Feminist Talk with Júlia Garraio, interviewed by Vanessa Cavalcanti. The conversation will focus on the guest's work in the areas of sexual violence, MeToo, and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Bio notes

Júlia Garraio | Júlia Garraio is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research Research Group on Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She is vice president of the CES Ethics Committee. She is a fellow (CEEC) of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) with the project Dis/entangling Rape: Sexual Violence in Portuguese literature and cinema in the 21st century (2023-2028). She is Co-PI of the FCT project UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2023-2025). She is co-founder of the international research group SVAC-Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She is review editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. She integrated the Historical Research Group of the Independent Committee for the Study of Child Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church (2022-23). She participated in several projects in the areas of Memory Studies, Gender Studies, Media, Literature and Cultural Studies. She was engaged as a researcher by the projects DeCodeM - (De)Coding Masculinities: Towards an enhanced understanding of media's role in shaping perceptions of masculinities in Portugal and DeOthering - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes.

Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti | PhD in Humanities from the University of León, Spain. Postdoctoral research at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (2021-2023) and in Human Rights and Contemporary History at the University of Salamanca, Spain (CAPES and CNPq). In the academic field, lecturer and researcher in the Postgraduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism (PPGNEIM/UFBA). Visiting professor at the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain, through CNPq, in the field of Contemporary History and the Present Day. At the international level, she is an associate researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, and the Centre for Research in Adult Education and Community Intervention (University of Algarve). Member of the organising committee of GenderWorkSeries 2023-2026, linked to the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra.