INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "SOLITUDE IN THE
THRESHOLDS OF THE PERSON AND SOLIDARITY: BETWEEN
THE SOCIAL BONDS AND FRACTURES"
III CONGRESS OF SOFELP - SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY OF
EDUCATION OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE.
1st circular / b
General Information
The International Congress "Solitude in the thresholds of the person and solidarity: between the social bonds and fractures" and the III Congress of SOFELP - Society for Philosophy of Education of Portuguese Language will be held simultaneously on the 18th, 19th and 20th of May 2011 with the cooperation of SOFPHIED – Société Francophone de Philosophie de l’Éducation and UNINOVE - Universidade Nove de Julho (São Paulo), Brazil.
This event is a joint initiative of the Philosophy of Education Office / Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto / Philosophy of Education in the Portuguese Speaking World Research Group, ISCET – Instituto Superior de Ciências Empresariais e do Turismo (Higher Education Institute of Management and Tourism) / area of Social Work and SOFELP in partnership with SOFPHIED and UNINOVE.
It is expected from this meeting an interdisciplinary sharing of knowledge and reflections from inescapable issues of contemporary society such as solitude and
solidarity in their complex connections with educational projects and social intervention. Along with plenary sessions and round-tables by specialists there will also be oral presentations on the topics within the fields mentioned below. This first contact intends not only to announce this Congress but also to invite investigators, professors and other professionals, students as well as all the persons implied in the education and social work domains to participate in this initiative.
The deadline for presentation of communications, together with the pertaining abstract, is the 31st January 2011. Both text and notes may not exceed 8 pages (3000 words); the abstract should be in the native language of the communication and in English (10 lines maximum); oral presentation of communications will take a maximum of 15 minutes.
Norms to the presentation of written communications, application form and other information: please check the website www.iscet.pt.
Themes/Topics
Contemporary societies are featured by deep meaningful changes which make us question some life concepts and conceptions. The acute and accelerated transformation of social and personal relationships is a phenomenon of crucial importance. Relationships marked namely by the convergence of ancient and new
social bonds which, in their own dynamic, are often developed under a critical relation
with the appearance of social fractures. Between the former and the latter solitude emerges, so present as indecisive, which, in the diversity of its life experiences and conceptualizations, questions, in turn, the traditional stereotypes of personal, community and societal solidarity.
Considering that we are still living in the aftermath of Thomas Hobbes´s options on the statute of the State, Rousseau’s social contract and Locke’s estate ideas, then we are also living after them, particularly with different representations on social cohesion and on the role of the individual.
So accomplished as threatened, the ideology of progress together with the proud sovereignty of the humanist subject, it is now time to urgently focus on the limits, thresholds, vulnerability and fragility of a human being to whom nihilism and relativism challenges are placed, before the overwhelming and inescapable need for hope.
Anthropological issues, human sciences problems, education challenges, social and educational policies demands, philosophy debatable problems ...
Sections
I. Suffered loneliness and chosen loneliness: anguish, hope and life projects; II. Ages, life itineraries and loneliness;
III. Solitude and solidarity in rural and urban societies: continuity and rupture;
IV. Solitude and solidarity in future perspective: liberties and environmental ethics; V. Cyberspace and globalisation: Old and new solitudes, old and new solidarities?; VI. Solitude and solidarity as topics of educational and social intervention projects: empirical and epistemological approaches;
VII. Solitude and solidarity facing the challenges of inclusion and exclusion: the thresholds of vulnerability;
VIII. Loneliness, depression and melancholy: connections and distinctions; IX. The «nature»: place of loneliness or challenge to human solidarities?
X. Between the social bonds and fractures: the statute and the re-emergence of the person.
Registration Fee
Until 31st January After 31st January
. SOFELP / SOFPHIED Members €50 €60
. Students €50 €60
. Other participants €100 €120
The registration fee includes: . Participation in all sessions; . Coffee breaks;
. Congress proceedings; . Congress briefcase.
Executive Secretary
Maria Helena Magalhães – gfe-cpw@letras.up.pt Bárbara Neiva Santos – css@iscet.pt
Organizing Committee
Adalberto Dias de Carvalho – GFE-IF Universidade do Porto / ISCET / ESEPF, Portugal Ângela Maria Leite – ISCET – Instituto Superior de Ciências Empresariais e do Turismo, Portugal Maria João Couto – GFE – Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Nuno Fadigas – GFE-IF Universidade do Porto / ISCET, Portugal
Paulo Gaspar – ISCET – Instituto Superior de Ciências Empresariais e do Turismo, Portugal
Scientific Committee
Adalberto Dias de Carvalho – GFE-IF Universidade do Porto / ISCET / ESEPF, Portugal Alain Vergnioux – Université de Caen, France
Alberto Filipe Araújo – Universidade do Minho, Portugal Alejandro Cerletti – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alzira Rodrigues – Instituto Superior Politécnico de S. Tomé e Príncipe, S. Tome e Príncipe Angel Gonzalez Fernandes – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Ângela Maria Leite – ISCET – Instituto Superior de Ciências Empresariais e do Turismo, Portugal Anne-Marie Drouin-Hans – SOFPHIED – Société Francophone de Philosophie de l’Éducation, France Antônio Severino – Universidade de S. Paulo, Brazil
Brazão Mazula – Universidade Eduardo Mondlane / ISTEG, Mozambique Carlos Sacadura – Universidade Pública de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde Cleide Almeida – Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), Brazil Divino J. da Silva – Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil Elena Theodoropoulou – Aegean University, Greece
Emanuel Oliveira Medeiros – Universidade dos Açores, Portugal Fernando Tavares – Universidade de Santiago, Cape Verde François Gillet – Haute École de Bruxelles, Belgium
Isabel Baptista – Universidade Católica do Porto, Portugal Jean Houssaye – Université de Rouen, France
Joaquim Escola – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
José Machado Pais – Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Judith Botti – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Laura Santos - Universidade do Minho, Portugal Luís Sebastião – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Manuel Ferreira Patrício - Universidade de Évora, Portugal Marcos Lorieri - Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), Brazil
Maria da Conceição Azevedo - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Maria João Couto - GFE – Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Michel Fabre – Université de Nantes, France
Michel Soëtard – Université Catholique de l’Ouest, France Octavi Fullat – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Paula Cristina Pereira - GFE – Universidade do Porto, Portugal Pedro Pagni - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil Rodrigo Gelamo - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil Sílvio Gallo – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Terezinha Azeredo Rios - Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), Brazil Walter Omar Khoan – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
