Amazon – possible writings: memory, interpretation, alterities
Start Date: 10/01/2018
Project Status: In progress
Description: In response to the call for the NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN THE AMAZON – Notice Nº. 21/2018, the Postgraduate Program in Letters of the Federal University of Amazonas, in association with POSLIT-UNB (Associate 1) and PPGLA-UEA (Associate 2), proposes the implementation of the project Amazon – Possible Wrritings: memory, interpretation, alterities with a view to consolidating the two programs (PPGL and PPGLA) located in the North region of the country. The project is based on interinstitutional cooperation with POSLIT/UnB, considering the score obtained by this program as well as the partnership established between UFAM and UnB for the interinstitutional doctorate that began in 2017. The association between UFAM and UEA results from a set of factors that shape the profiles of PPGL and PPGLA: 1) both programs have numerous graduates who work in the state and municipal public service network; 2) they are constituents of the postgraduate network of the two largest public universities in Amazonas; 3) they concentrate human and technical potential for research in the areas of Letters and Arts; 4) they house fields and lines of research with an innovative vocation, in order to develop them, an expansion of teacher training and scientific-academic interaction; 5) may become reference programs in the North of Brazil, considering the vocation of both to train professionals for the state of Amazonas, for the North of Brazil and Latin America, as proven by PAEC. The proposal presented here reflects these factors insofar as its scope, the Amazon, can be seen from a temporal perspective (memory), in an epistemological and/or hermeneutic way (interpretation) and in a dialogical/dialectical relationship (otherness). Therefore, leaving the reductionist perspective in which the Amazon is the locus of wild nature and primitive manifestations, we move on to the broader cultural field where we observe the reflective processes and the expressive dynamics recorded by the Arts and Literature based on interactions, singularities, differences, pairings and the ontological aspect of their contribution in the elaboration of narratives of a world that we seek to understand more heterotopic. The desired results of the cooperation between the proponent and its associates are: a) consolidation and strengthening of the PPGL and PPGLA (including teacher training and the qualification of individuals with creative, analytical, artistic and literary potential); b) interaction between research networks in Literature and Arts, with a view to national and international cooperation; c) raising funds to promote research; d) visibility of ongoing and future research projects through qualified publications and the use of innovative technologies; e) training of high-quality human resources in the areas of knowledge covered by this proposal.
Project leader: Gabriel Arcanjo Santos de Albuquerque (PhD)
Professors of the Graduate Program in Literature and Arts involved:
ALLISON MARCOS LEAO DA SILVA (Phd)
CAROLINE CAREGNATO (PhD)
JUCIANE DOS SANTOS CAVALHEIRO (PhD)
LUCIANE VIANA BARROS PASCOA (PhD)
MARCIO LEONEL FARIAS REIS PASCOA (PhD)
RENATA BEATRIZ BRANDESPIN ROLON (PhD)
SEDUC – Amazonas State Department of Education and School Sports
The Postgraduate Program in Arts and Letters is a participant in Agreement 022/2022-SEDUC-UEA. The university signed an agreement with the Amazonas State Department of Education in 2022 to offer places in stricto sensu postgraduate courses for SEDUC teachers. Six UEA postgraduate programs were selected. As a participating postgraduate program, PPGLA reserved 20 master's degree places for this audience, to be distributed across up to three selection processes. In 2022, 7 students were selected and at the end of 2024 (for entry in 2025) another 8, with 5 places remaining to be offered in the next selection process. In return, SEDUC made a financial contribution to UEA programs, with PPGLA receiving the amount of R$972,951.80 (nine hundred and seventy-two thousand, nine hundred and fifty-one reais and eighty cents), to be used in operating and capital items. With this resource, PPGLA can purchase equipment, furniture, make structural or finishing renovations, pay for various third-party services (such as editing, proofreading and translation of texts), buy tickets, pay per diems (for both teachers and students) among other possible expenses. With this initiative, the institutions involved hope to graduate, by 2027, 20 masters in Literature and Arts from among the basic education teachers in the state network. All must return to the system to be eligible for functional promotion and will be able to further qualify the education of their own students in schools.
National Cooperation UEA-UFRR-UNIR-UFAP-UFF-UFU-UFAC
In the context of cooperation of Brazilian North, PPGLA promoted student mobility and scholar activities to share research acts. So, PPGLA received students from Acre Federal University; offered scholars to teach classes in this partner institution, online or not. Later, this action was extended to many partners of this institutions group. During this Quadriennial evaluation period, the professors Allison Leão, Juciane Cavalheiro, and Augusto Rodrigues joined the team for these purposes. Most of these postgraduate programs involved in this cooperation are in the north of the country, and only two others are in the southeast area of Brazil: Amazonas State University, Roraima Federal University, Rondônia Federal University, Amapá Federal University, Fluminense Federal University, and Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Federal University. Each program registered the same discipline in its system, but writing its own syllabus, and offering signatures for special students. The students were enrolled in the postgraduate programs from their local institutions, thus becoming special students. At the same time, the discipline was complemented in a person way by the teachers in their own universities. After the end the discipline, the students could demand the credits for their local postgraduate programs. In the Quadriennial evaluation period, this act reached over 300 students. This derived from Procad-Amazônia/Capes, enrolling two different groups of postgraduate program associates as headquarters: UNIR-UFRR-UFF; UFAM-UEA-UnB.
International Repertoire of Music Iconography in Brazil
The RIdIM-Brasil (Repertoire Internacionale d’Iconographie Musicale in Brazil) was founded in 2008, at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, headquarters of National Joint Commitee. Its focus is promoting a national Project for indexing, cataloging, reseacrhing, and disclosing the Brazil’s musical inconographic heritage. RIdIM-Brasil works with methods and elements of cataloging works and documents of musical iconographic interest. Ridim brings together reasearchers, professionals and technicians from support institutons to provide identification, catalogation and availability of informations related to musical iconography, while promoting, developing, and disseminating research in the same field of study – musical iconography. Ridim-Brasil promote biennial national congresses, organizing annals, books and catalogs on musical iconography. In addition to the database launched in 2025, whcih brings together more than 3000 records of visucal sources related to muical culture in Brazil. In addition to the National Joint Committee, chaired by Prof. Dr. Pablo Sotuyo Blanco, RIdIM-Brazil disseminates information on the activities of the various RIdIM-Brazil Working Groups. In the State of Amazonas, there is a Working Group in favor of RIdIM-Brazil, coordinated by Professor Dr. Luciane Páscoa, with the participation of researchers and students. Linked to this WG, there are research projects that bring together several bibliographic products in the area, such as “Musical Iconography, Iconology and Intertextuality: Interpretative Approaches”, and “Luso-Brazilian Musical Studies”, coordinated respectively by Prof. Dr. Luciane Páscoa and Prof. Dr. Márcio Páscoa. This WG is based in the Postgraduate Program in Arts and Letters of the State University of Amazonas, in Manaus.