History - PPGAS Events
sala 24 (Prédio das Sociais)
On November 4th, at 3:00 pm, the lecture "War on the Networks: Platformization and Radicalization on YouTube" will be given by researcher Thais Lassali (Unicamp). The event is sponsored by the Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies (LETEC) and will be held in Room 24 (Social Studies Building).
You can also watch online at: https://www.youtube.com/live/riTQfDWic-Y
Thais Lassali is an anthropologist and science communicator. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the State University of Campinas. Her interests include internet, digital, and new media…
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Sede do CEstA: Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - Favo 8 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo-SP
Double CEstA with Luma Prado (Master's in Social History at USP and author of Cativas Litigantes) and Gustavo Velloso (Department of History at FFLCH/USP)
Luma Prado: The Illicit and the Legal in the Enslavement of Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon under Portuguese Colonization, 18th Century
Indigenous slavery is a little-known, if not hidden, chapter of our history. However, in the 17th and 18th centuries, tens of thousands of Indigenous people were enslaved—both legally and illegally—in the Amazon and other parts of the American territories under Portuguese colonization.…
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Room 24 - Social Sciences Building FFLCH/USP (Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315 - Butantã/SP)
INVITATION | Sexta do Mês (@sextadomes) invites everyone to the October thematic panel!
Theme: “Cemetery (also) is city: Incursions into the cemetery spaces of São Paulo”
Cemeteries are complex spaces whose role goes far beyond the sanitary function of burying the dead. Their dynamics and appropriations permeate the most diverse aspects and show that the city of the dead is nothing more than a reflection of the city of the living.
The proposal of this Sexta do Mês panel is to reflect, based on three research projects by participants of the NAU Cemetery Studies group…
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LISA Auditorium. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.
We invite you to a conversation about the film Desmemorias, created in partnership by Armando Fonseca and Rita Almeida de Castro. Rita will be present at the AntropoCena session, which will be moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji in the LISA Auditorium. De Castro is a professor in the Department of Performing Arts at UnB and completed her doctorate in anthropology at USP under Professor Sylvia Caiuby Novaes's guidance. Desmemórias was created in partnership with filmmaker Armando Fonseca and his theater group, Teatro do Instante.
Synopsis:
While dealing with…
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CINUSP
On October 22nd, in partnership with CINUSP and LISA, we are pleased to organize a special screening featuring two films by Frédéric Létang: The Earth and the Comb and Amazonia, Shadows and Lights. Both documentaries portray the same group of Amazonian settlers, first in 1996 and then in 2021, showcasing the entire trajectory of the southeastern region of Pará during this period.
The screening will begin at 2:00 pm with the first documentary, and the two will be shown consecutively. At the end of the screenings, there will be a discussion with the director and João Godoy (CINUSP…
Room 118 - Social Sciences and Philosophy Building Prof. Luciano Gualberto Ave., 315 University City
PPGAS and Cóccix invite you to the roundtable "Black Knowledge in Anthropology: Body and Knowledge Production," featuring Denise Ferreira da Costa Cruz (UNILAB) and Gilson Rodrigues Jr. (IFRN), with a discussion by Jacqueline Moraes Teixeira (FSP/USP).
October 21 - 5:30 PM
Room 118 - Social Sciences Building/FFLCH
CINUSP
On October 21 at 2 p.m., LISA will host "Quimeras no Cinema," a shared film screening organized by the Art and Culture Festival and promoted by the Dean of Culture and University Extension in accordance with Resolution CoCEx 8451, dated July 30, 2023. The event will feature film screenings followed by a discussion with filmmakers.
Filmes em exibição:
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - favo 8
CEstA Duo with Cliverson Pessoa and Márcia Rodrigues
10/03/2025 - 5:30 PM
CEStA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - Favo 8
Cliverson Pessoa – PhD in Archaeology, MAE/USP
Landscapes of Movement in the Madeira-Purus Interfluve
In models of Amazonian occupation, large rivers have traditionally been privileged
as the main axes of circulation, fundamental to understanding processes of migration, dispersal, and expansion of people, objects, and ideas in the past. The Madeira-Purus Interfluve, in southwestern Amazonia, offers new possibilities…
Auditório do LISA
On October 3, 2025, at 4 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature François Michel Le Tourneau, director of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS USP), who will discuss his research on mining, a world that is simultaneously a place of forest destruction and the creation of economic wealth. Using field data on the workings of the mining world and numerous interviews with miners, the speaker will reflect on these individuals' attitudes toward these two points (or poles), highlighting the non-linearity of the relationship to time, the ambiguous knowledge of the forest, and the…
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Auditório/Sala 14 (presencial) Conjunto Didático de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais - FFLCH - USP
Inequality of Treatment and Citizenship in Brazil
Launch of Luís Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira's new book
October 3, 2025, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM
Auditorium/Room 14 (in-person)
Philosophy and Social Sciences Teaching Complex – FFLCH – USP