Claudia Favarato   |   The Digipolitical

Lectures, Teaching & co.

Courses taught

• Interdisciplinary seminar: Semiotics (AVVA Master, University of Bayreuth)
  
• Writing for Special Purposes: academic writing (AVVA Bachelor, University of Bayreuth)
  
• The Digital: Politics and Media (AVVA Master, University of Bayreuth)
  
• História de África (BSc in International Relations, University of Lisbon)
  
• África: Regionalismo e Sistema Internacional (MSc in African Studies, University of Lisbon)

Guest lectures

• Metaphysics of return in digitality: An African discourse
  Keynote; Asixoxe Asixoxe (Let’s Talk!) Conference on African Philosophy(2025)
  
• Filosofia (política) na era digital: por uma perspetiva africana
  University of Maputo (2024)
  
• Cabo Delgado também é Moçambique campaign: exploring African communitarianism in the digital
  African Politics Specialist Group Webinar (2024)
  
• This Child is not a Person: Criança-irân infanticide cultural practice and the challenges to human rights
  Symposium on Representation of Childhood, Nova University of Lisbon (2018)
  
• This Child is not a Person: Criança-irân infanticide cultural practice and the challenges to human rights
  Pensar Africa seminar, Lisbon University Institute (2018)
  
• Politics: an overview on African culture
  Spring School in Politics, ISCSP, University of Lisbon (2018)

Conferences

• The Digipolitical and African Political Thought: A Theoretical Framework to Interpret the Political in the Digital Age
  Global Political Thought Conference (2025)
  
• Digitising indigeneity: Mozambique, activism and African communitarianism in the digital
  XII Congress of the Portuuguese Association of Political Science (2025)
  UK Political Science Association annual conference (2025)
  
• The digipolitical and African-thought: assessing political ontologies in the digital age
  XXV World Congress of Philosophy (2024)
  VAD2024
  
• African-communitarianism and the Digipolitical: making sense of political digital-humanness
  Workshop “Digitality: the maker of (new?) political world orders” (2024) – organiser
  
• Humanness in the digital: insights from the #Cabo Delgado também é Moçambique campaign
  Asixoxe (Let’s Talk!) Conference on African Philosophy (2024)
  
• A new political world? The Digipolitical and African political thought
  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Network Meeting (2023)
  
• African post-humanism and techno-centred Anthropocene
  Asixoxe (Let’s Talk!) Conference on African Philosophy (2023)
  
• Politics and ritual infanticide: a reading of political instability in Guinea-Bissau from political theory
  International Seminar on (In)Stability in Guinea-Bissau (2022)
  
• Peace and Violence in Digitality. An Onto-Relational Approach to Digital Post-Humanism
  Asixoxe (Let’s Talk!) Conference on African Philosophy (2022)
  
• Digitality and African Political Thought: Mapping a Research Agenda
  African Studies Association of Africa 4th Biennial Conference (2022)
  Political Science Association of the UK annual Conference (2022)
  New York State Political Science Association annual Conference (2022)
  
• Conceptualising democracy from endogenous roots in Guinea-Bissau: a case against liberal majoritarian theories
  African Studies Association 64th Virtual Annual Meeting (2021)
  Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! African Philosophy Conference (2021)
  IAPPS Virtual World Congress (2021)
  
• Nation Versus Djorson: national and multi-national political community in Guinea-Bissau
  IPSA World Congress (2021)
  
• Unriddling political principles in Guinea-Bissau through the criança-irân (spirit-child) phenomenon
  SOAS Postgraduate Political Theory Workshop: Political Theory from the Margins (2021)
  
• Consenso di irmandade: Reading Bissau-Guinean Political Thought through Comparative Political Theory
  New York State Political Science Association Annual Congress (2021)
  UK Political Science Association Annual Conference (2021)
  
• Rethinking Instability: unbalances between indigenous powers and state collapse in Guinea-Bissau
  Because The Internet – Early Career Network, UK PSA (2020)
  Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy (2020)
  
• The political self in traditional political power of Guinea Bissau
  ECAS – Africa: Connections and Disruption (2019)
  Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! Conference on African Philosophy (2019)
  
• This Child is not a Person: Criança-irân infanticide cultural practice and the challenges to human rights
  ASAUK Biennial Conference (2018)
  Symposium on Representation of Childhood, Nova University of Lisbon (2018)
  Pensar Africa seminar, Lisbon University Institute (2018)
  
• Outward the State: Guinean people lives in marginality in Guinea-Bissau and in the diaspora
  V Conference of the Association for African Studies of Italy (2018), with S. B. Monteiro
  
• Urban modern segregation, identity and schooling patterns in Johannesburg, South Africa
  International Conference Beyond Planetary Apartheid (2018), with M. Carapeto
  
• Profanação da accountability política: Protestos políticos na Guiné-Bissau
  Portuguese Political Science Association IX Congress (2018)
  
• Mulheres da Guiné-Bissau, mezinhu di terra, mezinhu di brancu: novas interações
  X Iberian Congress of African Studies (2018)