History - PPGAS Events

INVITATION | “A Sexta do Mês,” an event organized by students in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP, invites everyone to September’s themed panel! ✨

Theme: “Darcy Penteado’s Centennial: Art, Politics, and LGBT+ Memory”

The aim of September’s “Friday of the Month” is to celebrate the memory and the political and artistic legacy of Darcy Penteado (1926–1987), as part of a series of events held throughout the year to honor his centennial, and also to reflect on the conditions for the production and preservation of LGBT+ memory in Brazil, by placing the role of…

CEstA Duo with Gustavo de Godoy e Silva and Ivan Rocha

09/18/2026, at 5:30 pm

Gustavo de Godoy and Silva

Anthropologist with experience in linguistic documentation, with the Ka'apor, Mbya and Guató peoples

Ka'apor and Guató linguistic documentation

Presentation of the documentation project of Ka'apor and Guató. With Ka'apor we document the two languages of this people, the spoken and the signs. The collection of spoken ka'apor focused on documenting mythology, recording different versions of myths with different speakers, from different…

AnthropoCena presents: How far the view reaches

Screening of the film and conversation with directors

📅 September 17, 2026

🕠 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

After the screening, Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero, directors of the film, participate in a conversation mediated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, professor of the anthropology department and coordinator of LISA-USP.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1016183696/

AntropOCena is an initiative of LISA and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by USP researchers, through…

Launch Event for the First "Pocket Ethnographies" Dossier from *Cadernos de Campo* (PPGAS/USP)!

We are delighted to announce the launch event for the first "Pocket Ethnographies" dossier from the journal *Cadernos de Campo*, titled "Excesses, Leftovers, and Disruptions in Anthropological Practice" (*Excessos, sobras e perturbações no fazer antropológico*).

The event features authors Ana Carneiro Cerqueira (UFSB), Antonela dos Santos (University of Buenos Aires), Nicole Batista (UFMG), and Kelvin Yelvington (University of Florida), alongside the organizing team: Bruna…

Book launch of *De maloca em maloca* by Leandro Carneiro at the 28th São Paulo International Book Biennial.

CEstA Duo with Ana Caroline Arapiun and Eduardo Rosa
September 4, 2026, at 5:30 PM

Ana Caroline Arapiun
An Indigenous archaeologist of the Arapiun people. She holds a degree in Archaeology from the Federal University of Western Pará, where she conducted research focusing on women and oral traditions. She earned her Master’s degree from the Federal University of Sergipe, dedicating herself to projects involving traditional communities and zooarchaeology. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo,…

In her book *The Invention of Modern Science* (1993), philosopher Isabelle Stengers characterizes what we now know as modern science through what she calls the "Galileo event" (17th century)—a contingent yet crucial occurrence marked by the creation of the famous theoretical-experimental method. This method is structured around a presumed total separation between the observing subject and the observed object; indeed, the more efficient this separation between the constituent parts, the more "real" the resulting answer becomes. Its application yields a mutual interplay between theory and…

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…

Lecture by Ritó Natálio
August 28, 2026, at 3:00 PM

Mouth of the Earth: Ecological Violence and Artistic Practices
In recent decades, the proliferation of extreme climatic and socio-political events—also a central theme in the debate surrounding the Anthropocene—has intensified critiques regarding the ways humanity and the earth are linked and inscribed upon one another, co-constituted by systemic colonial, racial, and cisnormative violence.
In this session, I will address the notion of "transitional corporeality" as a way to reflect on modes of perception that…

On Wednesday, August 26, CHAMA, in partnership with IRL Mundos em Transição (CNRS/USP), is hosting the roundtable discussion “Contamination, Colonialism, and Capitalism.”

The event will bring together Malcom Ferdinand (CNRS/Université Paris Dauphine), presenting the lecture “Undoing Colonial Dwelling to Find the Earth,” and François-Michel Le Tourneau (CNRS/IRL Mundos em Transição), who will present “Gold Mining and Mercury: Internal Perspectives and Impacts.”

Moderated by Maíra Silva (Unicamp), the roundtable will foster a dialogue among different perspectives regarding…