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Victor Secco will present central themes of his doctoral research, defended at the University of Manchester (England), which investigates the intersections between science, religion and multispecies interactions, based on an ethnography conducted with Hindu priests and microbiologists in the city of Varanasi, in northern India. The Ganges River, which runs through the city, is simultaneously revered for its sacred waters and known for its high levels of pollution. While millions of people depend on these waters for religious rituals and daily activities, the river receives huge volumes of…

Cadernos Pagu invites you to the pre-launch of the book "Raw Life, New Hope", by Fiona Ross, Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

🗣️ With a debate that will feature special participations by:
Laura Moutinho (USP)
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz (Unicamp)

📅 June 26, 2025 (Thursday)
🕓 4 pm


Organized by: Natália Corazza Padovani, Camila Viana Ribas and Luciana Camargo Bueno.
🎓 Certificate will be issued!

Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation

The II Métis International Symposium - Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, whose theme is “Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation”, aims to investigate theoretically and ethnographically the various conceptions of the notion of creation, exploring its polysemy and its relations with memory, in line with the objectives of the Fapesp Thematic Project (2020/07886-8) to which it is linked. Based on the successful experience of the I SIM (2024), this second symposium stands out for promoting the encounter between professionals of…

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will show four contemporary Guarani films in its auditorium, in special sessions, as part of the AntropoCena project, followed by debates with guests. Originating from the discipline Extension Practices in Indigenous Ethnology, under the guidance of Professor Pedro Cesarino, the exhibition aims to foster debate on issues dear to indigenous peoples, such as the relationship between territory and identity, in addition to raising, with a focus on the Guarani, discussions on the place of indigenous cinema in the national and…

The course "Morals, Emotions and Anthropology" invites everyone to the lecture "Textures of the Ordinary", given by Prof. Fiona Ross, from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

The event will include translation!

Suggested Reading: Raw Life and Respectability Poverty and Everyday Life in a Postapartheid Community. In: Current Anthropology Volume 56, Supplement 11, October 2015

Based on the experience of Zapatista territories in Chiapas, Mexico, the presentation addresses indigenous autonomy as dynamic processes of territorialization and creation of their own forms of sociopolitical organization. In dialogue with other Latin American experiences, we will reflect on how the Zapatistas (re)construct, on a daily basis, autonomous spaces in opposition to the processes of heteronomy imposed by the State and capital.

With
Fábio M. Alkmin (PhD in Human Geography/USP)
Lucas Keese dos Santos (PhD student at PPGAS/USP)
Mediation: Silvia Adoue (…

The film “Rio das Mortes: nossa vida” will be shown in the AntropoCena session on June 12, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the LISA auditorium, in partnership with the Visual Anthropology Group of the University of São Paulo (GRAVI-USP), and will feature the presence of Ana Lúcia Ferraz, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Ethnographic Film Laboratory of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Ana Lúcia graduated from USP and holds a master's degree in Anthropology (1999), a PhD in Sociology (2005), and a postdoctoral degree in Social Anthropology (…

Nation, Color and Desire: Racial Governance, Regimes of Intimacy and Miscegenation in Brazil and South Africa
Professor Dr. Laura Moutinho

On June 6 (Friday) there will be a seminar entitled "Genetic taming and the narrowing of multispecies futures", which will be taught by the professor of the Department of Anthropology at UFRGS and researcher at the Department of Humanistic Studies at Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Dr. Jean Segata. The event will be held from 4 pm to 6 pm, in auditorium 8 of FFLCH - USP, and is promoted by the anthropology collective CHAMA.

Segata's research describes the transformations in the relationships between humans, cattle and the environment in the southern fields of Brazil, following the…

INVITATION | Friday of the Month invites everyone to the May thematic panel! ✨

Theme: “Research practices in an international context”

Anthropology has historically consolidated itself as a field of knowledge intrinsically intertwined with colonial projects, oriented towards the construction and investigation of a supposedly radical Other, conceived from epistemic and political asymmetries, often designed as if it were located overseas. The production of this knowledge has always been crossed by internal and external disputes, including financial ones, involving multiple…