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On 23 May, 2013, at 5 pm, in the Auditorium “Emiliano Zapata Salazar”, of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), Campus Chamilpa in Mexico, will happen a new inauguration of “Cátedra Paulo Freire”. The university is located in Cuernavaca, capital city of the state of Morelos that lives primarily from tourism. The resumption of the Chair is an action linked to the “Programa de Cátedras, Estudos e Formação” (in English, Program of Chairs, Studies and Formation) of the university itself, directed by Leopoldo Ferreiro Morlet. The university has prepared and divulgated a Provisional Program for the event.
Enrique Gutiérrez (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, of the UAEM) should make the opening speech; Adán Arias, director of the Institute of Education Sciences of UAEM, should present the Chairs’ program and its objectives; René Santoveña, Secretary of Education of the Government State, will make a prospective speech and, following, Dr. Alejandro Vera Jimenez, rector of UAEM, will close with a solemnity the inauguration.
The main Conference, prepared to be the most anticipated moment of the festivity’s first day, will have the following theme: “A Leitura do Evangelho e a Pintura como Práticas Libertadoras em Solentiname, Município de San Carlos, Rio San Juan, Nicarágua” (in English, The Reading of the Gospel and the Painting as Liberators Practices in Solentiname, City of San Carlos, Rio San Juan, Nicaragua), by Ernesto Cardenal. In the beginning of April 2013 he had not confirmed his participation yet. After his speech, will follow a round of questions and, after that, a space for his reply. This debate’s structure is, indeed, a general procedure for the lectures and tables of this event, all of them will have fixed spaces for dialogue.
On Friday, May 24, early in the morning there will be an initial “working” table based in Freirean experiences: The Non-Formal Education in the Practices of the Education Professionals, by Universidad Pedagogica Nacional– UPN (Instituto de la Educación del Basica State Morelos – in English, Institute of Basic Education of the Morelos State); The Practice of Field Operations by Students and Teachers of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (UAEM) and The Teaching of Spanish for Foreign as Integrating Intercultural Practice (Tlahuica Center of languages and Intercultural Interchange).
Already in the afternoon the roundtable will be almost a homonym of a classic freirean work, The Education as the Practice of Freedom – non-formal education and social movements, with representatives of UAEM, UPN, UNAM (Universidad Autónoma de México), besides the possible participation of the entity affiliated to the Instituto Paulo Freire of Brazil, the Universitas Paulo Freire – (Unifreire).
On Saturday the participants will be able to expose themselves to the new “working” table with freirean experiences: Non-Formal Education and University Extension (UAEM), The Processes of Literacy in Cuba and Mexico – Cuban experience (Dr. José Ron Galindo – Embassy of Cuba in Mexico). The person who will close the meeting of the “Cátedra Paulo Freire” will be Dr. José Antonio Gómez Espinosa, General Secretary of the UAEM.
UAEM
The UAEM began its activities in 1938, period which was founded the Institute of Higher Education, that began its path offering only bachelor’s courses. How Autonomous University, is a public body and at the same time, unbound of the State. However, its official founding, as an autonomous entity, happened only in 1967, with the “Ley Organica”, which decrees the university autonomy. Today UAEM is subdivided into several entities/institutes such as the “Centro de Investigación en Biotecnología – CEIB” (in English, Investigation Center in Biotechnology), “Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas – CIB” (in English, Center of Biological Investigations), “Centro de Educación Ambiental e Investigación Sierra de Huautla – CEAMISH” (in English, Center of Environmental Education and Investigation Sierra de Huautla), and the “Centro de Investigación en Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas – CIICAp” (In English, Investigation Center in Engineering and Applied Sciences). It is located on Avenida Universidad 1001, Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos/Mexico. The contacts that are available to all are e-mail: lferreiro@uaem.mxand phone (01777) 329 70 00.