July 27, 2026
9:00 AM – Participant registration
10:00 AM – Event opening (ACS Presidency, RIEC Presidency, UFMG Rectorate, EEFFTO Directorate, PPGIEL Coordination and Event General Coordination)
10:30 AM – Opening Conference – Spiral Temporalities, Embodied Memories and Ancestral Performances as Theoretical Foundations for Decolonizing the University
Leda Maria Martins (UFMG/Brazil)
12:30 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Parallel sessions 1
3:30 PM – Parallel sessions 2
5:00 PM
Spotlights 1 – Leisure, Tourism and Cultural Studies
Christianne Luce Gomes (UFMG/Brazil)
Maria Manuel Baptista (Universidade de Aveiro/Portugal)
Spotlight 2 – Arts, Bodies and Territories: Pluriepistemological Education
Gilberto Amancio de Almeida (UFMG/Brazil)
Paulo Pires do Vale (Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Portugal)
6:40 PM – Cultural programming
July 28, 2026
9:00 AM – Conference 2 – The Politics of Location/The Subject of Displacement: Stuart Hall’s praxis of translation
Nick Beech (University of Birmingham)
11:00 AM – Panels 1
12:30 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Parallel sessions 3
3:30 PM – Parallel sessions 4
5:00 PM
Spotlights 3 – Bodies, Genders and Cultural Politics: Latin American Decolonial Perspectives
Djalma Thüller (UFBA/Brazil)
Marcela Pais Andrade (University of Buenos Aires/Argentina)
Spotlights 4 – Latin American Cultural Studies: Genealogies and Decolonial Perspectives
Agustín Lao-Montes (University of Massachusetts/USA)
6:40 PM – Cultural programming
July 29, 2026
9:00 AM – Conference 3 – To be defined
11:00 AM – Panels 2
12:30 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Parallel sessions 5
3:30 PM – Parallel sessions 6
5:00 PM – Spotlights 5 – Cultural Studies, Difference and Education
Marlucy Paraiso (UFMG/Brazil)
Silvia Nogueira Chaves (UFPA/Brazil)
Spotlights 6 – Dissonant and Divergent Arts and Cultures
Sylvio Marinho Ramires (UFRR/Brazil)
6:40 PM – Cultural programming
July 30, 2026
9:00 AM – Conference 4 – What Does Decolonial Hip Hop Look Like? Cultural Studies in the Age of (post?) Empire
Adam Haupt (University of Cape Town/ South Africa)
11:00 AM – Panels 3
12:30 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Parallel sessions 7
3:30 PM – Parallel sessions 8
5:00 PM
Spotlights 7 – Dance, Performance and Cultural Studies
Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of the West Indies/Jamaica)
Renata de Lima Silva (Universidade Federal de Goiás/Brazil)
Spotlights 8 – Transnational Anti-Gender Offensives and Ultraconservatism as Dimensions of the World’s Geopolitical Reorganization
Bruna Benevides (Presidenta da Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais/Brazil)
Vir Cano (Universidade de Buenos Aires/Argentina)
6:40 PM – Closing ceremony
July 31, 2026
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM – Environment, Art and Cultural Studies: Immersion at Inhotim Institute