Tag: Brazil

Birkbeck, U of London: Postdoc on Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society (UK)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Researcher on the Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Deadline: 2 February 2025.

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join an international and interdisciplinary team working on a project looking at the transformative impact of immigration on Brazilian society. Funded by the British Academy, the research project ‘Globalisation from below: livelihoods, trade and transnationalism in Brazil’s informal economy’, is a collaboration between Birkbeck and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The project focuses on the informal economy in Belo Horizonte with an emphasis on the role of Chinese immigrants and the everyday cross-cultural and economic practices that produce globalisation from below.

Through three key strands, the research explores:

  • Economic interactions and conflicts between Chinese migrants, Brazilian workers and local street vendors
  • Emerging social relations and forms of belonging, and
  • Socio-cultural and economic transformations in urban spaces

Plus, a collaborative methodology will engage participants in an artistic-cultural process creating spaces for dialogue and cooperation.

The project will produce an exhibition and a Transnational Informal Economy Atlas revealing the ways in which globalisation from below connects and transforms urban livelihoods, spaces and societies with a focus on Brazil-China relations.

Histories of the Internationalization of the Field of Communication Studies

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Lopes, M. I. V., & Fuentes-Navarro, R. (Eds.). (2023). Special issue: Histories of the internationalization of the field of communication studies. MATRIZes, 17(3).

The new issue of MATRIZes – Journal of the Graduate Program in Communication Sciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil – has just been published, and it is available free to download. Articles are in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The topic is telling the history of how the field of communication studies has been gradually moving toward internationalization, and that seems directly relevant to the interests of many of those affiliated with this Center.

In keeping with the theme of the special issue, the international edition, with articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese is available here.

The Portuguese edition is available here.

CFP IASFM19 (Brazil but Online)

ConferencesCall for proposals, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM19), Universidade Católica de Santos, Brazil, August 1-5, 2022, online. Deadline: January 31, 2022.

The 19th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM19), with the theme of “Global Issues, Regional Approaches – contexts, challenges, dialogues and solutions”, will be held from August 1st to the 5th of 2022 and hosted online by Universidade Católica de Santos (UniSantos). It will be the second time the event will take place in Brazil and the 3rd in Latin America and will be part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of UniSantos.

Abe: Using Film in ICD

Intercultural PedagogyAbe, a film by Brazilian director Fernando Grostein Andrade, uses fusion foods as a way to approach intercultural dialogue.

Finding one’s identity is a challenge everyone faces, but few have the pressure that 12-year-old Abe feels as the son of an Israeli mother and Palestinian father. Though his parents have raised him in a secular household, both sets of grandparents insist he chooses between being Jewish or Muslim. Abe’s passion for food allows him some escape from the escalating family tensions. While exploring Brooklyn to discover new foods, he meets Chico, a Brazilian chef who believes “mixing flavors can bring people together.”

If you use other films in your work or teaching that relate to intercultural dialogue, please take a moment to send an email with a short note, as CID is currently preparing a list of such films to post as a resource.

Jessika Rezende Souza da Silva Profile

ProfilesJessika Rezende Souza da Silva is a historian, educator, and activist in the struggle for anti-racist education. She has a master’s degree in History Teaching and is a PhD student in Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – in collaboration with New York University.

Jessika Rezende Souza da Silva

A member of the Laboratory of Studies and Research in History Teaching (LEPEH) and of the Group of Studies and Research in Anti-Racist Education (GEPEAR), both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she researches multicultural education, postcolonial curriculum, education in museums and sites of memory, teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture, and Anti-racist Education.

As a researcher, in her doctoral work, she has been studying the educational potential of museums in a transnational perspective. Putting in dialogue the exhibitions of the Afro-Brazil Museum in São Paulo and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D. C., she has been reflecting on how museum exhibits constitute narratives that educate and give way to intercultural communication, sense-making, and multicultural education. The partial results of this ongoing research have already been presented in lectures and congresses at Brazilian and US universities, such as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.

Currently, Jessika works in the public school system of the state of Rio de Janeiro where she teaches high school. She also participates in a special program for Knowledge and Practices of Basic Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, teaching and advising students, who are mostly teachers from public and private schools in the country seeking to improve their pedagogical practices.

Publication:

Souza, J. R. (2016). Entre a cruz e o terreiro: uma análise em torno da integração entre a religiosidade afro-brasileira e o Ensino de História no Museu do Negro. Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Work for CID:
Jessika Rezende Souza da Silva wrote KC97: Anti-Racist Education, and translated it into Portuguese. She also translated KC35: Media Ecology.

CFP Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication 2020 (USA)

ConferencesCall for Publication and Participation: 9th Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies 2020: Present and Future Directions of Research on Brazil and the US – Media, Communications, Literature, Culture, and History, March 24-25, 2020, University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA. Deadline: October 15 2019.

