Portuguese

Two (week-long) sessions of intermediate Portuguese language instruction bookend the summer seminars. Instruction emphasizes the development of intermediate Portuguese language structures, as well as oral and written practice.

The objectives of this course are:

- Conduct a theoretical and practical study of contemporary stage languages, based on the concepts of theatricality and performativity and the dialogue with other artistic languages.
- Expand the ability to perceive the expressive and descriptive elements that make up the stage, through practical experimentation with the relationship between these elements in the body and space.
- Discuss the different theoretical views of the stage, from the modern advent of staging to the break with the canons of Eurocentric Western art, undertaken through decolonial theatrical experiences.
- Analyze the creative processes, stage creation methods, and aesthetic proposals of artists from the contemporary Brazilian stage, critically reflecting on different conceptions of theatrical and performative scenes.
- Encourage the creation of scenes that point to new possibilities for artistic dialogue with the contemporary world.
- Develop practical stage work based on the materiality of the elements that make up the space-time of the stage and their relationships. 

This course uses case studies, theoretical readings, discussions, and seminars. Students participate in stage writing work based on the reinterprettation of textual materials selected from various sources and with a common theme. 

The Directing Actors course explores the well-known research fields of performance, gender, and star studies, in order to understand how a relationship between people, mediated by a camera, in different positions, is realized, adopting equally distinct procedures to achieve previously prepared results. Within this perspective, the aim is not to adopt a single method, sufficiently capable of encompassing countless possibilities, but to recognize the breadth of paths and tools available to direct people with significant, none, or insufficient professional experience.

The objective of this course is to carry out an updated reading of certain classic texts of the socialist tradition in order to discuss the relationship between the Political and the Economic, and from there, between a Politics overdetermined by class and a postmodern Politics centered on identity and subjective elements. This course explores Rousseau, the thought of the utopian socialists and their Marxist critique, the evolution of Marx and Engels' political thought from 1848, the Paris Commune, Evolutionism and reformism in the Marxism of the Second International, the Luxembourgist critique, Lenin and the emergence of Bolshevism, Gramsci, and the radicalization of Leninism by Trotsky. This course also includes contemporary assessments of these topics.

This course covers concepts and approaches to environmental ethics, including environmental ethics in the philosophical rationalities of Western culture, environmental ethics in traditional cultures, environmental ethics and biodiversity, environmental ethics and spirituality, environmental ethics and the major socio-environmental challenges of the national and international community, ethics and environmental education, and experiences in the construction of ethical-environmental values ​​in the processes of training multiplier agents in local communities.

This course examines musical phenomena from an anthropological perspective. From this perspective, music is approached as a social practice and symbolic production, as a performance that produces meanings and agency for musicians and listeners. Present in all societies, music tends to be a collective and ritualized activity through which its practitioners - including listeners - reaffirm shared values ​​and a sense of belonging to local, national, and transnational communities or social groups. At the end of the course, students are expected to 1: improve their ability to deal with the experience of musical otherness and, 2: understand the implications of the cultural, social, and political context in defining the different concepts of music and meanings that are collectively attributed to it.

This course addresses the theme of the ecological crisis and presents the discussion surrounding the Anthropocene. It questions the conceptual separation between the cultural order and the natural order and reflects on the meanings that the categories of nature and the environment acquire in different currents of anthropological thought. It presents ecological movements and philosophical and anthropological aspects surrounding the problem of the global ecological crisis. This course includes discussion on the environmental issue in anthropological thought; humanity and animality; global environmental crisis: intrusion of Gaia and the Anthropocene; boundaries between nature and culture; multispecies studies; and decolonial ecology.

This course covers the formation of functional organizations in the 19th Century, including the League of Nations, the United Nations System, and non-governmental organizations. The course investigates the impact of these actors on the international political agenda and the institutions of the international system. The main theoretical perspectives for the analysis of international organizations include: functionalism, federalism, idealism, and constructivism.