The Postgraduate Program in Art History (PPGHA) of the State University of Rio de Janeiro promotes interdisciplinary studies in art history from a global perspective. The program encompasses research projects covering a broad range of spatial and temporal categories – among others, in fields such as Greco-Roman antiquity; the global Renaissance; art produced in Brazil between the nineteenth century and the present; carnival in its longue durée; artistic production characterized as “Afro-Brazilian art”, as well as that by indigenous peoples. A common premise unites these disparate threads: the need to decentralize and renew both objects and methods of the discipline, towards the purpose of generating a multi-centered perception of the world and of the arts.