Our principal aim is to describe, analyze and compare new super-diverse convivial contexts, as they relate to the process of migrations shaping new cultural realms. Our approach does not involve the idealization of harmonic intercultural relations but considers convivial contexts as new fields of intercultural tensions and interactions as an attempt to understand their dynamics and the social, historic and personal factors that lead to willingness to coexist with ethnic heterogeneity or to reject it. Consequently, it envisions applying an innovative framework to understanding intercultural relations among national and migrant populations. From the perspective of social topography, the new convivial cultures are not associated with a specific geographic space. They correspond to different public contexts in which people with links to various ethnic or cultural groups interact.

Our principal aim is to describe, analyze and compare new super-diverse convivial contexts, as they relate to the process of migrations shaping new cultural realms. Our approach does not involve the idealization of harmonic intercultural relations but considers convivial contexts as new fields of intercultural tensions and interactions as an attempt to understand their dynamics and the social, historic and personal factors that lead to willingness to coexist with ethnic heterogeneity or to reject it. Consequently, it envisions applying an innovative framework to understanding intercultural relations among national and migrant populations. From the perspective of social topography, the new convivial cultures are not associated with a specific geographic space. They correspond to different public contexts in which people with links to various ethnic or cultural groups interact. We will focus on formal/informal settings linked to distinct social functions in each city: Leisure & spaces dedicated to religious practices; Market/shopping area (open-air or indoor market frequented by various ethnic and cultural groups); School/education (where intercultural relations take place between generations and groups-key for overseeing societal evolution of intercultural dialogue); These spaces are important for grasping the real meaning of intercultural relations because as Amin stated, even if “ the national frame of racial and ethnic relations remains important, much of the negotiation of difference occurs at the very local level, through everyday experiences and encounters”.

Programme

June 11

14.00 - 16.15 Bairro e Diversidade

Moderadora: Manuela Mendes, CIES-IUL & FA-UTL

• Beatriz Padilla, CIES-IUL & Tiago Chaves, CIES-IUL
• Clara Saraiva, FCSH-UNL e IICT
• Jordi Nofre, CesNova-FCSH/UNL
• Iñigo Sánchez, INET-MD, FCSH/UNL

16.15 - 16:30 Pause

16:30 - 18.00 Conference on Global Multiculture

Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Califórnia at Santa Barbara

Comments: Ana Paula Beja-Horta, CEMRI - Universidade Aberta

June 12

10.00 - 11.15

• Escola e Jovens. Joana Azevedo, CIES-IUL & Sofia Teixeira, CIES-IUL
• Casa 6. Alexandra Candeias
  
• Viva-cidade. Vânia Lopes
  
• Organizações juvenis. António Guterres
  

Moderador, Nuno Oliveira, CIES-IUL

11.30 - 13.00 Conference on Anti-racism, Multiculturalism and Interracial Intimacy

France Winddance Twane, University of Califórnia at Santa Barbara

Comments: Beatriz Padilla, CIES-IUL; Elsa Rodrigues, CRIA & FCSH-UNL

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break

14.30 - 16:00

• Eventos e Políticas Interculturais. Nuno Oliveira, CIES-IUL
• Academia de Produtores Culturais. Miguel Abreu
  
• Olho Vivo. Flora Silva
  
• Associação Cabo-verdiana de Sintra. Rosa Moniz

16: 30 - 18:00 Conference on Migrations: Bridge Memory, Barrier Memory

Mikel Aramburu, Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona

Moderadora, Joana Azevedo, CIES-IUL

Comments: Marluci Menezes, LNEC

Organization:

Padilla, Beatriz, CIES-IUL