Postgraduate Program in History

LABORATORIES AND CENTER OF STUDIES

Laboratory of Contemporary Studies (LCS)

As a field of interdisciplinary analysis that seeks to concatenate diachrony and synchrony, contemporaneity comprises forms of social relations that appear as a vigorous and always renewed field of problematic and articulations between its material and cultural dimensions, involving a set of experiences that permeate politics, the economy, and the social imaginary. Especially since the 1980s, with the emergence of studies in the areas of Social History and Cultural History, the contemporary has become one of the most recurrent historiographic objects, accompanying other areas of the Human Sciences and approaching other professional fields, such as Journalism and aesthetic production in general. Currently, there is a set of perspectives related especially to Political History and Cultural History that contribute to the studies that have the contemporary as their focus of analysis. This is the case, for example, of political and socio-cultural manifestations that take on printed, audiovisual, digitalized, etc., dimensions, impacting modernity in several of its aspects, boosting social identifications and flows and movements that constantly call into question the fabric of social relations, demanding that researchers translate and problematize them in order to reveal the sociabilities that shape them and the tensions and conflicts in which they are inserted, enhancing or masking them.

Associated teachers:

Caroline Jaques Cubas
Emerson César de Campos
Luiz Felipe Falcão
Mariana Joffily
Reinaldo Lindolfo Lohn

Laboratory of History Teaching (LHT)

History teaching is studied and thought within the scope of this space through the relations, conflicts, and disputes between memory and history, but also through subjective and mobile identity processes, teacher training, intersections between historical production and its didacticization in formal and non-formal contexts, among other equally relevant dimensions. The last decades of the 20th century inaugurated new problems not only for the writing of History but also and, above all, for its teaching. Cultural construction, the present time determines new relationships with the past and expectations about the future. As an object of research and work, the teaching of History constitutes itself as a privileged place to observe the dynamics related to the uses of the past, the disputes over memory, and the control strategies over what to remember and what to forget. If "contemporaneity requires us to teach history in times of memory", it requires us to investigate it as well, which implies new problems and challenges, but also possibilities. The LHT is linked to the Research Group in Teaching of History, Memory, and Cultures and is integrated by teachers from the UDESC's History Department and from the Municipal, State and Federal Basic Education, by undergraduate students (PIBID and scientific initiation grant holders), and by Postgraduate students in History and from the HistoryTeacher of UDESC (master's and doctorate students).

Associated teachers:

Caroline Jaques Cubas
Cristiani Bereta da Silva
Luciana Rossato
Nucia Silva de Oliveira
 

Laboratory of Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies (AYA)

The Laboratory of Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies – AYA has as its general objective to bring together researchers linked to the field of African Studies and Indigenous History, committed to a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary work, that are looking for the construction of an academic, scientific, and social knowledge committed to the decolonized interpretation of the experiences of different social subjects. The teaching, research and extension activities of the laboratory are based on theoretical questions posed by post-colonial and decolonial studies. Teachers from the History Department of the UDESC and other universities, teachers from the public school network, undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of Human Sciences, and members linked to social movements compose its team. Aya is an adinkra word (akan people) for fern, whose symbol means perseverance and resilience.

Associated teacher:

Claudia Mortari

Laboratory of Image and Sound (LIS)

A space of investigation destined to the development of research and didactic-documental support from the technological resources that make possible the use of image and sound in the historiographic and didactic production in the area of History, LIS has a studio (destined to sound and image edition) and a room where workshops are held, and is also equipped with a computer, printer, and scanner. History undergraduate students (especially due to the Curricular Practice - Image and Sound I and II subjects), scientific and extension initiation grant holders, master's students, and teachers participate in the activities of the LIS.

Associated teachers:

Márcia Ramos de Oliveira
Rogério Rosa Rodrigues

Laboratory of Cultural Heritage (LCH)

Institutionalized in the first semester of 2008, the LCH aims to problematize the relations between History and Cultural Heritage, stimulating the reflection regarding the processes of implementation of public policies for preservation and of mechanisms for the investing of public heritage status to cultural goods, and highlighting the role of historians and collections in the recording of historical experiences and the construction of social memory. It develops teaching, research, and extension activities, integrating undergraduate students of the History course (especially due to the Curricular Practice - Cultural Heritage I and II subjects), master's students, grant holders and volunteers of research, extension, and tutoring, in addition to teachers linked to the History Department and the PGPH.

Associated teachers:

Janice Gonçalves
Maria Teresa Santos Cunha
Viviane Trindade Borges

Laboratory for Gender and Family Relations (LGFR)

The Laboratory for Gender and Family Relations has as its general objectives the expansion of studies about gender relations and the issues that involve the family through the research projects carried out by the teachers of the laboratory; the provision of theoretical and practical subsidies for the carrying out of subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate courses that focus on gender relations and issues involving the family; the holding of events, seminars, courses, and workshops, with the participation of teachers, researchers, students, community leaders, technicians from institutions that operationalize social policies, teachers from the school network, and members of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Undergraduate students, scientific initiation grant holders, master's students, and teachers participate in the activities of the LGFR.

Associated teachers:

Gláucia de Oliveira Assis
Silvia Maria Favero Arend

Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies (CABS)

The Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies is a thematic center created in 2003, with the purpose of supporting the University of the State of Santa Catarina in the development of cultural diversity policies, promotion of equality, and valuing of the populations of African origin. Undergraduate students, master's students, teachers, and community volunteers participate in the CABS.

Associated teacher:

Paulino de Jesus Francisco Cardoso