PPGHIS/CCH

History Graduate Program (PPGHIS-UFMA) was the first Graduate program in History field in the state of Maranhão. Currently, the only academic program scored 4 by CAPES. Nowadays, the program has nineteen professors, sixteen effective, two associated professors and an international visiting professor. It currently offers 20 master’s degree’s openings and 12 for the academic Doctor’s degree course. Concentration areas: History and Atlantic connections: cultures and powers. Research about the oceanic traffic of ideas, people, goods, knowledge, beliefs, politic and economic trends between the north of Brazil, Legal Amazon territory, and Europe, Caribe, the Guianas and Africa, through the 15th and 21st centuries. Not only is it about comparative analyzes between places and territories of both shores of the equatorial area of the ocean, but about connected histories, hybridization processes, cultural exchanges and various other exchanges among the involved ones. The diaspora processes, conflicts and transfrontier relationships. Since the last decades of 20th century, with the raising of the term “globalization”, We have been watching the rising of historiographic fields that intend to overcome the national foundation on the historiographic thought. Even the nationality phenomena is analyzed through a global history and connected histories, not only about its formation but also about its dynamic. In Maranhão’s case, more specifically, We have a special locus to visualize the way a so complex nation, like Brazil, was constituted progressively in contradictory and complex way, gathering divergent interests that were based in a diverse of connections and international backgrounds. Therefore, when it comes to the Atlantic history, specifically, observing the building of the modern world, from the 19th century, only on its mechanic meaning and Eurocentric territory expansion is not enough, but on its subjectivities, material and symbolic exchanges, connections that were not just links, but also translations, transcriptions, crossbreedings, conflicts and asymmetries that marked our mundialization process and the occidentalizing itself, remembering occidentalizing could not be seen as an one-way road, although we must consider the central role the spreading of print books and the capitalist dynamic had. In this history, there is the challenge of a connectivity to historiography itself not only about the empiric and heuristic dimension as theory-conceptual, besides the game of scales for historic phenomenon description (local and general relation) as in the theory-methodologic dimension. Lines of research 1. Languages, Religiousness and Cultures That is the research line that investigates the cultural field and identity construction, understanding culture as terms of practice and representation, looking closer, therefor, to the symbolic universe like the material culture, with related dimensions. Taking the imperative of historicity in consideration, not only its cultural and identity structuring (and synchronic) feature is emphasized, but also its dynamic (and diachronic) feature. Therefore, through the theory-methodological point of view, the approaches have as assumption the interrelationship between culture (symbolic and articulated system) and individuals (agents crossed by desires and representations), intending to highlight the cultural practices as a horizon of symbolic evidence, as well as the tensions and placements on the meanings and identities building. From these themes and objects’ point of view, the approaches of religion and religiousness are built; the analysis of gender and ethnic-racial issues; the arrangements and dispute over the territory and the city; the socioeconomic practices in its symbolic and material universe, taking the territoriality and the social consciousness in consideration; reading and educational practices, the scholars, writers and artist’s role on the social identities and representations construction, along with its questioning; the definitions and arrangements of the historical heritage and historical culture; culture and environment; body and corporeity. At last, taking the symbolic production and its sharing as culture and identities as a guide, it Is through the social consciousness that it is also possible to approach the role of the legal norms and normativeness found in many diffusion loci, such as the school, the historiography, the textbooks, media etc. 2. Powers, politics and sociabilities. This line of research focus on the arrangements of power and the relation of power (or powers) and socioabilities. Considering the renovation on the politics history about its conceptions and approaches, the power is seen in its traditional meaning and still relevant to the State and institutions, as well as its production and sharing of representations and identities through the speech; power is approached not only considering its centralized or centralizing locus, but also its micro powers’ dimension and politic culture dimension; finally, the power is about the formulation, practice and (or) imposition of laws and obligations as wells as its legalization or legality in the fields of the politic culture, social practices, social movements, social and family relations, clientele or religion etc. Considering the interdisciplinarity and the scope of the conceptions of power and sociabilities, this line is opened to studies about the institutions, States, Politic parties, societies etc., the politic practices on the speech field and the studies about the labor world. Therefore, we when the stacking of the arrangements of power, speeches or ideas and social relations are looked closer, it is important to take the traditional economical politics field in consideration, accepting its classic conceptions along with the conception of biopolitics dimension. From the themes and objects point of view, the approaches about institution and politics and social ideas, the politic regimes and systems appear; about the relations between the State and the church (churches); about the social consciousness