DEMOCRACIES AT RISK - BETWEEN REAL AND VIRTUAL: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES

Complete Schedule of the VIII POLIPUB

Day 1: 24/11/2025 (Monday)

09:00 to 09:30 – Registration and Welcome Coffee
- Location: TJ-BA
- Organisation: Organising Committee
09:30 to 10:00 – Congress Opening
- Location: TJ-BA
- With: Prof. José Gileá – Programme Coordinator
10:00 to 12:00 – Solemn act of signing the TJBA/UNIFACS agreement and Opening Keynote Lecture
- Topic: The Unconstitutional State of Affairs and the Just Penalty Plan
- Location: TJ-BA
- Coordination: Prof. José Gileá – Programme Coordinator
- Speaker: Desembargador Geder Luiz Rocha Gomes
- Discussants: Prof. Matheus Lins, Prof. Jonnas Vasconcelos

12:00 to 13:45 – Lunch Break

14:00 to 15:15 – Panel 1: Political Gender Violence

Location: TJ-BA
Speaker: Desembargador Mauricio Kertzman Szporer
Discussants: Prof. Elvis Gibson, Prof. Ian Quadros
Master's Students: Andréa Cristina Argolo Zetehaku, Bianca Isabel Araújo da Boa Morte Moura

15:30 to 18:00 – Panel 2: Politics and Epistemes of Citizenship research group

Topic: Democracies at risk - between the real and the virtual: economic, political, social, and environmental perspectives
Location: TJ-BA
Speakers: Prof. Constancia G. Calderón, Prof. Maria Esther Martinez Quinteiro, Prof. Raymundo Miranda Ramirez
Discussant: Prof. José Menezes

18:00 – Closing of the first day

Day 2: 25/11/2025 (Tuesday)

08:50 to 11:40 - POLIPUB Junior

Location: Room 213 at CTN/UNIFACS
Course Units: PRELIMINARY LESSONS OF LAW (Undergraduate) and CRIMINOLOGY, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Master's)
Coordination: Profs. Drs. Jonnas Vasconcelos and José Menezes
Organising Team:
- Master's Students: Rafael Sampaio Ruas and Alana Cristina Lacerda Lopes
- Undergraduate Research Scholar and Teaching Assistantship: Yasmin da Cruz Oliveira
- Class Representatives: Stephane Machado Miranda and Vitor Pereira Freitas

09:00 to 12:00 – Presentation of submitted and selected papers

12:00 to 13:45 – Lunch Break

14:00 to 15:45 – Panel 1: Vulnerable Minds: Health and Fragile Democracies?

16:00 to 18:30 – Panel 3: Politics and Epistemes of Citizenship research group

Topic: Democracies at risk - between the real and the virtual: economic, political, social, and environmental perspectives
Location: Ruy Barbosa Room
Speakers: Prof. Lucylea G. França (UFMA) and Prof. Danielle B. Lopes (UERJ)
Discussant: Prof. José Menezes

16:30 to 18:00 – Panel 2: Virtuality with an Influencer in interpreting reality today

Location: Ruy Barbosa Room or Auditorium
Speakers: Prof. Daniel Lyra Pinto de Queiroz and Forensic Expert Camila Andrea Pimentel Testa
Discussant: Prof. Marta Cardoso

Day 3: 26/11/2025 (Wednesday)

09:00 to 11:45 – Conference: The Virtualisation of Democracy and the Challenges of Digital Governance: Perspectives from Human Rights

Location: Harvard Room
Speakers: Prof. Araceli Perez Velasco UICUI (Mexico), Prof. Maria Concepcion Molina Alcántara UICUI (Mexico), Dr. Walter Barretto Jr; GPPEC (UNIFACS)
Discussant: Luiz Eduardo de Sousa Ferreira
Moderator: Raique de Jesus Correia

12:00 to 13:45 – Lunch Break

14:00 to 15:15 – Panel 1: Governance of Artificial Intelligence and South-South Cooperation

15:20 to 16:45 – Panel 2: Study Group on Governance and Public Policy – GEGOPP

Topic: The Invisible Conflict: social control of science, ethics, and the new legal frameworks
Location: Ruy Barbosa Room
Speaker: Prof. Nilo Reis
Discussants: Prof. Mônica Ribeiro and Prof. Gustavo Costa

17:00 to 18:00 – Chat with Alumni – A Return to Academia

18:00 – Closing of the VIII POLIPUB

Location: Ruy Barbosa Room