A small country. A suffocating debt. A crisis. There would
be hardly a better time to breathe some freedom. This was the motto of the 3rd
Annual Conference of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, a Portuguese
charitable trust whose mission is to study and promote debate on the Portuguese
society. Over two days, artists, writers, journalists, and political theorists,
such as Jeremy Waldron (Oxford), Seyla Benhabib (Yale), Michael Ignatieff
(Harvard), Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard), and Monica Brito Vieira (York)
gathered in the Cultural Centre of Belém,
Lisbon, to debate the concept of freedom and its current constraints with an
audience of 1500 people. The conference was covered live by a national TV
station and streamline to most universities in the country, with speakers
engaging with questions sent by their students. Debates were both in English
and in Portuguese.
You can access them on the foundation’s website: http://www.presentenofuturo.pt/liberdade/sessoes/a-ideia-de-liberdade
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