2024-2025
Fábio Rezende Braga
Fábio Rezende Braga

Politics, Social Justice, and Environmental Law

Visiting Researcher at Oklahoma University at Center for Brazil Studies. PhD in Human Rights and Democracy at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR/PR). Master in Social and Environmental Law and Sustainability from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC/PR). 

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2023-2024
Thais
Thais Zappelini

Political & Economic Law

The research ‘The Lipstick Lobby and the Letter of Brazilian Women to the Constituent Assembly: engendering democracy and rethinking Feminist movements to shape Law and Society’ proposes to address new ways of thinking about Law from the perspective of engendering democracy, focusing on the process that culminated in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. 

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Victor Hugo Silva Souza
Victor Hugo Silva Souza

Agronomy

Pig farming faces challenges in terms of productivity and health due to the stressors that affect piglets after weaning. Antibiotics are commonly used to reduce losses caused by these factors, but their indiscriminate use has led to resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics. Therefore, finding an alternative to antibiotics that guarantees animal welfare, production sustainability and economic viability is a challenge, especially in the weaning phase. 

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Marcus Vinicius Ferreira
Marcus Vinicius Ferreira

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

My research will consist of the development of an online portable low-cost e-nose (OPLCEN) that can be used to enhance food safety in small industries in underdeveloped and developing countries such as Brazil. This device will make it possible for industries to stop adulteration at the food supply level as well as guarantee food’s freshness during the production line. 

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2022-2023
Vania Castro
Vania Castro

Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, “Designing a framework to facilitate the implementation of BNCC in Brazil”

After years of debate, the new curricular standards known as the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), proposed by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC), were released in December 2018. The BNCC is a normative document that provides a framework for all students from preschool to high school, in both private and public schools, setting academic standards that every student is expected to learn at each grade level.

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Jefferson Belarmino
Jefferson Belarmino

 State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

It is common to hear in Brazil that white Brazilians are not white in the USA. What can sociology say about this? What about the Black Brazilians? Historically, the big field of race relations has not paid attention to the meaning of race as it applies to Brazilians who immigrate to the United States. At the same time, the research focusing specifically on Brazilian immigrants in the North American country does not highlight race issues substantially.

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2021-2022
Guilherme
Guilherme Travassos

"Intrahousehold Poverty and Inequality in Brazil"

Despite considerable declines in poverty rates and inequality in Brazil during the first decade of this century, the country still has one of the highest levels of inequality in the world. Important aspects of well-being depend on measuring individual-level access to resources within households, because within a household, some members may be poor and others not. 

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Renata Siqueira
Renata Siqueira 

"Black Territories' and 'Black Culture': City and Race Relations in the Coleção Carnaval Paulistano of São Paulo’s Image and Sound Museum (1970s and 1980s)"

Although in Brazil “Black territory” is a notion that has historically served activist and scholarly purposes, there has been little work to theorize specific Brazilian meanings for the concept. As a result, scholars often treat “Black territory” as a self-evident, even timeless idea. In this lecture, I will present results of ongoing research that aim to sharpen this discourse and explore the concept’s historical foundations. 

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