History - PPGAS Events

In this presentation we will discuss the relationship between the conceptions, discourses and cartographic productions on the territory of the Kotiria (Wanano) and Kubeo peoples, inhabitants of the Uaupés River in the Rio Negro Indigenous Land, and speakers of languages of the Tukano family. From the places named in the scope of the elaboration of the Kotiria and Kubeo Environmental and Territorial Management Plan, we will explore the relationship between toponymy, mythical narratives, blessings and other forms of symbolic expressions of knowledge settled in places and in the landscape. We…

The first event promoted by LETEC - Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies, of the Department of Anthropology and financed by FAPESP, will take place on June 29th, at 4 pm, in Room 24 (Social Sciences Building). This event inaugurates the Technology and Internet Debate Cycle, which will take place throughout 2023. In this first edition, we will have the round table "Weaving the Present: Interconnections between Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology and Society". Participants: Valdinei Freire (EACH/C4AI-CID-USP) Renata Wassermann (C4AI-CID/IME/USP) Mayane Batista (UFAM…

In June, Mecila welcomes Professor Ángel Ramírez, from the Palta people of Ecuador and Vice-Rector for Research and Extension at the Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas Amawtay Wasi (UINPIAW) for a brief visit in São Paulo.

On June 29th (Thursday), Ángel Ramírez will participate in two activities organized by Mecila in partnership with the Center for Amerindian Studies (CestA-USP) and the Kaapora Chair (Unifesp) in room 8 of the Philosophy and Social Sciences (FFLCH-USP).

At 2 pm there will be a conversation on interculturality in indigenous…

Second meeting of the seminar "Decolonial Prefigurations in the Urban Space" (partnership between the City Anthropology Study Group (GEAC-USP), the Urban Anthropology Collective (CAU, Portugal) and the Peregum Black Reference Institute (Brazil )), with the participation of José Baessa de Pina, Ana Rita Alves and Stella Paterniani.
Registration: https://prefiguracoes2.eventbrite.com.br

Deployment of the research carried out between 2016 and 2017, with some protagonists of the city's graffiti scene. Published by Editora Funilaria.
The launch will count with the presence, for a conversation, of Wellington Neri (from Imargem), Mauro Neri (reveracity) and Bianca Tavolari (Insper).

Anthropology applied to humanitarian situations: the relationship with the field, methodological challenges and ethical issues.

Jean-François Veran holds a PhD in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales (France) and is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).  He joined Doctors Without Borders in 2010 as an anthropology consultant, where he develops an anthropology in a "humanitarian situation" that he applies in the field to issues of migration, management of epidemic crises, sexual and reproductive health and urban…

Lecture with TRUDRUÁ DORRICO (postdoctoral student/UFRR)
Makunaimã Letters: the trunk of Makuxi Indigenous Literature

Discussor: Tiago Nhandewa (PhD student/PPGAS/USP)

Trudruá Dorrico belongs to the Macuxi people. PhD in Theory of Literature at PUCRS. Master in Literary Studies and degree in Portuguese Letters from UNIR. She is a poet, writer, speaker, researcher of indigenous literature. She won 1st place in the Tamoios / FNLIJ / UKA New Indigenous Writers contest in 2019. Administrator of the @leiamulheresindigenas Instagram profile and the YouTube channel…