VOICES RISING
YEAR III - VOL 3. Nº118
December 23, 2004
CONTENT
1.- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM - PORTO ALEGRE 2005
2.- SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005, AMSTERDAM
3.- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD
The Gender and Education Office would like to express its best wishes for this holiday season, hoping that all your projects are fulfilled in the upcoming year
GEO / ICAE
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1.- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM - PORTO ALEGRE 2005
In 2005 World Social Forum, ICAE will simultaneously work in different terrains or thematic axes, composing spaces of reflection and exchange that shall create new processes of collective action.
"Human Rights and Dignity for a Just and Egalitarian World"
World Social Forum shall be the space where joint future actions for the right to learn, education for inclusion throughout life and for poverty eradication, will be defined. ICAE has promoted an aggregate composed by Action Aid, Açao Educativa (Education Action), Campanha Nacional pelo Direito a Educaçao (National Campaign for the Right to Education), CEAAL, GEO, Global Campaign for Education, NIACE, PALAAE, PAMOJA, REPEM and WICEJ. We have agreed to work on the "Human Rights and Dignity for a Just and Egalitarian World" terrain. Within this context we have organized a 2 Module Seminar big panel on the right to Education and poverty eradication:
"Education and Citizenship: for the right to quality public services for all", and a Campaign "Education for inclusion: for active citizenship” where we will distribute interesting, colourful and catchy material throughout the days of the campaign. We will walk around the different spaces throughout the whole WSF because, this time, we want to place Education at the very heart of the Forum. The idea is to give great visibility to education and make a lively, colorful and joyful event where everyone will recognize this great education block.
At the same time, it was agreed to join other Campaigns such as the Day of the Campaign against Poverty.
"Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialization of knowledge and technologies"
Within this terrain, a workshop has been registered, focused on the proposal of the Popular University of social movements and/or knowledge networks. This activity is promoted by the group of convenors formed by: EURALAT (Euro-Latin American Observatory of Democracy and Social Development), IBASE from Brazil, ICAE, Long Live Citizenship Corporation from Colombia, Paulo Freire Institute,Colombian Federation of Educators (ECODE), National Pedagogic University of Colombia, Latin American Council of Adult Education (CEDAL), Alforja Popular Education Group, Complutense University of Madrid, Center of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, and Region Corporation.
(See programme below)
Furthermore, ICAE will participate in the activities registered under the following terrain: Towards construction of international democratic order and peoples integration, where the issue of the future of the UN and the International Institutions will be addressed. These activities are promoted by some organisations and networks of the World Social Forum International Council: the Peace Round Table, Assembly of the Peoples UN, Ibase, InterPress Service, Euralat, Cives (
The seminar that shall be held in next WSF is "Reclaim Our UN: International Seminar on the future of the UN and the International Institutions / Agenda 2005 for an international, just, peaceful and democratic order". The seminar will be the continuation of the Padua debate, on the objectives and plan of action for the 2005 mobilisation on the reform of the UN and International Institutions.
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
Preliminary Proposal of the Seminar for WSF 2005
"Education and Citizenship:
For the right to quality public services for all women and men"
January 29
8.30 to 11.30 1st. Module
Impact of the ongoing macroeconomic trends in water, health and education services.
Chaired by: GCE
Education: "Privatization of services: Education: Right or Service?" Paul Belanger - ICAE -
Water: "Women, Water and Social Movements for Basic Human Rights" – WICEJ
Health: GCE
Panel commentators: Each lecture will be commented by a group of commentators who will take into account two transverse axis of the World Social Forum: gender and diversities that shall be represented by:
Rosa Guaman, indigenous community leader, REPEM- Ecuador
Elaine Oliveira, afro-descendant with experience in HIV/AIDS prevention, ACMUN,
Dora Gronros, rural women - REPEM and GCE - Uruguay
Alejandra Sarda, sexual orientation-
An hour for debate.
