Cambridge Socio-Legal Group seminar: 'Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change'

Speaker: Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Law School. Member of Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program, Coordinator of Time, Space and Senses of Constitution Research Project.

Polos de Cidadania, translated as Citizenship Hubs, is a research and outreach program of UFMG Law School. Its aims are the effectiveness of human rights and the construction of knowledge through the dialogue between the academic and the non-academic. It works with social groups and individuals with a history of exclusion and risk trajectory.

The seminar will talk about the experiences of Polos, specifically a recent research and outreach work in a slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It will propose a discussion from this experience about the possibilities and limits of social change through social sciences. We will approach themes related to the subjectobject relation; the setting of research agenda; the construction of research instruments, the dialogue between different types of knowledge; and the relationship between science and politics.

A light sandwich lunch will be provided.

Pre-booking is not required, but if possible an indication of attendance to Dr Brian Sloan (bds26@cam.ac.uk) would help with catering numbers.