Internationalization
IMACS
Since 2018, the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Culture, and Languages (PPGACL) has been part of IMACS – International Master in Cinema Studies – an international network that brings together 16 universities: fourteen European, one Canadian, and one Brazilian, UFJF.
The goal of the network is for master’s students from partner universities to complete their second and third semesters abroad, earning credits at foreign institutions.
This initiative promotes student and faculty exchange for research in cinema and audiovisual studies, enhancing research quality and fostering the internationalization of PPGACL.
IMACS is available only for master’s students and is not a cotutelle agreement, meaning the student’s master’s degree from UFJF will be issued by UFJF.
The IMACS international coordination will issue a document to be attached to the degree, confirming that the student completed courses at the foreign universities.
Until August 2020, PPGACL hosted 5 international students from 3 different countries who completed part of their studies at PPGACL.
University of Porto
Since 2019, PPGACL and the University of Porto have been able to establish academic and scientific cooperation, which includes:
- Mobility of undergraduate and postgraduate students, enabling them to attend courses and engage in research activities at the host institution.
- Mobility of faculty researchers, allowing them to give lectures, workshops, seminars, and courses, as well as conduct or participate in research activities at the host institution.
- Cotutelle (joint supervision) of doctoral theses, with advisors from both institutions.
- Joint development of research projects.
- Joint production of scientific publications.
- Participation in and strengthening of the Lusophone Network “Todas as Artes/Todos os Nomes”;
- Co-organization of academic, scientific, and cultural events, such as conferences, seminars, and others.
The cooperation is based at the Department of Sociology at the University of Porto.
In 2020, PPGACL master’s student Adriana Andrade Alves completed an exchange at the University of Porto, where she developed the project “Poéticas Centradas no Corpo”; as part of the “Corpoexperiência” project.
Global July
Managed by the International Relations Directorate, in partnership with the Pro-Rectory of Postgraduate Studies and Research, Global July is a program offering short-term courses in foreign languages for Brazilian and international students during the summer break in the northern hemisphere. The aim is to provide UFJF students with an internationalization experience at home.
In 2019, Professor Maria Isabel Baldasarre (Universidad Nacional de San Martin –Argentina) taught the course “Ser modernos. Los géneros del arte entre Europa y América Latina siglos XIX y XX” in Spanish during July for PPGACL students and the general UFJF academic community.
Visiting Professor Program
The Pro-Rectory of Postgraduate Studies and Research (PROPP) at UFJF launched Public Notice No. 28 on September 21, 2017, allowing each UFJF Postgraduate Program to hire a visiting professor for up to 4 years.
Through this notice, PPGACL hosted Professor Paula Maria Guerra Tavares from the University of Porto in the first semester of 2018, where she taught the course “Teorias da Cultura e da Arte”; and gave the opening lecture on March 21 titled “Recent dynamics of the festivalization of contemporary culture”
International Researcher/Collaborator
The Pro-Rectory of Postgraduate Studies and Research (PROPP) at UFJF launched Public Notice 01/2019 on July 17, 2018, for the Reception of International Researchers/Collaborators, allowing foreign researchers/collaborators to teach short- term courses (up to 15 days) and give lectures to UFJF postgraduate students, also extending to undergraduate students.
As part of this notice, in 2018, PPGACL hosted Professor Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva, who gave a lecture “The Text and the Image in Brazilian Fashion Magazines”; on November 5 at the General Auditorium of IAD/UFJF and conducted the minicourse “Fashion in the Fiction of Machado de Assis: From Newspapers to Television” on November 6 and 13.