12.00 to 15.00 2nd. Module
Chaired by: Pedro Pontual - CEAAL
Strategies that are developed in different context:
Water:
Education: AUPEX, FEUP- Extremadura-
Health: GCE
Panel with three lecturers from different regions that will analyze this from the Right to Education point of view:
1- National Campaign for the right to Education - Brazil
2- Action Aid - David Archer
3- Lamine Kane – Senegal
Debater: Jorge Osorio, Citizenship Foundation for the
18.00 to 20.00 Space for articulations
This space is foreseen as part of the methodology defined for this WSF, to concretize articulations and strategies proposed. It is a broad space where we can articulate beyond the group.
January 30
Seminar: Education as a Human Right (coordinated by Açao Educativa)
Workshop: The Right of Action of the Right to Learn
I - Seminar: Education as a Human Right
Objectives
1. To disseminate and reflect upon the concept of education as a human right
2. To publicize the national and international mechanisms to access justice in order to achieve the fulfillment of the right to education.
3. To contribute to community leaders and members of civil society organizations in defense of the universal right to education through the access to justice.
4. To promote the access to justice as a way to concretize the universal right to education.
Program
9:00am to 10:30am
Table I – Education in the DESC context
1. Reflect upon the contemporary notion of human rights - universality, indivisibility and interdependence (20')
Inter-American Platform for Human Rights Democracy and Development-PIDHDD
2. The concept of education as a human right (20')
3. International overview of the use of mechanisms of access to justice to demand the right to education - possibilities and obstacles (20')
Table II The right of action of the right to learn - Latin America
4. Possibilities and mechanisms of access to justice for the right to education in the
Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education
5. Reports of experiences of civil society organizations that work in this field.
Debate 30'
II - Workshop: The Right of Action of the Right to Learn
Methodology
Presentation of national cases of violation of the right to education that have been taken to judicial authorities either in a national or international level;
1 The cases must be sent in advance to the workshop organizers;
2 Each report must take 10 minutes;
3 The reports will be commented by specialists what work on the field of the right of action of the right to learn.
2:00pm to 2:40pm – Presentation of four cases of violation of the right to learn
2:00pm to 3:00pm – Comments on the cases
3:00pm to 3:30 – Debate
3:30pm to 3:40pm – Break
3:40pm to 4:20pm – Presentation of four cases of violation of the right to learn
4:20pm to 4:40pm – Comments on the cases
4:40 to 5:10 – Debate
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V WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
Popular University of Social Movements and/or Network of Knowledge
Terrain: Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialization of knowledge and technologies.
Presentation
The terrain Autonomous thought, reappropriation and socialization of knowledge and techonologies, is vast and we only intend to develop an initiative that emerged at the Forum and in some networks that form part of it.
This proposal tries to exchange with similar ones, we, convenors, are ready to articulate and to establish fruitful dialogue.
The World Social Forum process, Porto Alegre (Brasil, 2003) and Mumbai in 2004, the Thematic World Social Forum of Cartagena (Colombia, 2003), gradually strengthens the idea of creating a new initiative, a university and/or network of knowledge particularly linked to social movements, that enables an adequate theoretical “translation” while the existing gaps in theory and the difficulty to analytically systematize the experiences, are serious obstacles to visualize scenarios and alternatives of social transformation in the middle and long term.
Such initiative started to be conceived with the breaking of the elitist and academic tradition in social research, with the purpose of making the WSF produce its own theory; appreciate the knowledge of actors and organizations from the different sectors; articulate sectors based on the premise that all can teach and all can learn; have a program accountable for the ongoing debates of the movement; and, at first, it would work in an empirical way, in partnership with latin american universities.
These inputs are based on the belief that discussions and actions for a new solidarity globalization must move on to other stages of elaboration, but, above all, we must systematize the experience and advance in the intercultural dialogue and start educational actions with leaders and activists of the alterglobalization movement.
At the core of the argument that tries to justify the proposal of a university or network of knowledge, there are two remarkable grounds: (1) the need to move forward on the elaboration of knowledge that tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice, searching for a systematic meeting of those who are mainly devoted to social transformation and those who are mainly devoted to theoretical production. (2) A space to train activists and leaders of social movements and social scientists/intellectuals devoted to study the social transformation in this era of neoliberal globalization, is required.
General objectives (that uphold the activity described below)
· To create a space to reflect on the proposal of the Popular University of Social Movements and/or Network of Knowledge.
