A conference on “Democracy and University”, addressed to the entire academic community and civil society in general, is scheduled for Friday, October 4th, at Amphitheater 1.5 of the Penha Campus Pedagogical Complex, in Faro.
This conference, organized by the School of Education and Communication (ESEC), in collaboration with the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC), follows a challenge launched by the Saramago Foundation when the writer's name was given to the amphitheater where , 10 years earlier, he himself gave a class to students in the Communication Sciences course at UAlg.
Taking as its motto the title of the lecture given by José Saramago, in 2005, to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Democracy y Universidad”, the aim is to identify and debate the obligations, contributions and challenges facing the university, whether in terms of the civic training of its students, or in a more in-depth research on these issues, so that more participatory and enriching literacy and intervention skills can be generated.
The program comprises two parts: a lecture (11:00 am) given by Paquete de Oliveira, sociologist and president of the General Council of the University of Beira Interior (UBI), and a round table (14:30 pm), followed by a debate, which includes the participations João Guerreiro, rector of UAlg, António Fidalgo, rector of UBI, Raquel Varela, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Mirian Tavares, researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Communication.
The choice of the day is also linked to the desire not to let the date of the establishment of the Portuguese Republic, on October 5, 1910, fall into oblivion, taking advantage of this initiative to generate academic reflection and civic intervention.
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