MaCTRI Summer School hosts International Decolonial Exchange Project Summer School Programme 2026
Programme: International Decolonial Exchange Project in partnership with two Brazilian Universities.
When is the programme taking place: September 25th, 12-6pm
Location: Luther King House, Manchester (https://maps.app.goo.gl/BzuiUiZ2wtMcjGw57) and also online (Zoom video conferencing).
For the second year, MACTRI is hosting the UK arm of the Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program which is a collaborative project between the Federal University of the Amazon, Federal University of the Mato Grosso and Manchester Community Training & Research Institute (MACTRI)/Manchester/United Kingdom.
Objectives of the Programme
In this first stage of the collaboration between institutions the objectives are:
- For Brazilian PhD and Masters students to visit the UK to conduct research on UK policies around access to Higher Education and the resilience strategies Black and Indigenous students in Brazil.can continue to develop by using UK scholarly and community networks as inspiration
- To develop multifocal exchange experiences by offering joint courses in a hybrid format that enable the exchange of experiences between the Brazilian Graduate students involved and the Scholars at MaCTRI and their extended community networks in Manchester, Luton and London. This will contribute to Master’s and doctoral development of a decolonial praxis that considers Black and Indigenous epistemologies and their ancestral heritages. This will dovetail with MaCTRI’s decolonial doctoral publishing programme.
- To support the internationalisation and strengthening of the Brazilian Graduate Programs involved in the project by awarding scholarships, conducting missions, mobility, international cooperation between research groups, and exchange experiences that will contribute to the theoretical and methodological improvement of research, intellectual production and the inclusion of Black and Indigenous Amazonian students.
Overall goal of the programme
The overall goal of this leg of the programme is to use UK grassroots decolonial praxis as an inspiration for the Brazilian development of methods and strategies that combat epistemic racism generated by curricula frameworks and research practices that fail to incorporate Black, Indigenous, Latin American critical knowledge into their foundations.
We intend that the second leg of the project will be an opportunity for MaCTRI’s Scholars and community partners to visit communities in the Mato Grosso and Amazonian regions to gain an insight into their grassroots decolonial practices.
Programme origins
The program began in 2024, with an institutional visit to England. In 2025, eight Brazilian students (Master’s and doctoral) be participated in exchange activities in the United Kingdom through this partnership.
Programme of Presentations and Activities
Decolonising Non Colonisers: A case study of Eastern Europe
Care, Black Motherhoods, and Quilombamento in the Diaspora: Psychosocial Dialogues between the Amazonian Quilombola Territory and the United Kingdom
From Igarapés to Oceans: Mapping Visits to Leaders and Events of the Ballroom Community in Europe
Who’s Experience? Understanding Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Through Gender, Race and Faith
From university to work: experiences of deaf immigrants and strategies to occupation identify in higher education in UK
Reawakening Kindezi: The Art of Communal Childcare.
The work of the English department – a presentation about the practical application of Ubuntu pedagogy in the online teaching of GCSE English
Afrodiasporic Ancestry: Implications of Ancestry in the Development of Black Students’ Trajectories
The control black students in military programs: what say news british and brazilian
When the river crosses the ocean: Experience of mobility, belonging and care between the Amazon and Manchester
A Comparative Analysis of Perpetrator Intervention Systems in Brazil and the United Kingdom