Organisation of scientific events

Organization of Thematic Symposium "Violence against Women, Rights, and Justice: Policies and practices from gender, interseccional, and/or decolonial perspectives," Joint International Congress of the 13th Women's Worlds and Fazendo Gênero 11, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 30 July to 04 August 2017.

Organization of Session "States of Violence and Legal Activism in Latin America: Bridging Feminist, Intersectional, and Decolonial Research", Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, 23 to 26 June by 2017.

Organization of Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America, Panel Discussion with R. Aida Hernández Castillo, University of San Francisco, 23 November 2016.

Organization of Session "Violence against Women Policy, (Trans)national Feminist Mobilization, and States of Injustice in Latin America," sponsored by the Gender and Feminist Studies Section, XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, 27 to 30 May by 2016.

Organization of 15th Annual Global Women´s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 07 to 08 March by 2016.

Organization of Sociology Colloquium Series (Spring Semester), University of San Francisco, 23 December to 11 May 2015.

Organization of Session "Precarious Laws, Persistent Feminist Struggles: Confronting Violence against Women in Brazil," XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Porto Rico, 27 to 30 May by 2015.

Organization of 12th Global Women´s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, 04 to 08 March by 2013.

Organization of 11th Annual Global Women´s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (EUA), 05 to 08 March by 2012.

Organization of Sociology Colloquium Series (Spring 2012), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (EUA), 06 February to 18 April 2012.

Member of the Organizing Committee of 10th Annual Global Women´s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 07 to 10 March by 2011 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell Nasstrom, Kathy).

Member of the Organizing Committee of First Conference of Brazilian Immigrant Women, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 05 to 06 March by 2011 (com COLIBRIS, Coletivo de Imigrantes Brasileiras Santos, Cecília MacDowell).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Sociology Colloquium Series (Spring 2011), University of San Francisco, 03 March to 21 April 2011 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Richman, Kimberly; Shin, Hwaji; Rodriguez, Evelyn).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Sociology Colloquium Series (Spring 2011), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 15 February to 26 April 2011 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Shin, Hwaji; Thomson, Katherine; Rodriguez, Evelyn).

Member of the Organizing Committee of 9th Annual Global Women´s Rights Forum, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 08 to 11 March by 2010 (com Friedman, Elisabeth; Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Kidd, Dorothy; Bouwer, Karen; Nasstrom, Kathy).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Sociology Colloquium Series (2010), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 18 February to 21 April 2010 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Bartlett, Anne; Thomson, Katherine; Gmelsh, Sharon).

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Colloquium "Memória, História e Justiça" , Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 15 to 16 September by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Ribeiro, António Sousa; Maeso, Silvia).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Session "Political Violence, the State and (Trans)national Justice," International Congress "Complexity, Conflicts and Justice,, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 07 to 10 July by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell Osoria, José M. Atiles ).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Session "The Politics of Human Rights, Transnational Activism and Justice," International Congress "Complexity, Conflicts and Justice,, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 07 to 10 July by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell Lima, Teresa Maneca).

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Seminar "Direitos Humanos e Mobilização Jurídica Transnacional no Contexto Europeu, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 03 to 03 July by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Lima, Teresa Maneca; Madalena, Duarte).

Member of the Organizing Committee of States of Impunity: The Role of NGOs in Addressing Gross and Systematic Violations of the European Convention on Human Rights," lecture by Prof. Loveday Hodson, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 30 to 30 June by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell Lima, Teresa Maneca).

Member of the Organizing Committee of workshop "Las ciencias sociales y el derecho ante la violencia social. Memoria, identidad y quiebras de lo cotidiano, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 04 to 05 June by 2009 (com Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Gatti, Gabriel; Maeso, Silvia ).

Member of the Organizing Committee of Seminário Luso-Brasileiro sobre Repressão e Memória Política, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 20 April to 21 July 2009 (com Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Pires Junior, Paulo Abrão).

Organization of Coloquio Internaiconal "Desafios aos Direitos Humanos e à Justiça Global", Centro de Estudos Sociais, 27 to 29 November by 2008.

Organization of Seminário "As Lutas Indígenas no Brasil: Memórias, Territórios e Direitos", Centro de Estudos Sociais, 17 July 2008.

