My name is Fernanda Blanco Vidal,  I am a Brazilian Critical Psychologist at the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at Cuny and this is an initiative to promote a public space gathering and disseminating the scholarship of Brazilians and Brazilianists researchers at CUNY.

Over the years, I have met professors and students from Brazil or researchers who focus their scholarship in Brazil, but most of the time those meeting where a coincidence. In other cases, I heard about someone who was here and I have no idea. Even though I have organized a good number of contacts, I soon realized that it would be more useful if we have space to easily learn and reach each other. Therefore, I have decided to create this public and collective space in which we can learn about each other, help each other, exchange materials and ideas, disseminate information and get together.

As an ongoing project, I need help to build this up. Every time you meet a Brazilian scholar or a scholar studying Brazil at CUNY, let her/his/they know about this space and I will publish their profile and help networking.  I hope this initiative will bring us closer, but also create an “archive” of our existence and scholarship.

Fernanda Blanco Vidal

Contact: fblancovidal@gradcenter.cuny.edu  or fernandablancovidal@gmail.com 

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