Culture and Society Line of Research gathers projects from the six PPGH -UFF   sectors. The transversal themes aim to investigate the plurality of cultural manifestations, their agents and the collective forms of signification and social classification, in a temporal arc that ranges from ancient to contemporary societies. The various cultural phenomena are investigated in this Line of Research, such as different forms of production and realization of rituals, parties, musical and theatrical performances, intellectual creation, temporal forms and experiences, as well as oral and written language uses, among others. Through the textual, visual and oral documents analysis, in various supports – written, pictorial, audiovisual, three-dimensional and virtual testimonies –, the Culture and Society Line of Research maintain itself in narrow contact with other disciplines, such as Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, Literary Theory, Philosophy, Semiotics, among others. This dialogue is currently also carried out with the Digital Humanities field, which has been allowing new space-time frontiers crossing and broadening of research horizon, while working with sociocultural history. The research on cultural practices and representations requires, necessarily, proper approaches and methods. The Research Line has reflection axes from specific objects and multiple perspectives: 1) researches on documents and testimonials, on material culture of a society, its supports and broadcast media, and on cultural meanings of social phenomena; 2) researches about themes and problems addressed by the theory and philosophy of history, the past and present historiographic production, in addition to investigations into the temporalities forms, the approaches and interdisciplinary dialogues, and into the historian social place; 3) the production, circulation, consumption, politics and economy of images (analog and digital) that inform and problematize visual culture, the construction of signs and meanings in distinct visual manifestations and social practices, Visual Studies possibilities and limits; 4) the construction and preservation (or not) of collective memories, cultural centers, patrimonies, museums and collections, including digital; 5) the agency of historical subjects, their conflicts and their identities.

Power and Society Line of Research gathers projects from the six PPGH -UFF   sectors. The transversal themes aim to investigate the different forms and practices of power, through a broad conceptualization, capable of involving various social life aspects. With many possible meanings, power is a pervasive, relational and historical notion, which expresses itself in individual and collective action, and that, therefore, concerns the universe of politics, economy and culture, from ancient to contemporary societies. The relationships between power and society can unfold in reflective studies on different dimensions of writing of history, and on individual and collective strategies for exercising domination and sovereignty, resulting in different forms of subjection and resistance. We highlight the performance of pressure groups within State institutions and civil society; of different forms of power organization, through laws, regimes and government systems; of intellectual and conceptual vocabulary, and political languages, both forged over time for the maintenance or questioning of constituted powers; of formal and informal conflicts, on local or global level, in its most different manifestations (legal disputes, economic strife, wars, diplomatic relations etc.); of symbolic systems that gave sense and meaning to power relations. Benefiting from diversified and updated theoretical-methodological contributions, the Power and Society Line of Research remains in close contact with other disciplines, such as Political Theory, Anthropology, Economics, Philology, Philosophy, Semiotics, Sociology, Literature, Law, International Relations, among others.

Economy and Society Line of Research gathers projects from the six PPGH-UFF sectors. The transversal themes aim to investigate the societies forms of production, distribution and consumption over time. More recently, themes focused on thought and conceptual vocabulary related to economic activities have been incorporated, besides research on the social and historical relationships that produce wealth and poverty around the world. The theoretical-methodological plurality traces the Line of Research production by dialoguing with studies in Economics, Demography, Economic Anthropology, Global History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History, in an interdisciplinary way. The specific methodologies of these fields of knowledge conform to reflexive, epistemological problems on history and to the treatment of serial, quantitative and discursive sources, with comparative analysis, both between societies in space and in their various chronologies. Among the most recurrent themes, but not exclusive, are the multiple working relationships; the material production and its various levels of technological development; the distribution forms – exchanges, transport, commerce; the credit relationships; the relations of stateless and state economies, and other forms of power; the economic institutions, such as firms, companies, family units; the intellectual vocabulary and the concepts and languages of economic thinking; the economic-social relations that generate unequal distributions in space and time. The Line of Research still dialogues with assessments that address cultural aspects, such as researches in material culture, intellectual formation, among others, and political aspects, as power relations between subjects and institutions, construction of discourses and others.