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INVITATION | Friday of the Month (@sextadomes) invites everyone to the September themed panel!

Theme: "Indigenous Cosmopolitics of Care"

Cosmopolitics here can be understood both as a theoretical instrument and as a practice of intervention in the real world. More than a simple reaction to illness, this meeting focuses on the idea of ​​care as a plural production, understood as a dynamic process that articulates cosmological, physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. It is within this movement, but not limited to it, that collectives develop their own strategies of…

On September 25th and 26th, a workshop on operational chains will be held in the Auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA). The activity will be led by Ludovic Coupaye (University College London) and is restricted to researchers from the Metis and CHAMA research groups. The workshop aims to explore the notion of operational chains in anthropological work conducted in different contexts. The intention is to address the benefits and limitations of the method, as well as the analytical and theoretical contributions brought by the anthropology of techniques to…

Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings, which will take place on September 24th, 25th, and 26th, 2025. This will be its sixth edition, and this year the theme will be "No Ground, No Angola," alluding to the importance of physical space for masters and mistresses to develop their cultural practices.

The program offers a wide variety of activities, including dance workshops, African fabric printing, artistic performances, musical presentations, discussion groups, an audiovisual exhibition, and our Caruru de Cosme e Damião (Caruru) for children.

We would be honored by your presence.…

We invite you to a sonic conversation about the film "Floresta de Fitas," directed by Priscilla Ermel, who will be present at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

The screenings will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP), on:

September 23, 2025: sessions at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
September 24, 2025: session at 7:00 PM

In "Floresta de Fitas," São Paulo-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory alongside…

DISCUSSION
BOOKS OF THE FOREST
Project presentation by João Cardoso, curator of BBM
Discussion with Betty Mindlin, Pedro Cesarino, and Robson Marubo

The event presents the Books of the Forest collection, composed of works by Indigenous authors and/or in Indigenous languages, and proposes a discussion on the relationships between Indigenous worlds and books as a form of expression.

Free admission and no registration required
Villa-Lobos Room
Rua da
Library, 21
Cidade
Universitária, São
Paulo

On September 18, 2015, at 8:00 p.m., SESC Pinheiros will screen the film "Montando a Baiana" as part of the "Encontro de Baianas Ricas" (Rich Baianas Meeting) event.

The film debate will feature the film's directors, Aurélio Prates, and Kelwin Marques, a researcher at the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP). The meeting proposes a discussion about the presence of the Baianas Ricas in the royal processions of the Maracatu Nations, especially from the mid-20th century onward, when figures such as transvestites, gays, and other bodies that challenged norms of femininity began to…

The Vultures Don't Forget

São Paulo

September 18, Thursday, at 7 p.m.

Chat between Pedro Cesarino, author of The Vultures Don't Forget (Todavia), and Alexandre Nodari, author of Literature as Speculative Anthropology (Cultura e Barbarie), with commentary by José Miguel

Wisnik + book signing

The University of São Paulo (USP) will host the Franco-USP Week of Cooperation in Sciences, Arts, and Humanities from September 15 to 26, 2025. The event celebrates scientific collaborations between French universities and USP, and this year it takes on a special role by commemorating 200 years of bilateral relations between France and Brazil.

The program, which is the result of a partnership between different sectors of the University, the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Worlds in Transition Laboratory (IRL-CNRS-USP), and IdA-pôle Brésil, incorporates activities…

On September 15, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature Alex Flynn, a professor at the University of California (UCLA), who will present the research "Paths to Utopia: Temporalities of Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement."

Founded in 1984, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has become an international reference for the struggle for agrarian reform. For forty years, the MST has represented a beacon of hope, and while other progressive movements have faded, it remains reinvigorated: 450,000 families settled; more than half a million people with…

From September 11th to 12th, 2025, the Cinemateca Brasileira will host the seminar "Crossed Views between France and Brazil on the Challenges of Preservation and Access to Audiovisual Heritage: Focus on the Audiovisual Memory of Indigenous Peoples," with the support of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP).

The event is free and will feature simultaneous French-Portuguese translation, interpretation in Libras, and live streaming on the Cinemateca's YouTube channel.

Focusing on Indigenous memory, the seminar aims to…