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Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA/USP)
Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts at USP 

Hybrid Event

Link to all sessions: https://meet.google.com/huf-vvvo-ckh

Schedule

October 14 (Monday)
– Online schedule via Zoom

● Afternoon (2:00 p.m.):
o Welcome from the organizing committee
John C. Dawsey, Pâmilla Vilas Good morning, Fernanda Marcon.
○ Canoe Path: between mirrors and water roots (conversation circle)
Carlos Corrêa Praude (UNB) Rita de Almeida Castro (UNB; NAPEDRA/USP) (remote).
○…

Inhabiting fires

Monday, October 14 at 2:00 p.m. - Room 1037

The presentation will be based on the way in which the quilombolas of Jalapão (TO) inhabit the general environment. Instead of establishing static borders, buildings, and individualizing possession, it is a way of living that is expressed through wandering activities in areas with different temporalities of post-fire regeneration. In addition to demonstrating how this way of living broadens our understanding of the conditions of habitability at the time of large forest fires, the presentation will also…

The Ponto.Urbe magazine, a periodical linked to the Laboratory of the Center for Urban Anthropology at USP, announces Urbe em Foco VII! Next Wednesday, October 2nd, starting at 3:00 p.m., in the Anthropology Auditorium (Room 24) of the Social Sciences and Philosophy Building (FFLCH), we will discuss the dossier “Cities at War”, published in our latest issue. Participate! No prior registration required. Certificates will be issued for in-person participants. Check out the participants: Frank Daves and Lia de Mattos Rocha (UERJ) Our cities at war: notes on militarization and coloniality from…

International Study Conference - Techniques of the Body: 90 years of Marcel Mauss's essay

The conference aims to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the essay Techniques of the Body (1934), by French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). The event's motivation, through its anniversary, is not exactly to provide a remembrance of the text, but rather to encourage its reinterpretation by the Brazilian public. Often cited in Brazil as an inspiration for the anthropology of the body, the essay is also considered, in France, the founder of the anthropology of technique. This second…

Prof. Clara Han at USP

Clara Han is a Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on how territories and medical and legal institutions intertwine with intimate life in contexts marked by economic precarity and violence. Han has conducted over two decades of fieldwork in low-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile, exploring illness, violence, and kinship under conditions of deprivation. Most recently, she has conducted research in Korea, with a special focus on the Korean War. She is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in…

Link to broadcast.

With joy, Sexta do Mês invites everyone to the two thematic tables that will take place in September. The first of them, entitled "Listening and welcoming: experiences of promoting mental health at university", proposes to debate institutional policies and collective practices of care, welcoming and listening that occur within the scope of higher education, with the presence of professors, researchers and students from different public colleges. The panel will take place on September 20th, at 5 pm, in a hybrid format – with live broadcast on the uspfflch channel on YouTube: https://www.…

Restore, document, repair: thinking about the intersections between indigenous peoples and their collections.

Roundtable organized by Francisco Pereira Neto (UFPel), with speeches by Claudia Tirelli (UNISC), Lúcia Muller (ABA) and Tuize Rovere (IF/RS) and comments by Heitor Frúgoli Jr. (USP), to take place on September 18, 2024, Wednesday, at 6:00 p.m. Free registration: https://forms.gle/bsdhFeVAnkduYxnL7
Organization: GEEUR (UFPel) and GEDEPP (UNISC); support: GEAC (USP).