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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…

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…

Apigawa reta yandé nheenga katu
The arts in our own words
8 a 10 de junho, das 14-18h
Locais: MAC USP e Casa do Povo

Organized by: MAC USP and MAE USP
DECAY and Center for Documentation of Indigenous Languages ​​and Cultures, Scientific Events Grant from the Pro-Rectorate for Research and Innovation of the University of São Paulo

Support: Casa do Povo, Parquinho Gráfico and CEstA

FREE REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/4dWjiT1
FULL PROGRAM: http://www.mac.usp.br/mac/conteudo/academico/atuais/89.asp

Africa, Amazonia, and Afro-Americas: Long Duration, Circulations, and Historical Ecologies

PROGRAM

9:30 AM - Opening
Rafael Scopacasa (Director of the Postgraduate Program)
Marcos Leitão de Almeida (Department of History/USP)

David L. Schoenbrun (Northwestern University)
Eduardo Neves (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/USP)
Moderator: Alexandre Marcussi (Department of History/USP)
9:45 AM - 11:45 AM - Narratives, linguistic and archaeological data, and regimes of proof

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch

Rosa Vieira (Museum of…

Cooking with Lévi-Strauss and the Enawenê-nawê Women: In Search of the Human Condition in the Details of Everyday Life

The Enawenê-Nawê women of Central Brazil have a close relationship with their staple food, wild cassava and toxic tubers when raw. Managing contact with cassava requires constant attention from household members (moving the kitchen to a different , taking shamanic precautions, preparing special dishes, etc.), as this is where people vulnerable to the plant’s harmful effects—conceived as a hyperanimated female entity—are found: menstruating women, their partners,…

The Department of Anthropology at USP invites the academic community to the second edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle, which will feature the participation of researcher Laure Emperaire — IRD/France —, a leading figure in debates on agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, and biocultural heritage.
The conference, entitled "From agrobiodiversity to pyrodiversity: SATs as a method and biocultural heritage as a horizon," will be held on May 22, 2026, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, at the Maison du CNRS, located in Praça dos Bancos, Butantã Campus of the University of São Paulo.…

A gathering to discuss anthropological practice through the lens of Sylvia Caiuby Novaes’s career, from her work in Amerindian ethnology to visual anthropology, including photography and archival research, as well as her influence and the impact of the research she has supervised over the past decades.

📅 May 18 and 19, 2026

SCHEDULE

May 18

Panel 1 - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Ethnologies: With Carlos Fausto, André Drago, João Kelmer, Pedro Meniconi, and Yuri Werner
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/vutGpNXY-dg

Panel 2 - 6:00 PM to 8…

On May 12th, at 6 PM, we will host researcher Bryce Henson (University of Texas A&M) for the lecture “Emerging Quilombos: Black Life and Afro-Diasporic Cultures in Brazil.” The lecture will take place in the LISA auditorium.

Dr. Bryce Henson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Texas A&M. He is a qualitative social scientist and a researcher of African cultural studies in the diaspora, with an emphasis on Brazil. In 2023, his book *Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil* was published by the…

Ethnoarchaeology of the Territory and Indigenous Peoples in a Historical Situation of Isolation in the Brazilian Amazon
This research analyzes the theoretical and methodological contributions of the ethnoarchaeology of the territory to understanding the forms of occupation, circulation, and relationship with space among indigenous peoples in a historical situation of isolation in the Brazilian Amazon. Considering the ethical and political restrictions arising from the guidelines of non-contact, the study mobilizes indirect sources of analysis, such as expedition records, material…

Launch lecture for the 2nd edition of “Reason, ‘Color,’ and Desire,” a book that explores how societies construct meanings for racial difference when shaped by desire and eroticization.

Featuring Prof. Dr. Laura Moutinho (USP),
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Carrara (UERJ) and
Prof. Dr. Márcia Lima (USP)

Registration: sescsp.org.br/cpf