2020
From October 2020 to March 2021, I am at Paris Nanterre Université, Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Droits Fondamentaux (CREDOF), as a Visiting Professor. I won a competitive grant of the Brazilian funding Agency 'CAPES'.
December 10th. For the Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I host a Webinar our Post-Pandemic World: Global Justice, Rights and Climate Crisis. Guests: Justine Laborde (Director of the NGO Terr'Ativa) and Celine Pires (Associate, Business & Human Rights). Send me an email if you want more details
Credit: Kayle Kaupanger
November 23th, I organize and host the Webinar on the legacy of Marielle Franco (the Rio de Janeiro City Councillor who was murdered in 2018). Guests: Pâmella Passos and Amanda Mendonça. Register here
November 16th: "Brazil in Times Of Covid-19: Right to Health, 'Bioresistances' and Solidarities, International Conference What are our Lives Worth to a Neoliberal Government? Institute For Advanced Studies, Le Studium, Tours.
Power point available here and Video
November 13th: "Necro-Counterrevolution in Brazil. Exposure and Concealment of Deaths," The 28th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable. Power point available here. I would be happy to share with you my paper. Just send me an email (see contact)
November 10th: "Construyendo Comunidades Incluyentes basadas en la Dignidad Humana", TEC de Monterrey, Centro de Reconocimiento de la Dignidad Humana
- Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics - key word entry - in Critical Legal Thinking.
- "Survivre c'est Résister". Résistances et Nécropolitiques au Brésil, Revue Internationale Sens Public, Université de Montréal, (2020)
Credit: Antonio Pele
- I am currently working on the following papers & topics:
- Right to Health
- Pandemic and Human rights
- Human Dignity in the 19th century
- Necropolitics & Counterrevolution in Brazil
- Human Dignity in Latin America.
TEACHING (March-July 2020) with Zoom
Human Rights for undergraduate Law Students
Critical Theory for Ph.D students
03.04.19. I am teaching the European System of Human Rights for the Brazilian Judiciary (in Rio de Janeiro, through Zoom)
2019
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12.18.19. New article on The Conversation:
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Podcast of Critical Theory/ Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. I discuss here with Bernard Harcourt the Counterrevolution in Brazil, drawing on Michel Foucault's idea of Biopower and Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics.
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New entry on Necropolitics (French) in the blog of my project of research on human dignity (posted: 02.12.19)
TEACHING (August-December 2019)
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I have been teaching a special course on contemporary critical French thinkers for Ph.D/Master Students. You can find here the syllabus (in Portuguese)
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For undergraduate law students, I have been giving a course on human rights taking into account the proto-fascist agenda of the current Brazilian government. You can find here the syllabus (in Portuguese)
PUBLICATIONS
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In December 2019, I have published and co-organized the following two monographs, along with colleagues of the Law School at PUC-Rio University.
- The first one, on May 68 as a Global Phenomenon
- Maio de 68 como Fenonemo Global. (w/ F. Hoffmann). Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris (2019).
Table of contents available here (in Portuguese). Isbn: 978-85-519-1729-9
- The second one, on Human Rights from a Critical Theory Approach
Direitos Humanos em Perspectiva: Estado de Excecao, Biopolitca e Subalternidade (w/ B. Assy & M. Bernardes). Rio de Janeiro: PUC-Rio Editora (2019). Isbn: 978-8006-288-5
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I am working on my core topic, human dignity, with the following two projects :
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I am working on the following papers
Articles
1) "Nécrolibéralisme et Droits Humains au Brésil" for La Revue des Droits de l'Homme (CREDOF/Paris Nanterre)
2) "Human Dignity in Kant as a Technology of the Self" a draft is available here
Book Chapter
"Authoritarian Dignity " in Brazil: How Human Survival is a Threat to Bolsonaro Proto-Fascist Politics" for the monograph organized by Lynn Gummow and Klaus Mathis (Luzern University), Dignity and Diversity (Springer, 2020)
Conferences
In October 2019 I organized three important events at PUC-Rio along with Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) :
- A seminar on Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Oct., 23rd)
- A special course on Foucault, also with Jurandir Freire Costa (Oct., 24th)
- Workshop on Prisons, Education and Judicial System: Brazil & United-States (Oct. 25th) with Elaine Barbosa, Mia Ruyter, Maria Walkiria, Pamella Passos, Sandra de Souza
Nov., 15, 2019, I was invited to talk about Romania post-1989, at Paris Nanterre University (Paris), in day long seminar on 1989. Nov. 28. I have talked about Necropolitics in Brazil, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro
