PROGRAM PRESENTATION:

The Postgraduate Program in History of the Federal University of Pernambuco (PPGH / UFPE) has the GENERAL OBJECTIVE of enriching the academic training of professionals in the field of History and the like - expanding their acquired knowledge during graduation and developing their skills in the field of teaching and research - with focus on the improvement of teaching staff in elementary, secondary and higher education, but also for public administration, especially in Research Centers, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Cultural Institutes, etc.

Its SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES are as follows: To provide solid scientific training in the area of History teaching and related areas, seeking to train professionals committed to the common good and concerned with meeting the demands of society, especially of its most vulnerable segments; encourage students to have an investigative attitude that stimulates them to seek constant professional improvement and constant update of their knowledge on the latest trends in historiography; train high-level professional staff to meet the demands of primary, secondary and higher education institutions, as well as other public and / or private institutions, such as Research Centers, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Cultural Institutes, etc. ; as well as promoting the dissemination and exchange of scientific production in the field of History and related areas through events and development of common projects with other national and international teaching and research institutions.

Its AREA OF CONCENTRATION is “SOCIETIES, CULTURES AND POWERS”, which, from a multidisciplinary historical perspective, deals with issues that encompass diverse territories, temporalities and societies (Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia), adding studies that are not limited to a restricted notion of space and time in the construction of the historical past, but rather privilege the theoretical-methodological debates in the context of the historiographical approaches of each Line of Research that constitutes the Program. The Lines that make up the Area also agree on the relevance of research at the macro and micro level and on the theoretical and methodological possibility of making a History that is always connected to transnational historiographical discussions, temporalities and multiple approaches. The Area, therefore, contemplates a historiographical perspective that is projected universally. After all, the scope of all research, when constituted in a given time and space, has the possibility to transcend the empirical limits given through the theoretical-methodological treatment built from problems formulated at the intersection of the different documented sources.

Its staff of professors currently consists of 41 PROFESSORS: (all doctors) being 38 TENURE (93%) AND 3 ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS (7%), divided into the following lines of research:

CULTURE AND MEMORY: (since 2004)

The Culture and Memory Line develops studies and researches preferably focused on the present time, however, it can cover other time frames. It articulates with the theoretical and methodological reflections and debates that contemplate the concepts of culture and memory. These concepts operate with theoretical references in line with a wide spectrum of themes and favor speeches and cultural practices associated with the political, socio-cultural and economic plan. The diversity of theoretical approaches is interlaced with the temporal and spatial categories in their multiplicity. Culture thought of the different ways of doing and saying, unique to its own temporalities and spatialities, is permeated by flows of change and alterity, associated with the multiple legacies of the past. The epistemological path that the studies on memory and history propose, aims to analyze the space of experience and the horizon of expectation in which the future, past and present intertwine. Therefore, the representations of the past and the present are target of the constant tension of the movements of reframing. Within this context , the Line of Culture and Memory has sought to discuss the uses of the past, notably in the field of cultural heritage. In addition, still in the field of culture, the Line also develops studies and research on the intellectual field, public policies on culture, and gender relations, among other topics. With regard to reflections and analysis on memory, these have as reference categories and concepts that, when dealing with historiographical problems, break the chronological linearity, the image of the past as the accumulation of cultural goods and the fixity of time space. In this same perspective, narrative production is constitutive of the thinking and writing of history. Hence, when operating with multiplicities and diversities, the Culture and Memory Line of research develops an intense dialogue with different theoretical approaches in close connection to the themes arising from different researches, which the various documental corpora generate.

RELATIONS OF POWER, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT: (since 2011)

The Power, Society and Environment Relations Line seeks to articulate themes from social, political, economic and cultural history, in addition to environmental issues, in modern and contemporary times. Valuing the plurality of approaches and the diversity of the conceptual apparatus, it can also include an approach in diverse geographical spaces. Power relations consists of the conduct of individual and collective historical agents and the contexts in which they are immersed, both in the more general scope of struggles and in the quotidian space. The explored themes comprise the history of public health; relations between human beings and nature; State and elites; citizenship; social movements; work relationships; landholding issue, gender, native people and traditional communities, in addition to theoretical debates around the construction of historical knowledge.

ATLANTIC WORLD: (since 2011)

Throughout the modern period, interconnections between America, Africa and Europe have intensified, thus, providing for the construction of exchanges of people, goods, ideas and practices. The arrival of contemporaneity has further accelerated these dynamics, as new means of transport and communications have shortened distances and made remote contact possible. The Atlantic World Line seeks to frame its approaches in this space that has been devastated since the 15th century and has been increasingly used since that time, as a link between the various continental areas that surround it (including its interior spaces) and the other oceanic masses of the planet. In this perspective, we consider it essential to devote attention to aspects that transcend the political limits of national and imperial entities, precisely valuing the connections, exchanges and diasporas that have occurred over five centuries, seeking to observe them both in the centers where they are most evident ( cities and ports), as well as in places where they require more effort to be glimpsed (“sertões”, borders, geographically or socially isolated communities and in the ocean itself). In this sense, we postulate that, within the universe of temporalities and spatialities that the Atlantic world offers, the notion of decentralization in the construction of research objects can broaden the investigative horizons, allowing to tread fields previously banned or undervalued due to conceptual impediments. The multiple themes and methodologies framed in an Atlantic approach stimulate dialogue with varied theoretical contributions, including from other areas of the humanities. Breaking the Eurocentric molds that have traditionally guided research requires a careful look at multiculturalism, multiethnicity, multidirectional exchanges and the very diversity of realities contained in the focused space-time. The Atlantic World Line houses researchers with projects that seek to understand issues related to this notion of the Atlantic World, to the construction and circulation of ideas, identities and institutions, to the multiple faces and results of the interactions and relations between the Americas, Africa and Europe.

HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE: THEORY, TEACHING AND MEDIA: (since 2021)

The line of research Historical Knowledge: Theory, Teaching and Media aims to problematize and discuss theoretical and methodological elements in the construction of history as a form of knowledge, narrative and teaching, highlighting the uses of History in social and cultural practices in their relations with the media in contemporary societies. The composition of this line is characterized by the current debates present in the theory of History and the Didactics of History with exponents in Germany, England and Canada. They propose works that articulate the construction of narratives and their uses in History and Teaching, enabling reflections on how the media in dialogue with society and individuals appropriate the historical knowledge, build it and resignify it. Since that knowledge is present in Taught History, bringing the discussions of Teaching to the field of History, it is understood that history is ordered culturally and in different ways, given that the meanings are reassessed when put into practice and thus allowing studies that admit complex knowledge and from multiple historical knowledge. Its fields are as follows : studies of historical practice, the teaching of history, production and historical learning, theories and methodologies of History, historical narratives present in the use of different media and their languages.

FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN: POWERS, CULTURES AND DISCOURSE: (since 2021)

The purpose of the line is to investigate the most diverse aspects of societies that were formed during the periods traditionally referred to h as Antiquity,Middle Ages and Modern Age, in different spatial areas. Therefore, it aims to go beyond the horizons of the nationalist paradigm and the ideological bases of an identity nature, in which a large part of the reflection on these temporalities prior to the constitution of contemporary national states occured. In the context of these different temporalities, here perceived at the intersection with plural spatialities, the Line is dedicated, more specifically, to the reflection on the institutions and modes of political and social organization; political languages and ways of exercising power; the relationships established between subjects and social groups, their networks and forms of sociability; gender and otherness relations; the relations between power and religion; to material, cultural and intellectual production; to the relations between writing and orality; values and concepts (traditions, customs, beliefs, ideologies, utopias), the forms and transformations of historical discourse and the uses of the past.

RESEARCH GROUPS

PROGRAM HISTORY

PPGH / UFPE was one of the first postgraduate courses in the History of our country. Founded in 1974, initially, just as a MASTER course, it had its DOCTORATE course implemented in 1991. When it was established, the PPGH / UFPE had two Areas of Concentration: History of the North and Northeast of Brazil and Prehistory of Brazil . Subsequently, through an Agreement with the Federal University of Paraíba, a third Area was created: Methodology for Teaching History. In 2003, two of the three Concentration Areas that comprised the PPG became two independent Post-Graduations: the Master in Prehistory at UFPE and the Master in Theory and Methodology of Teaching History at UFPB. As a result of this separation, as of 2004, the PPGH / UFPE came to have a one Area of Concentration - History of the North and Northeast of Brazil - organized into two Lines of Reseacrh: “Political Power and Social Movements” and “Culture and Memory ”. The results of this reformulation allowed the Program to obtain, two years later (2006), a concept 5 in the evaluation carried out by CAPES for the previous three-year period (evaluation that was maintained until 2012). In order to better adapt the Program to the research being conducted by its faculty, which was partly renewed, a reconfiguration of the Lines of Reseacrh occured. Subsequently, there were three Lines of Research: "Culture and Memory", "Relations of Power, Society and Environment"; (reformulation of the old Line "Political Power and Social Movements") and "North-Northeast Atlantic". In 2016, in order to better contemplate the potential for guidance and scientific production of old and new members of the Faculty, whose horizons of interests and research had already gone far beyond the “History of the North and Northeast” (former Area of Concentration of this Program), the PPGH / UFPE's Concentration Area was changed to “Societies, Cultures and Powers”. In 2021, so as to to meet the demand for new possibilities of training at Postgraduate level in the North and Northeast, as well as to incorporate new highly specialized members who had recently joined the History Department at UFPE and other teaching institutions from the region, two new Lines of Research were created: "Historical Knowledge: Theory, Teaching and Media" and "From Ancient to Modern: powers, cultures and discourses".

We also emphasize that over the 46 years of its existence, the PPGH / UFPE has been continuously performing its activities of producing historical knowledge (until today 636 DISSERTATIONS AND 238 THESES have been defended) and training new professionals in the area of History. An important role has been played in the formation of new academic staff so as to meet the continuous demand for teachers with masters and doctorates for schools and universities in the national territory, particularly in the North and Northeast regions.

Furthermore, we also highlight that CLIO: REVISTA DE PESQUISA HISTÓRICA (ISSN 0102-4736), a periodical published by this PPGH, has been circulating continuously since 1977 in print and currently only in digital format.

ALUMNI PROFILE:

It is expected that the graduates of PPGH / UFPE, coming from the undergraduate course in History and similar courses, will be able to do as follows: conceive scientific research as a necessary stage for the production of knowledge; understand the intrinsic relationship between research and teaching and transpose the knowledge acquired throughout their academic training (basic and higher education institutions, cultural and research centers, among others). It is also expected that they will be endowed with the competencies and citizen values necessary to adequately fulfill their functions when taking public and private positions in the teaching, research, educational management, administration, public policies and related sectors. To find out about the Program Regulations (LINK) and obtain other information, browse our website. Welcome!