A debate on “The (in)visibilities of gender violence: Brazil and Portugal” will take place on April 5, starting at 4:00 p.m., in the Laboratory 007 of the ICS (UMinho). The Brazilian researchers from the UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais Bruno Souza Leal, Paulo Bernardo Vaz, Elton Antunes and Carlos Alberto de Carvalho will participate in the initiative, being moderated by Carla Cerqueira (CECS). Two documentaries will also be screened: “Partir do Zero” [“Starting from Zero”] and “No Devagar Depressa dos Tempos” [“In the Hurry of the Time”].
This debate is part of the presence of Brazilian researchers at the CECS, during the week of April 3-7, to participate in working meetings with the objective of the establishing of an agreement between CECS and UFMG, in order to develop a new partnership, similar to what happened between 2014 and 2015, in which both parts were the protagonists of the project FCT-CAPES entitled “Flow and death: theoretical and methodological challenges around the ‘media event'” coordinated in Portugal By Moisés de Lemos Martins and, in Brazil, by Paulo Bernardo Vaz.
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Credits:
Director: Moisés de Lemos Martins :: Vice-Directors: Luís António Santos e Rita Ribeiro :: Editor: Vítor de Sousa, Ricardina Magalhães, Fábio Ribeiro
The book “O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista” will be preseted in Braga
The book "O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista", by Moisés de Lemos Martins, will be presented by José Bragança de Miranda (Professor of the New University of Lisbon) and Bernardo Pinto de Almeida (Professor of the University of Porto), in a session scheduled for April 5 (9:30 pm), at Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (Braga).
CECS organized the III Minho-Galiza Meeting
CECS was the organizer of the III Minho-Galiza Meeting, that was hold on 1st April, in Tomiño, Spain. The event intended to promote the intercultural dialogue between North of Portugal and Galiza. Apart from CECS, there were other organizers: Galician Studies Research Centre and the Masters Degree in Communication, Art and Culture, all from the Universtiy of Minho. The meeting had the participation of four researchers from CECS: Albertino Gonçalves, Joaquim Fidalgo, Helena Pires and Rita Ribeiro.
Moisés Martins presented the book “A Senhora de Maio”
The book "A Senhora de Maio. Todas as Perguntas sobre Fátima" was puresented in the Public Library of Braga (Lúcio Craveiro da Silva) on March 6. Organized by António Marujo and Rui Paulo da Cruz (both journalists), "A Senhora de Maio", which is edited by Temas e Debates/Círculo de Leitores, according to Moisés Martins, who presented the book, confirms Fátima as an ambivalent place.
III Congress on Cultures – Interfaces of Lusophony: call for papers extended till April 30
CECS organizes the III Congress on Cultures - Interfaces of Lusophony, which will take place at the University of Minho, Braga, from November 23 to 25, 2017. The organizing committee invites the scientific community of social and human sciences, arts and letters , to participate in this meeting that crosses communication and cultures in the perspective of cultural and Lusophone studies. The communications call was extended until April 30.
Seminar on “Civil participation in Internet governance”
The CECS and the Operational Unit in Electronic Governance, of the United Nations University, will organize a seminar on "Civil Participation in Internet Governance" on April 5 (3:00 p.m.), in the amphitheater of the Escola de Engenharia [School of Engineering] (UMinho - Campus de Gualtar). The initiative is supported by the Sopcom (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences) Economy and Communications Policy Working Group. Researchers Janara Sousa and Sérgio Denicoli will present the perspectives on the Internet governance issue, which will be discussed from the point of view of the Law, by Joana Rita Abreu, and from the Information Systems point of view, by Luís Amaral.
Bettina Martino, next invited speaker of the Permanent Seminar on Media Education
The next session of the Permanent Seminar on Media Education is scheduled for April 27th, at 2:30 pm in Sala de Atos (ICS-University of Minho), and will be conducted by Bettina Martino (Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina [Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina]), under the topic "Communication approaches in media education: contributions from the reading of Roger Silverstone".
4th Conference on Literacy, Media and Citizenship discusses new shapes of the public space
The 2017 edition of the Congress Literacy, Media and Citizenship will gather more than 200 participants in an event on the theme "For a new awareness of public space". During the fourth edition of the LMC Congress, which will take place between May 5 and 6, at the Eng. António de Almeida Foundation in Oporto, a posthumous tribute will be made to José Manuel Paquete de Oliveira. In the opening session will be José Manuel Pérez Tornero, professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Autonomous University of Barcelona]. The event is organized by the GILM-Informal Group of Media Literacy, to which CECS is associated.
