[Commlist] Paulo Freire Centennial Cycle

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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