Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

This course covers the history of colonial Brazil to the history of Portuguese colonization in America using historiographical trends and perspectives. Topics include: the Portuguese maritime empire and colonizing experiences, from the coast to the interior and the construction of colonial regions; the colonial city, and power structures and sociocultural dynamics; colonial slave society: ethnic-racial relations; differences and inequalities; pluralities and antagonisms; Portuguese America and the South Atlantic since the Restoration; the construction of Rio de Janeiro as the capital and its articulation with colonial regions; the formation of colonial identities, and history and culture of Africans and Indigenous peoples in the colonial world.

This course covers topics in contemporary issues of psychology, health, and public health, including clinical, institutional, historical, and public policy aspects. Prerequisite: a course in public health.

This course explores images drawn from the mythical and literary traditions of Ancient Greece and examines their impact on modern and contemporary literary works. Emphasis is placed on symbolic and psychological interpretations, highlighting how classical imagery continues to shape literary expression and cultural imagination.

This course covers pre-relativistic physics, including Galilean transformations, the concept of the ether, and the Michelson-Morley experiment. It introduces the Principle of Relativity, Lorentz transformations, and their consequences. Topics include four-vectors, tensors, formal Lorentz transformations, particle dynamics and applications, relativistic electrodynamics, and the energy-momentum tensor.

Conventionally, the discipline of International Relations tends to either obliterate or ascribe race and racism as categories to a subsidiary role in the mainstream scholarships that organize, structure, and regulate the borders of its field of inquiry, which has deep implications on how we imagine and articulate political interventions. In such framework, IR reiterates a view of world politics and of the interstate system that privileges the perspective of the Western and Westernized dominant powers and reifies the historical and cultural subject position of white and ‘whitened’ groups, globally.  The course investigates world politics from the premise that the underlying condition of the international order, as we know it, and the (post)colonial geographies that it has historically been built upon is permanent racialized violence and multiple antiblack codes. Therefore, the aim is to explore the explanatory agency of race and racism as analytical categories in multiple international contexts and political conjunctures, drawing particularly from the African and Afrodiasporic scholarships, which also include the so-called Black studies. This epistemological and methodological move towards African and African diasporic intellectual traditions is premised upon the perceived need to question the persistent monopoly on author-hood over what can be said, known, and consequently done about the international, the global and the national time-spaces. 

This is a special topics course in the field of law. It provides practical and theoretical knowledge through the exploration of a variety of legal topics and issues.

This linguistics course covers the following topics: form and meaning; meaning and truth; and meaning and praxis. The course covers major themes and questions in the field of theories of meaning: universality, figurativeness, immanence, and compositionality. The course uses presentation, discussion, and practice of metalanguage relevant to accounting for meaning on various levels of language.

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. 

This course explores the origins, contemporary manifestations, strategies, impacts, and responses to extremism in Europe and the Americas, with a focus on right-wing examples. It examines the political, social, and cultural dimensions of these movements. The course also distinguishes extremism from related phenomena such as populism and nationalism, explores the motivations and ideologies behind extremism, and assesses the consequences for democracy and social cohesion in these regions. The course begins with a brief introduction to the definitions and distinctions surrounding extremism. In Section II, it takes a closer look at how extremism has developed in contemporary European and American contexts. Section III focuses on analyzing extremist ideologies and discourses, including propaganda and online strategies, through various case studies. Finally, in Section IV, it reflects on the social and political impacts of extremism, as well as the responses from governments and civil society. In terms of methodology, the course is taught through lectures, cross-sectional analysis, group discussions, and the use of primary and secondary sources alongside case studies.