and politic culture; about the relations among power, social representation (both of “representation” meanings) and sociabilities; the power relations and sociability webs, the ones we can see on the authoritarian practice and daily practices, assembling historic individual and collective figure; ideologies, consciousnesses, myths and politic mythologies, tales of modernity; labor and productions words; the scholars, writers and artists’ role on the legalization, perspective or contestation of the power, in the theories, utopias and dystopias; the models of authority construction as well as the groups and movements of resistance, micro politics, the historiography history through its relations with the history of social and political ideals. Doctor’s degree course: It approaches the same main theme the master’s degree course does: cultures and powers. It was created in the 180th CTC-ES CAPES meeting through the CONSEPE/UFMA resolution number 1792 on December 30th, 2018. The same resolution also approved the program’s regiment. Currently, in the moment this report is being written, the course is its 1st selection process, offering 12 opening for new students. The course, offered since 2019 by the post-graduation program in history, has some unique characteristics that need to be emphasized. Firstly, its uniqueness of being the only doctor’s degree course in the north and northeast of Brazil specialized in global history, comparative history and history of the Atlantic Ocean. Secondly, the course’s approved proposal is thoroughly coherent with the research that is being developed by the program’s students. Consequently, all students, individually and collectively with the line of researches and groups of research, also with the international and national partnerships, add cumulative elements to the concentration field proposed. A better contextualization of the course, based on its original proposal, is presented thereafter. History and Atlantic Ocean connections doctor’s degree course has a deep relation with the macro-region composed by the border of Brazilian northeast’s septentrional area and Legal Amazon. Before that, it is also possible to think about Maranhão through the transregional and Latin-American perspective, given its historical connections to Caribe and the Guianas. In Maranhão, as Legal Amazon territory, many historical, social, cultural, and geopolitical issues converge, what makes the region privileged to those Atlantic connections’ studies. Through the 16th and 19th centuries, that area was a geographic entity among Caribe, the Guianas and Brazil. Consequently, during all this period the ocean contacts were more often with Europe and the Spanish-speaking colonial areas, and less facilitated with Pernambuco, Bahia or Rio de Janeiro. The area don’t belong to the south-Atlantic navigation routes, so Maranhão would be more likely to be chosen as part of the north-Atlantic routes, oceanic frontier that could be called equatorial-Atlantic. The natural oceanic vocation this territory has fomented many political, cultural and artistic different trends, building a mosaic yet not widely studied by the national historiography, which similarities with the social and economic development of other equatorial-Atlantic region are relevant. At the same time, the connections with Africa seemed peculiar as, oppositely to Pernambuco or Bahia, already well-connected to the south-Atlantic, in south of Maranhão, the Equatorial Guinea territories have a certain dominancy compared to Angola. When it comes to the regional, the newly created course is pioneer. There is no equivalent in Brazilian north or northeast region nor Legal Amazon Territory. Though this proposal is present in research projects and groups, post-graduations subjects and, eventually, in lines of research, there’s nothing such as a course that worries specifically about the Atlantic Ocean with a comparative, Brazilian, Latin-American and worldwide perspective, but also worries about its professors’ abilities of stablishing links with other institutions and attract professors from other states. Finally, in the most diverse aspects, this proposal is innovative, original and different from the productions of other history students at professors from UFMA. Research groups 1. Group: Studies about the Atlantic world and its diaspores – GMAD FACULTY MEMBERS: Josenildo de Jesus Pereira (head), Alírio Carvalho Cardoso (head), Soraia Dornelles, Isabel Ibarra Cabrera, Rafael Chambouleyron, José Luis Ruiz-Peinado Alonso. SCOPE: Atlantic Ocean History, Military History, Africa and Modernity, Etic-racial issues and Caribbean Studies. LINE OF RESEARCH: Powers, politics and sociabilities. GROUP PROGRAM: American and African history process of formation associated with Atlantic Ocean shores. 2. Group: Powers, Institutions, Labor Worlds and Political Ideals - POLIMT FACULTY MEMBERS: Maria Izabel B. de M. Oliveira (head), Victor de Oliveira (head), César Augusto Castro. SCOPE: Powers, Institutions, Labor Worlds and Political Ideals and Comparative studies among Brazil, Europe and Latin America. LINE OF RESEARCH: Powers, politics and sociabilities. GROUP’S PROGRAM: Estudos de concepções, práticas e instituições políticas no cotidiano. Studies of politic conceptions, practices and institutions in their day-to-day. 3. GROUP: History, Learned Culture and Other Languages – HILL. FACULTY MEMBERS: Marcus Vinicius de Abreu Baccega (head), João Batista Bitencourt; Adriana Zierer. SCOPE: Intelectuais, Cidade e Literatura. Scholars, City and Literature. LINE OF RESEARCH: Languages, Religiousness and Cultures GROUP PROGRAM: História e suas novas abordagens: literatura, cinema, território. 4. GROUP: History, Religion and Material Culture– REHCULT FACULTY MEMBERS: Lyndon de Araújo Santos (head), Alexandre Guida Navarro (head), Ítalo Domingos Santirocchi, Pollyanna Gouveia M. Muniz. SCOPE: Historical Archeology, Religions History. LINE OF RESEARCH: Languages, Religiousness and Cultures GROUP PROGRAM: Material cultures studies, experiences and practices of the holy on both shores of Atlantic Ocean.