History - PPGAS Events

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will host on April 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m., the lecture "Ruins of photography: migrations of family archives and their ecosystems of belonging" by researcher Dr. Fabiana Bruno, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP supervised by Professor Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.

The lecture will address the context and policies of “emerging collections” formed with abandoned or discarded photos, in particular, vernacular family photographs unlinked from personal albums. The starting point will be the presentation…

The topic of indigenous school education has received renewed anthropological interest over the past twenty-five years, in line with changes in legislation resulting from the 1998 Constitution and the indigenous movement demanding schooling and access to higher education and postgraduate studies. Recent ethnographies of indigenous schools have revealed the articulation of everyday school life with several other spheres of social life (shamanism, corporality, notion of person, gender, social and political organization, among others). Despite the difficulties in managing indigenous schools…

Ilê Aiyê: the factory of the Afro world
photographs by Milton Guran
translation by Mirella Botaro and Raquel Camargo

Event attended by the author, Luiz Paulo Ferreira Santiago (PPGAS) and Heitor Frúgoli Jr. (DA/PPGAS professor).

Next Thursday, April 10th, the film Holobiont Society by Swiss artist Dominique Koch will be shown at the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology - LISA/USP. The activity will take place from 8 pm onwards.
As part of a visual exhibition that has been touring several countries, Holobiont Society delves into a complex set of issues related to hierarchies, power structures and concepts of coexistence, defined by the term holobiont.
Created by biologist Lynn Margulis, co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis, the concept refers to an integrated ecological and evolutionary unit formed…

This paper is an invitation to “put disability in mind” when doing anthropology. Thinking with disability provocatively and severely distorts our imaginative repertoires, our assumptions about what a body can and cannot do, our understandings of what it means to be a subject, our languages ​​about equality, difference and hierarchy, our horizons of desire, our political horizons, our understandings of morality, our understandings of what is good, what is whole, what is complete, what is human, what is shared or universal. In the paper, we will address these issues through a journey through…

Editora 34 and the Center for Amerindian Studies at USP invite you to the launch of Mythology of the Chulupi Indians, by Pierre Clastres - translated by Ian Packer and with an afterword by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés.

Chat with Antonio Guerreiro and Renato Sztutman

Antonio Guerreiro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Over the past 20 years, he has conducted research, cultural documentation and outreach projects with the Kalapalo, a Carib-speaking people of the Upper Xingu. His main research interests are…

Event with the presence of Antonio Sérgio Guimarães (USP), Mother Jennifer of Xangô and Márcio Macedo (FGV), with the co-organization of Luís Michel Françoso (PPGAS), at R. Treze de Maio, 586

Presence of Absence: An analysis of whiteness in five Brazilian images - Lilia Schwarcz

Inscrições até 7/11/2024, em https://internationaloffice.usp.br/uspacademy/#co11

The USP Academy is an initiative designed to offer participants short-term courses that introduce them to the diverse programs and research projects underway at the University of São Paulo.
Target Group: Undergraduate and Graduate students from all areas of knowledge. Cost Free of Charge.
This course aims to present a framework of possibilities for a critical approach to the cultural heritage processes of urban spaces in Brazil, based on critical perspectives arising from History and…