On November 22, at 2:00 PM (WET), the webinar MigraMediaActs & YouNDigital: Diversities in Debate will take place. The event 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 (University of Minho/CECS) and Isabel Macedo (University of Minho/CECS).
The webinar aims to foster discussion on key topics addressed by both projects, namely diversity, youth, and their varied trajectories. The guest speakers are researchers Chisoka Simões and Luiza Lins.
Participation is open to everyone, and registration can be done here.
About the Speakers
Chisoka Simões is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and a researcher in the project MigraMediaActs – Migrations, Media, and Activisms in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Decolonizing Mediascapes and Imagining Alternative Futures (PTDC/COM-CSS/3121/2021), funded by the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS, University of Minho). 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 Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) at the University of Minho, where she is part of the MigraMediaActs project (Migrations, Media, and Activisms in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Decolonizing Mediascapes and Imagining Alternative Futures, funded by 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. Her research focuses on intergroup relations, social representations, social memory, intersectionality, discrimination, and social identities.
