ReBECCa Blog

Northeastern Fairs at ReBECCa’s Meetings

Continuing the Geographical Tertúlias event, on Tuesday 22/05/07, professor Luís Antônio Gonçalves will present the theme “The Metamorphosis of the Fair: The Insertion of Popular Clothing”. It is a great opportunity to learn about the history of fairs in the Northeast of Brazil and all the transformations that the most traditional manifestations of this type of commerce are going through. Professor Luís works at the State University of Vale do Acaraú, in Sobral, Ceará, and is a member of ReBECCa.   Register on the event website: Geographical Tertúlias and watch it live on ReBECCA’s You Tube channel

Professor Carlos Henrique Costa da Silva will be a new speaker at the Geographical Tertulias

On 06/23/22, at 19:00, new lecture at the ReBECCa event   “Signs, desires and experiences in Commerce and Consumption”, this will be the topic addressed by Professor Carlos Henrique Costa da Silva, from the Federal University of São Carlos, Campus de Sorocaba, SP, at the Geographical Meetings, on Thursday, the 23rd. of June 2022. The event, whose website is at https://www.even3.com.br/rederebecca/, consists of a series of lectures on geographic studies on commerce and consumption. The text made available for the meeting is also available on the website in the “text repository” area. Download the document to spice up your discussion of the topic of the day.

Meeting for discussion of the II National Meeting of ReBECCa

Meeting for discussion of the II National Meeting of ReBECCa The ReBECCa Events Coordination, through its coordinator, Prof. Dione Dutra Lihtnov (LEUR/UFPEL), invites all interested parties to participate in the Organizing Committee of the II National Meeting of the Brazilian Network of Geographical Studies on Commerce and Consumption (II EN_ReBECCa). Network members who wish to join the Organizing Committee of the II National Meeting are invited to a meeting on June 24, 2022, at 2:30 pm, via webconference. The meeting will be held at the ReBECCa Virtual Meeting Room link at the URL: https://webconf.ufpel.edu.br/b/sid-h9t-2rj. On the occasion, the following subjects will be debated: definition of the Organizing Committee; date of the event; event format (in person, online or hybrid); organization of tables and other topics related to the organization of the II EN_ReBECCa. Participate.     06/24/2022 – Friday – 2:30 pm URL: https://webconf.ufpel.edu.br/b/sid-h9t-2rj

Professor Lincoln Diniz opens ReBECCa event today

At ReBECCa, the Brazilian Network of Geographical Studies on Commerce and Consumption, the event entitled “Geographical Meetings” begins today, proposed by Professor Rita de Cássia Conceição Gomes (UFRN) and which will bring in its opening lecture Professor Lincoln Diniz, from the Federal University from Campina Grande, PB. The topic addressed will be “Small commerce and urban growth”. To participate in the event, which will also feature a series of lectures until the end of the year, simply register on the “Geographical Meetings” page by clicking HERE. To watch the lecture live, just click on the link “Small commerce and urban growth”. Also don’t forget that you can participate in ReBECCa by subscribing to this blog and filling out the form on the Integrate a Network and Enter the Network tab.

Collegiate of ReBECCa Coordinators holds a meeting to plan actions in the network

On Wednesday (19/05/22) the Collegiate of Coordinators of the Brazilian Network of Geographical Studies on Commerce and Consumption, ReBECCa, met to discuss the functioning of the network. On the agenda, with a scheduled program, the launch of Meetings, Consumption and Culture in the Cities, starting on 05/31 and until 11/27. It is intended that the activity proposed by Professor Rita de Cásia da Conceição Gomes (UFRN) with the adhesion of members of the network, dynamize both during the actions or year, allow a better integration between the participants. The event should provide, in accordance with the proposed objectives, a better theoretical foundation for future research on topics of common interest. The promotion of the activity is encouraged. Another point discussed was the holding of the I National Meeting of ReBECCa, to be held next year in the city of Pelotas, RS. It was decided that it would be organized by...

New activities on the network.

The Brazilian Network of Geographical Studies on Commerce and Consumption, ReBECCa, is launching an activity to stimulate participation in the network, they are the Geographical Tertúlias. In contemporary times, the relationship between city, commerce, consumption and culture is increasingly accentuated in view of the solidity that consumer society assumes in the context of social reproduction. In view of this reality, understanding the dynamics of the city in the face of the growth of commercial activity and services is necessary, since it is an important factor for the unveiling of the processes that make the production of space and, therefore, the reproduction of society viable. In this sense, ReBECCa will promote during the year 2022, from 05/31 to 11/27, a series of online lectures that will give substance and meaning to the GEOGRAPHIC TALKS project: TRADE, CONSUMPTION AND CULTURE IN CITIES. Thus, the theme discussed in the 1st seminar on Commerce,...