Crises of democracy through the Prism of Cultural Trauma
International Research Network (CHCI).
The project leader is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Other partners are the Center for the Study of Ethnicities, Citizenship and Migration at the University of Zagreb (Croatia), the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University (United States), and the Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). The aim of the project is to answer the question "why, in today's world, are populism and authoritarianism more attractive than democracy?". (2018/2019)
Participants: Laura P. Zuntini of Izarra, Aditya Mukherjee, Nebojša Blanuša, Jane Ohlmeyer, Sucheta Mahajan, Bodh Prakash, Urmimala Sarkhar, Eileen Gillooly, Mary Cosgrove, Arlene Clemesha, Esther Hamburger, Tomislav Pletenac, and Mridula Mukherjee
Results:
1. Summer School :"Crises of Democracy Through the Prism of Cultural Trauma" (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2019)
2. Graduate Course: "Transatlantic Crises of Democracies: Cultural Approaches" (USP, Brazil, 2019)
3. Publication: "Transatlantic crises of democracies: cultural approaches" (USP, Brasil, 2022)
Impact:
1. Participants: 9 invited foreign professors; 10 USP professors; 20 USP graduate students.
2. Curriculum online: free access to bibliography and lectures.
3. Curriculum online: Rethinking Democracy in an Age of Pandemic
SPeCTReSS- Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Solid Sovereignties
International research network (Marie Curie Research Foundation).
International interdisciplinary project led by Trinity College Dublin in which 9 universities participate (TCD, University of São Paulo, Zagreb University, Jagellonian University, Poland, Tartu University, Estonia; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ruhr University, Bochum-Germany, Yale University, Tokyo University ), funded by the Marie Curie Research Foundation.
Participants: Laura P. Zuntini from Izarra, Aditya Mukherjee, Stefan Berger, Tomasz Bilczewski, Nebojša Blanuša, Ene Kõresaar, and Jane Ohlmeyer.
Results:
1. Project meeting. Trinity College Dublin, 2014.
2. Summer Schools (3 editions) on Cultural Trauma. Dubrovnik, Croatia 2015, 2016 & 2017.
3. "Configuring Early Modern South East Asia”. Delhi in 2015
4. Krakow Conference "Traumatic Modernities", Kraków, 2017
5. Sao Paulo Conference. USP, 2017.
Impact: Mobility of 28 researchers and graduate students from the universities in the network. They stayed at USP for 3 to 6 months giving lectures, courses and carrying out their local research. Professors (5) and graduate students (6) from USP developed their research in the European universities in the network.
THEMATIC PROJECT
From Ireland to Brazil: Critical Texts
Funding: FAPESP
Period: from November 2006 to October 2008
The project entitled "From Ireland to Brazil: Critical Texts" was an integrated research carried out by academics from five Brazilian universities: Munira H. Mutran and Laura Izarra - University of São Paulo (USP); Noélia Borges de Araújo - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Peter James Harris - São Paulo State University (UNESP/S. José do Rio Preto); Luci Collin Lavalle - Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and Heleno Godói - Federal University of Goiás (UFGO); one Master and three Doctors graduated from the Graduate Program in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English at USP, three graduate students and two technicians. The project focused on two moments of the Celtic Renaissance at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. It aimed to examine distinct critical trends in fiction, drama and poetry developed by important Irish writers and critics and trends present in the cultural diaspora in order to select aesthetic elements that could renew the critical-literary debate in Brazil. Relevant material has been translated and published in the form of anthologies and thematic books.
Mutran, Munira H. From Ireland to Brazil. São Paulo: Humanitas/FAPESP, 2015.
Harris, Peter. The Irish Theater in London. In: Laura Izarra (ed.) From Ireland to Brazil. São Paulo: Humanitas, 2011.
Haddad, Rosalie Rahal. Shaw, The Critic. In: Laura Izarra (ed.). From Ireland to Brazil. São Paulo: Humanitas/FAPESP, 2010.