MigraMediaActs & YouNDigital promote webinar

The webinar MigraMediaActs & YouNDigital: diversities in debate will be held on November 22 at 2 pm.

The meeting aims to promote debate on issues that are essential to both projects, namely diversity and young people and their diverse trajectories. Researchers Chisoka Simões and Luiza Lins will be the guest speakers.

Participation is open, register here.

Chisoka Simões is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and a researcher on the project ‘MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activisms in the Portuguese language: decolonising media landscapes and imagining alternative futures’ (PTDC/COM-CSS/3121/2021), at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS, University of Minho), under which he holds a PhD scholarship. His academic research focuses on the heritage of migration, multiculturalism and diaspora in north-west Portugal, exploring concepts from Critical Heritage Studies such as transnationalism, politics of recognition, spatial justice and place-making.

Luiza Lins is a postdoctoral researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho, where she is part of the team working on the project ‘Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures’ (MigraMediaActs, FCT, 2022-2025). She has a PhD in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)/Brazil and a master’s in Psychology from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)/Brazil. She has carried out research into intergroup relations, social representations, social memory, intersectionalities, discrimination and social identities.

The initiative is a partnership between the YouNDigital project, coordinated by Maria José Brites (Universidade Lusófona/CICANT) and Teresa Sofia Castro (Universidade Lusófona/CICANT), and the MigraMediaActs project, coordinated by researchers Rosa Cabecinhas (University of Minho/CECS) and Isabel Macedo (University of Minho/CECS).

[Posted: 18-11-2024]