History - PPGAS Events
On November 28th (Friday), from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, the seminar "(Im)mobilities of Fire: Exploring the relationships between human and non-human mobilities" will take place. The event will be led by Greta Mazzocchi, a doctoral candidate in Urban and Regional Studies in the inter-university program at the Politecnico di Torino, in co-supervision with the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at USP. Her research is part of the ERC FIREPOL project, under the supervision of Prof. Lorenza Fontana (Firepol P.I., IT), Prof. Giovanni Bettini (Lancaster University, UK), and Prof. Guilherme Moura…
moreBlack Anthropology in Brazil and the USA: Expanding Networks and Perspectives
November 25th – 2 PM – Open visit to the Soweto Black Organization (Rua Silveira Martins, 131, room 22, Sé Metro – PoupaTempo exit)
November 25th – 6 PM – Conference with Todne Thomas, President of the Black Anthropologists Association (USA) and professor at Yale University. “Subterranean Stratigraphies and Broken Records: Black Feminist Kinship and Futures in the Past”. University of São Paulo (Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária, Social Sciences and Philosophy Building…
morePROGRAM:
November 24th (Monday)
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Opening Session
Microbial Cultures: Biotechnodiversity in Intertwined Worlds
Élise Demeulenaere (CNRS/Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Victor Secco (Ca' Foscari University)
Rob Wallace (Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps (ARERC))
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Doctoral Research Workshop
Race and Environment in Latin American Settings
Andrés Triana (Yale University)
Ana Sanches (EACH)
Valerie Seurin (EHESS)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Closing Conference
Loving…
moreThe meeting aims to explore the development and results of recent research by Labtee and PECUT, as well as to outline possible lines of joint work. In-person participation is limited (20 people). To access the registration form: https://forms.gle/1Hb6ygHFxLRniVYJ8
On November 18th, at 10 am, the lecture “Platformized Digital Violence: Ethnographic Reflections on Hate/Extreme Speech and Humiliation” will take place, presented by researchers Maria Filomena Gregori (Unicamp) and Carolina Parreiras (USP). The debate will be moderated by Heloisa Buarque de Almeida (USP).
The event will be held in room 24 and will be broadcast on the FFLCH YouTube channel.
We hope to see you there!
The Center for Amerindian Studies invites you to:
CEstA Duo with Nian Pissolati Lopes (Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at FFLCH/PNPD/Capes Scholarship) and João Kelmer (Fapesp Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at FFLCH)
Nian Pissolati Lopes: The Sounds and the Others: Reflections on the Verbal Art of the Nadëb People (Upper Uneiuxi River, Northwest Amazon)
The Nadëb people inhabit the interfluve of the Negro and Japurá rivers in the Northwest Amazon of Brazil, and their language belongs to the Naduhup linguistic…
moreThe Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA) and the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) invite you to a screening of indigenous films as part of the AntropoCena project, on November 12, 2025, starting at 2 PM.
The screenings will be followed by discussions with the researchers and directors of the films, Aline Regitano and Bruno Huyer.
Aline Regitano is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a researcher at CEstA - Center for Amerindian Studies. She has worked with the Mehinako people of the Upper Xingu for a…
moreThe Consulate of France in São Paulo and the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS/USP) invite you to the series entitled "What if the West were not the only one to philosophize?", with Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos (Université Paris-Est Créteil).
Conference "Philosophies africaines: ethnophilosophie, géophilosophie, philosophie comparée: la question de la pensée en Afrique”
Debater: Tiganá Santana (IEB-USP)
There will be simultaneous…
How to Write Ethical Ethnographies?
Next Monday, November 10th, at 5:30 PM, the Department of Anthropology at USP (University of São Paulo) will host Professor Line Dalsgård, from the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University (Denmark), for a conversation about the ethical and feminist challenges of ethnographic writing.
Author of the book *Life and Hopes*—the result of her fieldwork conducted between 1997 and 2000 in Camaragibe (PE), Brazil—Dalsgård is now revisiting this research and the lives of the women she lived with, seeking new ways to narrate and reflect on…
moreMétis Invites is a series of open events from Métis, designed to discuss cross-cutting themes related to the thematic project's axes with invited researchers.
The ninth edition of the event, in partnership with the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP (University of São Paulo), invites the French anthropologist and writer Nastassja Martin for a conversation.
The event is open to the public and will take place on November 4th at 6:00 PM.