History with the particular aim of promoting, presenting and publicising their projects and research.
Seminar programme Algorithms, labour and inequalities (IV Edition)
With the theme ‘Algorithms, work and inequalities’, the fourth edition of the seminar series will begin, organised and supported by the University of Minho's CECS and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS) - UMinho Pole. The first session is scheduled for 28 November. The first session is scheduled for 28 November at 6pm and will be moderated by Fernando Bessa Ribeiro (CICS.NOVA UMinho) and will feature speakers Elísio Estanque (CES, visiting professor at UFBA) with the paper ‘Work and digitalisation in the acceleration society’ and André Carmo (CICS.NOVA.UÉvora, SPGL-FENPROF) with the paper ‘A trade unionist in the making: some lessons from experience’.
During the cycle of four sessions in online and hybrid formats, hosted by international and national speakers, the aim is to revisit teaching and research centred on reflecting on the unavoidability of algorithms that colonise important areas of private and social life, transforming production (infra)structures and contemporary working relationships. The platformisation of work disrupts organisational models, contributes to labour deregulation and gives rise to new inequalities through the spread of indirect and algorithmic forms of control that help to manage, instrumentalise and alienate workers. In fact, more than the power to control and predict, algorithms contain social determinisms that reproduce various types of social and cultural discrimination.
Far from being neutral or an inescapable technological imperative, algorithmic ‘culture’ challenges us to reflect on the widening of (new/old) social inequalities associated with the contexts of economic, political, climate and war crises.
The session on 28 November (6pm) will be broadcast on Zoom:
Link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/8213362289
Meeting ID: 821 336 2289
bYou Congress: first registration phase until 1 December
With the call for papers phase over, the first registration period is now open, until 1 December, via the congress website. Based on the motto ‘Children, young people and the media: (un)connected lives?’, the bYou congress has the following call for papers:
Call for papers for Ecrea’s European Conference on Health Communication
The call for papers for Ecrea's European Conference on Health Communication is open until February 28. The event, which will be held on September 25 and 26 in Braga, will have the theme ‘Literacies and Empowerment in Health Communication’ and is organised by the Communication and Society Research Centre.
New publication: The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion, by Abílio Almeida
The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion by Abílio Almeida has just been published. With an afterword by Dominque Wolton and published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis), the book focuses on the phenomena of television and audiences, arguing that ‘television is moving from a singular object, fixed in a certain place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms’. This ‘transforms the experience of audiences, who increasingly demand an “open relationship” with television, since their attention is often distributed across several devices and platforms simultaneously’.
RLEC call for papers: ‘Surveillance with, beyond and against the biometric body’
The call for papers for the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, on Surveillance with, Beyond and Against the Biometric Body, is open from 20 November 2024 to 24 January 2025. Thematic Editors: Ece Canlı (CECS, University of Minho, Portugal) and Pedro Vieira de Oliveira (Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany)
Chamada de Trabalhos Comunicação e Sociedade – “Comunicação e Inteligência Artificial”
Está aberta, entre 25 de novembro de 2024 e 15 de janeiro de 2025, a chamada de trabalhos para a revista Comunicação e Sociedade sobre “Comunicação e Inteligência Artificial” (Vol.47). Editores temáticos: Alberto Sá (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal) e Luis Miguel Pedrero (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Espanha) A inteligência artificial é hoje um dos principais desafios do ponto de vista tecnológico. Com expressivos benefícios na execução de inúmeras tarefas e no processamento de informação, a automação das atividades a que pode ser aplicada tem sido reconhecida como uma forma de melhorar a produtividade, reduzir o erro humano, economizar recursos e aumentar a eficiência operacional. Na indústria, como na saúde, a inteligência artificial tem sido encarada com otimismo e como uma promessa de inovação a que não é indiferente o campo da comunicação. Não obstante o entusiasmo e a surpresa com as novas possibilidades proporcionadas pela criação de sistemas capazes de simular o pensamento humano, a inteligência artificial tem inspirado reflexões críticas, sobretudo do foro ético. O extenso impacto de "aplicações inteligentes" nos processos comunicacionais sugere uma problematização aprofundada dos efeitos das tecnologias de linguagem natural, da algoritmização, do processamento de dados e da geração de conteúdo automatizado na produção jornalística, publicitária e criativa. Os direitos autorais, a credibilidade e qualidade da informação, a privacidade e a segurança dos cidadãos são questões que exigem uma adesão consciente e responsável a mecanismos de inteligência artificial. Ao mesmo tempo que desafiam as práticas profissionais, os sistemas de automação estão a desencadear uma necessária redefinição do papel humano na produção de informação. Abrindo o debate à grande amplitude de temas em que se pode cruzar o campo da comunicação com a inteligência artificial, este volume da Comunicação e Sociedade convida à apresentação de manuscritos que foquem especialmente nos seguintes tópicos:
Open class: “The Dean of Oporto Cathedral in the clutches of the Inquisition, 1644″
An open lecture on the Portuguese Modern Age with Luiz Mott, from the Federal University of Bahia, will be held on November 21 at 6 pm, at . ‘The Dean of Porto Cathedral in the clutches of the Inquisition, 1644’ is the title of the class organised by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, as part of the Archaeology and History degrees at the University of Minho.
Laura Neiva: New Doctor of Sociology
Laura Carvalho de Oliveira Neiva's PhD exams in Sociology were held on 26 November at 1.30pm in the Sala de Atos. The thesis, supervised by Helena Machado, is entitled Expectations of police officers about Big Data in the policing and criminal investigation system in Portugal.
Open Class: “The Widows of Porto: Patrimony, Business and Family” (1700-1832)”
On December 9, at 4 p.m., an open class will be held on the theme: “The Widows of Porto: Patrimony, Business and Family (1700-1832)”. The session, organized by Andreia Durães, will be led by Ana Mafalda Lopes, from the Institute of Contemporary History-Nova FCSH and will take place in Building 2, room 2.12 of the Gualtar Campus of the University of Minho, with free admission.©Universidade do Minho. Todos os direitos reservados. Com apoio do FCT.
