Florestan Fernandes, sociologist in transit

Presentation of a research project as part of the "Jeudis de la Maison Suger", a residents' research seminar.

Débora Mazza is full professor at the Faculty of Education of the State University of Campinas, in the department of Social Sciences. She is Associate Editor of the Education and Society Magazine and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

She was a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), Laboratoire Genre, Travail et Mobilité (GTM) in 2011-2012 and at the Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Colonial et Contemporain (CRBC) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2002-2003. She completed an international mobility assignment at the Université Jean Piaget, Praia, Cape Verde (2015). Since 2019, she has been coordinating the international cooperation agreement between UNICAMP and the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.

Presentation of the project

"The research studies the socio-historical conditions of the constitution of the sociologist Florestan Fernandes as well as his participation as an academic and public intellectual. After the 1964 coup d'état, Florestan was forced to retire in 1968, experiencing professional crises, emotional maladjustments and family difficulties, living in exile in Canada and the United States. In the 1980s/90s, as a federal deputy for the PT, he converted his university degrees into parliamentary politics."

Speakers

• Débora Mazza is full professor at the Faculty of Education of the State University of Campinas, in the department of Social Sciences.
• Discussant: Mônica Raisa Schpun is a historian and member of Mondes Américains (Institut des Amériques/EHESS, Paris)