Events

Political-educational formation and indigenous movements: reflections from the Kaiowa and Guarani peoples

With
Eliel Benites (Ministry of Indigenous Peoples)
Kerexu Mirim (EEI Krukutu)
Levi Marques Pereira (UFGD)
Mediation
Augusto Ventura dos Santos (Doctor PPGAS/USP)

02/27/2024, at 10am
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - favo 8

It has been almost half a century since the first experiences of bilingual and differentiated school education began to be developed in indigenous communities in Brazil. These were experiments conducted by incipient organizations supporting indigenous peoples that were opposed to the assimilationist and tutelary model developed by the old official indigenous bodies.
Gradually, such experiences were legally standardized and their administrative responsibility was assumed by state education bodies (Municipal Secretariats, State Secretariats, Ministry of Education, etc.). This process resulted in a significant multiplication and consolidation of experiences of indigenous school education throughout the country. It also resulted in strengthening educational projects of indigenous movements, through the training of new and active leaders, such as indigenous students, teachers and researchers. On the other hand, dialogues with official bodies still present a series of tensions and challenges for communities today: how to deal with the permanent demands for standardization and centralization of state systems? To what extent have political and pedagogical autonomy and indigenous knowledge actually been respected?

Production: Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA/USP) and Indigenous Knowledge Action at School (Núcleo Guarani/USP)

Closing lecture on CEstA 2023 activities with Maria Luísa Lucas (MAE/USP) and Leandro Varison (Museé du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac)

Shared collections: the Franco-Brazilian collections of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss

15/12/2023 - 2:30 pm
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - favo 8

Friday of the Month: Black Intellectualities

08/12
5pm
Room 24 of the USP Social Sciences Building
Broadcast via Youtube.

Guests:
Fernanda Martins (PhD student in Social Sciences/UNICAMP, Researcher at PAGU/UNICAMP and NUMAS/USP
Layne Gabriele (IEAL/UNICAMP Undergraduate, Popular Educator, Researcher and Communicator
Victor Mateus Duarte (Master in Philosophy UFABC and Specialist in Contemporary Philosophy IBF

Mediation:
Alessandra Tavares (PPGAS/USP PhD student)

Highlighting black intellectualities allows us to rethink the fractures of our society, taking into account its entire socio-historical context, as well as promoting a turnaround in the official historical records of humanity and its institutions. This perspective engenders a construction of counter-hegemonic knowledge production, based on the fight against racism and socio-racial inequalities in different segments and areas of knowledge. Black intellectualities, as we propose here, rightly emphasize the plurality of voices, bodies and thoughts of people whose centrality lies in their experience as plural subjects. Trajectories that are made collectively, in the sagacity of movements that go beyond the academic universe. Even though most institutions perpetuate racist practices, black intellectuals and their references and inspirations modulate significant transformations in subjectivities and place the art and politics of resistance at the heart of the “Modern Constitution”. In this way, the Friday of the Month of December proposes a table to reflect on the intellectual production of black people based on their own trajectories and research processes and/or professional activities, bringing to the table issues of gender, experiences of peripheral black people, the agency of religiosities and the foundation of a black psychopathology, in an intersectional and interdisciplinary conversation. With the strength of the older ones, we emphasize the speech of the great intellectual Lélia Gonzales who states the provocation “The trash will talk, and in a good way!”

Hêmba is a photobook composed of more than 80 images produced by indigenous photographer and anthropologist Edgar Kanaykô Xakriabá throughout his career. Edgar Xakriabá is a photographer and anthropologist and belongs to the village of São João das Missões, in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. The title Hêmba, in the Akwẽ language, refers to “soul and spirit” and its translation alludes to the concept of “photography and image”.

We are waiting for you!

We, at the Permanent Affirmative Action Committee (CoPAF), are pleased to invite all PPGAS students and teachers to participate in the CoPAF Open Meeting, an event whose main objective is to share future actions and perspectives of COPAF and promote integration between teaching staff and students (especially those people who believe in affirmative action policies and accessed our program as a quota holder).

We are aware of the effort and engagement required to participate in the most varied academic activities, but we want to emphasize that this meeting is an opportunity to get to know each other better and to share our experiences and research.

We look forward to seeing you all!
If you have any questions or suggestions, just contact us.
Bring food and drinks!

