Linguagem, Memória e Direitos Humanos
Language, Memory, Human Rights
A group of researchers who study language in the dimensions of subjectivities, social identities and politics from an intercultural and transdisciplinary perspective. Memory and human rights are framed as themes that help to reflect on the dynamics of formation and functioning of feelings of alterity and practices of the self. Based on these premises, the objective is to gather and stimulate studies that work with the materialities of the multiple languages that form institutional devices, media and cultural artifacts, archives and social practices.
- Group Leaders: Daniela Palma | Daniel do Nascimento e Silva
- Selected Publications
- Contact: daniela.palma2@gmail.com
[collective project] Storytelling Exercises for Writing Practice in Human Rights Education
This is a research project for human rights education based on storytelling. The proposal intends to promote reflections on juridical, philosophical and subjective conceptions of human rights and social forms of difference and universality, as well as stimulating, through writing practice, inversions of perspective. Such inversions would work as a propitious mechanism to sensitization for an “enlarged mentality” (Arendt; Kant), more aware of otherness and capable to apprehend the individual and collective dilemmas of the contemporary world. The project includes the development of educational resources for school teachers. The group is working in a textbook entitled “Workshops of imagination in writing for education in Human Rights”.
PPG-LA student members
Ana Luiza Bittar
Master’s student at the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). She is an integrant of the research group Us-Others: Language, Memory and Human Rights, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Daniela Palma and Prof. Dr. Daniel Silva. Her current research is with homeless women with a focus on language in identity constructions and gender issues. She is also part of the project “Storytelling Exercises for Writing Practice in Human Rights Education”. During her graduation, she conducted research in Discourse Analysis on affirmative policies for admission to Brazilian universities. She has a M.A. Scholarship from CNPq.
Andresa Medeiros
I research the interfaces between language, human rights, and international migration as a Master’s student in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas, after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Culture from University of São Paulo. I joined the Human Rights Clinic M. A. Thomaz at the Pontifical Catholic University and I am currently a member of Translators Without Borders, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers network.
My Master’s Degree research is on literary literacy practices in literature school teaching and in digital media. I won the Scientific Merit Award at the XIII Congress of Scientific Initiation of Unicamp in 2015, with the project “In the Trail of Readings: João do Rio’s library”.
Giulia Mendes Gambassi
I have a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics (2018) and also an Undergraduate Diploma in Portuguese Languagem(2013) granted by the same university. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD project on identity representations, focusing on people who went through forced displacement (refugees and other groups). My research interests are language, social exclusion, minorities and gender studies. Furthermore, I am developing a textbook for education in Human Rights on the project “Storytelling Exercises for Writing Practice in Human Rights Education”. This material is not only is aligned to my general trajectory as a researcher, but also contributes to my PhD thesis towards a more comprehensive approach to human rights and its social construction.
Temitope Jane Aransiola
My PhD research deals with Identity, Representation, Discourse Analysis, Ideology, Media, Race and Gender. In addition, I am a public speaker on topics surrounding the fields mentioned above, as well as the Nigerian/African culture. I have carried out research on Foreign Student Reports in Five State Universities in Paraná. I also participate in Academic Literacy projects, where foreign students are taught how to write academic research.