Athenaeum Club
These conversations aimed to debate ideas and confront the participants of the Citizens Club, whose creation was encouraged and in the meantime, has been formed, open to students, teaching and non-teaching staff and other citizens with themes and issues related to the citizen participation in the social and political life of the community. Through the organization of round-table discussions, we tried to reflect on the central issues that define and condition the functioning of current democratic life, of new forms of civic association, especially in a time of rapid social, economic and political changes, which are often difficult for citizens to grasp in all its consequences. Since it is, the most elementary need to creatively perceive the reality that shapes us, where we act and react, these gatherings intended to strengthen bonds of conviviality between the participants, who felt challenged to perceive the world and society in which they belong, with new approaches of the time and space of the globalized society. As George Steiner advised: “at least let’s talk to each other”.
Coordinators
Francisco Faria Paulino
Isabel Portugal
Marcelino de Castro
Rui Carita
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