180 papers accepted for the VII Meeting AIM
The three keynote speakers invited for the VII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Researchers on Moving Image are already confirmed. The meeting will be held by the University of Minho, between 10th and 13th May. Plenary sessions will count on the special participation of Catherine Grants, from the University of Sussex (UK), Ernest W. Adams, from the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and Kim Akass, from the University of Herfordshire (UK). The Association of Researchers on Moving Image and CECS are the organisers of this meeting.
3rd Conference on the Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal
It is open until April 10 the call for communications for the 3rd Conference on Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal, from the Thematic Section on Knowledge, Science and Technology of the Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (APS) [Portuguese Association of Sociology]. The initiative will take place at the University of Minho between September 7 and 8, 2017.
Tertúlia on “Communication and Intercultural Mediation”
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21st, (sala de atos, at 2:30) a meeting entitled "Communication and Intercultural Mediation" was organized within the framework of the Permanent Seminar on Communication and Diversity. This initiative of the Communication and Society Research Center was promoted by researchers Rosa Cabecinhas and Ana Maria Silva, and focused on the role of mediation strategies to foster intercultural diversity. The iniciative had the participation of Cristina Milagre (Coordinator of the Centro de Diálogo Intercultural do Alto Comissariado para as Migrações [Center for Intercultural Dialogue of the High Commission for Migration]), Elisabete Pinto da Costa (Director of the Instituto de Mediação de Conflitos da Universidade Lusófona do Porto [Conflict Mediation Institute of the Lusophone University of Porto]) and Margarida Morgado (Director of the Centro Interdisciplinar de Línguas, Culturas e Educação Do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco [Interdisciplinary Center for Languages, Cultures And Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco]).
Conference on “Relations between the Iberian Peninsula and Japan: from the 16th century up to now”
The Conference on "Relations between the Iberian Peninsula and Japan: from the 16th century up to now" was held on 7 and 8 March at the ILCH auditorium, in a joint organization of the Lusíadas Studies Center, Department of Asian Studies and CEHUM (ILCH), the Department of History and the CECS (ICS). The Conference was an important meeting point among several university professors, most of them from Aichi University in Japan (but also from Kanazawa University) and the University of Minho, namely from CECS.
“Digital natives only tells us the context, not the ability of children to deal with media”
Pablo Andrada Sola will be until the 30th of June 2017 in CECS as part of his PhD research project, held in the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona – Spain). Following the title “Teacher Training in Media Education in Chile”, Pablo is also interested in the initiative “Seven Days with Media”.
”In Spain there is no interdisciplinary in the Communication Sciences. It is difficult for them to be extended to other knowledge areas”
Researcher Maria Josefa Formoso, Lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of La Coruña (Spain), is carrying out a post-doctoral research period under the subject of the project "Complexity in television on the Internet. Comparison between broadcast formats on internet television from the focus of the Communication Sciences as Applied Sciences". The research is supervised by Moisés Martins.
eBook “Os postais ilustrados na vida da comunidade”
The eBook Os postais ilustrados na vida da comunidade [The illustrated postcards on community life] is now published. This book is edited by Moisés de Lemos Martins. Based on a previous research project funded by FCT “Os postais ilustrados: para uma sócio-semiótica da imagem e do imaginário” (PTDC/CCI/72770/2006), this eBook explores the relationship between the illustrated postcards and the human communities, collectors, librarians, artists, cybernauts, researchers and users.
Ebook “Comunicação e Política: tempos, contextos e desafios” is now published
It is now available the ebook Comunicação e Política: tempos, contextos e desafios. This book is edited by Ana Moreira, Emília Araújo e Helena Sousa. Most of these texts were presented at the seminar Comunicação e Política ]Communication and Politics], organized by the Communication and Society Research Centre, at the University of Minho, in october 2015".
Call for papers for RLEC – Cultural Studies, Citizenship and Democracy until May 30
It is open until May 30 the call for papers for volume 4, nº 2 of Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, which is on the theme Cultural Studies, Citizenship and Democracy. The editors of this thematic issue are: Moisés de Lemos Martins (CECS, University of Minho [Universidade do Minho]), Urbano Sidoncha (Labcom.IFP, Universidade da Beira Interior [University of Beira Interior]) and Messias Bandeira (IHAC, Universidade Federal da Bahia [Federal University of Bahia]).
