Professor Heike Drotbohm (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Date: October 7 and 21 – 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Venue: IMS Auditorium, Room 6012 E, 6th floor, Block E. UERJ, Maracanã Campus. Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524.
Activity of the “Culture, Subjectivity and Emotions” Project (CAPES-PRINT/UERJ)
Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences (PPCIS)/UERJ.
To register, just send an e-mail to inscricaoemdisciplinas.ppcis@gmail.com with the following information: full name, e-mail address, contact cell phone number, postgraduate program, degree.
About professor and researcher Heike Drotbohm:
Professor of cultural and social anthropology (ethnology). She works on different dimensions of mobility and migration, focusing on societies in the transatlantic region – especially in the Caribbean, the upper coast of Guinea (Cape Verde) and Brazil. After studying in Münster and Marburg, she completed her doctorate in Marburg with a thesis on the spiritual practices and affiliations of Haitian migrants in Montreal, Canada. She did her post-doctorate in Freiburg (Breisgau), where she completed her habilitation with a thesis on Cape Verdean transnational family relations. The central question was to what extent the normative expectations of family-based migration influence the conception – maintenance or dissolution – of these family constellations.
In her most recent research project, carried out in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, she examines how migrants who have recently arrived in the city perceive the city’s aid scene, what social relationships they form within it and what forms of support they receive in humanitarian and pro-migrant forms.