EERSS 2024 Keynote Speakers

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria in Canada. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and experience in various sectors in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism and one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective.

Joaquim Pires Valentim (JPV) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Coimbra in 2004. He also did the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication (University of Helsinki, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, ISCTE Lisbon, 2004). His main research fields are on social representations, intergroup relations, cultural diversity, and political psychology.