Speakers & participants

The International Conference of Research in Education (IRED'19) will count on the participation of:

Speakers

Henry Giroux
McMaster University

One of the founders of critical pedagogy in the United States and one of Canada’s most widely known academics, he is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been listed among the fifty most influential present-day thinkers in the domain of education and is also the main translator into English of Paulo Freire, with whom he has co-edited numerous publications. Giroux sees pedagogy as an essential vehicle for constricting a critical citizenry.

Henry Giroux
McMaster University
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Universidade de Coimbra

Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also director of the Social Studies Center of the University of Coimbra and coordinator of the Permanent Observatory of Portuguese Justice, at the same university. Throughout his career he has received several awards, including the 1996 Gulbenkian Science Prize and the Adam Podgórecki Award, from the International Association of Sociology, 2009.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Universidade de Coimbra
Marina Garcés
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His work focuses on the field of politics and critical thinking, and on the need to articulate a philosophical voice capable of interpolating and compromising.
She is the author of the books Un mundo común (2013), Filosofía inacabada (2015), Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla (2016), El compromís (2013), Humanitats en transició (2017) and Nova il·lustració radical (2017).

Marina Garcés
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Conference speakers assistance

You can attend any of the three conferences by completing the following registration form, at a cost per conference of 15 euros.

It is also possible to attend broadcasting for free in the following rooms of the Mundet Campus (or from a personal computer/mobile/tablet).

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