Lecture at the UC by Lilian Thuram, former world champion footballer.

Former French football player and world champion in 1998 Lilian Thuram will be at the University of Coimbra, on the 26th of November for a conference dedicated to questioning ways to combat inequalities and racism. The session starts at 18h00, in the Auditorium of the Rectory of the University of Coimbra.

Lilian is the President of the Lilian Thuram Foundation– Education against Racism, which has as a motto “One isn’t born racist, one becomes racist.”. Thus, the meeting aims at questioning the inequalities caused by domination mechanisms in European society and the ways to combat racism through education.

In 2014, Lilian Thuram was awarded the Ethics Award of the Keba Mbaye Foundation in Senegal for his work with the organisation. In 2017, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Stockholm. Thuram is also the author of the book "My Black Stars", published in Portugal by "Tinta-da-China" as part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's "Próximo Futuro" programme.

The initiative to bring the former footballer to Portugal is promoted by the MEMOIRS project / Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and the Lilian Thuram Foundation, with the support of the French Embassy.

^{Translation by Diana Taborda}