Luzia Margareth Rago

• 13th International Colloquium Michel Foucault. "Politics of ourselves: truth and difference in Michel Foucault", AO.R

• Abstract

  The work of Dr. Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Junior in the Department of the History of Unicamp unfolds on two main fronts: discussion and exchange on the rich thought of Foucault, highlighting his contribution to the historiography, subject in which this professor is a specialist. To this end, in addition to offering a course, give advice to research projects that are in the same theoreti…

  The thought of Michel Foucault: historiography, sensibility and subjectivity, AV.BR

• Abstract

  The central aims of professor Piccat’s academic visit to UNICAMP includes doing research in order to conclude a book-lenght manuscript on the representations of crime in Mexico during the XIXth Century, to collect documents in the libraries of São Paulo to write an article comparing police journalism in Brazil and in Mexico, and to establish collaboration with Brazilian students and resea…

  A historical perspective on journalistic representations of crime in Mexico and in Brazil: gender, justice and public sphere, AV.EXT

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• Abstract

  The starting point for this research was a crime that occurred in 1940 in the small rural community of Benjamin Constant, located in Erechim, a countryside city of Rio Grande do Sul. This is the crime committed by Francelina França Juguleto, who, together with her daughter, killed her husband with a pestle hand. The case shocked local authorities and residents and was documented in the cr…

  "I, Francelina Juguleto, who, together with my daughter, killed my husband": the production of the female body by criminal discourses and female counter-conducts (RS, 1940), BP.MS

• Abstract

  In dialogue with other women of her time, as writers, doctors, feminist militants and anarchists, the writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934), from Rio de Janeiro, brings a critical feminist dimension in her writing. In this research, I am concerned with the transgressions of her female characters in the novels A família Medeiros (1893), A viúva Simões (1897), A falência (1901), Cruel a…

  Feminine Counter-Conducts: norm and transgression in the writing of Júlia Lopes de Almeida, BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project inquires for the contributions that the studies of ethics brought to the Michel Foucault's thought, principally to think over the figure of "subject of right" and the image of a "new right". For that will be important to underline two issues. First off all read the works of Foucault within a philosophical tradition that criticizes the abstract human rights and highlights the …

  Michel Foucault and the figure of the subject of right: for the creation of a new right and ethical and libertarian ways of life, BP.PD

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• Abstract

  My research focuses on the American feminist theorizing on subjectivity, politics and ethics, considering the reflections on the "final Foucault", and the uses of his concepts for feminist political agency. The direct contact with American specialized research centers and with feminist authors and groups provides the resources to develop the work around two intertwined poles. On a histor…

  Ruth Cardoso Chair: subjectivity, politics and ethics: practices of the self in American and Brazilian feminisms, BE.PQ