ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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(*) Provisional Programme
1st Day – 20th May 2021
9.00 – 9.30 Reception

9.35 – Opening Speech [Presential]
Pedro A. Neto – Executive Director, Amnesty Internacional Portugal
Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins – Representative from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Margarida Brito Alves - Representative from Instituto de História de Arte
Susana C. Gaspar – Representative from Organizing Committee 
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10.00 – Keynote Speaker 1 – Gregory Sholette [Presential]
10.45 – Q&A w/ Gregory Sholette

11.15 – Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30 Selected Speakers - Panel 1 - Discrimination and Human Rights Limitation
Moderator: Inês Vieira 
 
Pasqualina Eckerström - Extreme Heavy Metal Music in Iran and Saudi Arabia; resistance and anti-authoritarian identities [videoconference]
 
Celia Zayas - What is..? Decolonizing epistemologies, becoming universal [Presential]
 
Jeff Poulin - Delivering on the Promise: Arts and Cultural Education as a Fundamental, Civil, and Human Right [videoconference]

Piergiuseppe Parisi - Arctivism against Repression: Resilience, Resistance and Imagination during the Covid-19 Crisis [videoconference]
 
12.30 – 13.00 - debate

13.00 – 14.30 - Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.15 - Selected Speakers – Panel 2 - Collective memory and Human Rights
Moderator: Elsa Lechner 
 
Mirosław Michał Sadowski - Right to memory in public spaces: Between monuments and collective memories [videoconference]
 
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen - Forensic Theatricality and Human Rights. On Joshua Oppenheimer’s Documentary Movie “The Act of Killing” (2012) [videoconference]
 
Olga Fernandez Lopez - The art(s) of recognition. Right to culture, urban imaginaries and collective memory in contemporary Madrid [videoconference]

15.15 – 15.30 - debate

15.30 – 15.45 - Coffee break

15.45 – 16.30 - Selected Speakers – Panel 3 - Human Rights in Contemporary Art 
Moderator: Margarida Brito Alves
 
Luísa Santos e Ana Fabíola Maurício - From conflict to conviviality and back to conflict [presential]
 
João Motta Guedes - The Utopia of Human Rights: A Theory of the juridical image [presential]
 
Mariana Hartenthal - Collaborative and Defiant: Artists Confront the Museum [videoconference]
 
16.30 – 16.45 - Debate

16.45 – 17.15 - Keynote Speaker 2 – Karima Bennoune (OHCHR | UN Special Rapporteur) [virtual participation]
 
Impact of the pandemic and the measures taken to counter it on the exercise of cultural rights

17.15– 18.00 – Q&A w/ Karima Bennoune (OHCHR | UN Special Rapporteur)

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2nd Day – 21st May 2021
10.00 – 10.20 - Keynote Speaker 3 – Daniel Gad [virtual participation]
"Protection and promotion of the freedom of expression of artists. From refuge abroad to the option of remaining in the region" 

10.20 – 10.45 - Q&A w/ Daniel Gad

10.45 – Coffee Break
 
11.00 – 12.00 - Selected Speakers – Panel 4 - Art Education, Community and Engagement for Human Rights 
Moderator: Cátia Rijo
 
Ilgar Seyidov and Irem Elbir - The Role of Visual Storytelling in Promoting Refugee Rights: The Case of UNHCR’s Youth with Refugees Art Contest [videoconference]
 
Nuno Coelho - Everything for the action, nothing against the action! Appropriation in graphic design as social denunciation [videoconference]
 
Albane Buriel, Monique Loquet and Sylvie Morais - Challenges of arts activities as tools for education in humanitarian emergencies [videoconference]
 
Kitti Baracsi - Art and epistemic justice: knowledge production on urban conflicts [Presential]
 
12.00 – 12.30 - debate
 
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.00 – Selected Speakers – Panel 5 - Art, Citizenship and activism strategies 
Moderator: Paulo Fontes
 
Miki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky - Anti-Mapping and the Human Right to See [videoconference]
 
Panagiota Papaspyropoulou - Artivism in Greece - The power of artists as actors for social change - do they know? [videoconference]
 
Alessia Mangiavillano - Why comics are important for NGOs: Linking migration advocacy with a popular storytelling medium [videoconference]
 
Alix Sarrouy and Ricardo Campos - Youth artivism and climate justice protests in Portugal [Presential]
 
15.00 – 15.15 – debate
 
15.15 – 15.30 – Coffee Break
 
15.30 – 16.00 – Keynote Speaker 4 - Manfred Nowak [Presential]
“The role of the arts in human rights education”

16.00 – 16.30 – Q&A w/ Manfred Nowak
 
16.30 – 18.30 – Workshop [Presential]
 
Freedom of Expression and Artistic Practices: Is there a limit?
​Facilitator: Sofia Caseiro


18.30 – 19.00 – Closing remarks
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