RLEC now avaliable in RCAAP portal
The Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (RLEC) is now available in RCAAP (Portuguese Open Access Scientific Repository), one of the major clusters in Portugal for the scientific publications. RLEC was created in 2013 and has so far publicated six issues.
Call for papers: Ebook “Organizational Communication and Technological Challenges”
The call for papers for the "Organizational Communication and Technological Challenges" Ebook is open until May 31. The publication, coordinated by Teresa Ruão (CECS) and José Zilmar (ECO - Grupo de Pesquisa de Estudos Avançados de Comunicação Organizacional, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte [ECO - Research Group for Advanced Studies in Organizational Communication, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte] - Brazil), aims to promote the dissemination of Scientific communication thought about Organizational and Strategic Communication that is happening in the virtual world.
CFP for the e-book “Publi-cidade e comunicação visual urbana” due on 30th July
It is now open the call for papers for the upcoming e-book "Publi-cidade e comunicação visual urbana" [Advertisement and the city: urban visual communication], due on 30th July 2017, by the Advertisement Working Group of Sopcom, the Portuguese Association for the Communication Sciences, and edited by the CECS. According to the editors Helena Pires (CECS) and Francisco Mesquita (Universidade Fernando Pessoa [Fernando Pessoa University]), this publication intends to "gather contributions from academics and non-academics which enphasize the role of advertisement in the cities, where multiple identities and communicative processes are entangled in our daily routines".
Manuel Gama and Maria José Brites were the protagonists in the second session of the Doctoral Seminars 2016-2017
The protagonists of the second session of the Doctoral Seminars 2016-2017, which took place on March 24 (10:30 am), in the ICS-UMinho sala de reuniões were Maria José Brites and Manuel Gama, both post-doctoral fellows FCT-CECS . Organized by the CECS and the Department of Communication Sciences of University of Minho, these seminars aim to improve students' methodological skills, promote reflexivity in supervising practices, and exchange experiences among researchers and between researchers and students. The next seminar is scheduled for April 21 and will feature by Paulo Serra (Universidade da Beira Interior [Beira Interior University]) and Rita Ribeiro (ICS-UMinho [Institute of Social Sciences-University of Minho]/CECS).
Complementary formation atcion on “Reflexivity and scientific practice” with Manuela Ivone Cunha
The researcher Manuela Ivone Cunha gave a training course on "Reflexivity and scientific practice" on March 22nd (4:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., small Auditorium of the Instituto de Educação da Universidade do Minho [Institute of Education of the University of Minho]), integrated in the complementary actions cycle, within the framework of the PhD in "Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society" and organized by CECS. Up to June two more actions are scheduled, and the next one will take place on May 13 and will be led by Rui Sousa Silva ("Publication and transfer of knowledge").
Isabel Macedo: new PhD in Cultural Studies
The doctoral exams in Cultural Studies (field of expertise in Communication and Culture) by Isabel Moreira Macedo were held on March 20 (2:30 p.m.), in the ICS sala de atos da Universidade do Minho [auditorium of UMinho] (Braga). The thesis is supervised by Rosa Cabecinhas, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at UMinho and a researcher in CECS, and is entitled "Migrations, Cultural Memory and Identity Representations: Film Literacy in the Promotion of Intercultural Dialogue".
Julia Alves Brazil: new PhD in Cultural Studies
The doctoral exams in Cultural Studies (field of expertise in Communication and Culture) by Julia Alves Brasil were held on March 6 (2:30 pm), in the ICS auditorium of UMinho (Braga). The thesis is supervised by Rosa Cabecinhas, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at UMinho and a researcher in CECS, and is entitled "Latin America in Focus: Identity Processes and Social Representations between Latin American Migrants and Non-Migrants".
PhD applications now available
The application process to get the admission for the PhD programmes, held in the Social Sciences Institute (ICS), at the University of Minho, is now open due on 14th April 2017. CECS participates in many of those courses.
CECS welcomes applications for Post-Doc projects
Communication & Society Research Centre (CECS) is looking forward to welcome Post-Doc research proposals, based on its three research groups (link), from experienced researchers worldwide whom are interested in the development of advanced studies in Communication Sciences.©Universidade do Minho. Todos os direitos reservados. Com apoio do FCT.
