24 May

• 13:30 – Opening

  Director IESP-UERJ
  Director Casa de Rui Barbosa
  Organizers: BRENO BRINGEL and JOSÉ MAURICIO DOMINGUES

• 14:00 – 17:00 – Session 1: Modernity and Social Contestation: Contemporary Challenges

  LUIS TAPIA (Bolivia): "Trajectories of modernity and community movements"

  G. ALOYSIUS (India): "Demystifyng Modernity: In Defense of a Singular and Normative Ideal"

  JEFF GOODWIN (US): "Understanding Terrorism as a Strategy of Contention"

  Coordination and Commentaries: JOÃO MARCELO EHLERT MAIA (Brazil)

• 17:30 – 20:30 – Session 2: Global Modernity and New Directions in Social Theory

  SUJATA PATEL (India): "Global Modernity and Social Theory"

  PETER WAGNER (Germany/Spain): "Towards a World-Sociology of Modernity"

  JOSÉ MAURICIO DOMINGUES (Brazil): "Vicissitudes and Possibilities of Critical Theory Today"

  Coordination and Commentaries: FREDERIC VANDENBERGHE (Belgium/Brazil)

25 May

• 09:00 – 12:00 – Session 3: Political Contestation and New Directions of Social Movements

  MARISTELLA SVAMPA (Argentina): "Extractive Industries, Neo-Development and Social Movements in Latin America"

  ELISIO MACAMO (Mozambique/Switzerland): "Global Modernity, Social Criticism and the Local Intelligibility of Contestation"

  BRENO BRINGEL (Brazil): "From Antiglobalization to Global Indignation: Spatialities, Dynamics of Diffusion and Transnational Contestation"

  Coordination and Commentaries: MARIA DA GLÓRIA GOHN (Brazil)

• 14:00 – 17:00 – Session 4: Borders of Modernity, Space and Frontiers of Exclusion

  HERIBERTO CAIRO (Spain): "Borders Between Equals and Abyssal Lines in the Construction of Modern Europe"

  CRAIG BROWNE (Australia):"Half-Positions and Social Contestation: On the Dynamics of Exclusionary Integration"

  MONA ABAZA (Egypt):"Public Spaces, Forms of Contestation and the Urban Reshaping of Cairo: A Year After the 2011 Revolution"

  Cordination and Comentaries: PABLO GENTILI (Argentina/Brazil)

• 17:30 – 20:30 – Session 5: Social Contestation, Rights and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective

  GABRIELA DELAMATA (Argentina): "The Politics of Rights (Using Rights for Changing Policies): Argentina in the Latin American Scenery"

  MARCELLE DAWSON (South Africa): "Movements and Movement Scholarship in South Africa (2000-2010): Challenge and Prospects"

  XI CHEN (China/US): "From Deprivation to Resistance: Worker’s Responses to Privatization in China"

  Coordination and Comentaries: CARLOS MILANI (Brazil)

26 May

• 10:00 – 13:00 – Conclusions and Final Debates
  Summary and Final Discussion