Public Policies holds a course on materialist methodology

From this Monday, 7th, until October 10th, the Department of Public Policies (DPP) at UFRN will hold a series of meetings entitled Mutant Criticism: problems and possibilities in materialist methodology. The event takes place in the form of a course and features the participation of professor Peter Hitchcock, from The City University of New York (United States). All meetings will be held in Auditorium 1 of PPEUR/DPP, located at CCHLA, between 7pm and 10pm.
Each class course has a specific theme. On the first day, the 7th, the topic “Meta determination” will be addressed, with discussions around the macroeconomics of financial circulation. The second class, on the 8th, is titled “Without space” and concerns thinking about the change in metrics regarding the understanding of the time/space narrative.
The debate on the 9th, called “Fora de Lugar”, has a sociological approach and will talk about the reading of new formations of urban experience built by migrants and migrations. To conclude the course, the class on the 10th, “Drawing/Grafting” will address the difficulty that the narrative methodology has in building “a legacy via narrative innovation, but it also concerns the removal of utopian impulses”, as explained by the teacher and coordinator, Sara Fernandes.
Classes will be taught in English and the target audience is students, teachers and researchers interested in the course theme, but anyone can participate in the event. Registration must be done on site or, in advance, on the Sigaa portal.