About the Graduate Program in Humanities, Rights and Other Legitimacies (PPGHDL)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Humanidades, Direitos e Outras Legitimidades da FFLCH-USP

The Graduate Program in Humanities, Rights and Other Legitimacies (PPGHDL) at the University of São Paulo (USP) is organized around the following lines of research:

  1. Corporalities, alterities, territories and modes of existence;
  2. Literary, historiographical, linguistic, narrative, culture and education studies;
  3. Creative media, social movements and emerging rights; and
  4. Powers, politics and resistance.

Linked to the School of Philosophy, Languages, Literature and Humanities (FFLCH) at USP, it is an interdisciplinary Graduate Program that brings together researchers from different areas of knowledge such as history, literature, sociology, communications, arts, anthropology, psychology, geography, law, linguistics, occupational therapy and environment. In this context, the PPGHDL brings together faculty members from several USP units, including but not limited to the School of Communication and Arts (ECA), School of Arts Sciences and Humanities (EACH), School of Law (FD), Institute of Psychology (IP) and the Occupational Therapy area of the School of Medicine (FMUSP).

In the master's program, the maximum time limit for completion is 36 months; in the doctoral program, 48 months; and in the direct doctoral program, 54 months.

Expedient
Prof. Dr. Paulo Daniel Farah (Coordinator)
Prof. Dr. Rejane Vecchia da Rocha e Silva (Vice-coordinator)