Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Research with International Students Conference was held on 11 and 12 December in a hybrid format (online and in-person) at the University of Manchester (UK). The event sought to develop more methodological guidance to steer this subfield away from problematic discourses and assumptions, through presentations dealing with the following issues: critical conceptual and methodological issues currently faced by research with international students; practical (macro or micro) considerations for research in this subfield; issues of power, inequality, intersectionality and ethics in research with international students; how research with international students might be imagined differently; and what the future of research with international students should look like.

Based on this, the SINTEGRA project – a partnership between the Office of International Relations (SINTER/UFSC) and the Department of Psychology at UFSC – delivered a presentation entitled “SINTEGRA as an initiative to integrate international students from the Global South into a Brazilian public university“. They presented the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G), how the project works, its objectives and the ongoing actions. The presentation was prepared by the Director of International Relations Fernanda Leal, the head of PEC-G at UFSC Elisa Freitas Schemes, the SINTEGRA coordinator Elka Lima Hostensky, and the psychology professor Lígia Rocha. The presentation was also attended by Paula Eduarda Michels, English/Portuguese translator and interpreter at SINTER.

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This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

Last Friday, 9 November, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Université de Kamina (UNIKAM) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cooperation agreement, this being the first agreement between UFSC and an institution in Congo. The cooperation between the two universities comes from the desire to expand their academic relations and stimulate the exchange of knowledge between UFSC and UNIKAM.

The agreement was signed by the Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho and the Rector of UNIKAM, Paulin Banza Lenge Kikwike. The coordinator of the agreement at UFSC is Professor Marie Helene Catherine Torres from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Among the objectives of the cooperation are:

• academic mobility of students, faculty, researchers and staff between the universities;
• joint research, teaching, outreach and university management projects and activities;
• collaboration and participation in seminars, lectures, symposiums and academic meetings;
• undergraduate and graduate teaching programs;
• double degree programs; and
• co-supervision agreements.

The signing of the first agreement with a university in the Democratic Republic of Congo is an important milestone that supports the objectives of UFSC’s internationalization policies.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

“Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics” book cover.

On 12 September 2023, the book “Shades of Decolonial Voices in Linguistics” was published by Multilingual Matters. This is the second volume of the book series Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies, which is concerned primarily with exploring peripheralized ways of framing and conducting language studies in both the Global South and Global North – a concern which is not only epistemological, but also political, educational and social.

The current edition argues that Linguistics as a field of study has been shaped by colonization and needs a critical review. The work was organized by the Director of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University (USA) Sinfree Makoni, in partnership with professor Ashraf Abdelhay from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar), the Director of Family Literacy at the National Center for Families Learning (USA) Anna Kaiper-Marquez, the PhD student in the Department of Applied Linguistics, research assistant at the Global Virtual Forum and tutor for the KAUST program at Pennsylvania State University (USA) Višnja Milojičić, and the associate professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Cristine Severo.

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