1st Editorial Meeting – October 16, 2020

Introduction

On 15 October 2020, Mateus Hebling, Giovanna Imbernon, Claudia Pires, Anna Bennech, and Matheus Zago met in an extraordinary on-line session to discuss specific issues related to the blog. BRaS-Blog’s editor-in-chief, Matheus Hebling, conducted the session, presenting the following subjects.

Agenda

• the conclusion of the partnership with ANPOCS and the end of the texts on the coronavirus bulletin and;
• the conclusion of the texts on the research notes of the BraS members, scheduled for the first week of November and; 
• the need to expand texts and participation in the blog. 

Proposals for BRaS-Blog

The following proposals are put forward: 

1st proposal: interviews with academics. A separate block in the blog reserved for the publication of interviews with academics.  Where BraS members may conduct and publish interviews with academics, professors, and researchers and make it available in a special place on the website. 

2nd proposal: publication of research opportunities, with blog posts, aimed at publicizing calls for funding research grants, doctoral vacancies, post-doc, professors hiring, etc.  

3rd proposal: Book reviews on the blog; that means to add a book review block to the blog space. This space may be reserved for the dissemination of works of Brazilian or Brazilianists authors and would be opened to contributions from BraS members and the academic community. 

Following the proposals, Hebling highlights the crucial need for task-sharing for the blog activities and the vital importance to trace new strategies to continue with the blog publications and increase the impact of BraS in the academic community. 

Giovanna Imbernon said that the partnership agreement with Boletim Lua Nova, Cedec, had been concluded. On the BraS side, Matheus Hebling signed as editor-in-chief of the blog, and Giovanna as a witness, on the Lua Nova side signed Leonardo Octavio Belinelli de Brito as editor-in-chief and Andréa Cardoso as a witness. The agreement runs for 1 year and can be renewed at the end of the term. 

Giovanna reported on other possibilities of partnership, e.g. with Brésil(s) which is a French and French-language publication on Brazil. Edited at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales by the Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Colonial et Contemporain (CRBC/laboratório Mondes Américains).

Issues have been clarified and will be presented at the monthly meeting to all members of the group.  Matheus Hebling concluded the meeting by scheduling the journal’s editorial meeting for October 23rd and the group’s monthly meeting for October 30th.