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[Commlist] Paulo Freire Centennial Cycle

Tue Feb 23 19:47:59 GMT 2021





Event: Paulo Freire Centennial Cycle 9-24 March 2021

In September 2021, Paulo Freire would have turned 100 years old. Freire (1921-1997) was not only an adult educator and philosopher of education. His work has had tremendous influence upon media and communication scholars and practitioners, in particular within participatory communication, and communication for development and social change.

To celebrate this, and to explore his influence on current and future media and communication research and practice, The Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University has organized a Centennial Cycle of virtual debates and exchanges. The overall aim of the Centennial Cycle is to push reflections around Freire’s ‘ontological call’. This call is associated with five principles, those of humility, empathy, love, hope and dialogue (Freire, 2017, p. 33). Freire presented these as the spirit of one of his main referential works, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, originally published in 1968. Ana Suzina and Thomas Tufte from IMCI have reflected upon this here <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048520943692>.

The Paulo Freire Centennial Cycle will run from 9-24 March. You can see the full programme here: Principal-IN - Centenário de Paulo Freire (paulofreirecentennial.org) <https://www.paulofreirecentennial.org/principal-in/>.There will be two master classes, the first opening the cycle with the Brazilian theologian Frei Betto, who has worked with Freire, and the second closing the cycle with the Brazilian indigenous leader Ailton Krenak. In between, you will find five dialogues*,* each of them between two communication scholars and practitioners discussing one of the principles of Freire’s ontological call. They include Anita Gurumurthy (India), Linje Manyozo (Australia), Colin Chasi (South Africa), Karin Wilkins (USA), James Deane (UK), Xavier Carbonell (India), Benjamin Ferron (France), Eriberto Gualinga Montalvo (Ecuador), Claudia Magallanes (Mexico) and Maira Lima (Brazil).

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI) at Loughborough University London has since 2019 held a series of activities gathering scholars from different regions of the world discussing the legacy of Paulo Freire in the field of participatory communication and civil society development, and IMCI colleagues were involved as guest editors of two special issues of the journals International Communication Gazette, and Commons. You can see them here <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gazb/82/5> and here <https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cayp/issue/view/432>.

For registration to any one of the Centennial Cycle events, go to the conference site and sign up for each of the individual days you wish to attend: Principal-IN - Centenário de Paulo Freire (paulofreirecentennial.org) <https://www.paulofreirecentennial.org/principal-in/>.

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