History - PPGAS Events

The RESPIRO Study Series welcomes Pedro Branco (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for the session “An Introduction to Film Editing as an Epistemic Practice.” A conversation about the collaboration between filmmakers and anthropologists and how the editing of images and sounds contributes to the production of knowledge.

This event is part of the RESPIRO Study Series, an initiative linked to the RESPIRO project—“Restoring Fire Diversity in the Cerrado”—a FAPESP Young Researcher Project developed under the BIOTA-FAPESP Program. The project investigates the role of traditional peoples and…

Mandeí Juma
Tupi Kawahiva indigenous leader from southern Amazonas and full member of the expedition team of the Madeira Ethno-Environmental Protection Front (FUNAI)

Mario Brunoro
Ph.D. candidate at NEAI/PPGAS/UFAM, indigenous affairs advisor to the Purus Network of the OPI (Observatory of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Peoples)

Daniel Cangussu
Ph.D. in ecology and Coordinator of the Madeira Ethno-Environmental Protection Front (FUNAI)

Event organized by GLEE—Ethnographic Reading and Writing Group

In-person event
Free…

Pabel C. López Flores
Visiting researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), with funding from FAPESP. He is an associate researcher in the Graduate Program in Development Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA) in Bolivia. He was a distinguished researcher at the University Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Seville. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Milan “Bicocca” and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy). He served as coordinator of the “Territorialities in Dispute” and “Indigenous Peoples and Processes…

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…