Organization of Conferência "Beyond the Civil Society Agenda? 'Civic Participation' and Practices of Governance, Governability and Governmentality", Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 01 July 2008.

Organization of Seminário "Imagens do Brasil além das fronteiras: Gênero e sexualidade na "marca Brasil"", Centro de Estudos Sociais, 13 March 2008.

Organization of Sessão "Human Rights, Memory and Justice in Latin America", II Socio-Legal Congress, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Espanha, 18 to 20 July by 2007.

Organization of First Conference of Brazilian Studies in Northern California,, University of San Francisco (California, USA), 16 to 16 April by 2005.

Member of the Organizing Committee of International Conference "Feminism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean: Prospects and Challenges on the Eve of the 21st Century", University of California, Berkeley, 19 to 20 April by 1996 (com Santos, Cecilia Thayer, Millie).

Presentations in scientific events

Santos, Cecilia MacDowell; Souza, Luanna Tomaz de (2022), "From Alliance to Backlash: National Women's Rights Politics and Local Impacts on Legal Mobilization in Lula/Dilma's and Bolsonaro's Brazil", paper presented at Law and Society Congress, Lisbon, 13 to 16 July.

Santos, Cecilia MacDowell (2017), "Para uma Sociologia Interseccional da Lei Maria da Penha", paper presented at Fazendo Gênero e Mundo de Mulheres, Florianópolis, Brasil, 30 July 04 August.

Santos, Cecilia MacDowell (2017), "What Counts as 'Women's Human Rights'? Transnational Legal Activism, Brazilian NGOs, and Challenges to Mobilize Intersectionality", paper presented at International Meeting on Law and Society, "Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World" Law and Society in an Inter‐Connected World", Mexico City, 20 to 24 June.

Santos, Cecilia (2016), "Para Uma Sociologia Interseccional da Lei Maria da Penha", paper presented at Maria da Penha +10: Avaliação de uma década de implementação e desafios da lei, Fundação Getúltio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil, 19 October.

Santos, Cecilia (2016), "Lei Maria da Penha: Fundamentos e Perspectivas (Keynote address)", paper presented at Uma Década de Lei Maria da Penha: Percursos, Práticas e Desafios, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil, 01 to 03 August.

