Seminar

The erosion of democracy and the future of constitutionalism

April 14, 2025, 15h00

Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics - UC + Online

Programme

15h00 - Opening Session
- Cocoordinator of DPSSLJ – João Pedroso
- Diretor of CES - Tiago Santos Pereira (to be confirmed)
- Diretor of FEUC – José Manuel Mendes (to be confirmed)

15h10 – Presentations
Katya Koziki (UFPR/PUCPR) – “Democracy and populisms”
- Teresa Violante (Nova Center - Nova Law School) – "An Analysis of the American Constitutional Crisis in Light of Samuel Moyn and Aziz Rana"
Vera Karam de Chueiri (UFPR)– “Constitutional DEmocracy and(in) crisis: resistance or resilience?"

16h10 – coffee break

16h30 - Presentations
Luis Menezes do Vale (FDUC) - "Constitutionality and democracy, between 'predicaments' and 'predi(ca)tions': in search of new syntheses and combinations in the age of the techno-populist broligarchy"
Cláudia Maria Barbosa (PUCPR) – “The roles of Brazil's Supreme Court in the face of the process of democratic erosion" 
- António Casimiro Ferreira (DPSSLJ/FEUC/CES) - "Constitutionalism and the Imaginaries of Power"

17h30-18h30 – Debate (in person and online)