[Commlist] Brazil Seminar: Civil society development and participatory communication in the new political context. Dialogues around the legacy of Paulo Freire

Brazil Seminar: Civil society development and participatory 
communication in the new political context. Dialogues around the legacy 
of Paulo Freire

5-6 June 2019, 9am-8pm/9.30am-2pm

Loughborough University London

Brazil has a strong legacy in the field of participatory communication 
and articulation of bottom-up development processes. Many innovative 
experiences and key conceptual foundations that have enriched and 
informed the field of participatory communication in Latin America and 
internationally have strong Brazilian roots. A reference of seminal 
importance to the field has been the adult educator Paulo Freire whose 
liberating pedagogy and principles of dialogic communication have 
influenced generations of educators, activists, movements and 
governments across the world. Today, the new government in Brazil has 
explicitly declared their intention to erase any trace of Freire’s 
pedagogy from any policy and practice in the country. It sparks the 
question: what is so dangerous about Freire’s ideas?

The objective of this seminar is to explore the Brazilian legacy and 
current practice of participatory communication in the contexts of the 
new political situation. Today, the space for civil society to speak and 
act is rapidly shrinking. Not only nostalgic discourses of law and 
order, but political nominations, national policies and many behaviours 
are reconnecting with the times of Brazil’s military dictatorship. 
Brazil is in many ways at a crossroads, and this seminar wishes to 
explore how the legacy and current practice of participatory and 
dialogic communication is managing, or not, to handle these challenges.

The program consists of an introductory section and five dialogues 
approaching main features of participatory communication and the work of 
Paulo Freire in Brazil. Debates will be animated by key-notes from 
Victoria Kina Jupp, Silvio Waisbord, Cicilia Peruzzo, Thomas Tufte, 
Jorge González, Ana Cristina Suzina, Cesar Jimenez, Paola Sartoretto, 
Leonardo Custódio, Raquel Paiva, Helton Levy, among other researchers.

For more information about the program and registration, please go to:

https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/news-events/events/brazil-seminar/

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