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Internship Program at the Institute Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro
Summer 2020
The internship program is in collaboration with Columbia University and Barnard professors Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao who are the project directors of Geographies of Injustice, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Center for Spatial Research.
Project and internship description
The project seeks 2-3 interns from Columbia and Barnard College with advanced language skills in Portuguese to work with the team at the Institute Moreira Salles to assist in the creation of a geographical history of the favelas. Interns will assist with interviews, field research, and geo-referencing records and work primarily in the Rocinha and Complexo da Maré favelas. The internship lasts 1 month and is slated to begin in May 2020, with the possibility of extension if both parties agree to the terms.
Interns must have advanced language skills in speaking and reading Portuguese. No prior knowledge of geo-referencing is required but knowledge of digital mapping skills and college-level research experience are a plus.
Interns will work with a multidisciplinary team, consisting of different institutions (private, public and non-governmental organizations) to develop a methodology that involves interviews with residents or visitors of the above mentioned locations. The goal is for residents and visitors to relate individual and collective stories that tell narratives around cultural histories with a focus on music and identity. (For example, we aim to gather interviews from an elderly composer of sertanejomusic from Northeastern Brazil, a young funk musician, an evangelical woman pianist, and a recently arrived immigrant living in the favela who was a musician in his country. Other such projects will follow.)
After the interview stage, the project team will develop content proposals for a series of podcasts to be produced in the Moreira Salles Institute studios and made available on the institutions' networks.
It is worth mentioning that this is a work in process, which allows possible redefinition of the project and new paths of exploration to emerge from the practice.
From the point of view of the Moreira Salles Institute, the project is expected to be carried out by a team with interdisciplinary experience, especially intern trainees, in the key areas of the project, namely Social Action and Radio Batuta.
Barnard and Columbia interns will be associated with both projects. Please note that interns must be able to commit to a total of 10 weeks@35 hours of work/week. The project is located in Rio de Janeiro for the first month, and continues when interns return to New York.
Interest in, or prior experience with, the production and editing of textual and image content, and in developing methodologies concerning fieldwork, interviews and systematization of their data will be a plus. So, too, an interest in music, media, and radio, and knowledge of editing digital audio files.
Please send a resume and a 1-2 page statement with information about relevant coursework, Portuguese-language experience, and prior experience in areas related to the project. Please also include an explanation about your personal interests in the project. Send resume and statement to arao@barnard.edu and to ana.lee@columbia.edu for consideration.
For questions regarding internship specifics and scholarship opportunities, please contact professors Ana Paulina Lee (ana.lee@columbia.edu) and Anupama Rao (arao@barnard.edu).
We will begin reviewing applications on December 1, 2020. Interviews with shortlisted candidates will begin in late January.
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