O Seminário “Critical social theory from the (semi)periphery” será realizado por meio de parceria entre o PPGD e PPGDH/UFPE, IFDT (Instituto de Filosofia e Teoria Social da Universidade de Belgrado) e o RELATEC (Rede Latino-Americana  de Estudos Sociais Críticos).

Será online e acontecerá nos dias 25 e 26 de novembro de 2025. Os interessados em participar devem enviar um email para mariana.pfpacheco@ufpe.br e receberão o link.

Programação:

25th of November

09h (Brazil) / 13h (Serbia)

I panel: beyond canonical critical theory

Andrea Perunovic: “The Universal and the Semi-peripheral: Notes Toward a Peninsular Thinking”

David F. L. Gomes: “Peripheral voices in critical theorizing: towards a universalism from the South”

Vanja Grujic: “Peripheral experiences (de)constructing universalisms: a postcolonial critique”

 

26th of November

09h (Brazil) / 13h (Serbia)

II panel: other critical traditions: praxis of theorizing (part 1)

Marjan Ivkovic - “Post-socialist semi-periphery: a fertile ground for counterhegemony?”

Gabriel Rezende: “Populism and institucionalidad: two peripheral concepts”

Milan Uroševic: “Always Striving, Never Achieving: Doing Theory in the Balkans Between Nativism and Universality”

 

26th of November:

13h (Brazil)/ 17h (Serbia)

III panel: other critical traditions: praxis of theorizing (part 2)

Mariana Fischer: “Neoliberalism and extremism in Brazil today: beyond Foucault”

Sara Dragišic: “Peripheral Rationality: Forms of Subjectivation between Law and Governability”

Tijana Matijevic: “Comparable Universalisms: Literary Criticism of the São Paulo and Praxis Schools”

Srdan Ðurovic - “Living Verum Factum on the Semiperiphery: Lessons from the Yugoslav Praxis Philosophy”