Conferences & Talks

As a hegemonic “macro-narrative,” the idea of sustainability continues to dominate environmental discourses in contemporary societies. At the conference “Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse,” held from December 18 to 20, 2024, at the University of Naples L’Orientale, analyses of multiple cases were presented in which the concept has been used… Read more: Anabela Carvalho presents at the conference “Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse”

Daniela Ferreira da Silva, in collaboration with Anabela Carvalho and Maria Fernandes-Jesus, presented at the latest Research Days of the Institute of Sociology of UPorto, which took place between October 10 and 11 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUP) of the University of Porto. The presentation, entitled “JustFutures: Political Imaginaries in the Portuguese… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents at the Research Days of the Institute of Sociology of UPorto

Having already had a communication accepted at the previous edition of the biennial ECREA conference, JUSTFUTURES was represented at ECREA2024—’10th European Communication Conference’, with an analysis of recent forms of climate activism in public spaces. The presentation, by Anabela Carvalho, was titled ‘Young people, political imaginaries, and climate change: On transgressing normality and re-scripting agentic… Read more: JUSTFUTURES at ECREA 2024 – European Communication Association

The XV LUSOCOM – Congress of the Lusophone Federation of Communication Sciences (https://www.lusocom.net/acesse-a-programacao-da-lusocom-2024/), held at the University of Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI), Brazil, between September 2 and 3, hosted another presentation by JUSTFUTURES (via Zoom). The presentation, at the invitation of the organization, was titled “Climate Change and Activism in the Media” and aimed to… Read more: JustFutures at LUSOCOM

Daniela Ferreira da Silva, in collaboration with Anabela Carvalho, presented their research at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, themed “Tension, Trust, and Transformation,” held at the University of Porto from August 27-30. Their presentation, titled “Climate Groups’ Discourses On Science: (Re)Constructing Scientific Knowledge in Light of Political Visions,” was featured in a… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association

Daniela Ferreira da Silva presented an e-poster titled “Political Imaginaries in the Climate Movement: Youth-Led Activist Groups Building Plural Visions of the Future” at the Encontro Ciência 2024. This work was co-authored with Anabela Carvalho and Maria Fernandes-Jesus. The Encontro Ciência 2024 event was organised by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) at… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents at the Encontro Ciência 2024

On June 27, Maria Fernandes-Jesus presented a webinar for the Climate, Environment, and Psychology Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa entitled “Shaping Our Collective Futures: Radical Political Imagination Towards Climate Justice.” In this presentation, the researcher discussed the work developed through focus group discussions with various engaged and non-engaged youths with climate action,… Read more: Maria Fernandes-Jesus presents webinar “Shaping our collective futures: Radical political imagination towards climate justice”

On June 26, the JustFutures team collectively presented work developed across various work packages of the project during the monthly seminar on Social Movements and Political Seminar, organised by Guya Accornero and Tiago Carvalho. This seminar was online and in-person in the University Institute of Lisbon. Tânia R. Santos, Dora Rebelo, Daniela Ferreira da Silva,… Read more: JustFutures on Social Movements and Political Action Seminar in CIES-Iscte, Lisbon

Tânia R. Santos presented a communication titled: “Young climate activists and the discursive limits of climate politics: analysing the diversity of voices of the movement and their media portrayal” during the international and interdisciplinary scientific conference on “Overcoming Obstacles to Climate Change Mitigation:a cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences”. This conference took place in… Read more: Tânia R. Santos presents at Conference “Overcoming Obstacles to Climate Change Mitigation: a cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences”

On 9 May, Daniela Ferreira da Silva gave a presentation titled “The (re)construction of science in the discourses of climate activist groups” at SciComPT 2014 – Languages and voices for accessible science. The conference took place in Braga, at Uminho from 8-10 May. The presentation, co-authored with Anabela Carvalho, focused on research suggesting that identifying… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents at SciComPT 24

On March 6, Anabela Carvalho was invited to share the collaborative work of herself, Tânia R. Santos, and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün at the Climate Journalism Seminar hosted by the School of Communication and Media Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (ESCS-IPL). The seminar included a series of presentations from researchers, professors, and journalists specializing… Read more: JustFutures Presentation at the Climate Journalism Seminar at ESCS-IPL

Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Anabela Carvalho participated with presentations related to the tasks of the JustFutures project at the XIII SOPCOM Congress, which took place in Braga from January 24 to 26, 2024. Daniela Ferreira da Silva gave a talk on “Youth Climate Activism: Participatory Methodologies in Promoting Political Imagination among Young People” during… Read more: Members of the JustFutures Team presented at the XIII SOPCOM Congress

