Virtual study meeting “Vozes from the Global South” starts next Thursday 7

This semester's edition of the cycle of virtual study meetings “Vozes from the Global South”, promoted by the research group DESCOM – Decolonial Insurgencies, Communication, Arts and Humanities, from the Department of Social Communication at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, begins next Thursday, November 7th. The meetings aim to promote transdisciplinary and intersectional debates based on the reading and discussion of texts by thinkers from the Global South.
The meetings, three in total in the current academic semester, will take place between November 2024 and January 2025 and will be held via the Google Meet platform, one Thursday a month from 9am to 12pm. At each meeting, texts will be discussed that will be made available in advance to registered people. The meetings are open to all interested people, from inside and outside the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Registration, free of charge, can be made through the public portal of the Integrated Academic Activities Management System – SIGAA, through the link: https://sigaa.ufrn.br/sigaa/public/home.jsf, following the path Extension – Events – Search Event. To register, it is not necessary to have a link with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
The first meeting of the “Voices of the Global South” will take place next Thursday, September 7, and will debate the book “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon (Ed. Civilização Brasileira, 1968, Trans. José Laurênio de Melo), Parts “1. On Violence” (p. 23-85) and “4. About national culture” (p. 169-207). The text is available in the Google Drive folder accessible via the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vr6F81I- LyG_0AYUYrOY34dNTYOg7iRn. It is recommended that all registered people read the texts in advance to participate in the discussions.
The objectives of the “Voices of the Global South” cycle are to promote discussions with perspectives that are decentered from the epistemic assumptions of Euro-white knowledge centered on the intersection between critical social thought, humanities, communication, arts and other fields of knowledge; encourage dialogue between scientific knowledge and knowledge produced in epistemic loci other than academia (indigenous and quilombola communities, terreiros, artistic and activist collectives, popular social movements, anti-colonial resistance movements and others) by bodies and voices from different latitudes of the Global South subordinated by the modern world-system; stimulate the exchange of reflections and experiences of decolonization of thought and social practices between undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers from different areas of Human and Social Sciences, holders of non-academic knowledge and anyone interested.
SERVICE
VOZES DO SUL GLOBAL meeting cycle
PROGRAMMING
1st MEETING
DATE: 11/07/2024
HOURS: 9am-12pm
LOCATION: Google Meet Platform*
TEXTS: Frantz Fanon, “The Wretched of the Earth”. Parts “1. On Violence” (p. 23-85) and “4. On national culture” (p. 169-207).
2nd MEETING
DATE: 05/12/2024
HOURS: 9am-12pm
LOCATION: Google Meet Platform*
TEXTS: Beatriz Nascimento, “A story made by black hands”. Chapter: “The concept of quilombo and black cultural resistance” (p. 146-162). Clóvis Moura, “Quilombos and black rebellion”. Chapter: “Quilombos in the social history of Brazil” (p. 16-33).
3rd MEETING
DATE: 01/09/2025
HOURS: 9am-12pm
LOCATION: Google Meet Platform*
TEXTS: Andrielle Mendes and Juciano Lacerda, “Another look. Notes on the representation of indigenous peoples in the media”. (In: Ana Elisa Antunes Viviani, Maria Ogécia Drigo (Eds.), “Media, Violence and Otherness – Perspectives and Debates”).
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