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Target audience: undergraduate students who are not enrolled at USP
Location: Classroom at the Ipiranga Museum
Registration: Send your registration request to the email address apoioacadmp@usp.br
Images and Accounts: Travelers and the Construction of Narratives
Starting from the premise of the shift in understanding of the world from the Enlightenment (18th century) and the strong commitment to cataloging animate and inanimate beings, this discipline focuses on some of the accounts and images produced by foreign artist-scientist-travelers who explored part of the province/state of São Paulo throughout the 19th century. It will contrast this with representations produced by some local members and how these same elements are interpreted, how such images and texts were appropriated for a specific historical construction, especially by Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay, when he was director of the Museu Paulista (1917-1945).
Presenter: Professor Ana Paula Nascimento
Class schedule: February 27th to June 12th (Every Thursday from 2 PM to 6 PM)
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Introduction to the Study of Material Culture
This course aims to present the theoretical and methodological paradigms that guide reflection on the place of materiality in social relations within the human sciences. Despite the significant increase in research related to material culture, it is necessary to identify the specificities of material sources through epistemological discussions and analytical exercises, avoiding the illustrative, peripheral, and logocentric treatment that is still recurrent for this type of documentation. The goal is to offer students a broad, yet selective, overview of experiences with material sources, so that, through them, students feel empowered and encouraged to undertake their own research. The proposed starting point is the morphological analysis of material sources, and from there, new questions that can lead to a better articulation of the immediate evidence of the documentation with its implications in the agencies that such documents played in historically defined contexts.
Presenter: Professor Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho
class periodFebruary 25th to July 8th (Every Tuesday from 2 PM to 6 PM)
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Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Brazil: Concepts, Public Policies, Strategies
To provide students with basic knowledge about strategies for preserving cultural heritage in Brazil, relating to both material and immaterial or intangible manifestations, as well as the conceptual transformations that have guided public preservation policies, especially the listing of sites as protected heritage and the creation of museums; to address the historical processes of constructing public policies for the preservation of Brazilian cultural heritage at the federal, state, and municipal levels, verifying the variations in selective criteria and inventory regarding manifestations of cultural heritage; to explain the ideological contours of public policies for the preservation of cultural heritage and their relationship with the affirmation of collective identities in Brazil.
Presenter: Professor David William Aparecido Ribeiro
Class schedule: February 25th to July 8th (Every Tuesday from 2 PM to 6 PM)
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