History - PPGAS Events

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…

Seminar Numas

Regimes of Intimacy and Racial Governance: Desire, Miscegenation, and Nation in the Global South

Lauro Moutinho - Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo

The PPGAS/USP and the CÓCCIX Research Group invite you to the lecture by Prof. João Alipio Cunha (UNEB; LAH-UFRJ), "Black Anthropology and Epistemological Care: The Archives of Marlene Cunha," and the launch of the book "In Search of a Space: Gestural Language in Candomblé in Angola," by Black activist and anthropologist Marlene Cunha (in memoriam). The event will be held on September 10th, at 5:30 pm, in Room 161 of the Letters Building, at the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences of USP, on the University City campus.

Marlene Cunha was one of the few Black students…

NAPEDRA (Center for Anthropology, Performance, and Drama) invites everyone to a meeting with Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Gonçalves at the event " Views, Imaginaries, and (m) Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis," which proposes to reflect on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political urgencies.

The event "Glances, Imaginaries, and (m)Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis" proposes a reflection…

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

Theme: "Conceptions of Body and Corporeality"

Studies on the body follow distinct approaches, from the field of biomedical sciences, through the arts, and culminating in anthropological research. However, the dialogue between traditional conceptions of the body present in Indigenous ethnology and the field of performing arts, more specifically dance, seems to have lacked significant convergence, for various reasons aligned with disciplinary and, at times, overlapping projects. We…

How can we learn from animals to recover from catastrophic wildfires? In this presentation, Verónica Policarpo will discuss this question based on the interdisciplinary project "ERC ABIDE (ID 101043231): Animal ABidings: recovering from disasters in more-than-human communities," which studies post-fire recovery in three countries: Brazil, Portugal, and Australia. After a brief presentation of the project's objectives and methodologies, as well as their epistemological implications, the researcher will share some aspects of her field experience in the Serra da Estrela region. She will…

Karai Djekupe (Guarani leader, São Paulo)
Morgan Labar (art historian, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France)
Camille Benecchi (conservator-restorer, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)
Léa Le Bricomte (artist, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)

The roundtable proposes to present the project carried out at ESAA (École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon) by an artist, a conservator-restorer, and an art historian. The method consists of inviting to Avignon representatives of Indigenous communities from the Brazilian Amazon…

Launch event for the book "Between Secrets, Posts, and News" by Professor Heloísa Buarque de Almeida, published by Papéis Selvagens.

The Public Construction of Categories of Violence.

August 27, 2025

At Canto Madalena, Medeiros de Albuquerque Street, 471, Vila Madalena, São Paulo

On August 26th, at 5:00 pm, in room 24, LETEC, in partnership with Numas, will host the book launch and discussion of "Pavilhão das Sereias." Author Vanessa Sander will be present, and the discussion will be led by Professor Guita Grin Debert (Unicamp).

Vanessa Sander is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Crime and Public Security Studies (CRISP) at UFMG. During her doctorate in Social Sciences at UNICAMP, she developed the research that led to the book "Pavilhão das Sereias: an ethnography of the circles of criminalization and incarceration of transvestites and…

Book launch of "The Vultures Don't Forget" by Professor Pedro Cesarino with Todavia Publishing.

Book signing with the author.

Bar counter, Rua Dr. Melo Alves, 150, Cerqueira César - São Paulo/SP