Researchers in 2018
Diogo Rosenthal Coutinho (Faculty of Law / FD-USP) - "Uncertainty and legal barriers to innovation in Brazil" A professor at the Department of Economic and Financial Law of USP's Faculty of Law, Coutinho will develop the research project "Uncertainty and legal barriers to innovation in Brazil," which will last 12 months. The project will discuss the roles of law in public policies and public-private relations in the field of innovation in Brazil. It is based on the premise that in order to foster innovation it is necessary to design, structure and articulate legal-institutional arrangements and contractual instruments capable of effectively coordinating key actors such as the State, companies and entrepreneurs, and universities. Coutinho will work with the hypothesis that despite a series of advances in legislation law can still be considered part of the set of "bottlenecks" to innovation in the country. At the end of the research, he intends to produce two academic articles, one in Portuguese and one in English. |
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Fabíola Andréa Silva (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology / MAE-USP) - "Ethnography of Archaeology: an Interdisciplinary Study on the Use of Ethnographic Data in the Production of Archaeological Knowledge" A professor and researcher at USP's Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Silva will conduct research at the IEA for 12 months. With the project "Ethnography of Archaeology: an Interdisciplinary Study on the Use of Ethnographic Data in the Production of Archaeological Knowledge," she will seek to demonstrate and analyze the contribution of ethnographic practice to the production of archaeological knowledge in the Americas. Her research project is divided into two parts: 1. critical review of the bibliography on the use of ethnographic data and ethnographic practice in archaeological interpretation; 2. enforcement of an ethnographic practice in the context of an archaeological investigation. Silva will seek to understand how ethnography is entangled in archaeological practices, and how ethnographic data has contributed, over time, to archaeological interpretations of materiality. |
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Fausto Roberto Poço Viana (School of Communication and Arts / ECA-USP) - "Dressing the contemporary scene: Brazilian clothing from before 1500 until the end of the seventeenth century" Fausto Roberto Poço Viana (ECA-USP) A professor at the Department of Performing Arts of USP's School of Communications and Arts, Viana will carry out the project "Dressing the contemporary scene: Brazilian clothing from before 1500 until the end of the seventeenth century," which will last 12 months and is already being developed by him. He will address the identification, creation, modeling and confection of costumes made or woen in Brazil from before 1500 to 1890. The research is focused on the work of the performing arts, notably the creation of scene costumes, both the realistic and the experimental ones, and artistic recreations. The researcher will study the historical background, life in society, fabrics, clothing and suits, trade and production of textiles, if any, different materials and adornments / props used, colors of fabrics, costumes and body painting, forms of sewing and confection of the costumes and categorization in Brazil of that time. During the sabbatical program, Viana intends to organize an electronic portal to organize research data and their products, a sort of a virtual museum. |
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Geciane Silveira Porto (School of Economics, Business and Accounting in Ribeirão Preto / FEARP-USP) - "Evolution of cooperation networks and emerging technologies in the biotechnology segments: an application of Ars Dynamics in patents" A professor at the FEARP-USP, Porto works in the areas of innovation management and entrepreneurship. At the IEA, she will carry out a 12-month research project entitled "Evolution of cooperation networks and emerging technologies in the biotechnology segments: an application of Ars Dynamics in patents." The study aims to analyze the evolution of the technological efforts of the biotechnology sector in Brazil and in the world, applying the technique of analysis of dynamic social networks to build cooperation networks among companies, universities and research institutes, as well as to map the technological routes that have resulted in the development of patented inventions in the biotechnology segments of these networks. Porto hopes to map the main players, the promising technologies and their target markets in the last 20 years, and to verify the insertion of the Brazilian actors in the respective collaborative networks, which will allow to monitor the trends of emerging technologies. |
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Gladys Beatriz Barreyro (School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities / EACH-USP) - "Internationalization of Higher Education: Use of Rankings" A professor at EACH-USP, Barreyro works in the area of education, especially with policies and evaluation of higher education, at the global, regional and national levels. She will carry out the six-month research project "Internationalization of Higher Education: Use of rankings," which will investigate the impact of the results of Brazilian universities in international rankings, focusing on two institutions: the University of São Paulo (USP) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Among her goals, Barreyro wants to investigate if and what transformations these rankings have generated in institutional identity and in the purposes of teaching, research and extension. |
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Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado (Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences / FFLCH-USP) - "The story of a black curator in São Paulo from slavery to post-emancipation (João de Camargo - 1858-1942)" A professor at the Department of History of USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH), Machado specializes in the social history of slavery, abolition and post-emancipation. At the IEA, she will conduct research with the 12-month project 'The story of a black curator in São Paulo from slavery to post-emancipation (João de Camargo - 1858-1942),' which intends to elaborate a biography of the popular slave-born curator João de Camargo, of Sorocaba, in the countryside of the State of São Paulo, founder of the 'Nosso Senhor do Bonfim da Água Vermelha' Church. The focus is on the recovery of his cult and healing practices, seeking to also understand the reasons that justify the survival of this cult to the present time. Thus, Machado hopes to contribute to the deepening of the understanding in the area of the history of culture and the history of religions, as well as the role played by Afro and Afrodescendent cults in the addressed period. |