Santos, Cecilia (2016), "Lutas Feministas no Terreno da Justiça Transnacional: Mobilizando Direitos Humanos das Mulheres no Brasil e em Portugal", paper presented at IX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia , Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 06 to 08 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2016), "Transnational Feminist Legal Activism: Impacts on anti-violence against women mobilization and normative change", paper presented at XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY, 26 May 29 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2015), "Transitional Justice from the Margins: Legal Mobilization and Memory Politics in Brazil", paper presented at 110th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 22 to 25 August.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2015), "Transnational Legal Mobilization and Women's Human Rights", paper presented at Conference "Law and Society in the 21st Century", University of Oslo, Norway, 10 to 12 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2015), "The 'Maria da Penha' Law on the Ground: Emerging Services, Conflicting Networks within a Bipolar State", paper presented at XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 27 to 30 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2015), "Building and Breaking Solidarity: Learning from TANs and Struggles for Women's Human Rights", paper presented at Workshop "Transnational Advocacy Networks: Reflecting on 15 Years of Evolving Theory and Practice," Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 30 April 02 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2015), "Mobilizing 'Women's Human Rights': Negotiating Human Rights, Feminist, and Corporeal Knowledge", paper presented at 4th Annual Conference of the Sociology of Development Section, "Transformative Possibilities in the Global South", Brown University, Providence, Long Island, 13 to 15 March.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2014), "Mobilizing 'Women's Human Rights': Vernacularization or Multidirectional Translation?" International Colloquium "", paper presented at Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South-North and North-South Global Learning, Coimbra, Portugal, 10 to 12 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2014), "Curto-Circuito, Falta de Linha ou Na Linha? Tecendo a(s) Rede(s) de Enfrentamento à Violência Doméstica contra Mulheres em São Paulo", paper presented at XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, USA, 21 to 24 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2013), "Desafios da Interseccionalidade no Combate à Violência Doméstica", paper presented at Congresso Internacional "Fazendo Gênero 10" , Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil, 16 to 20 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2013), "Claiming rights in women's police stations: A situated intersectional approach to domestic violence in Brazil", paper presented at Gender Violence: Intersectionalities, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 10 to 12 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2013), "Feminism and Domestic Violence Policy in Brazil: Challenges to the Implementation of the "Maria da Penha" Law", paper presented at XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association-LASA, Washington, D.C., 29 May 01 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2012), "Women´s Police Stations and Domestic Violence Courts: Innovative Policies and Challenges to Women´s Rights in Brazil", paper presented at Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilizations, Interventions , Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 28 to 30 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2012), "What Counts as `Women's Human Rights`? How Brazilian Feminist and Women", paper presented at XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, São Francisco, Califórnia (EUA), 23 to 26 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2012), "Beyond Vernacularization: Translating Women's Human Rights Discourses from Above, Below, and the Sides ", paper presented at Workshop on "Transnational Linkages, Institutional Building and the Reconfiguration of Rights and Justice Regimes", Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (Canada), 10 to 10 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2012), "Limits and Impacts of the Transitional Justice Paradigm in Brazil: Transnational Legal Mobilization and the (Re)Making of Claims to Memory-Justice ", paper presented at International Seminar "Limits and Possibilities of Transitional Justice: Impunity, Rights and Democratisation", Porto Alegre, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), 11 to 14 April.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2011), "Violência Doméstica contra Mulheres e Políticas Públicas. Para uma Abordagem Interseccional Situada", paper presented at Colóquio Internacional "Violência Doméstica sobre Mulheres: Respostas, Dilemas e Desafios" , Coimbra, 28 to 28 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2011), "Para além do Paradigma de Justiça de Transição: O Papel da Mobilização Jurídica (Transnacional) nas Lutas de Memória-Justiça no Brasil", paper presented at Workshop "Truth(S), Memories, and Reconciliation(S)" , Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 26 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2011), "Transnational Legal Activism between Brazil and the IACHR: Translating Human Rights from/into Below, Above, and the Sides", paper presented at Breaking New Ground in the Analysis of Latin American Society and Culture: A Conference Celebrating Berkeley's Andrew W. Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 15 April 16 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2011), "Perdida ou Achada em (Con)Textos e Traduções", paper presented at 1ª Conferência de Mulheres Imigrantes Brasileiras, University of San Francisco, 05 to 06 March.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2010), "Whose 'women's human rights'? Transnational legal mobilization and feminism in Brazil", paper presented at XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, 06 to 09 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2010), "Mapping Boaventura Santos´ Postmodern Conception of Law: Its Past and Present Force in Socio-Legal Studies", paper presented at Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 27 to 30 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "New Approaches to Legal Mobilization", paper presented at West Coast Law and Society Retreat, Stanford University, 16 to 17 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Questões de Justiça de Transição", paper presented at International Colloquium "Memória, História e Justiça" , Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 15 to 16 September.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Indigenous Struggles for Security-Land, Human Rights, and the State: The Case of Xucuru in Brazil", paper presented at 104th American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, 08 to 11 August.