At the invitation of the organizers of the seminar series on ‘Discourse and Sustainability,’ Anabela Carvalho presented a seminar titled ‘Political imaginaries and climate change’ on December 15, 2023, via video conference. In addition to exploring the concept of political imaginaries and the theorization of related matters, the presentation analyzed a set of recent protests… Read more: ‘Political imaginaries and climate change’ in the DiscourseNet network

On October 10th, Carla Malafaia participated in the Roundtable “Researching Activisms in the Portuguese Context” (conducted in English) on behalf of the JustFutures Project. She presented the main contributions of the project in the field of climate activism, focusing her intervention on two dimensions: Mobilization and Action; Representation and Imagination. This roundtable, which also featured… Read more: Presentation of the JustFutures Project at the Seminar “Contemporary Social Movements and Media: Interactions and Contradictions”

On October 27th, Anabela Carvalho presented a communication titled “Climate Movement in Portugal: A Portrait in Various Dimensions,” co-authored with Maria Fernandes-Jesus, Carla Malafaia, and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün at the 5th Sustainable Campus Conference (CCS 2023), an event organized by the Sustainable Campus Network in Portugal. This year, the conference was hosted by the Polytechnic… Read more: Communication on Climate Activism at the Sustainable Campus Conference 2023

The conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) took place this year in Lyon, France, between July 9th and 13th, under the title “Inhabiting the Earth: Challenges for Communication, Media, and Beyond.” Addressing these themes, Anabela Carvalho delivered a presentation entitled “Politics for future Earth: young people’s imaginaries in their own… Read more: Anabela Carvalho presents at the Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research

On July 5th, Ana Garcia participated with a presentation at the COMbART – International Conference on Art, Activism, and Citizenship at Colégio Almeida Negreiros, Nova University Lisbon. The communication titled “Cool Kids Saving a Hot Planet: The Role of Eco-Activism in Expressing Political Imaginaries of Young Climate Activists”, co-authored by Carla Malafaia, explored how artistic… Read more: Ana Garcia presents at the International Conference on Art, Activism, and Citizenship

On June 30, Tânia R. Santos presented at the 2023 Preconference of the European Association of Social Psychology on the “Social Psychology of the Future: How can Social Psychology contribute to the development of a fairer and more sustainable world?” organized by Gavin B. Sullivan, Annayah M. B. Prosser, Lucia Bosone, and Marie Chevrier. The… Read more: Tânia R. Santos presents at the EASP Preconference on the Social Psychology of the Future

On June 26, the JustFutures Team co-organized the Research and Debate Forum on Youth and Climate Change at the University of Minho, in collaboration with the EngageforSDG project. The event featured the participation of six research projects, which presented their main objectives, methodologies, and results. In the afternoon, spaces for debate were created, where interdisciplinary… Read more: JustFutures Team at the Research and Debate Forum – Youth and Climate Change

On June 22, Dora Rebelo presented virtually at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) that was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The presentation titled “Youth Voices from Portugal: Climate Justice Activism” was based on focus group discussion with youth in Portugal, focused on the way young people engage with climate justice, how… Read more: Dora Rebelo presents at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action

Ana Garcia and Dora Rebelo presented, respectively, in-person and virtually, at the Futures Conference 2023, which took place between June 14 and 16, 2023, in Turku, Finland. Ana Garcia delivered her presentation “Crafting the future: Political imaginaries of Young Climate Activists in Portugal”, sharing the results from focused group discussions with young individuals and presenting… Read more: Ana Garcia and Dora Rebelo present at the Futures Conference 2023

O Outro Dia do ICS (June 7 2023) was an event organised by the Presidency of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho as a review of the initiatives carried out within the theme of the 46th anniversary celebrations of ICS, “Climate Change.” In addition to sharing research conducted at ICS, there… Read more: Anabela Carvalho and Daniela Ferreira da Silva present at “O Outro Dia do ICS”

On June 6th, researcher Tânia R. Santos participated virtually, with an oral presentation co-authored by Mehmet Ali Üzelgün and Anabela Carvalho, at the 17th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. The presentation titled “The multivoiced field of protest: creating and hindering political opportunities for young climate activists in the media”… Read more: Tânia R. Santos presents at the 17th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment

Ana Garcia and Daniela Ferreira da Silva attended the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology, which took place from 4 to 6 April 2023 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Both researchers of the project were included in Panel 7 of “Environment and Society” on “Environmental imaginaries, discourses and activism”. The speakers… Read more: Ana Garcia and Daniela Ferreira da Silva present at the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology

Dora Rebelo participated as an oral speaker at the 73rd Political Studies Association Annual Conference on “Political Futures” that was held in the University of Liverpool from 3-5 April 2023. She presented during the panel “Environmental Activism in Britain and Beyond” that was chaired by Dr. Ozge Zihnioglu. Dora’s presentation entitled “Young people’s Political Imaginaries:… Read more: Dora Rebelo presents at the 73rd Political Studies Association Annual Conference

Anabela Carvalho participated, as a guest speaker, in the curricular unit Social and Environmental Psychology of the Master’s programme in Social and Organizational Psychology, at ISCTE-IUL on February 15, 2023. The presentation focused on the planned tasks and the work carried out by JustFutures project.

The researchers of the JustFutures project, Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Tânia R. Santos, presented their work at the VIII International Congress on Cultures that took place in Braga, at the ICS-Universidade do Minho from 5 to 7 December. Tânia R. Santos was part of the working group “Journalism, (in)visibilities and activism” where she presented… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva and Tânia R. Santos presented at the VIII Internacional Congress on Cultures

Anabela Carvalho presented “Youth activism on climate change: analysing visions on politics and social transformation” during the 9th European Communication Conference that took place in Aarhus, Denmark on 19-22 October. Anabela Carvalho discussed the socio-environmental visions of young climate activist groups, and the visions of democracy that are being constructed, specifically by Climáximo, Greve Climática… Read more: Anabela Carvalho presented “Youth activism on climate change: analysing visions on politics and social transformation”

On October 13 Daniela Ferreira da Silva presented at the IX Doctoral Conferences of CECS at the University of Minho in Braga. The work presented is part of her PhD doctoral studies exploring the “Evocation of science by climate activists: a gap in knowledge”. The researcher discussed the process that has led to identifying a… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents “Evocation of science by climate activists: a gap in knowledge”

On October 11 Daniela Ferreira da Silva presented at the Digital Activisms in Dialogue Seminar, which took place at CICSNOVA in Lisbon, the work explored the “Uses of digital platforms in communication on climate change – a look at the youth climate movement in Portugal”. At this meeting, the researcher had the opportunity to discuss… Read more: Daniela Ferreira da Silva presents “Uses of digital platforms in communication on climate change – a look at the youth climate movement in Portugal”

On 23 September, Maria Fernandes-Jesus, with the collaboration of Carla Malafaia, gave a presentation on “Youth voices for climate justice: activists articulating and envisioning futures” during the International Conference of Community Psychology in Naples, which took place from 21 to 24 September 2022. This presentation was integrated in the symposium “Promoting social justice engagement between… Read more: Maria Fernandes-Jesus and Carla Malafaia presented “Youth voices for climate justice: activists articulating and envisioning futures”

On July 7, Maria Fernandes-Jesus made a presentation on “Youth climate movement in Portugal: political imaginaries in youth-led groups” during the 27th Conference of the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS), organised by Iscte-iul and that this year happened online. Anabela Carvalho was also an invited keynote speaker of the conference discussing “Climate policies and… Read more: Maria Fernandes-Jesus presented “Youth climate movement in Portugal: political imaginaries in youth-led groups”

Several members of the JustFutures team recently presented their work at the 28th International Conference of Europeanists, which took place from June 29 to July 1 at Iscte-iul in Lisbon. Anabela Carvalho made a presentation on “Political Positioning of Youth-Led Climate Change Activist Groups and Organizations in Portugal” with the collaboration of several team members.… Read more: JustFutures team members presented their work at the 28th International Conference of Europeanists

Anabela Carvalho presented, as a guest speaker, a communication on ‘Research and climate policies in Portugal’ at the conference “Science and Culture: 50 years after the Stockholm conference” organised by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences from 6 to 7 June.

On May 12, 2022, Anabela Carvalho participated in the 10th Science Communication Congress SciComPt with a presentation on “Science(s) in Climate Activism’ with the collaboration of our new team member, Daniela Ferreira da Silva.

Session ‘We are all agents of change’ organised by the Centre of Medical Students of the University of Minho (NEMUM) within the scope of EcoWeek.

Roundtable organised by Rede para o Decrescimento in partnership with Rede BLX Bibliotecas de Lisboa.

Public Session in Porto, on the occasion of COP26. This event was organised by Campo Aberto – Environmental Defense Association and by the Greve Climática Estudantil of Porto.