Ana Carolina Maciel

Ana Carolina Maciel is a historian, documentary filmmaker and professor in the Multimeios Post-Graduation Program at the UNICAMP Institute of the Arts, and an International Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) in Paris. She is President of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello - UNICAMP/ACNUR/ONU Chair, and heads the “Trajectoires sans frontières: cinémas du refuge contemporain” research group. She is former coordinator of UNICAMP's Interdisciplinary Research Centers and Nuclei (2017-2024), and was also Senior Catedrática Professor at the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies (Cátedra UNESCO/UNITWIN, 2021), a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Brazilianists in Europe (2021-2023), and president of the Brazilian Oral History Association (2016-2018)..

The project

Title: Mapping migration and hospitality in Latin America and Europe (Brazil, France, Uruguay)

"The present research project intends to investigate contemporary forced displacements and one of its main effects, the “refuge”, based on the interdisciplinary conceptual debate on memory, testimony and life trajectories. This is a collaborative proposal carried out in partnership between the Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello/ UNICAMP/ UNHCR, Univ Paris Nanterre and the Institut Convergences Migrations/ Paris (ICM) and which will address narratives - notably first-person testimonies - with the aim of capturing, producing, discuss and make available dimensions of traumatic experiences that hover largely invisible and inaccessible to a wider audience. In this perspective, the study aims to contribute to the overflowing of the borders of different fields of knowledge in the production of theoretical perspectives that instrumentalize reflections on the agency of people who experience forced displacement. Proposed by a team of researchers from Brazil and France, active in complementary areas related to the theme of refuge, the research includes the publication of articles, a book, the promotion of national and international academic events, a training course aimed at students, employees of NGOs and public and private power developed by INALCO PARIS to be held at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the creation and availability of a Data Repository on refuge in addition to capturing interviews with refugees living in Brazil and France, giving the protagonism of speech to this largely invisible population spectrum. Therefore, Trajectories Without Borders will enable a qualified debate based on the lines of research, theoretical and field, undertaken by the researchers involved and with the fruitful engagement of institutions, such as UNICAMP, Univ Paris Nanterre and Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), in migration studies."

Institution: Université Paris Nanterre

Selective Bibliography

• MACIEL, Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim. “Yes nós temos bananas” Cinema industrial paulista: a Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz, atrizes de cinema e Eliane Lage. Brasil, anos 1950. Alameda Editorial, São Paulo, 2011. Auxílio Publicação FAPESP.
• MACIEL, Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim; KNOBEL, M.; ORCIOLI. "Sabores sem Fronteiras", Ed. Senac, São Paulo, 2021.
• CHAPTERS 
• MACIEL, Ana Carolina M. D.; FERREIRA, João Felipe R.; & (Orgs.). "#MemóriasCovid19: Olhares e Relatos", Ed. Cancioneiro, Teresina, 2023.
• MACIEL, Ana Carolina de M. D.; FERREIRA, João F. R. 2022. #Memóriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in The Core of Covid-19 Pandemic. In: FRIDMAN, Orli; GENSBURGER, Sarah. Memory and Commemoration After The Covid-19 Pandemic. Springer Nature, Suiça, 2023.
• MACIEL, Ana Carolina de M. D.; FERREIRA, João F. R. 2022.“Tempo e Trauma”: Considerações sobre a Urgência do Testemunho e as Temporalidades da Pandemia. In: VARGAS, Marilucci et. all. Usos (e abusos) do passado entre memórias e esquecimentos: as formas do testemunho. Vitória: Editora Letra e Voz, 2023.
• MACIEL, Ana Carolina M. D.; FERREIRA, João F. R. 2020. #MemóriasCovid19: Narrativas de um trauma em tempo real. In: MARINO, Ian K.; NICODEMO, Thiago L. Por uma História da Covid-19: Iniciativas de Memória da Pandemia no Brasil.Vitória: Editora Mifontes, 2022.