Work panels – NACE CNV-Brazil Seminar

Work panels from the NACE CNV Brazil Seminar, University of São Paulo, March 20 to 23, 2024.

Day 21 (Thursday): 13:00-14:30

Table 1 – Dictatorships and the Latin American Cold War 
  • Rejane Carolina Hoeveler (UFF) – The Council of the Americas and the business-military dictatorship in Brazil: the United States, the politics of business and the business of politics 
  • Isabella Villarinho Pereyra (UFRJ) – Military Dictatorship and Religious Cold War: the transnational action of the Cruzada do Rosário em Família (1960-1964) 
  • Thiago Fidelis (Uem) – Revisiting the João Goulart government: historical and historiographical discussions 

Mediator: Gianfranco Caterina (postdoc IRI-USP) 

Table 2 – Authoritarianism and State repression 
  • Murilo Motta (USP) – “Under the government of gorillas”: the persecution of homosexual employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in times of AI-5 
  • Ivan Lopes Bezerra Ferraz (IRI-USP) – The Brazilian military dictatorship in the face of the global environmental regime 
  • Johnnatan David Bias Monteiro (UFF) – Problems of the Present Time: the civil-military dictatorship and 1968, 50 years later 

Mediator: Alessandra Castilho (Cipó Platform) 

Table 3 – Dictatorship and cultural life I 
  • Lúcia Tormin Mollo (UnB) – Beyond selling books: the bookstore as a space to confront the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985).  
  • Juliana Proença de Oliveira (USP) – Considerations on the past and future of censorship against the visual arts in Brazil: the Volpini case. 

Mediator: Daria Jaremtchuk (EACH-USP)

Table 4 – Post-dictatorship dictatorship and transitional justice I 
  • Filipe Botelho Soares Dutra Fernandes (UFSCar) – Mapping of University Truth Commissions in Brazil (2012-2015): an initial exploratory characterization. 
  • Natália Aparecida Godoy da Silva (UFF) – The historiography about the military dictatorship in the report of the National Truth Commission: an analysis based on the texts “historical context of serious violations” and “civilians who collaborated with the dictatorship” 

Mediator: Pedro Ernesto Fagundes (Ufes) 

Day 22 (Friday) – 11:30-13:00  

Table 5 – Dictatorship and cultural life II 
  • Mariana Rodrigues Rosell (USP) – Papa Highirte and Latin America: the dissonant dialogues of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. 
  • Paula Costa Nunes de Carvalho (USP) – “What about Sergio Mendes?” – Trajectories of arrangers who immigrated to the United States (1965–1977) and their repercussions in the Brazilian press. 

Mediator: Rossana Reis (IRI-USP) 

Table 6 – Post-dictatorship dictatorship and transitional justice II 
  • Ariel Cherxes Batista (Ufes) – The Brazilian democratic transition and its impacts in the present time: new republic and Bolsonarism. 
  • Jessica Holl (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) – Transformative Reforms as an opportunity to overcome Gender Inequalities: Reflections on the Brazilian transition. 
  • Guilherme Gouvêa Soares Torres (Ufes) – (Re)Constructing the past: transitional justice in PT governments (2003-2016) 

Mediator: Arthur Capella (IRI-USP) 

Table 7 – Post-dictatorship dictatorship and transitional justice III 
  • Pedro Henrique Aquino de Freitas (USP) – Transitional justice and judicial decisions in Brazil: limits to accountability for the serious human rights violations of the military dictatorship. 
  • Júlia Guimarães (UFMG) – Dispute of narratives about the civil-military dictatorship in decisions of the supreme federal court: what does March 31, 1964 represent in the decision to Suspension of Injunction 1,326/RN? 
  • Raquel Cristina Possolo Gonçalves (UFMG) – “We are no longer exactly alive” – opinions from the CA/MJ and possible approaches to Never the Fire Never 

Mediator: Carolina Campos Melo (PUC-Rio) 

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