About us
NEPAT [Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies] is an independent academic and educational initiative, founded in 2019 and headed by three historians:
Maria Visconti, Bárbara Deoti and Anna Viana.
Our researches and goals
NEPAT emerged from the need to create spaces for academic dialogue in Brazil on the themes of Nazism and the Holocaust, and to produce accessible content covering these topics.
Academically, we realize that the field of study on these subjects is not yet consolidated or centralized in the country, so one of our goals is to make these exchanges viable and contribute to the training of researchers.
Furthermore, we have observed a demand from the non-specialized public for quality historical content on these issues that raise so many questions and curiosities.
We believe that the dissemination of knowledge, carried out in a committed and ethical manner, is essential for building a democratic and critical society.
Our academic work
NEPAT has held three academic events so far.
Our inaugural event, "80 years of the Second World War: Echoes, Representations and Memories" took place in 2019, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences at UFMG.
In 2021, we promoted our first international event, which took place online,"What is left of the Swastika: Nazism, Negationism and Memory".
In 2022, we promoted our second international event, "The burden of our times: the Third Reich in perspective".
These events stablished NEPAT as a reference in academic production about Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Second World War.
Our social media production and scientific divulgation
Taking as a starting point the debates promoted by the Public History field, NEPAT, in 2020, started a project for the production of content and scientific divulgation on social networks.
In our social media, we produce posts divided into niches covering a multiplicity of themes and approaches about the 20th century.
In addition, we have a podcast, Desnazificando, in which we talk about Nazism, education and the 20th century, debating concepts, ideas, and events in a fun way, but with depth and quality.