Public History, Identity and Political Uses of the Past – FESCH.TV

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Come meet Brazilian Ph.D. candidates who discuss how they used Public History and the political uses of the past in their dissertations.

This IFPH explorers event held on November 2, 2022

Participants:
Lívia Bernardes Roberge has a BA in International Relations, as well as a BA in History. In 2017, she obtained an MA degree in History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. In 2018, she started a History PhD at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, under supervision of Prof. Silvia Liebel. Her research is about the 17th c. English Diggers and their involvement in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. She is interested in the process of how they came to self-fashion and represent themselves as „The Diggers“, and how we can understand identity formation and dispute as part of the political disputes of the Wars. Between 2020 and 2022, Livia was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield, under supervision of Prof. Michael Braddick. She is currently an Academic in Residence at the Elmbridge Museum, working on a project about the Diggers.

Igor Lemos Moreira is a PhD. Candidate at the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), in the line of research on Politics of Memory and Historical Narratives, under the guidance of Prof. Ricardo Santiago. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami (2021-2022). Master and Graduate in History at UDESC. CAPES-DS scholarship holder, member of the Image and Sound Laboratory (LIS/UDESC), the Exile and Migration Studies Center from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (NEEM-UFMG), the Center for Studies in Music and Media (MUSIMID/USP) /UNIP). He has experience in History of Present Time, History of the Americas, Public History, History Theory, Contemporary History. Since his experiences as an undergrad, Igor has worked at the interface between Present Time History, Public History and the universe of languages (artistic and digital) seeking to understand the different ways in which temporality and identity in Latin-America are experienced and represented in the cultural industries. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on the artistic trajectory of the Cuban singer Gloria Estefan and her multiple engagements.

Lucas Avelar is a Digital History Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant at Clemson University. He investigates issues of spatial history, place-making, narratives of time in the built environment, and cultural identity. Lucas holds an MA in Public History and Historic Preservation from Colorado State University. His thesis entitled „Invented Pasts, Imagined Futures: World’s Fairs, Cities, and Narratives of Brazilian Nationhood in the Built Environment, 1893-1976“ dealt with the maturation of Brazil’s modern nationhood in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by examining the spatial narratives of world’s fairs as microcosms of modernity and ideologies of national identity. As part of the inaugural cohort of the Digital History Ph.D. Program at Clemson University, Lucas is currently engaging with methodologies of digital humanities and geographic information systems to further expand his research on the intersections between space and time in urban and cultural landscapes.