At least a dozen releases and reissues of works by Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), including Casa-grande & senzala, Sobrados e mucambos, Nordeste and Ordem e Progresso, put the role of the sociologist from Pernambuco in Brazilian historiography back into debate. contemporary. Professors Edson Nery da Fonseca (UnB), Elide Rugai Bastos (Unicamp), Enrique Larreta (Candido Mendes) and Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo (Iuperj/PUC-Rio) discuss aspects of Freyre's life and work. Jornal da Unicamp publishes an unpublished text by the sociologist. It is a letter sent in 1931 by Freyre to his father, from Stanford, USA. Below is an excerpt:

“The period is painful because it is transitional. The prejudice against whiteness has not yet completely disappeared; The shame of being a mulatto still manifests itself in ridiculous pretensions. The time is still one of newly powerful people, new cults, new rich people, arrivism in various expressions”

The second edition of UPA (Unicamp de Portas Abertas) brought together, on the 3rd and 4th of September, 35.304 students from 605 high schools. For the vice-rector and coordinator of the event, professor José Tadeu Jorge, “the result was better than expected”.