Organizers invite submissions to the ninth Brazil-U.S. Colloquium on Communication Studies to be held at the University of Texas at Austin on March 24-25, 2020. The event is co-sponsored by the Brazilian Association of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication (Intercom).  Research is welcome regarding the central theme and on any theme relevant to Brazil and the U.S., as well as other topics on history, literature, media, culture, and/or communication studies in the Americas. Comparative work Brazil-US is welcome but not required. Research may be in Portuguese or English. For selected Brazilian papers, presentations may be in Portuguese but with Powerpoint in English.

An edited volume will be published with Emerald Studies in Media and Communications highlighting scholarship from the Colloquium. For consideration in the volume, full papers are due by December 1, 2019.

Calling US Expats Working for MNCs in Brazil

Job adsLeila Valoura has requested a call go out for those who are US expats working for MNCs in Brazil. If that fits your profile, please help her if you can.

“Hello. This is a call for participation in my doctoral research in Education (Organizational Leadership Studies concentration) approved by the IRB at Northeastern University (IRB# CPS19-04-01). The purpose of this study is to explore cross-cultural learning experienced by U.S. expatriates on assignments for multinational corporations (MNC) in Brazil. This study will focus on how participants make meaning of their international assignment experience to develop cross-cultural learning. If you are a U.S. expatriate who has worked or is still working in Brazil and became interested in possibly participating in this research, please contact me for more details about the research. Participation will be online, which means that it can happen regardless of where participants are located. Thank you very much, Leila Valoura.”

Lûiz Fêrnando da Silva Profile

ProfilesLûiz Fêrnando da Silva is an experienced Brazilian specialist in the TV market, and a lecturer.  He is a TV market enthusiast with a professional and personal interest in content marketing, brand content, content strategy, windowing, streaming, content for social media, TV market regulation and laws, customer and audience insights, content trends, technologies for production and consumption of content and innovation in general.

Lûiz Fêrnando da Silva

Over the last years, he has worked for Globo TV, the biggest media group in Brazil and taught for Escola Superior de Propaganda (ESPM) e Marketing and Agência Nacional de Cinema, the latter being the main public investor on TV production in Brazil.

At Globo TV, he built experience with TV shows creation, development, production planning and programming for free and pay TV (Globo TV & Globosat), streaming services (GloboPlay & GlobosatPlay) and TV on demand (available through NET and SKY). During the years working as a researcher for Globo TV, he attended a variety of conferences – SXSW, TED, Mipcom, MipTV, L.A. Screenings and Natpe, to look for insights and trends to support creation, development and programming decisions. He became familiar with FremantleMedia Formats, and had the opportunity to visit some company displays at Mipcom and Natpe Miami.

As a researcher, his area of study is the Political Economy of Communication and Cultural Studies, with a specific interest in the investigation of national and international broadcasting systems and the way the Internet (streaming: VOD, SVOD, TVOD) imposes new regulatory and marketing challenges on local, regional, national, continental, and global levels. In addition, he has interests in subjects such as multiculturalism, gender, and race, and how they are being represented through media culture products.

Currently he is conducting a post-doctoral study entitled “Globo and Netflix: unfolding of the coexistence between the services of SVOD in Brazil.” In this investigation the goal is understanding how Netflix causes changes in the country’s two largest broadcasting companies, TV Globo (open TV) and Globosat (cable channel programmer), both owned by Grupo Globo. The research is being conducted at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), Minho University, in Braga, Portugal.

Work for CID:
Lûiz Fêrnando da Silva translated KC3: Intercultural Competence and KC22: Cultural Identity into Portuguese. He has also served as a reviewer for Portuguese.

CFP Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies (Brazil)

ConferencesCALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PAPERS, VIII Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies: Inequality, Gender, and Communication in the Americas: History, Culture, and Society. Universidade da Região de Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, September 3-4, 2018. Deadline: June 11, 2018.

Research is welcome on the theme Inequality, Gender, and Communication in the Americas: History, Culture, and Society, as well as other topics on media, culture, and/or communication studies in the Américas. Comparative work is welcome but not required.

Submissions are on a rolling basis, and decisions will be communicated to authors within two weeks of submission. The first twenty papers accepted will receive free registration.

The colloquium is conducted in Portuguese and English with informal translation offered. Both days of the conference take place in an expanded “round table” format to facilitate discussion and Q&A between scholars interested in media and communications in Brazil, the U.S., and the Americas. Participation is welcome from researchers, graduate students, and practitioners. Scholars presenting papers may also wish to take advantage of the concurrent Intercom Conference from the 2nd to 8th of September 2018.

 

World Congress of Applied Linguistics (Brazil)

The 18th World Congress of Applied Linguistics invites proposals for presentations that are related to policy, research, theory and practice in any area of Applied Linguistics. Proposals may be for individual papers, posters, symposia or workshops (see below for information about submissions).

Theme: Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics.

Deadline for submissions: March 31 st, 2016.

Plenary speakers:
– Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University)
– Ben Rampton (King’s College London)
– Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)
– Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
– Marilda Cavalcanti (Universidade de Campinas)
– Mary Bucholtz (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Host AILA affiliate: Association of Applied Linguistics of Brazil (ALAB)

From Monday 18 January 2016 all proposals should be submitted via the AILA 2017 website.

Detailed call for papers