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Faculdades EST

August 14, 2019 – August 17, 2019

In 2019 the Gender Research Group celebrates 20 years of its formal constitution at the Graduate Program in Theology at Faculdades EST. Considering the path walked and the current context experienced in Latin America, the VI Latin American Congress on Gender and Religion will be a space to present, discuss and produce knowledge around three main themes.

Vulnerability: is a concept used in several areas of knowledge to discuss complex issues as the maintenance and deepening of the situation of poverty and inequality, as well as to question patterns of relationship and self-identity that have a potential of questioning, subverting and transforming the structures. The VI Congress wants to deepen the discussion about this theme as a denouncing element of realities of oppression and domination and as a potentializing element for processes of liberation.

Resistance: is a key element to confront the backlash and deepening of violent practices and systems. The production of knowledge in the field of feminist and gender studies, many times, are still accomplished as a form of resistance to the hegemonic knowledges. A resistance that is also made of the joy of meeting and sharing, of the rebelliousness and imagination that creates possibilities where there are none. In this there are theoretical and methodological implications that will be explored during the VI Congress.

Justice: is to utopic horizon that guides the production of knowledge and the political action. It reflects the projects of society expressed, for example, in the biblical idea of “shalom” and “new heavens and new earth”, in the indigenous concept of “well living” (sumak kawsay) or in the African notion of Ubuntu. Particularly, we are interested in discussing in the VI Latin American Congress on Gender and Religion the perspective of “gender justice” as a concept and as a policy that seeks to overcome all forms of inequality, violence and oppression and points to the hope that feeds the construction of another reality from the creative imagination.