On November 22nd, at 2:00 pm (WET), the webinar MigraMediaActs & YouNDigital: diversity in debate will take place . The initiative is a partnership between the YouNDigital project, coordinated by Maria José Brites (Universidade Lusófona/CICANT) and Teresa Sofia Castro (Universidade Lusófona/CICANT, and the  MigraMediaActs project , coordinated by researchers Rosa Cabecinhas (U. Minho/CECS) and Isabel Macedo (U. Minho/CECS).
The meeting aims to promote debate on issues essential to both projects, namely diversity, young people and their different trajectories. The guest speakers are researchers Chisoka Simões and Luiza Lins.

Diversity in Debate

Participation is open to everyone, just register  here .

Chisoka Simões is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and a researcher on the project “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activism in Portuguese: decolonizing media landscapes and imagining alternative futures” (PTDC/COM-CSS/3121/2021), of the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS, University of Minho), within which he is a PhD fellow. His academic research focuses on migration heritage, multiculturalism and diaspora in northwestern Portugal, exploring concepts from Critical Heritage Studies, such as transnationalism, politics of recognition, spatial justice and place-making.

Luiza Lins is a postdoctoral researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the University of Minho, where she is part of the project team “Migrations, media and activism in Portuguese: decolonizing mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” (MigraMediaActs, FCT, 2022-2025). She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)/Brazil, and a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)/Brazil. She has developed research on intergroup relations, social representations, social memory, intersectionalities, discrimination and social identities.