Moderator: Sílvia Portugal (FEUC/CES)

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In the context of Teatrão's next creation, based on the work «da familia» [of family] by Valério Romão, Teatrão organizes, in collaboration with CES, a series of talks about different aspects of the contemporary family universe.

of family is a collection of twelve short stories written by Valério Romão. With a dramaturgy created by him, based on five of these stories, Teatrão will perform them starting in December. The five familiar episodes have a fabulist, mythical and fantastic structure, although paradoxically mundane. The episodes are not exactly located in this or that era, they are not part of the past although they are also there, nor are they contemporary, although recognizable in everyday life. Without having any essayistic, or formal, pretensions, the melodramatic treatment, in the best sense of the word, has an epic structure that inadvertently or deliberately, who knows, unsettles the receiver.

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Madalena Duarte
Madalena Duarte is a Sociologist and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a member of the Permanent Observatory on Portuguese Justice where she has been part of the team in several research projects. She has a PHD in Sociology by the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra concerning the role of law on violence against women. Her areas of interest include violence against women, human trafficking, sexual and reproductive health, domestic violence, social movements and sociology of law. She has several articles published and participations in national and international conferences concerning these issues. She's doing a Post-Doctoral Research about "Murder in intimate relationships: a sociolegal perspective".

Amélia Augusto
Amélia Augusto holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Beira Interior, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Beira Interior and a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL). She has coordinated and taught courses in the area of sociology of health in sociology and health sciences, collaborating in this field with several higher education institutions. She has supervised PhD and Master's courses in the area of sociology of health. Her publications have taken the form of book chapters and articles, both national and international. She is currently a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Health Sociology Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association.