The #MusaTemas Seminar was created within the scope of the Individual Scientific Employment FCT-CEECIND/04717/2017 under the theme: “Citizenship Education and Cultural Diversity: Theory and Practice of Sociomuseology” and designed in conjunction with the UNESCO-ULusófona Chair “Citizenship Education and Cultural Diversity”.
Its creation, from an interdisciplinary perspective, aims to respond to the structuring questions of the FCT-CEECIND/04717/2017 Research Project, that aims to understand the role and place of museums committed to social issues in contemporary times:

• How do socially committed museums differentiate categories of audience, users and beneficiaries?• How do these museums develop and apply participatory management processes?
• How do these museums view and justify their action in the different fields of economic and social inclusion?
• What are the most common topics and approaches in the different social media and websites in the field of Sociomuseology?
• How do these museums deal with the sociomuseological education relationship?
• What are the themes and social issues identified and addressed in these museums?

The seminars were held with the participation of museum professionals, faculty, activists and researchers from museums and community museological processes, socially committed, individuals and social and cultural movements.
The format of each seminar was adapted to each situation and theme addressed. They were organized in the form of lectures, dialogues, dialogic reflection circles and thematic panels. The seminars were designed to be held in person, but due to the pandemic, many of the seminars were held via webinar, which allowed for a much larger audience and participants than initially planned. Thus, 45 seminars were held between December 2018 and October 2022.

01_MusaTemas1 (12.12.2018). Education, Citizenship & Cultural Diversity, Professor Maria Célia Santos (UFBA- Federal University of Bahia). Mediation Judite Santos Primo (FCT, CeiED, ULHT).

02_MusaTemas2 (17.01.2019). Waldissa Russio’s Legacy for Museology, Professor Viviana Sarraf (IEB – Institute of Brazilian Studies/ USP – University of São Paulo). Mediation Judite Santos Primo (FCT, CeiED, ULHT).

03_MusaTemas3 (11.02.2019) The Poetics of Space: black women and museum exhibition, Joana Flores (UFRB – Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil).

04_MusaTemas4 (12.02.2019)- Museums Collections and Memories in Networks, Professor Maria das Graças Teixeira & Marcelo Cunha (MAFRO / UFBA, Brazil). Mediation: Professor Judite Primo (FCT, CeiED, ULHT).

05_MusaTemas5 (13.02.2019). Museums, Cultural Rights and New Citizenships, Marcele Pereira (UNIR – Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil), Pedro Leite, (CES-UC), Vladmir Sibylla (UNIRIO – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) & Juliana Campuzano (Community Museum of S. Jacinto, Colombia).

06_MusaTemas6 (15.02.2019). Women with iron and fire: gender violence and (po)ethics in the musealization of the cangaço, Professor Clóvis Carvalho de Brito (UNB – Federal University of Brasília).

07_MusaTemas7 (21.02.2019). The LIME experience: Laboratório de Investigación y Experimentación de Museologia, Professor Juan Carlos Rico, Muse (LIME, Madrid, Spain).

08_MusaTemas8 (06.08.2019). Sociomuseology: School of Thought, Professor Cristina Bruno (MAE – Museum of Archeology and Ethnology /USP University of São Paulo, Brazil).

09_MusaThemes9 (04.11.2019). “Sociomuseology and SULear vs NORTEar: Strategies and tactics in a dialogic education”.  Marcio Campos (UNICAMP, University of Campinas, Brazil).

10_MusaTemas10. (20.11. 2019) “! … ?”: Paulo Freire and the danger that a museum can have”. Prof. Doutor Régis Lopes (Universidade Federal do Ceará,-UFC, Ceará, Brazil).

11_MusaTemas11 (17.01.2020) Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity: theory and practice of Sociomuseology, Cristina Bruno (USP, University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil).

12_MusaTemas12 (19.02.2020). “Gender Issues in Museology and Archaeology: Decolonial Perspectives”. Professor Aida Maria Rechena (Museum of Liberty and Resistance of Peniche) & Professor Camila Moraes Wichers (UFG-Brazil).

13_MusaTemas13 (03.09.2020). Public Policy: paths and misdirections of the right to memory.  Professor Marcele Pereira (UNIR- -Brazil)

14_MusaTemas14 (16.04.2020). MUQUIFU – Museum of Quilombos and Urban Favelas: Afro-heritage and segregated territories in Belo Horizonte. Director Mauro Luiz da Silva (MUQUIFU-Brazil).

15_MusaTemas15 (30.04.2020). Waldisa Rússio Camargo Guarnieri and Brazilian Museology, Professor Inês Gouveia (IEB – Institute of Brazilian Studies at USP-Brazil).

16_MusaTemas16 (20.05.2020). Democratization and Participatory Learning: from Escola Nova to School Museums in Brazil, Adel Igor Pausini.

17_MusaTemas17 (17.05.2020). Democratization in Museums. Museums for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Professor Bruno Brulon (UniRIO/ICOFOM), Professor Clovis de Britto (UNB), Professor Cristina Bruno (USP), Professor Graça Teixeira (UFBA) & Professor Mário Moutinho (ULHT).

18_MusaTemas18 (21.05.2020). Social Museology Network of Rio de Janeiro – REMUS-RJ. Ms. Cláudia Rose (Museu da Maré- Brazil), Professor Inês Gouveia (USP), Ms. Leu Cruz (São Bento Living Museum- Brazil ) & Ms. Mirella Araújo (IBRAM- -Brazil).

19_MusaTemas19 (18.06.2020). Sexual Diversity and Museology. Franco Franco Reinaudo. (Director of the Museum of Sexual Diversity – São Paulo).

