Speaker:
M.s. Daniel Florence Giesbrecht (Brazil)
Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC/UC)
Ph.D. candidate in the Contemporary History Program, University of Coimbra
Presentation:
“Divus vs. Galton: Eugenia Negativa e Catolicismo no Brasil nas Décadas de 1920 e 1930”
[Divus vs. Galton: Negative Eugenics and Catholicism in Brazil during the 1920s and 1930s]
The lecture will be in Portuguese.
Suggested Reading [Portuguese]:
1 - GIESBRECHT, Daniel Florence. Eugenics and Catholicism in Brazil: a study based on Catholic intellectual production in Rio de Janeiro in the decades of 1920 and 1930. In Revista de História Regional, v. 29, 2024. Link.
2 - WEGNER, Robert; SOUZA, Vanderlei Sebastião de. Negative eugenics, psychiatry, and Catholicism: Debates around eugenic sterilization in Brazil. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, v. 20, pp. 263-288, 2013. Link to PDF.
3 - VELLOSO, Mônica Pimenta. A Ordem: A journal of political doctrine and Catholic culture. Revista de Ciência Política, v. 21, n. 3, pp. 117–160, 1978. Link to article.
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