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Homoparental rights are human rights: Reconstructing the European Convention through legal mobilization", paper presented at the session "The Politics of Human Rights, Transnational Activism and Justice," International Congress "Complexity, Conflicts and Justice" , International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 07 to 10 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Political memory-justice and transnational human rights mobilization in Brazil", paper presented at session "Political Violence, the State and (Trans)National Justice," International Congress "Complexity, Conflicts and Justice" , International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 07 to 10 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Homoparentalidade e Direitos Humanos: O Caso SilvaMouta", paper presented at International Seminar "Direitos Humanos e Mobilização Jurídica Transnacional no Contexto Europeu, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 03 to 03 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Whose ´women´s human rights´? Violence against women and transnational legal mobilization in Brazil", paper presented at LASA's XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 11 to 14 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Reconstructing Human Rights through Transnational Legal Activism? Reflections on Cases against Brazil in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights", paper presented at LASA's XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 11 to 14 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "Justice at the service of memory: legal mobilization and the construction of memory", paper presented at Workshop "Las ciencias sociales y el derecho ante la violencia social, International Institute for Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 04 to 05 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2009), "A mobilização transnacional dos direitos humanos e a memória da ditadura no Brasil", paper presented at Luso-Brasilian Seminar "Repressão e Memória Política", Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 20 to 21 April.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Lima, Teresa Maneca (2009), "Transnational legal mobilization, human rights and homoparentality: Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights", paper presented at Symposium "A Unique European Institution: The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years", Copenhagen, 20 to 21 March.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Lima, Teresa Maneca (2009), "Homoparentalidade e discriminação: o Caso Salgueiro na Justiça Portuguesa e no Tribunal Europeu de Direitos Humanos", paper presented at X Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, Universidade do Minho, Minho, 04 to 07 February.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2008), "A Mobilização Jurídica Transnacional e a Construção da Memória da Ditadura no Brasil", paper presented at I Seminário Internacional: Resistência, Memória Política e Sistemas de Reparação na América Latina, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 17 to 19 November.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2008), "Xucuru do Ororubá e direitos humanos dos indígenas: Lutas pela terra-segurança e Estado no Nordeste", paper presented at As Lutas Indígenas no Brasil: Memórias, Territórios e Direitos, Centro de Estudos Sociais, 17 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2008), "From Indifference to Absorption/Translation: The Maria da Penha Case and State Responses to Feminist Struggles to Bring Women's Human Rights to Brazil", paper presented at 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Universidade Complutense de Madrid, 03 to 09 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2008), "Da Delegacia da Mulher à Lei Maria da Penha: Lutas Feministas e Políticas Públicas sobre Violência Doméstica contra Mulheres no Brasil", paper presented at Congresso Feminista, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 26 to 28 June.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2008), "Da Delegacia da Mulher à Lei Maria da Penha: Lutas Feministas e Políticas Públicas sobre Violência contra Mulheres no Brasil", paper presented at Colóquio Estudos Feministas e Cidadania Plena, Universidade de Coimbra, 08 to 09 February.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2007), "Engendering Police Culture in Brazil: Innovations and Challenges of Women's Police Stations", paper presented at Seventh Annual Colloquium on Crime Prevention of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), Norway, 08 to 09 November.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2007), "Engendering Human Rights and Justice: Maria da Penha´s Case from the Brazilian Courts to the Inter-American System of Human Rights", paper presented at XXVII International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 05 to 08 September.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2007), "Xucuru do Ororubá: Indigenous Struggles, the State, and Post-colonial Diversity in Northeast Brazil", in the plenary session on "Law, Counter-Hegemonic Globalization and Post-colonial Diversity: Latin America and Africa", paper presented at Joint International Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (ISA), Berlin, Germany, 25 to 28 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2007), "Memory Battles and Justice in Brazil: The Role of Local and Transnational Legal Mobilization", paper presented at II Socio-Legal Congress, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, 18 to 20 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2007), "Desarquivando a Guerrilha do Araguaia: O Papel das Lutas Judiciais Locais e Transnacionais pela Memória e pela Justiça no Brasil", paper presented at III Seminário de Investigadores e Estudantes Brasileiros em Portugal (SIEBRAP 2006), Aveiro, Portugal, 13 to 14 December.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2006), "Desarquivando a Guerrilha do Araguaia: Lutas Judiciais em Busca da Memória, "Verdade" e Justiça no Brasil", paper presented at VIII International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, Nashville, Tennessee, 13 to 16 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2006), "Transnational Human Rights Legal Activism and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: The Case of Brazil and the Inter-American System of Human Rights", paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association Annual, Blatimore, 06 to 09 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2005), "Transnational Human Rights Advocacy Networks and Global Judicialization", paper presented at First European Socio-Legal Conference ("European Ways of Law"), International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Espanha, 06 to 08 July.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2004), "Theorizing Violence against Women: Debates and Contributions from Brazilian Feminist Studies", paper presented at XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, 07 to 09 October.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2004), "Transnational Legal Activism: Brazilian NGOs and the Inter-American System of Human Rights", paper presented at Workshop "New Wars, Global Governance and Law", Oñati, Espanha, 13 to 14 May.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2003), "From Domestic Violence to Gender Violence: The Feminist Discourse on Violence Against Women in São Paulo (1970s-1990s)", paper presented at XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, 27 to 30 March.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell (2002), "Engendering the Police in Brazil", paper presented at 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 10 to 15 August.