Internationalization Projects
Internationalization Projects
◎ Project: The Lusophone World and Hybrid Heritage
Coordinating Professor:
Regina Abreu (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Participating Professors:
Susana Sardo (Universidade de Aveiro/Portugal); Pedro Aragão (PPGM/UNIRIO); José Alberto Salgado (PPGM/UNIRIO); Vera Dodebei (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Description:
This project seeks to reaffirm and expand the scope of the International Agreement signed in 2017 among the Graduate Programs in Social Memory (PPGMS–UNIRIO) and in Music (PPGM–UNIRIO) at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and the Institute of Ethnomusicology of the University of Aveiro (INET).
In the Agreement signed in 2017, the partnership was focused on faculty and student exchange among the Graduate Program in Social Memory (UNIRIO), the Graduate Program in Music (UNIRIO), and the University of Aveiro’s Institute of Ethnomusicology, particularly in the research projects “ATLAS” (PPGM–UNIRIO), “SOMA” (INET–Aveiro), and “The Lusophone World and Hybrid Heritage” (PPGMS–UNIRIO).
As a result of this partnership, in 2018 a joint curricular unit was introduced, integrating the topics Social Memory and Music. Titled “Music and Social Memory,” this course was collaboratively offered by the Graduate Program in Social Memory, the Graduate Program in Music (both at UNIRIO), and the Institute of Ethnomusicology–INET–md (University of Aveiro). Its objective was to propose inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to music and social memory, using various scholarly tools from (ethno)musicology, anthropology, and sociology, as well as classic texts in social memory.
At the end of 2020, the project welcomed the participation of postdoctoral researcher and PPGMS alumna Sabrina Dinola Gama Silva, who is developing an individual research project titled “Symmetries and Asymmetries in the Digitalization of Culture: Sociability and Collective Memories around Popular Music in Cyberspace,” under the supervision of Professor Regina Abreu. This research is hosted by the Graduate Program in Social Memory (PPGMS–UNIRIO) and funded by the “Nota 10 Postdoctoral Program” of the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ).
Building on this postdoctoral research, the overall goal is to reaffirm and broaden the International Agreement through a new network that can foster additional collaborations among researchers at these partner institutions. The idea is to expand the partnership established in 2017, renewed in 2019, to a new phase.
As a result of this collaboration, we propose the production of a Thematic Dossier for a specialized journal, assembling articles that derive from this collaborative work as well as from classroom discussions. Contributors will primarily include, though not be limited to, researchers involved in the International Agreement among the Graduate Programs in Social Memory (PPGMS–UNIRIO) and Music (PPGM–UNIRIO) at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the University of Aveiro (INET).
◎ Project: Lockdown Memories
Coordinating Professor:
Camila Moraes (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Participating Professors:
Fabian Frenzel (Universidade de Leicester/Inglaterra); Isabella Rega (Universidade de Bournemouth/Inglaterra); Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer (Universidade of Malaysia Sarawak/UNIMAS - Malásia); Milton Novela (Universidade Lurio/UNILURIO - Moçambique) e Glenda Melo (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Description:
COVID-19 has affected communities worldwide, posing unprecedented challenges. In more vulnerable communities, such as favelas in Rio de Janeiro, the virus’s impact on health, income, and social life is aggravated by exclusion and marginalization. The aim of this research project is to better understand the responses these communities are developing to the crisis, amplify their voices, and strengthen community resilience. Another aim is to create new digital connections between communities around the globe during the pandemic.
The practice of sharing memories, often recorded using digital devices, is already common in these spaces. However, this project specifically focuses on storytelling of “lockdown memories.” The research is monitoring a specific group of favela residents and collectives involved in community-based tourism and guided tours, who are reorganizing their offerings for global virtual audiences. In this sense, the project seeks to understand the process of reorganizing these activities and, in an extension-oriented approach, to support these initiatives with targeted training and the provision of platforms for broader distribution to global audiences.
We should emphasize that this proposal is based on previous research by the project’s coordinators, which highlighted the role of memory-sharing in empowering communities, building on earlier work in Rio’s favelas and other marginalized communities worldwide (Frenzel 2017, 2020). In today’s context, where tourism is among the most heavily impacted economic activities, memory-sharing serves as a means to break isolation, maintain visibility for these areas, and facilitate the flow of resources. Given the funding from research grants at the University of Leicester and, in particular, the insights to be gained into how community-based tourism providers can adapt to adverse conditions, and how different forms of sharing memories can continue to build resilience, the Lockdown Memories project makes a significant contribution to the PPGMS’s objectives.
◎ Project: Political Memory in Latin America – Outcomes of the Post-Dictatorial Context
Coordinating Professor:
Javier Lifschitz (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Participating Professors:
Melisa Paiaro (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Argentina); Sandra Arenas Grisales (Escuela Interamericana de biblioteconomia de La Universidad de Antioquia/Colômbia); Université Lorraine; Ana Maria Lopoez Carmona (Universidad Pontifícia Bolivariana/Colômbia); - Eliana Lacombe (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Argentina); Luis Carlos Toro Tamayo (Universidad de Antioquia/Colômbia); Andrea Lopes da Costa (PPGMS/UNIRIO).
Description:
This research project examines the constitution of the field of political memory. Drawing on Halbwachs’s perspective on social memory and exploring ideas from authors such as Bourdieu and Habermas, it investigates the possibility of a “political memory field.” Two critical moments shaped the formation of this field: one exemplified by authors like Nora and Anderson, focusing on how political memory is woven into state processes for constructing national memory, and another in the post-dictatorial context in Latin America. The project aims to analyze the development of this field through themes such as memory agents, memory supports, and memory conflicts. It involves a significant number of researchers from various Latin American universities, contributing to the PPGMS’s internationalization strategy.
◎ Project: Memories of State Violence: Traces of the Process of Reintegration of Former Inmates. The Experience of Maison d’Arrêt de La Santé – Paris
Coordinating Professor:
Francisco Ramos de Farias (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Participating Professors:
Octave Debary (Universidade Paris-Descartes); Diana de Souza Pinto (PPGMS/UNIRIO) e Lobelia da Silva Faceira (PPGMS/UNIRIO)
Description:
This project focuses on analyzing the production of excluded “remains” (i.e., incarcerated individuals) in social relations under stigma and segregation, through different approaches to treatment and intervention. Two main axes guide this analysis: (1) the traces and vestiges of memory concerning people held in prison institutions; and (2) the strategies undertaken by the State to address illegal conduct. Our proposal begins with the contradiction of viewing criminality exclusively as a social problem. We are particularly interested in crime as a dimension of the human experience within social issues, centering our inquiry on a form of state action that aims to combat violence by establishing institutions for confining individuals.
We further point out that this state policy highlights another form of violence, particularly the increasing stigmatization of marginalized social classes subjected to segregation. Our analysis also examines the development and implementation of programs for former inmates, considering both the Brazilian context and the French reality, specifically centering on the experience of Maison d’Arrêt de La Santé. We describe the unique aspects of each reality. Finally, we emphasize that reflecting on the social reintegration of former inmates is a significant challenge, partly due to society’s lack of interest in the release of incarcerated individuals and its perception of prisons as cursed institutions unworthy of thoughtful consideration—places of suffering, pain, and, possibly, extermination. It is also important to note the strong current favoring the existence of prisons, driven by interests that are not always explicit, such as economic concerns, maintaining power, and preserving segregation and stigmatization.
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