Events

Format: In-person

- Organized by IRL2034 Worlds in Transition and the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Symposium will open with the conference Repairing the Irreparable? given by Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington DC, United States, and commented on by Zacarias Chambe, Professor of History at USP.

- The opening conference will address how slavery has been remembered and commemorated in the public sphere of Atlantic societies in Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the creation of monuments, memorials, and exhibitions—initiatives that, to a large extent, have been considered forms of symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It will then focus on the history of demands for financial and material reparations, which have evolved from the late 18th century to the present day, gaining new momentum during the second decade of the 21st century, although the…

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Friday of the Month, an event organized by students of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), invites everyone to the June thematic table! ✨

Theme: "Internet, masculinity and violence: becoming men through digital"

Considering the cases of violence against girls and women, which has increasingly gained the media and social networks, the proposal of Friday of the Month of June aims to bring together researchers who are looking at the imbrications and resonances between masculinity and the internet.

The table will have as its common thread the discussion of how the internet has become a means of building masculinities that are often entangled in discourses that praise violence. The so-called "machosphere" has been configured as a space on social networks in which hatred of the bodies of women and LGBTQIA+ people spreads. These discourses have produced ways of understanding themselves as men and boys from this…