An interesting excerpt draws attention in the book “Black Feminist Thinking” by Patricia Hill Collins. The thinker states that “suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group facilitates the exercise of power by the dominant groups.” This shadow that invisibles the knowledge constructed by minority groups helps to make up the idea that there is no dissent and that the members of these communities collaborate for their own victimization.

Understanding the importance of this debate to the academic community, The Ius Commune, Interinstitutional Group of History of Legal Culture, coordinated by professors Doctors Arno Dal Ri Jr, Caetano Dias Corrêa and Diego Nunes, invites everyone to participate in the webconference entitled “The Color of Memory and the Memory of Color: Racializing the History of Law”, presented by Philippe Oliveira de Almeida, Vanilda Santos, Mario Davi Barbosa and Laura Rodrigues Hermando, on 13/08, at 18h, live on Youtube.

Philippe Oliveira de Almeida is professor of Philosophy of Law at the National Law School (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Currently, he has been researching the genesis and development of critical theories of “postmodern” law (such as Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory), as well as their interlocution with utopian thinking (in the light of authors such as Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch and Paulo Ferreira da Cunha).

Vanilda Santos holds a doctoral student in Theory and History of Law from the Post-Graduation Program in Law (PPGD/UFSC). She develops research in history of law, quilombola’s territorial rights, legal pluralism and black brotherhoods, ethnic-racial relations from a legal perspective and reparation of slavery, working mainly with the right to truth and historical memory.

Mario Davi Barbosa holds a master’s degree in Theory and History of Law from PPGD/UFSC. He has experience in law, with emphasis on Public Law, working mainly on the following topics: justice systems, human rights, prison system, inequality and Law and Slavery.

Laura Rodrigues Hermando holds a law degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Appropriating the History of Law, with emphasis on Social History of Labor and Slavery, has been dedicated to studies on domestic work and child labor, as well as the connections of these themes with gender, race and class.

Subscription can be made through the link:  http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/a-cor-da-memoria-e-a-memoria-da-cor 

The Live link on Youtube will be sent to subscribers and made available on the group’s communication channels. Participation in the event will grant a 2h/class certificate to participants.