Projects
Ideias em tempo de Guerra Fria: circulações intelectuais, encontros e desencontros
Descrição:
CAPES COFECUB nº 08/2018 - Projeto colaborativo pluridisciplinar que visa a estudar as circulações intelectuais entre as Américas e Europa, em particular os intercâmbios entre Brasil e França, no contexto da Guerra Fria, bem como as transformações que estas geraram no funcionamento das relações socioculturais transnacionais.
Pesquisadoras: Angélica Müller e Francine Iegelski
Coordenadores: Denise Rollemberg e Olivier Compagnon
The House of Brazil in France: a transnational space for socio-cultural circulation
Description:
CNPq Nº 09/2020 - This project aims to analyze the history of the House of Brazil in the International University City of Paris, demonstrating, on the one hand, the work of cultural diplomacy of Itamaraty and Quai d'Orsay and, on the other hand, the socio-cultural relations that went through the House. The central hypothesis of the research is that the Maison du Brésil consolidates a transnational space of representation of cultural and intellectual exchanges between Brazilians and French, allowing the maturing of a university diplomacy, not necessarily followed by the deepening of cultural diplomacy between the two countries.
Researcher: Angélica Müller
Historical experience, fiction and truth in 20th century Latin American literature
Description:
(Faperj, Jovem Cientista E-26/202.828/2019). Literary criticism usually considers that, from the 1940's, a new moment of Latin American literature arises, in which fictionists from different countries start to depict, with depth and amplitude of original focus, the colonial heritage and the violence of the historical and social reality - revolutions, religion, fight for land, misery, explosions of the growth of cities - of the American continent in the 20th century. David Arrigucci Jr. called this moment the ambiguous oscillation of the narrative between "real and unreal". In the 1950s, Ángel Flores considered this context to be that of the emergence of a genuinely Latin American "magical realism". The intention of the project is to investigate how, by transforming the opacity that marks the relations between non-fiction and fiction into literary matter, Latin American writers began to present new ways of relating literature and historical experience, developing their own aesthetic forms, which brought us an emancipated and emancipating legacy in an important terrain in the history of intellectual culture, the literature. A challenging way of thinking, then, our own history and different dimensions of its writing.
Researcher: Francine Iegelski
Mare nostrum, representations of alterity and maritime space
Description:
In this project, we propose to start from the image of the sea as a political space. This scene soon unfolds in three: the colonialist ships sailing the oceans in search of new colonies; the fumes of (im)migrants in search of a better life; and the contemporary boats loaded with refugees, such as those from the surroundings of Lampedusa. Ships, feluccas, battels, vapors, boats and rafts? All this liquid imaginary says something about the present time. As Marcio Seligmann-Silva says, it is possible to understand the history of modernity as "the history of Unbehagen (discomfort, homelessness)" because it unfolds and is narrated from many ships. Through the centuries, it is possible to think about how the ocean emerges as a political space of dispute and great symbolism. Subjects enslaved and marginalized are those who in general lead these terrible stories yet to be told. Who crosses the sea, why, and, above all, where they arrive - and if they arrive. Errants, degraded, rogues, (im)migrants and refugees invite us to problematize this inescapable theme of the contemporary world. On these scenes that cross the centuries, it can be said that we have long been confronted with the floating image of displaced individuals, out of time and alienated from space. Who are they, what is said about them? Without pretending to exhaust the theme, a cutout is proposed that privileges the reading of literary and audiovisual narratives, each one in its own way that can be considered paradigmatic in terms of the discussion of concepts such as alterity and displacement. It is an ethical task, today, to dive into the experience of listening to these noises and voices that come from the sea, thinking about the archaic resonances of this maritime imaginary.
Researcher: Stefania Chiarelli
A Global Youth in the Making: the 200,000 Residents of the Cité internationale universitaire in 20th-Century Paris
Description:
ANR-17-CE28-0005 - In order to contribute to the analysis of the internationalization trends in higher education in a long-term perspective, the GlobalYouth Project aims to analyze individual admission records of 200,000 residents who were students at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) in the 20th Century and to build a historical database. At the same time, the GlobalYouth Project aims to build an international scientific team interested in the history of international academic mobilities, in order to candidate to an European call for projects.
Researcher: Angélica Müller
Historical Epistemology and Comparative History of the Human Sciences
Description:
Since the mid-19th century, History and philosophy of sciences have devoted more attention to the natural sciences, a sign of the prestige they acquired as a model of objectivity in that period. In the first decades of the 20th century, a significant part of researchers in different areas of the Human Sciences placed the epistemological aspects of these disciplines at the center of their investigations, as a way of historically examining the construction of their specific forms of rationality. This action caused the human sciences to free themselves from scientific models coming from the natural sciences, but it also led to a specialization of disciplinary studies. Without ignoring this specialization, historical epistemology and comparative history of the human sciences allow the construction of work programs common to researchers from different areas. This research group proposes an interdisciplinary investigation into the main debates, concepts, categories, epistemic virtues and intellectual protocols that, throughout the 20th century and up to the present moment, have shaped the field of human sciences, their moral economies, their objects and its rationality ideals and practices.
Researcher: Francine Iegelski
Evaluation of Maricá's Basic Citizenship Income Policy
Description:
The objective of the project is to evaluate the socioeconomic impacts of the Basic Citizenship Income program of Maricá - RJ. Created in 2019 by the City Hall of Maricá, the program's initial goal is to transfer income to all citizens of Maricá who are registered with the Single Registry of the Federal Government, reaching approximately 42 thousand citizens. The research will combine quantitative and qualitative approaches. On the quantitative side, a questionnaire will be applied to a representative sample of beneficiary and non-beneficiary groups in two rounds covering quality of life (in a broad sense), consumption pattern, financial condition, representations on public policies, poverty, citizenship and law, employment and income, entrepreneurship, political participation, etc. On the qualitative side, there will be semi-structured interviews with city leaders (situation and opposition politicians, income policy managers and executors, entrepreneurs, journalists, etc.) and with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the program in question, deepening issues addressed in quantitative research.
Researcher: Fabio Waltenberg