Borrmann, Ricardo, Dr.

Ricardo Borrmann studied Social Science at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and took a Master’s in Politics and History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), both in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Between 2012 and 2017 he worked on a doctorate in Latin American Cultural History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), funded by a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. His doctoral thesis (2017) examines the reception of Rudolf von Ihering’s and Ernst Haeckel’s ideas in Brazil’s nineteenth-century legal culture by the lawyers and intellectuals Tobias Barreto de Menezes and Sílvio Romero.

His postdoctoral project “Film History, Latin America and Transatlantic Circulation of Knoweldge: Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes’s International Network (1935–1977)” focuses on the Brazilian film critic Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–1977), the founder of the “Brazilian Filmothek” (Cinemateca Brasileira) and the country’s academic film research. His postdoctoral research aims to reconstruct Salles Gomes’s international and intellectual network. The project is conducted at Faculty 8 (History, Latin American History) of the University of Bremen and is also connected to the Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels’ transdisciplinary research lab “Audiovisual Media and Historiography”.

In 2017, Ricardo Borrmann undertook research stays in Brazil, at the research lab “City and Power” (Laboratório Cidade e Poder) of the History Department of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (LCP/UFF) and conducted archival research for his postdoctoral project at the filmothek of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (Cinemateca do MAM). From April to Mai 2018 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) of the University of Bremen.

Ricardo Borrmann is a member of the research lab “City and Power” (Laboratório Cidade e Poder) at the Historical Department of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (LCP/UFF). He is also a member of the editorial board of Passagens – International Review of Political History and Legal Culture and Revista Direito em Movimento.