Introduction
This Conference and Papers Cycle is part of the project Women, Ethics and Public Space, an initiative of the Department of Pedagogy and Education of the University of Évora, Fundação Cuidar O Futuro and the Fernando Pessoa Teaching and Culture Foundation.
Dates: 25 to 27 June and 10 July 2009
Venues: National Centre for Culture, Lisbon; University of Evora, room 131 of the Colegio Espirito Santo; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Driven by the figure of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo as a symbol of a way of shaping public life and inscribing within it both feminist demands and those of all forms of discrimination, the project Women, Ethics and Public Space aims to articulate three topics – women, ethics and public space – and three authors – Hannah Arendt, Adela Cortina and Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo – in order to re-signify the concept of public space.
This initiative, the first intervention of the aforementioned Project, focused on the concept of Care/Caring, exploring it both in its importance in the thinking of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, its philosophical roots in Heideggerian thought, and its repercussions on the various dimensions of public life.
To that extent, this conference cycle had the following objectives:
- Pay tribute to Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
- Give visibility to Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo's thinking in academic circles
- Share results of ongoing research related to the conference cycle theme
- Stimulate the creation of a network of researchers
Programme
Thursday, 25 June 2009 – Centro Nacional de Cultura, Lisboa
| 10:00 | Opening of the Conference Cycle Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (President of the National Centre for Culture); Fátima Grácio (President of Fundação Cuidar O Futuro, Lisboa); Fernanda Henriques (Universidade de Évora) |
| 11:00 | Caring for future generations and biodiversity: earth ethics and some implications for structuring the global public domain
Hans Opschoor (Fundação OVER, Leiden; Institute of Social Studies, Haia) |
| 11:35 | Debate |
| 12:15 | Coffee break |
| 14:00 | The re-signification of public space in Hannah Arendt Silvério Rocha e Cunha (Universidade de Évora) |
| 14:35 | Debate |
| 15:00 | Care and public space Teresa Toldy (Universidade Fernando Pessoa) |
| 15:35 | Debate |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | Panels: Presentation of open papers within the theme of Care or the thinking of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Coordinator: Fátima GrácioPapers -Adérito Gomes Barbosa: Care in the ethical framework -Paula Borges Santos: Frontiers of activism and citizenship in Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo -Idalina Sidoncha: Carol Gilligan's revisionist proposal: the contribution to an ethics of care -Paula Silva: Urgent: Diversity of actions to care for Biodiversity |
Friday, 26 June 2009 – Universidade de Évora, Room 131 of the Colégio Espírito Santo
| 10:00 | Opening of proceedings in Evora José Alberto Machado (Universidade de Évora); Fátima Grácio (President of Fundação Cuidar O Futuro); Fernanda Henriques (Universidade de Évora) |
| 10:30 | Panels: Presentation of open papers within the theme of Care or the thinking of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Coordinator: Fernanda HenriquesPapers -Teresa Santos: Caring for Thinking: a Philosophy for Children project -Ana Tavares: The 100-day government of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo: first assessment -Eveline Monteiro da Silva: On care in the school environment -Marijke de Koning: Inclusive Affection. Persistences of Care in the 21st Century |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00 | The issue of care from the perspective of feminist ethics Maria Teresa Lopez de la Vieja (Universidade de Salamanca) |
| 15:35 | Debate |
| 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 | Panels: presentation of open papers on the theme of Care or the thought of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Coordinator: Marijke de KoningPapers -Ana Carina Vilares: Ratio et Cordis. The reasons of a cordial reason in Adela Cortina -Marília Carrilho: Care as being and care as acting -Lurdes Santos: Amor Mundi: on the path of public and private -Rosângela Lorena: A path to follow -Paula Luís: New Opportunities: an opportunity for renewed Citizenship -Maria do Céu Pires: The concept of the public sphere in Adela Cortina's thinking |
| 19:00 | Closing |
Saturday, 27 June 2009 – Universidade de Évora
| 10:00 | The dimension of Care in the space of Law Maria do Céu Cunha Rego (Directorate-General for Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities – Ministry of Foreign Affairs) |
| 10:35 | Debate |
| 11:30 | The ontological fruitfulness of the notion of care Irene Borges Duarte (Universidade de Évora) |
| 12:15 | Debate |
| 13:00 | Closing |
Friday, 10 July 2009
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
| 09:45 | Opening Session Emílio Rui Vilar (President of the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); Fátima Grácio (President of Fundação Cuidar O Futuro); Fernanda Henriques (Universidade de Évora) |
| 10:15 | Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo in the background (video screening of excerpts from Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo's interventions on the theme of care) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | The dimension of care in the priorities of the international community: the Millennium Development Goals. Regina Tavares da Silva (Consultant to the United Nations and Council of Europe) |
| 12:15 | Debate |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00 | Care and justice: two regulating ideas Fernanda Henriques (Universidade de Évora) |
| 15:35 | Debate |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 | The Dimension of Care and the Re-signification of Public Space in the Thinking and Action of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Isabel Allegro de Magalhães (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) |
| 17:00 | Closing do Ciclo de Conferências com a presença do Senhor Secretário de Estado Jorge Lacão Unpublished work by Ana Luisa Amaral with Ana Luisa Amaral |
Organisation:
Fundação Cuidar O Futuro; Universidade de Évora; Fundação OVER (Leiden, Netherlands); Centro Nacional de Cultura; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality
Caring for future generations and biodiversity
The ontological fruitfulness of the notion of care
The dimension of care and the re-signification of public space in the thinking and action of MLP
