History - PPGAS Events

Inspired by the global Open Science movement, which aims to make scientific research more transparent, collaborative, and accessible to everyone, this edition of "Sexta do Mês" (Friday of the Month) will feature a meeting to share experiences related to the process of writing editorials for scientific journals, as well as the entire mechanism that drives and sustains a journal and the dialectical feedback between editors, authors, and readers. Scientific journals function not only as repositories of research output but also play a fundamental role in the democratization and circulation of…

2 PM - Panel: The hunting deities in African-based traditions in Brazil with Mãe Zana, Tata Katuvanjesi (Walmir Damasceno) and Doté Jorge Gbadesi.

Moderation: Juliane Olivia dos Anjos (FEUSP).

3:40 PM - Panel: Afro-Brazilian Cosmoperceptions and the Living Nature of the World with Cláadia Alexandre (Post-Doc-USP), José Pedro da Silva Neto (PPGAS-USP) and Vagner Gonçalves da Silva (FFLCH-USP).

Moderation: Rosenilton Silva de Oliveira (FEUSP).

5:30 PM - Book Launch: "Oxóssi, the Divine Hunter" - Pallas Editora

December 10, 2025, from 2 PM to 7 PM…

CEstA and LISA invite you to the Seminar

Cinema of Transformation: focusing on The Transformation of Canuto

Link to the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGogSEOQxWg

Tuesday, December 9, 2025
2:30 PM, at the LISA Auditorium
Screening of the film "The Transformation of Canuto" (Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho, 2024, 130')
After the film there will be a discussion with the filmmakers Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
10 AM, at the LISA Auditorium
Roundtable…

Full Program Announcement!

The event "Sexual Economies, Care, and Social Markers of Difference" is coming soon, taking place at USP (University of São Paulo) from December 8th to 11th, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) and the Faculty of Public Health (FSP).

Throughout the program, we will bring together activists and researchers from different areas to discuss central themes on sexual economies, care, and social markers of difference—reflecting on gender, sexuality, race, class, and other axes.

The full program is now available and…

Lecture with Lenin Alfonso Morales
(PhD student, University of São Paulo)

December 5, 2025, at 3 PM
CEstA Headquarters: Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - Favo 8
University City, São Paulo-SP

Nainu: Gunadule cosmotechnics to rethink the water-energy-food nexus in Abya Yala

In this presentation, Lenin Alfonso Morales shares the results of participatory research developed with the Gunadule indigenous community of Dubwala, in Gunayala (Panama). Based on the concept of Nainu—an agroforestry and cosmotechnic system that articulates agricultural,…

On December 3, 2025, at 5 PM, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) will host the seminar “Ethnographies in the Amazon: from the transits in the ‘Beiradão music’ to the ‘Rap AM’ circuit in Manaus,” which will be presented by Rafael Branquinho Abdala Norberto, researcher of the “Research in Musical Anthropology” group (PAM-USP) and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP (DA-FFLCH-USP). The event is open to the public.

The event aims to foster debate…

Ponto Urbe will be holding the Urbe Cycle 2 on December 3rd at 2 PM in room 24, with the event "Football as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Ethnographic Analyses and Contemporary Reflections."

This event marks the launch of the dossier of the same name and will include a discussion with the authors.

We hope to see you there!

Ponto Urbe, in partnership with the Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies - LETEC, welcomes researcher Pablo Ornelas Rosa for the lecture: “From platformization to technoconservative youth: A cartography of the Brazilian red pill community”. The debate will be moderated by Carolina Parreiras.
The event is part of the Urbe Cycle and will take place on December 1st, at 2 pm, in room 24.
We hope to see you there!

CEstA Duo with Ana Coutinho (presenter) and Camila de Caux (commentator)

November 28, 2025, at 5:30 PM
CEstA Headquarters: Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - Favo 8
Cidade Universitária, São Paulo-SP

Glimpses and Secret Voices: Ethnographic Notes on Women and Enemies in the Tawã Ritual among the Apyãwa-Tapirapé (Middle Araguaia)

Based on fieldwork conducted among the Apyãwa (Tapirapé), a Tupi-Guarani people inhabiting the Serra do Urubu Branco in northeastern Mato Grosso state, we propose a more detailed analysis of the relationships that women establish…

Enchantment is one of the best-known Afro-Indigenous manifestations in the North and in Maranhão, and therefore also in the Northeast of Brazil. Enchantment encompasses a range of elements that manifest themselves in Umbanda, as well as in some Candomblé terreiros (religious centers), and especially in Tambor de Mina and Terecô. The enchanted beings are spiritual entities that have not gone through the process of death, they have become "enchanted," and manifest themselves through mediumistic trance. They may have become enchanted in the forests, rivers, seas, animals, or various elements…