Global Studies in Brazil: A New Intersectional Field of Study Global South Perspectives and the Public-Facing University

This intensive certificate workshop or “minicurso” aims (a) to introduce participants so some of the principal interdisciplinary research lines, educational philosophies, and public contributions of Global Studies; (b) to discuss the connections between the changing field of Global Studies and interdisciplinary fields; (c) to articulate in Brazil the field of Global Studies and launch a permanent Center for Global Studies at UERJ Institute for Social Sciences, drawing upon Brazilian contributions to this area as well as the most creative and innovative global-south facing and activist-engaged international perspectives; (d) to reimagine and generate some preliminary designs for undergraduate and graduate programs in Global Studies in Brazil.