PETHL participates in the XIV International Congress on Black Culture Artifacts, in Cariri

2023-10-02 20:46:57

From the 25th to the 30th of last September, the group from the Portuguese Language Humanities and Letters Tutorial Education Program (PETHL) of the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia (Unilab) participated in the XIV International Congress Artefatos da Cultura Negra, hosted from the Regional University of Cariri (Urca), Crato/CE, Cariri region.

Under the guidance of tutor Professor Antonia Suele Alves, the PETHL fellows performed five works that were approved and presented under the following titles and authors:

1. “Revista África at Unilab: application of epistemologies from the Global South in favor of law 10.639/03”, by Jardel Felipe Rocha, Luís Brion and Franklin José Paulo.

2. “The importance of Abayomi dolls for the history of the fight against racism”, by Antônia Kácia Bezerra, Graça Filipe and Vitória Barros.

3. “The Africa Project at Unilab-ANU of PET de Humanidades e Letras as a mechanism to combat racism”, by Luís Brion, Vitória Barros and Analtina Cussitala.
4. “The relevance of textbooks in teaching History: an analysis of the external and internal materialities of textbooks from the History, Society and Citizenship collection, by Alfredo Boulos Júnior”, by Iara Vieira and Vitória Barros.

5. “Sublime voices: the expression of female loneliness in contemporary writing”, by Antônia Kácia Bezerra.

Artefatos da Cultura Negra is an international and multidisciplinary congress that seeks to create a territory of knowledge and promotion of anti-racist education, involving universities, social movement activists, basic education schools and traditional communities, at the same time that it constitutes as an important space for proposing anti-racist public policies.

The XIV edition had as its theme “20 years of law nº 10.639/03: Education, Democracy and Racial Justice”, a law with which PETHL has been aligning itself through its projects “Africa at Unilab – ANU” and “Internationalization and Internalization”, aiming to contribute to the promotion of anti-racist education and teaching with the History and culture of African countries that are part of Unilab.

The participation of the PETHL group was financed by the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the National Education Development Fund, through funding that the group receives annually to invest in activities and actions that aim to boost research production and the development of teaching. and university extension.

For tutor teacher Antonia Suele Alves, the participation of the scholarship holders in the event was of great value to the group, as “it served as a moment of sharing experience, cultural exchange and learning, especially learning that will be translated into the group’s future productions as a way of to continue at the forefront of promoting the triad that makes up Unilab and on which the Tutorial Education Program in Humanities and Letters is based”.