The Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) holds, from June 9th to August 25th, the mini-course Thinking about LGBTQIA+ sociabilities in the northeast: leisure, consumption and the city. The program has 10 meetings, always on Thursdays, from 2pm to 5pm, in auditorium C of the CCHLA. Registration is available through Sigaa.
The mini-course aims to discuss contemporary productions about different forms of LGBTQIA+ sociability developed in the Brazilian Northeast region. Starting from the connections between leisure, consumption and the city, the multiple forms of constitution of these subjects, groups and urban space itself will be explored.
The action is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in these themes, as well as professionals in the areas of culture and education and activists in the LGBTQIA+ movement. The event has a certificate of participation as a 30-hour extension course. Registration is limited. Check out the entire program on Sigaa or on our website.
Programming
Meeting 01 – Presentation / Introduction (09/06 – 2pm/5pm) – Presentation of the course proposal and participants. Contextualization of the productions involving general themes, reflecting on how, who and where constitute this scenario, locating the investigations in the Brazilian northeast.
Meeting 02 – City and performance (16/06 – 2pm/5pm) – Starting from notions such as performance and performativity, explore how subjects and their bodies move through urban spaces and how different contexts affect/impact on the possibilities of experiences of certain groups.
Meeting 03 – Urban occupation and other ways of making the city (23/06 – 2pm/5pm) - Starting from the uses, appropriations and practices of subjects or groups in certain spaces, we understand how these actions and urbanization processes are modeled and remodeled in dialogues that do not always follow hegemonic perspectives on the city.
Meeting 04: Feeling the city: uses of the different senses (30/06 – 2pm/5pm) – Understanding the city from the body and senses. Capture and reflect on the multiple stimuli of urban space, expanding the notions of perception and observation usually centered on vision.
Meeting 05: Public spaces and identity debates (07/07 – 2pm/5pm) - Reflect on the place of identity debates based on the uses and perceptions of public spaces.
Meeting 06: Specificities and differentiations of/in cities in northeastern Brazil (14/07 – 2pm/5pm) – Think about the experiments of LGBTQI+ people in some cities in the region.
Meeting 07 – Leisure, consumption and segmented commerce (21/07 – 2pm/5pm) – Debate, based on constructions about consumption and market, the formation and appropriation of LGBTQIA+ niches that constitute the notion of a segmented market.
Meeting 08 (remote) – Monitoring research/evaluation work and queries (04/08 – 2pm/5pm)
Meeting 09 (remote) – Monitoring of research/evaluation work and queries (18/08 – 2pm/5pm)
Meeting 10 – Closing and EVALUATION (25/08/2022 – 2pm/5pm)