COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
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The Coletiva Conexões do Sul (CCS) is an initiative of the Centre of Discourse Studies, as part of its internationalization proposal, and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the University of Brasília (PPGL/UnB). The working group is coordinated by professors Patrícia Gouveia and Viviane Resende, with the participation of Teun van Dijk and affiliated researchers and other investigators and collaborators.
The CCS is an environment for (plural) dialogue that seeks to bring together diverse concepts, categories, approaches, and disciplines to consider crucial sociocultural issues in our conflicted contemporary experience. Its activities are contained in three research fronts: “Polarization as a Discursive Strategy: the rise and power project of the extreme right in Brazil”; “Towards a Linguistics of the Sensible: Perspectives on Language and Society and the Status of the Body”; and “Discourses, Trajectories, and Migrant Aesthetics: experiences, critiques, and belonging.” Its work brings together the fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, political science, cultural criticism, history, and philosophy of art, among others.
From Spain to Brazil, and vice versa, through consolidated interinstitutional partnerships, Coletiva Conexões do Sul seeks to reflect on the histories and experiences of people and cultures positioned within the framework of coloniality.
See full presentation and research agenda of CCS here.
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CCS COORDINATORS
Patrícia Gouveia
Anthropologist, founding coordinator of the working group Coletiva Conexões do Sul (CCS, Spain) and associate director of the Centre of Discourse Studies in Barcelona (CDS/BCN). She currently works at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and discourse studies, with thematic research on popular groups, political polarization, and experiences of exile.
Contact: patricia.gouveia@discoursestudies.org
Viviane Resende
Linguist, Professor at the University of Brasília in the area of Critical Discourse Studies. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Critical Discourse Studies - LabEC/UnB - http://labec.unb.br/. Coordinator of INCT Caleidoscópio - Institute for Advanced Studies on Inequities, Inequalities, and Violence Based on Gender and Sexuality and their Multiple Insurgencies UnB/CNPq - https://caleidoscopio.unb.br/. Coordinator of Coletiva Conexões do Sul (CCS - Brazil).
Contact: resende.v.melo@gmail.com
Daniel N. Silva
Associate Professor of Socio- and Applied Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. His research examines the mediatization of violence in Brazil, with a focus on alternative communicative models that emerge in empirical sites of resistance. He also investigates the production of a sociolinguistics of hope in Brazilian favelas, as well as the dynamics of political activism and political violence among extreme right-wing groups in Southern Brazil.
Contact: dnsfortal@gmail.com
CCS SUPERVISORY MEMBER
Teun van Dijk
Linguist, Director of the Center for Discourse Studies (CDS), he was a professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2004 and is currently an honorary professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
CCS MEMBERS
Alba Vieira
Performer, Artistic Director, and Choreographer of the Contemporary Dance Group ‘Mosaico’, Researcher and Professor at the Federal University of Viçosa. She works in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Cláudio Magalhães
Visual artist, researcher, and professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (DAU/UFV). Teaches courses in Drawing, Art History, and Art Aesthetics.
Doris Cristina Vicente da Silva Matos
Associate Professor IV of Spanish Language in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), where she teaches in the graduate programs in Languages and the professional graduate program in Foreign Languages. Research Productivity Fellow at CNPq.
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Gisele Rodrigues
Journalist, PhD candidate at the University of Brasília, member of the Critical Discourse Studies Laboratory, and civil servant at the Brazilian Federal Chamber of Deputies.
Guilherme Brent
PhD in Linguistic Studies from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. His studies focus on Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics, with a special interest in understanding how language shapes and reflects meanings, values, and ideologies in the public sphere. He is currently investigating the role of ethos in the consolidation of political polarization in Brazil, seeking to understand the rise and the power project of the extreme right in the country.
José Carlos Espinel
Visual Artist, Professor in the Department of Sculpture and Artistic Training at the Faculty of Fine Arts Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Lucía de la Presa
PhD in Language Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Researcher, professor, and coordinator of the Centre of Discourse Studies.
Mónica Cerrada Macías
Visual Artist, Professor in the Department of Sculpture and Artistic Training, Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Neiva Vieira
Anthropologist, researcher, and professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, in the Faculty of Education of Baixada Fluminense (FEBF/UERJ). She works in the field of Urban Anthropology and Public Health.
Sandra Soler
PhD in Linguistics and Communication from the University of Barcelona and is a research professor at the Francisco José de Caldas District University and director of the inter-institutional research group Discourse Studies. Her research interests focus on discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, as well as issues such as gender, discrimination, and racism.
Sávio Siqueira
Full professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from UFBA and is a productivity researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is also a member of the UNESCO Chair in Public Policies for Multilingualism. Professor Siqueira leads the research group “ILF Brasil/UFBA” and completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, USA. He has supervised numerous master's and doctoral students in graduate programs in Brazil and abroad and has published extensively, particularly in the areas of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and language teacher training. His most recent publication, co-authored with Alessia Cogo and Graham Crookes, is English for a Critical Mind: Language Pedagogy for Social Justice (Delta Publishing, 2023).
Other collaborators: Ana Paula Rabelo e Silva, Cíntia Rodrigues, Evelyn Matus Madrid, Germán Canale, Guilherme Brent, María Cristina Arancíbia, María Laura Pardo, Micheline M. Tomazi, Rosangela Nogueira, Rosimeire Barboza da Silva e Viviane Cristina Vieira.