Dehis organizes Film Cycle with African film

   The Department of History (Dehis) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) promotes another session of the Cinema Cycle Fragments of a Greater Sense: Films from Africa and the Diaspora, with the screening of the Senegalese film Ceddo,  on December 7th, at 2:30 pm, in Auditorium 1 of the Ágora Institute. The session is open to the general public.
    Before showing the film, a presentation will be made contextualizing the theme, the directors, the work's production space and the protagonists. At the end, a space will be opened for debate, including the participation of the public and members of the event. Later, readings will be indicated according to the theme covered in each session.
Cinema Cycle
    The Film Cycle Fragments of a Greater Meaning aims to provide and foster the experience of cinematographic productions by black directors, viewing them as a form of resistance and an alternative to historiography and discourses of power, as works that can give rise to an unprecedented approach and allow for renewed perspectives on Africa, the diaspora and blackness.

University community chooses iguana as mascot of the 72nd SBPC

The university community elected the iguana as the mascot of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), which will be held in 2020, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). More than 2,600 people, including staff and students at the institution, participated in the election…

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Georisco holds fourth conference on disaster risks

Celebrating its 10 years of creation in 2021, the Research Group on Environmental Dynamics, Risk and Spatial Planning (Georisk), from the Department of Geography at UFRN, is holding the International Georisk Seminar, with the collaboration of the Disaster Research Center (Nuped). The program, which started on May 28th, will go to its fourth and final conference, which will…

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Inaugural class of history courses takes place on April 5th

The Department of History (Dehis), at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), is promoting the inaugural class of history courses for the 2022 semester, on the theme “Living on hold – The historical situation of our experience of time”. The event takes place in the CCET auditorium, on April 5th, at 7pm,…

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