Seminar on Education in the 25th of April

Education in the 25th of April - seminar in the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education

(17th of April 2024)

 

Margarida Louro Felgueiras is the coordinator of the Work Group on History of Education, Cultural Heritage and Museology, the WG responsible for the organization of the Seminar. 

This year we celebrated the XVI of the Seminar of the WG and the 50 years of the 25th of April. 

Visual Narratives - findings from the research Project CEINAV

On the 15th of March, 2022, Raquel Felgueiras, Rita Lopez and myself presented the work developed in the Project CEINAV through participatory art with victims of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect. 

In the webinar, we revisited the objectives of the Project, as well as, its theoretical and methodological framework. 

After this introduction, Rita Lopez presented the findings in the form of violence child abuse and neglect. Afterwords, Raquel Felgueiras detailed the process with the victims to construct visual narratives. 

A final and relevant remark relates with the heuristic possibilities that participatory art opened allowing the research team to find new dimensions of the recovering from violence that were not visible with the other methodologies (life stories and focus groups). 

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936-2021), the Portuguese revolutionary of the 25 of April

Otelo is a central figure of my adolescent initial political activism. He and others were the labourers of the military coup that overturned the fascist regimen and installed a political democracy. 

After the military coup, people took political decisions in their own hands and I could participate in a revolutionary process. I was an interested and attentive learner of the revolution; didn't understand everything, but there is one thing I understood: Otelo wanted and worked for people to have the power. 

Otelo was very friendly, joyful and full of energy. I remember him in public meetings, in rallies, on tv. 

Thank you, Otelo, and farewell,  fellow comrade!

2021, July, 25th.

Feminist figuration of the humanity

This video was made in the Master "Education, Gender, Body and Violence" (Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education of the University of Porto, during the semester February - May 2021. The group of students took the article by Donna Haraway (1992) Ecce Homo and elaborated some of the ideas in the text and present them in a collective work that can be seen in the video. 

The reflection proposed by Donna Haraway was worked by all the students and re-appropriated for our feminist thoughts and actions. 

It was both fun and rewarding to produce a collective work. We could extend our analysis to the fact that human figuration still is based on a man, as a suffering servant and savior.  How can we imagine other ways of representing humanity outside this picture? A representation that can be inclusive, i.e., not excluding others, eccentric, from the margins, silenced, marginalized and ignored?

A way to get throw to an imaginable new human figuration is to proceed as Donna Haraway suggest - to think what could be this figuration / representation if we took another Figure to build another picture. 

Reference:

Haraway, Donna (1992) Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape, in Butler & Scott (1992) Feminists Theorize the Political, New York: Routledge.

The link for the video:

https://youtu.be/sBxWsi209fY

Comemoração do 25 de Abril em Murça

 

O link de acesso é o seguinte: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83014993047

Feminist activism in pandemic times

In spite of the pandemic, UMAR goes on meeting and debating feminist strategy for the new future. Representatives from diverse cities of Portugal, feminists from UMAR are planning feminist action for these times when poverty, unemployment, domestic violence and many other difficulties are impeding women's citizenship. 

Feminist action is more difficult in a time when extreme right wing are increasingly using fascist ideas to force a backlash in women's rights. 

Our agency is more difficulty. But here we are. Always present!
 

Brasília, March 25-26, 2019

International Conference on Human Rights and Sustainable Development