Historian and coordinator of the history area in Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes), Carlos Fico discusses the criteria and challenges of evaluation faced by Fundação Capes and analyzes the panorama of the field. He criticizes academic productivism, deals with the distortions in the training of the historian, the dilemma with respect to the expected profile of t...

The Paradox of Historical Time and Atalanta “The Swift-footed Huntress”
 historian, to whom time is the chief ingredient history, perceives multiple dimensions time. They look back onto studied past (past-present) from their own present (present-present), but they also know (past-past), future said (past-future). This past-future encompasses vision people past, as well all interpretations ...