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Expressão Popular – Alameda Nothmann, 806 - Campos Elíseos/SP
Theme: “Thinking about ways to make a home in the Palestinian diaspora”

More than a year after the genocide against the Gaza Strip and a ceasefire that in reality redirects the offensive from Gaza to the West Bank, the February edition of Sexta do Mês opens space for reflection on the experiences of exile, forced displacement and agency of the Palestinian people in the context of the Brazilian diaspora. In light of the latest work by anthropologist Bárbara Caramuru, entitled Palestine in Movement: the diaspora from an intersectional perspective, published in 2024, we propose the… more
Rua do Anfiteatro, Colmeia, favo 8 Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP

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Sound pharmacology in the upper Rio Negro: (re)generation and degeneration of bodies

Based on the region of the upper Rio Negro and my ethnographic experience with the Yuhupdeh people, I intend to reflect on healing and protective blessings, Jurupari wind instruments and their associations with the processes of (re)generation and degeneration of bodies. I propose to approach the blessings and Jurupari instruments as an androgynous technology of artifactual insemination that not only (re)generates bodies, but also…

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Auditório do LISA - Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

For more information, see https://metis.fflch.usp.br

Online

The Online Seminar on the Use of Digital Methods is coming soon, a partnership between the GP Digital Technologies and Cultures (TCDIG) and the Ethnographic Laboratory for Technological and Digital Studies (LETEC), with support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)!
On Wednesday, December 4th, between 10:00 and 13:00, we will be online directly on the TCDIG YouTube channel, meeting with national and international researchers and with an opening lecture by Thomas Poell from the University of Amsterdam! The seminar will discuss the combination of qualitative and quantitative…

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Sala 24 do Prédio das Ciências Sociais - Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315

The Sixth of the Month invites everyone to the November themed table!

Theme: The enchantment of the mina drum in São Paulo

The mina drum is an Afro-Brazilian religion prevalent in the states of Pará and Maranhão, arriving in São Paulo around the 1970s by the Pará native Francelino de Xapanã, who brought with him several cultural elements that were very present in the realities of Pará and Maranhão, which were adapted to the capital of São Paulo through this migratory movement. With voduns and orixás as the entities worshipped, the mina drum also brings a category known as “…

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Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - favo 8, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP

Lecture with Guilherme Bianchi (History Department/USP) Conflict, coexistence and transformation in the recent history of the Asháninka of the Peruvian Amazon

Conflict, coexistence and transformation in the recent history of the Asháninka of the Peruvian Amazon

The recent history of the Asháninka who today inhabit the tributary valleys of the upper Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon, is full of events through which we can witness at least two things. In addition to the terrible succession and continuity of state and non-state violence in the last century (from rubber…

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Sala 14 do Prédio das Ciências Sociais - Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315

11/27 - FFLCH - Philosophy and Social Sciences Building, Room 14
5:00 pm - “Gender-based violence at the university”, debate with Regina Facchini (Unicamp) and Heloisa Buarque de Almeida (CDDH - FFLCH USP), coordinated by Gabriela Calazans (IP USP)
6:30 pm-7:30 pm: Interactive Cultural Activity: Game-piece: Vulvar - In her place

LISA Auditorium. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

Dear all!

On Thursday of next week, November 21st, at 2:00 p.m., in the LISA auditorium (Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo/SP, 05508-060. Phones: +55 (11) 3091-3045 / 3091-1478 / 3091-1479), I will offer undergraduate classes in the discipline "Anthropology and Law" the opportunity to participate in a film debate.

This will be an activity in partnership with the Instituto Cultura em Movimento (ICEM) and the production company MPC, promoters of the project "Cinema em Movimento"/ Circuito Universitário. The invitation is open to all interested parties…

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Sala 8 do Prédio das Ciências Sociais - Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315

Lecture title: The notion of quasi-truth in the Anthropology of Knowledge

Speaker: Prof. Mauro Almeida (UNICAMP) 

Discussor: Prof. Stelio Marras (USP)

Mediator: Rafael Antunes Almeida (UNILAB)

No prior registration is required.

Sala 14 do Prédio das Ciências Sociais - Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315

On 11/14, at 2 pm, in room 14 and online, the Thematic Seminar “Contemporary trends of digital platforms in the sex markets in Brazil” will take place, with Lorena Caminhas.

Lorena Caminhas has a PhD in Social Sciences (Unicamp) and is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at USP, with support from Fapesp. Her research addresses the formation of digital sex markets in Brazil, the impacts of digital platforms on the quality of sex work, and their governance and regulation processes in this area.

This event is promoted by the Ethnographic…

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