Banca de DEFESA: MARIA CLARA BARBALHO DE MENDONÇA

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STUDENT : MARIA CLARA BARBALHO DE MENDONÇA
DATE: 19/12/2026
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY IN THE INTERIOR OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE: THE CASE OF THE FUNDAÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE REGIONAL DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE (1968-1973)

KEY WORDS:

Universidade Regional do Rio Grande do Norte; Regionalization; João Batista Cascudo Rodrigues; University Reform; Memory.

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation contributes to the field of research on Memory and History of Institutions. The research aimed to understand the conditions of production of the regionalization — both practical and discursive — of the Regional University Foundation of Rio Grande do Norte (FURRN), now the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), based on the local intellectual and political agents who founded it, considering the broader context of the University Reform (1968) promoted by the Military Dictatorship, during the rectorship of its first Rector, João Batista Cascudo Rodrigues (1968-1973). We approach this theme from theoretical frameworks that address Space, Region, Memory, Institutional Memory, the University Field, Intellectuals, and Self-Writing. The sources used were the memoirs of the first Rector, entitled “Interiorization of the University” (2001), the first volume of the Expressão Magazine (1969), which was characterized as a report of the institution's first year of operation, reports from the newspapers O Mossoroense and Diário de Natal, and the Laws and Decrees-Laws related to higher education promulgated in this time frame. The first chapter presents the scenario of higher education between the 1960s and 1970s, focusing the debate on the University Reform of 1968 and the model that emerged from extension projects and the decentralization of universities. In the second chapter, we analyze the expansion of higher education in Mossoró and the conditions for the founding, development, and decentralization of the Regional University of Rio Grande do Norte, which involved the professional trajectory of João Batista Cascudo Rodrigues and the networks of sociability he established at the municipal, state, and federal levels to support the institution's regional expansion project. In the third and final chapter, we examine the memorialistic and discursive construction of FURRN based on the memoirs of its first Rector and the performance of the cultural project "Battle of Culture," which included the institution's founding event among the memorable historical events of the municipality.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.129.234-** - BRUNO BALBINO AIRES DA COSTA - IFRN
Interno - 2277360 - MAGNO FRANCISCO DE JESUS SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - SAUL ESTEVAM FERNANDES - UFAC