On History Graduate Studies at UNIRIO

The History Graduate Studies (PPGH) at UNIRIO offers teaching and research training on Social History. We consider the intense updating of themes, subjects, and approaches, which redefined the very idea of society for historians. Society is no longer understood as having an immutable essence but as open and complex social formations, resulting from material and symbolic configurations subject to the cultural, political, and economic configuration in different times and spaces. The “social” in Social History came to be conceived not as encompassing and self-evident but a reality constructed by historians from specific approaches such as the social history of sciences and technology, social history of politics, social history of religions, social history of culture, social History of slavery, social history of teaching practices, social history of heritage and museum practices, social history of knowledge, which define PPGH’s teaching and research.