Objectives
The symposium has the principal objective of providing a space where scholars from different disciplinary traditions in the social and human sciences may interact, presenting and discussing studies about gender, race and class and their intersection. The central theme to be addressed will be this intersection, so as to incentivate the development of ideas, theories and concrete analyses through the investigation of the social construction of differences. More specific objectives include:

• To trace the articulations of about gender, race/ethnicity and class and the construction of differences in the various disciplinary traditions.
• To advance social theory, focussing on the relation between identities and social and cultural conjunctures in Brazil and in Bahia.
• To advance social theory, focussing on the relation between identities and social and cultural conjunctures in Brazil and in Bahia.
• To give a central place in the attentions of national and international specialists to the social structures and processes moulded by the articulation of race, class and gender.
• To provide an opportunity for researchers involved with these themes to advance and improve the quality of their scientific production through intra- and interdisciplinary exchanges.
• To incentivate the creation of innovative lines of thought respecting the social problems confronted by Brazilian society, such as the inequalities of race, class and gender.

Opening
DATE: April 9
SCHEDULE: 18:30h
LOCAL: Noble living room of Reitoria, Canela

Inaugural conference: Michael S. Kimmel
“The Simultaneous Production of Hegemonic and Subaltern Masculinities”

20-21h cocktail

Roundtables
DATE: April 10-12
SCHEDULE: 8:30-12.30h
LOCAL: PAF (Pavilion of the Classes) Ondina

April 10, 2000

8:30hs Cecília McCallum (UFBa) Presentation of the Symposium
8:45hs Roundtable 1- Black Women: Successful Trajectory?
(Coordinators)Eliane Borges of Silva (UFRJ/CFCH)
Helena Theodora Lopes (UGF)
Nilma Lima Gomes(UFMG)

11:00hs Coffee break

11:15hs -Roundtable 2 - Feminist Theory and Praxis
(Coordinator) Cecília Sardenberg (UFBa)

April 11, 2000
8:30h - Roundtable 3 - Focussing race and class in the perspective of gender

(Coordinators) Louis Herns Marcelin (Univ. of Miami)
Mara Viveros (National Universidad of Colombia)
Norma Fuller (PUCP del Peru)
Cecília McCallum (UFBa)

April 12, 2000

8:30h Roundtable 4 - Gender, ethnicity and class in comparative international perspective
(Coordinators) Valdemir Zamparoni (UFBa.)
Mary Nash (Universidad of Barcelona)
Antonio Jonas Dias Filho (UEFS)

Workshops
DATE: 10 and April 11
SCHEDULE: 14-18h
LOCAL: PAF, Ondina

Coordinators
1 - The Social Anthropology of Race, Class and Gender -
Cecília McCallum/UFBA

2 - Masculinity, Ethnicity, Gender and Class -
Norma Fuller/ PUCP–Peru and Mara Viveros/ Univ. Colombia

3 - African Women: Experiences and Trajectories -
Valdemir Zamparoni/ UFBA

4 - Cultural Representations Social and Practices in the Construction of Gender, Race and Class Differences -
Mary Nash/ Univ. Barcelona

5 - Moving with mixed race: problematizando and historizando the speech of mixed race
Louis Herns Marcelin/ Univ. Miami

6 - The Articulation of Gender, Race and Class Cultural in Studies and in the Politics of Identity
Antonio Jonas Dias/ UEFS

7 - Working with Differences in the Feminist Theory and Praxis
Cecília Sardenberg/ NEIM/UFBA

April 12, 2000
LOCAL: PAF, Ondina
14:00-18:00h Final session–Closed Meeting for participants in the Workshops
20:00h - Party of Closing

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