Date/Time: Wednesday 1st June, 1-2pm

Venue: Old Library Building 2.01

This talk will analyse quotes from political speeches, articles published in print media and texts written by the young academic Getúlio Vargas during his time in the benches of the Free Law School of Porto Alegre, between 1903 and 1907. In the administration of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in this period, the Rio Grande do Sul Republican Party (PRR) predominated in the State administration and its political ideology was strongly influenced by the writings of Augusto Comte, the “Castilism-borgism”. However, if politically Getúlio identified with the Rio Grande do Sul positivists, intellectually, his favorite authors were Emanuel Kant, Count of Saint-Simon, Herbert Spencer, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Émile Zola, Euclides da Cunha, Raul Pompéia, among others. Our central hypothesis for the interpretation of the empirical material is that formation obliged Getúlio to acquire a critical position in relation to the official doctrine of the State.

Key words: Castilhism-borgism; Getulio Vargas; Rio Grandedo Sul Republican Party.

Rafael Augustus Sega was born in Curitiba (Brazil) in 1967, he is postdoctor in Brazilian Culture and Identities at Institute of Brazilian Studies of University of São Paulo (IEB-USP, 2016), he is also postdoctor in Sociology at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR, 2008), PhD in History at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 2003), master (1996), graduated (licensed and bachelor, 1992), both in History at UFPR; and he is also specialist in Education, in the area of Politics and Society, at Lapa Educational Faculty (FAEL, 2020). He is a Titular Professor (2014) at Professional and Technological Education Sector of UFPR. Between 1996 and 2019, he was a professor at Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR). His research specialty is in Political History, with an emphasis on the History of Brazil in the First Republic, with emphasis on: Federalist Revolution, Caudillism/Coronelism, Young Getúlio Vargas and Castilhism-Borgism.