Institute for Media and Creative Industries Speaker Series
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries has organised a Speaker Series to bring together researchers from across a wide range of interdisciplinary fields in order to address timely and pertinent questions in media and the creative industries.
Upcoming events
Paulo Freire Centennial: 7 talks in preparation for the next 100 years
Large creative initiatives to tackle complex problems depend on daring to think long term. The unpredictability of the future, challenged by pandemics, climate change, social and political instabilities, on the top of longstanding and increasing regimes of inequalities across the globe, suggests that we need to build and strengthen human capacities that go beyond reaching efficiency. Dealing with threats requires resilience and solidarity.
This cycle celebrates the centennial of the birth of Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire (1921-1997), and, inspired by his works, invites radical thinking and political imagination. Freire’s ‘ontological call’ is associated with five principles, those of humility, empathy, love, hope and dialogue (Freire, 2017, p. 33), which he presented as the spirit of one of his main referential works, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, originally published in 1968. These principles were developed by Freire in different degrees and forms throughout his works, and they also served as inspiration for many thinkers and practitioners all over the world. Can they serve as seminal inspiration for creatively devising the next 100 years?
Recognizing Freire’s strong influence upon participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond[i], this cycle includes two Plenaries and five Global Exchanges. We are also inviting local groups (research centres, faculties, networks of practitioners etc) to engage organizing Local Exchanges to unfold the Global Dialogues in relation to their contexts.
Date | Time | Title | Speaker |
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9 March 2021 |
1pm (London) 10am (Sao Paulo) |
Opening Plenary: Homage to Paulo Freire in his centenary |
Frei Betto (Brazil) |
10 March 2021 |
1pm (London) 10am (Sao Paulo) |
Global Dialogues |
Claudia Magallanes (Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico) Mairá Lima (Landless Workers Movement, Brazil) |
15 March 2021 |
1pm (London) 10am (Sao Paulo) |
Love |
Karin Wilkins (Miami University, USA) Xavier Carbonell (Signis and the Xavier University of Bhubaneshwar, India) |
17 March 2021 | 1pm (London)
10am (Sao Paulo) |
Empathy |
Linje Manyozo (RMIT University, Australia) James Deane (BBC Media Action) |
18 March 2021 | 1pm (London)
10am (Sao Paulo) |
Hope |
Benjamin Ferron (Université Paris 12 Créteil, France) Heriberto Gualinga (Indigenous filmmaker, Ecuador) |
TBC | 1pm (London)
10am (Sao Paulo) |
Humility |
Colin Chasi (University of Free State, South Africa) Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change, India) |
24 March 2021 | 1pm (London)
10am (Sao Paulo) |
Closing Plenary: Pisar suavemente sobre a terra: towards a pedagogy of coexistence |
Ailton Krenak (Indigenous human rights activist, Brazil) |
[i] The Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University has held a series of activities gathering scholars from different regions of the world about the legacy of Paulo Freire in the field of participatory communication and civil society development. Recently, we have published two special issues coming from a previous cycle of debates around this subject. You can see them here and here.
Past events
Date | Time | Title | Speaker |
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3 December 2020 | 2.30pm-4pm | Challenges and responses from community media during the Covid-19 crisis |
Vinod Pavarala (University of Hyderabad, India), Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University, UK; Data Justice; Global South) and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Data Justice – Global South) |
12 November 2020 | 12pm-4pm | Communication for Change Mini-Fest: Life stories, Dis/Connections and the Postcolonial |
Rubén Rivas de Rocas: Local stories fighting polarization, transnational media Veneza Ronsini: Intentional communities in Brazil Lasse Mouritzen, Kristine Samson, and Michael Haldrup: Other-Story, Jamboy and Escuela Sim Mouros Birgitte Jallov: New neighbours: cohesion-creating community media Dainalyn Swaby: Jamaica, stories, sustainability Aglaya Jimenez Turati: Storytelling and education |
22 October 2020 | 2.30pm-4pm | Launch of the Special Issue: The legacy of Paulo Freire. Contemporary reflections on participatory communication and civil society development in Brazil and beyond |
Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University) César Jiménez-Martínez (Cardiff University) Moderator: Ana Cristina Suzina (Loughborough University London) |
18 February 2020 | 5pm-6.30pm | The Science of the Commons: Proposing a new mode of comprehending communication |
Professor Muniz Sodré Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
12 November 2019 | 5pm-6.30pm | Reflections from the amazon jungle: Building an intercultural dialogue and re-thinking development |
Eliana Herrera Huérfano University of Seville |
29 October 2019 | 5pm-6.30pm | Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife |
Kareem Khubchandani Tufts University |
21 October 2019 | 5pm-6.30pm | Deep Dialogue as Peace Maker? |
Professor Cees J. Hamelink University of Amsterdam |
16 October 2019 | 5pm-6.30pm | Digital inclusion beyond access: The struggle for a sustainable and accountable digital equality |
Norbert Wildermuth Roskilde University |
15 October 2019 | 12pm-1.30pm | How to promote and Develop a Collective and Critical Inclusive Memory in the Museum |
Antonella Poce University Roma Tre |
Watch our previous seminars
Can Freire’s principles for a democratic dialogue save us from polarisation and (extreme) right populism?
Hear from Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University) and César Jiménez-Martínez (Cardiff University) with Ana Cristina Suzina (Loughborough University London) as moderator in the 22 October IMCI Seminar Series event.
Stories of pandemic: voices and data from communities and the South
Hear from Vinod Pavarala (University of Hyderabad, India), Emiliano Treré (Cardiff University, UK; Data Justice; Global South) and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Data Justice – Global South) in the 3 December 2020 IMCI Seminar Series event.