FCSH/NOVA,  ID Building Room Multiusos 3 (4th floor), Tower B, Auditorium 2, Room T9 and Room T12

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Benjamin Boudou (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity - Göttingen)
- Vicente Domingo García-Marzá (Universidad Jaume I – Castellón)
- Elsa Lechner (CES - Universidade de Coimbra) 

The social and political impact of recent migration flows is unquestionable. They call for more integrative forms of coexistence; they introduce new discussions in the public sphere; they force factional clarification, stirring up old nationalistic fears alongside renewed ecumenical expectations; they lead to a peculiar legal exercise; they challenge the resilience of democracies and the consistency of the values on which they are assumed to be firmly based; they test the meaning of Modernity, in particular, its commitment to tolerant secularism, the universality of human rights, and the progressive surpassing of the frontier rationale of nation-states in favor of more cosmopolitan configurations. They are, thus, at the root of social, ethical, political, economic and cultural issues that are becoming increasingly more complex. This matter, undoubtedly at the forefront of today’s most pressing concerns, requires not only pragmatic solutions, but also profound, systematic and critical reflection on concepts, positions, values, and models. We intend therefore to focus on migrations, discussing a set of theoretical challenges taken from different fields of knowledge, and to foster the fundamental debate on what we are, what we were, and what we want to be.

This matter, undoubtedly at the forefront of today’s most pressing concerns, requires not only pragmatic solutions, but also profound, systematic and critical reflection on concepts, positions, values, and models. We intend therefore to focus on migrations, discussing a set of theoretical challenges taken from different fields of knowledge, and to foster the fundamental debate on what we are, what we were, and what we want to be.

Organization Comittee:

Paula Cristina Pereira (Institute of Philosophy-U.Porto)

Luís Manuel A. V. Bernardo (CHAM - FCSH/NOVA-UAc)

The deadline for submitting papers is April 3, 2017. The proposals should be sent to the email address: lm.bernardo@fcsh.unl.pt

Organization