When: Friday, November 24, 2023
Time: 6pm
Location: Philosophy and Social Sciences Building (FFLCH), room 26

Permanent Affirmative Action Commission - CoPAF

Event to take place between 11/29 and 30/2023, organized by Francisco Pereira Neto (DA doctoral candidate) - "Social movements and urban and housing policies" (11/29, 6:30 pm) and "Methodological paths to understand the city" (11/30, 6:30 pm) - broadcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =GfgpxHDGyR0)

Lecture with Cássio Brancaleone
Professor at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul - UFFS
Researcher at the Latin American Councils of Social Sciences - CLACSO
Post-doctorate in Political Science at USP

11/10/2023 at 2:30 pm
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - Colmeia favo 8

Empirical anarchies: approaches to popular autonomies in Latin America in the light of a libertarian anthropology

Although reflection on non-state and non-capitalist forms of social life seems to be condemned to the ghetto of anarchist political imagination, we can find in the universe of anthropology a true ethnographic treasure and a world of analytical possibilities that go beyond anarchy as becoming. Starting from a review of a selection of anthropological literature dedicated to the description and analysis of phenomena of social self-organization that challenge the institutional logics and social representations typical of capitalist and state societies that can establish some points of contact between this field of studies and the theoretical repertoire of anarchism, we try to connect to a theoretical approach that is more sensitive to the approach of social experiences that are claimed under the social designation of “autonomies”, especially in the indigenous and popular Latin American field.

The 408-page book has 23 articles, divided into 4 parts, prepared by 24 authors: Alfredo Bello, Amanda Cristina Benedetti, Andréa Silva D'Amato, Arthur Henrique Nogueira Almeida, Carine Rossane Piassetta Xavier, Derick Alves Elois, Diógenes Braga Ramos, Elisabete da Silva Montesano, Erika Muniz da Cruz, Erineide Souza de Oliveira, Fabiana da Silva Soares, Felipe Gabriel de Castro Freire Oliveira, João Mouzart de Oliveira, José Batista Franco Junior, José Pedro da Silva Neto, Mafuane Silva de Oliveira, Maria Clara de Almeida Camargo, Oluwa Seyi Salles Brito, Renata Rodrigues da Silva, Rita de Cassia Mota Santos, Rita de Cássia Paulino, Samuel Dias Ribeiro, Simone Lima Azevedo, Telma das Graças de Araújo Souza.

The printed version by Editora Telha @editoratelha can be purchased here: https://editoratelha.com.br/product/doma-saberes-negros-e-confronting-racism/

The online version via the Viramundo Collection of the Faculty of Education of USP can be accessed here: https://www.livrosabertos.sibi.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/book/1123

Service:

DOMA: BLACK KNOWLEDGE AND CONFRONTING RACISM

Day 11/09/2023 (Thursday) at 7:30 pm ONLINE

Com Prof. Cleyde Amorim, João Mouzart and Oluwa Seyi.

on Canal Pensar Africanamente

Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieimSHdE3Q

Friday of the Month: The multiple layers of reception: mental health on the university agenda

09/29 at 9:30 am in Room 24 of the Social Sciences Building at USP and also broadcast via Youtube.

Guests:
Regina Facchini (Anthropologist and researcher at PAGU/Unicamp)
Elizabete Franco Cruz (Psychologist and teacher at EACH)
Karaí Mirin (Guarani and master's student at IP-USP)

Mediation:
Felipe Paes Piva (Master's student at PPGAS-USP)

Health within the academic environment is a topic of fundamental importance for inclusion and retention policies in higher education. Upon entering university, freshmen experience a delicate process of institutional birth, now introduced to new circuits of sociability. Learning to inhabit these spaces, however, is not just limited to the initial moment of entry, but extends throughout the entire period of attachment. In this sense, it is understood that the construction of support networks must be a continuous demand on the part of all people who are part of this community.
Therefore, with the intention of debating how mental health affects the lives of students, teachers and technical-administrative employees, the Friday of the Month of September proposes a table on the collective production of care within public universities. Currently, in the context of a “post”-pandemic daily life strongly marked by the virtualization of human relationships, we propose to question the changes in the way illnesses are expressed. Furthermore, we seek to associate these discomforts with the combined markers of difference, in order to draw an expanded picture of social vulnerabilities and precarious conditions among the university public. The debate will not shy away from analyzing the role of affirmative action policies in promoting emotional acceptance, bringing into conversation the effects generated by institutional measures taken by each body or faculty, associating them with the more general public situation. In short, the notion of “mental health” that guides such policies will also be questioned, with the aim of shaping a perception regarding care that permeates the different spheres of existence.