The final session of the Collaborative Course “Thematic Graduate Seminars: participation, associativism, and political confrontation” took place on Thursday, December 4.
The initiative consisted of offering a shared course across different Graduate Programs affiliated with INCT Participa. It was delivered in a synchronous hybrid format starting in September, combining in-person activities within each graduate program with virtual interaction among faculty and students from different institutions.
Organized by the Training Working Group (GTT Formação), the course aimed to connect academic training, exchange between graduate programs, and the dissemination of ongoing research within INCT Participa.
In this first edition, the course included participation from the following graduate programs: Social Sciences/UEM, Political Science and International Relations/UFPB, Sociology/UFRGS, Public Health/UFRGS, Political Science/USP, Political Science/UnB, Social Sciences/UFES, Sociology/UFS, Public Policy/UFPI, and Political Science/UFSC.
Around 60 students were enrolled in the course, which featured eight sessions focused on the theme of participation, taught by different researchers affiliated with INCT: Adrian Lavalle (USP), Rebecca Abers (UnB), Carla Martelli (Unesp), Olívia Perez (UFPI), Wilson Ferreira de Oliveira (UFS), Debora Rezende de Almeida (UnB), Euzeneia Carlos (UFES), and Ernesto Seidl (UFSC).
The topics covered in this first edition included: Participatory Institutions and Public Policies; Representation and Political Participation; Processes of Engagement and Activism; Political Ethnography of Participation and Associativism; Collectives, Social Movements, and Public Policies.
The course content was recorded and will be made available to the public, highlighting the initiative’s goal of combining academic training with the dissemination of research developed within the network. Innovation and challenge were two key guiding principles of this inaugural edition.
The course format will be evaluated by students, instructors, and in-person faculty from the participating graduate programs, with the aim of gathering input to improve future editions, which will focus on other INCT Participa themes (political confrontation and associativism).