20_MusaTemas20 (25.06.2020). Conversation on “Gender, Sexual Diversity and their relationship with Museology, Professor Jean Baptista (UFG) & Ms. Geanine Escobar.

21_#MusaTemas21 (02.07.2020). Memorial in Homage to Enslaved People. DJASS – Association of Afro-descendants. by Professor Cátia Severino & Ms. Evalina Dias (President of Djass- Portugal).

22_#MusaTemas22 (16.07.2020). Collective Memories and Social Museums. Alessandra Ribeiro (Campinas-Brazil), Cleyton José da Silva (Guitinho da Xambá – Brazil), Professor Ruy Póvoas (UESC-Brazil). Mediation Professor Judite Santos Primo (FCT, CeiED, ULHT) & Professor Vânia Brayner.

23_#MusaTemas23 (13.08.2020) Indigenous Museology.  Professor Aristotle Barcelos (University of East Anglia, UK) & Ms. Pirata Wuara, (Piyulaga State Indigenous Basic Education School – Brazil).

24_MusaTemas24 (20.08.2020). Indigenous Museums, Ethnic Cosmopolitical Mobilizations of Memory. Professor Alexandre Gomes (NEPE-UFPE- Brazil).

25_MusaTemas25 (03.09.2020). “Between Freirean Pedagogy and Museological Pedagogy: approximations”. Professor Maria Cristina Bruno. (MAE-USP-Brazil).

26_MusaTemas26 (24.09.2020). “Paulo Freire, teaching in Museology and Museums: a journey of discoveries”. Professor Maria Célia Santos (UFBA-Brazil)

27_#MusaTemas27 (22-10. 2020). “Dynamics of museological professionalization in Colombia”. Prof. Dr. William Afonso Rosas (National University of Colombia).

28_#MusaTemas28 (29.10.2020). “Dynamicas de la formación en Museología en España”.  Professor Jesús Pedro Lorente, Universidad de Zaragoza- Spain) & Professor Oscar Navajas Corral (Universidad de Alcalá- Spain).

29_#MusaTemas29 (05.11.2020) Museology: historical context and formation in Cuba. Professor Dory Castillo Garriga (C.P.P.C from Pinar del Río-Cuba) & Professor Ana Valdés (CP.P.C from Guantánamo- Cuba).

30_#MusaTemas30 (11.12.2020) Dynamics of Museology Training in Belgium. Prof. PhD Prof. PhD Manuelina Duarte Cândido (Université de Liège- France & Federal University of Goiás- Brazil).

31_#MusaTemas 31 (26.11.2020) The trayetoria de la Museología Comunitária en España.  Professor Jesús Fernandez (La Puente Ecomuseum), Professor Óscar Navajas Corral (Universidad de Alcalá) & Ms. Sónia Sanchez (Comarca del Maestrazgo).

32_MusaThemes 32 (06.05.2021) Recover Memories. Reimagine Futures. Professor Judite Primo (FCT, CeiED, ULHT).

33_MusaTemas33 + LABSE (21.05.2021) Justicia Museal: Recovering Memories. Reimagine Futures. Palmeyro (Movimiento Justicia Museal and Museo Casa de Ricardo Rojas – Argentina).

34_#MusaTemas34 (27.05.2021) Museum of Ceará: 20 years later Paulo Freire and museum utopias, Alexandre Oliveira Gomes (UFPE), Carolina Ruoso (UFMG- Brazil), Francisco Régis Lopes Ramos (UFC- Brazil) & João Paulo Vieira Neto (Rede Cearense- Brazil) of Community Museums Historiando Project – Brazil.

35_MusaTemas35 (17.06.2021) Memory and Resistance in contemporary art Recover Memories. Reimagine Future, Jaime Lauriano.

36_#MusaTemas36 (29.07.2021) Sociomuseological Trajectories of Black Women, Deborah Silva Santos (UNB-Brazil).

37_MusaTemas37 (05.08.2021) Pedagogy of the Crossroads, Luiz Rufino (UERJ).

38_#MusaTemas38 (19.08.2021) Memories of the Crossing: Diluting Amnesias, Confirming Voices and Making Futures Responsible”, Pedro Miguel Salvado, (Director of the Archaeological Museum of Fundão).

39_#MusaTemas39 (30.09.2021) New perspectives for museum education, Professor Camilo de Mello Vasconcellos (MAE – USP

40_MusaTemas40 (04.10.2021). Antiasylum fight. Culture and Memory, Professor Patrícia Dorneles (UFRJ-Brazil) & Professor. Doctor Paulo Amarante (Fiocruz- Brazil).

41_MusaTemas41 (17.03.2022). Whiteness and Racism. Implications of listening in museological processes, Professor Maria das Graças Teixeira (UFBA-Brazl).

42_#MusaTemas42 (14.04.0222) Archive of the Bad Encounter: colonial wound, museums and raciality, Alexandro Silva de Jesus (UFPE).

43_#MusaTemas43 (14.07.2022) Female Bodies in the City: Women Artists in Belo Horizonte. Professor Rita Lages Rodrigues (UFMG – BR).

44_#MusaTemas44 (06.10.2022) Darcy Ribeiro: the multiple intellectual and ‘Brazil as a problem.  Professor Alexandre Pilati (UnB – BR).

45_MusaTema45 (13.10.2022). Museums, diversity and communities: the case of the Laje Collection. Vilma Soares Ferreira Santos (Educator) & Professor José Eduardo Ferreira Santo (Laje Museum Br).