Events

Start: Friday, August 21, 2026, 10:00 AM
Room 1039, Philosophy and Social Sciences Building – USP
Graça Cordeiro, a faculty member at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, will give a lecture on ethnographic and historical research regarding Azorean-American communities (an event organized by GEAC-USP). For an interview on the subject, see https://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4EN/10699.html

Book launch: *Antropologias feitas no Brasil* (Anthropologies Produced in Brazil), with Miriam Pillar Grossi (UFSC).
Discussion led by Silvana Nascimento and Júlio Simões.
Moderated by Pedro Lopes.
Friday, August 21, at 4:00 PM, in Room 8 of the FFLCH Social Sciences Building.
Link to download the book: https://portal.abant.org.br/publicacoes/publicacao/370546
Organized by: DA, PPGAS, and NUMAS – FFLCH/USP
Supported by: Capes, CNPq, FAPESP

A discussion on the book *Musicar local: trilhas para estudos musicais* (Local Musicking: Pathways for Musical Studies), which explores the potential of the concept of "local musicking"—inspired by the neologism "musicking," coined by Christopher Small to encompass any form of engagement with music.

Featuring Suzel Reily (coordinator of the FAPESP Thematic Project "Local Musicking: New Pathways for Ethnomusicology"), Flávia Toni (musicologist and full professor at the IEB-USP), and Rose Satiko (associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at USP).

Registration: sescsp.org.br/cpf

Center for Research and Training (Centro de Pesquisa e Formação)
Rua Dr. Plínio Barreto, 285, 4th floor
Bela Vista – São Paulo – SP

Friday of the Month, an event organized by students from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP, invites everyone to the August themed table!

Theme: “Unified Black Movement: protest, popular struggle and anti-racist education”

The proposal of Friday of the Month in August is to discuss the relationships between political mobilization, knowledge production and institutionalization of agendas of the black social movement in Brazil, based on the trajectory of the Unified Black Movement (MNU). The panel starts with the following question: how does black protest in the streets unfold into political and institutional formulations in the field of education?

In this sense, it is proposed to articulate historical, ethnographic and political dimensions of the MNU's actions, taking as central the experiences, narratives and reflections of its members. The aim is to understand how the militant production of the black movement contributed to the…