The Brunel Brazil Initiative

The Brunel Brazil Initiative is a showcase of Brunel University London's collaboration with Brazilian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and partners.

Spotlighting Human Rights and Climate Change, this event will champion current transnational education projects and research collaborations, creating opportunities to further international partnerships, capture research funding, and enable student mobility.

Join us for a programme of lively sessions unpacking the challenges and opportunities, with plenty of opportunity to network and enjoy some African-Brazilian music and culture.

Event Schedule

You can attend for the duration or you can choose when registering the sections of greatest relevance to you.

2:00pm
Arrival/registration
Eastern Gateway building

2:15 - 2:45pm
African-Brazilian drums Workshop
Eastern Gateway Auditorium

In this drum workshop you will learn how to play Samba using a variety of instruments. You will also learn about African-Brazilian cultural heritage directly from Marcos Santana - former Timbalada musician, and leader of Tribo (selected as “Best Brazilian Band” in Notting Hill Carnival 2024). With luck, you should learn the basics to join our Samba parade, later during the day - don’t miss it!

2:45-4:00pm
Global Partnerships Panel: Human Rights and Climate Change in transnational education and research
Eastern Gateway Auditorium

This panel will discuss the future of academic collaboration between Brazil and the UK, focusing on the possibility of joint research and educational projects. What are the current challenges and opportunities for international collaboration between higher education institutions in both countries? It will also share the experience and the findings of the project “Human Rights & Climate Change: transnational education, research and innovation between Brunel, UERJ and UFRJ,” funded by The British Council - under its Going Global Partnership (HE Connects: UK – Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation), and CAPES Foundation.

4:00 - 4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:30 - 5:45pm
Research Panel: Global challenges for Human Rights Law and Theory
Eastern Gateway Auditorium

Dr Daniela Barcellos (UFRJ): “The decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and their influence in overcoming violence against woman in Brazil”

Professor Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhaes (UFRJ): “Globalization, Presentism and the Future of Law”

This research panel will showcase the leading research of two Brazilian scholars on human rights law, regional courts and legal theory. This session will also highlight the global challenges to women's rights and indigenous people’s land rights, and the relation of both topics with the future of humanity.

5:45 - 6:15pm
African Brazilian Music Parade
Eastern Gateway Atrium

Join Marcos Santana and his crew in this incredible cultural and musical experience.

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Public Lecture: “The lawyers of the beef, the bible and the bullet: on conservative legal mobilizations”
Eastern Gateway Auditorium

Professor Fernando Fontainha is the Director of the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP) in the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), where he teaches Sociology of Law. He is currently a Visiting Academic in Brunel Law School. He is the leader of DECISO, the Centre for Research in Law and Social Sciences, and Associated Researcher of CEPEL – Centre d`Études Politiques de l`Europe Latine, in France and of CEJES – Centro de Estudos Jurídico-econômicos e Sociais, in Angola. He is a Fellow of the National Council of Research (CNPq), and his current research is supported by two Fellowships from the Carlos Chagas Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ): "Prociência" and “Young Scientist - JCNE”. He has a PhD in Political Science from UM1 - Université de Montpellier 1, a Master in Sociology and Law from the Federal University Fluminense (UFF), and a Bachelor in Law from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Most of his research is focused on judicial elites, social organization and hierarchy of the Judiciary Power.

7:30pm - 8:30pm
Drinks reception
Eastern Gateway Atrium

This initiative is informed by a partnership between Brunel University London, the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and supported by the CAPES Foundation.

The project is funded by The British Council's Going Global Partnerships programme (HE Connects: UK – Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation) which aims to build collaborations and long-term relationships to accelerate activities for the internationalisation of higher education.

 The Human Rights & Climate change project is lead by Dr Marcus De Matos and funded by The British Council's Going Global Partnerships programme (HE Connects: UK – Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation) which aims to build collaborations and long-term relationships to accelerate activities for the internationalisation of higher education.