Lusophone Journal of Cultural and Communication Studies (NAUS)

A institucionalização dos estudos feministas: Representação, reconhecimento e resistência

Adriana Bebiano — 2025-11-14

No âmbito do protocolo interinstitucional entre a Universidade de Coimbra e a Universidade Federal da Bahia, ocorreu aula inaugural no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre Mulheres, gênero e feminismo (PPGNEIM-UFBA), ministrada para comunidade académica.

Diário de Luzia: Caminhos da Vida, Um Jornal, coordenação de Luísa Antunes Paolinelli e Ana Cristina Trindade (2023)

Isabel Drumond Braga — 2025-10-16

Primeira biografia do marquês de Pombal, de José de Mendonça (2025)

Luiz Oliveira — 2025-10-16

Production of meanings about emergency remote teaching: A Discursive Look at the Guiding Documents of Educational Policies in Brazil and Portugal During the Pandemic Period

Rejane de Freitas Torres Santos — 2025-11-09

The present study investigates the official discourses inscribed in normative documents produced by Brazil and Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those that regulated emergency remote teaching. We prioritize the analysis of how these texts produce meanings about teaching activities amidst confinement, highlighting disputes surrounding continuity, equity, digitalization, and exclusion in the educational field. The research adopts the Pêcheutian, materialist-based Discourse Analysis (DA), founded in the 1960s by Michel Pêcheux, mobilizing concepts such as: conditions of production, subject-form, subject-position, authorial function, discursive memory, and ideological formations. The corpus consists of Decrees-Law, Ordinances, Resolutions, and Opinions. We seek to understand the discursive functioning of these texts and contribute to the expansion of practices for reading and interpreting significant materialities, emphasizing the opacity of language and the subject-positions at stake. In this context, the analysis aims to strengthen the academic debate on educational policies in crisis contexts and on how different nations, even if linguistically and culturally close, produce singular discursivities in their institutional documents.

Unusual or common in History? “Nows” as permanent elements in times of war

Antônio Carlos da Silva — 2025-10-06

The 20^th century was marked by wars and revolutions so intense that Eric Hobsbawm referred to it as “short” (2017). Amid the paradoxes of wartime and social conflict, scientific production also moved at a pace shaped by urgent “now” moments. Taking context as its central axis, this essay proposes a historical-philosophical approach, emphasizing distinct yet relatively interdependent temporal spaces. Using a qualitative methodology and essayistic writing style, the text explores expressions found in world literature and cinema. The starting point is drawn from the work of Susan Sontag (2007), namely the question: “Is there any antidote to the eternal seduction of war?” From scientists to writers and filmmakers, depictions of war and reflections on historical times explore the tension between the recognition and non-recognition of human and social experiences.

Brain and technology: The odyssey of human evolution in a digital world

Roberta Maria Bueno Bocchi — 2025-11-06

This article explores the intricate relationship between technological advancement and human evolution, questioning whether the progress of tools genuinely aligns with the development of our own condition. Starting with a definition of technology as knowledge applied to production, the text delves into the complexity of defining "human," tracing a panorama from classical philosophical views (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Locke) to the contemporary interface of neuroscience with philosophy, exemplified by Patricia Churchland. The analysis deepens into brain function, highlighting neuroplasticity and how the environment shapes our neural connectome and perception of reality, emphasizing the uniqueness of individual experience and the coexistence of conscious and unconscious behaviors. Furthermore, the subtle interaction between genetic factors and the environment in human formation is addressed, citing current neurogenetics research that associates genetic variations with psychiatric disorders and their behavioral implications. The article concludes that, while technology has driven significant advancements in life expectancy and health, it is fundamentally a tool; true human evolution resides in the individual's capacity to navigate their own dichotomy, propelled by continuous knowledge and learning. The text finishes by emphasizing the critical need for public policies and an Education system that empower humans to coexist with their own inherent humanity, utilizing technology consciously and ethically to shape a dignified future for all.