· To propose action alternatives regarding the proposal of the Popular University of Social Movements and/or Network of Knowledge.
· To build a work agenda so as to make the proposal viable.
Thematic Axes
· Popular University of Social Movements
· Network of Knowledge
· The issue of interculturality and cultural translations
· Political-pedagogic objectives of the proposals
· Conceptual axes to be developed in the proposal
· How would the proposal be implemented?
Proposed activities within the framework of the V World Social Forum:
Main conference:
Cultural Translation and qualification of alterglobalization leaders
Speaker:
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Commentators:
Moacir Gadotti, Paulo Freire Institute
Celita Eccher, ICAE
Panel 1
Is an agreement possible to create a network to systematize, exchange experiences and qualify alterglobalization leaders.
Panelists:
Grupo Alforja, CEAAL, IBASE, Viva la Ciudadanía Corporation
Panel 2
Is it possible to work on qualification, systematization and elaboration of knowledge of the alterglobalization movement from the University level and under its present conditions.
Panelistas:
Work group or CIMAS Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid, UNIFREIRE, Autonomous University of Barcelona and other networks of universities.
Finally, we propose the creation of a quick and simple form to request those who attend this space, to suggest how systematization and cultural translation, etc. can be advanced; in addition to the rest of the issues to be dealt with by this proposal.
We must remember that within the framework of the V WSF, work meetings will be held every day from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., between most networks and people, so as to be able to move forward in the definitions, agreements and the steps taken to implement them.
Convenors:
· The Eurolatinamerican Observatory of Democracy and Social Development (EURALAT)
· IBASE
· International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
· Viva la Ciudadanía Corporation
· Paulo Freire Institute
· Latin American Adult Education Council (CEAAL)
· Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE)
· National Pedagogic University of Colombia
· Autonomous University of Barcelona
· Alforja Center of Studies and Publications
· CIMAS, work group or Institute of the Complutense University of Madrid
· Social Studies Center of the University of Coimbra
· Region Corporation
· UNISANGIL
Deadline to reply: Wednesday, October 27, at 10:00 p.m., european time and 3:00 p.m., colombian time
We will register the finally agreed activities on October 28.
Address proposal comments to:
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2.- SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005, AMSTERDAM
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http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SummerInstitute/
We are pleased to let you know that the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society will be held for the 9th time this summer, from July 3-28 at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam. We are happy to report that students from 57 countries are now eligible to attend the Summer Institute under the NUFFIC scholarship program for short courses. Please tell your colleagues and students about this. The NUFFIC deadline is Feb. 1, 2005, and before applying to NUFFIC, students must apply to the Summer Institute and be accepted. We stand ready to expedite these applications during January, so please share the news and encourage potential participants to apply quickly. On request we can send an attachment with additional information on the requirements and application procedures.
Participate in courses, seminars and dialogues in Amsterdam on the cultural and social dimensions of human sexuality.
Scientific directors are: Carole Vance and Stefan Dudink
Faculty: Alice Miller, Stefan Dudink, Radhika Chandiramani, Oliver Phillips, Geetanjali Misra, Sea Ling Cheng, Marieke van Doorninck and Shohini Gosh.
The Summer Institute is an intensive four-week summer program which focuses on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team.
This highly specialised programme is for advanced students, primarily Ph.D. and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working for NGO's.
The institute was founded in 1995 since then students from more than thirty countries have participated in our courses. Nearly a quarter of the participants have been professionals working for NGO's. The other participants came from such diverse educational backgrounds as the social sciences (anthropology, sociology), psychology, women's studies, history, public health and human sexuality studies. Statements of former students can be found on the website.
We expect a 2005 class of approximately 25-30 students. The Institute's classes are intensive small group seminars, with discussions, lectures and guest lectures by prominent people in the field.
Applications must be addressed to the Universiteit van Amsterdam at the below address. You can visit our web-site for an application form.
Please feel free to share this information.
Sincerely yours,
Prof. C. Vance
Dr. S. Dudink
Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society
International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Postal address
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 525.3776
fax: +31 20 525.3778
E-mail: summerinstitute-ishss@uva.nl
http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SummerInstitute/
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3.- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD
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