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PhD student Felipe Paes Piva received an Honorable Mention at the XII Anthropology and Human Rights Award: Antiracism and Pluridiversity in the Master's Thesis category for his text "Building racial reparation in our own 'backyard': affirmative action and the 'survival of slavery' in the grammar of academic excellence at the University of São Paulo" during the award ceremony at the 35th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting in Goiânia. In the photo, committee members Taniele Rui and Diógenes Cariaga present the award to the thesis advisor, Heloisa Buarque de Almeida.

Fourth edition of *Classificados* released—the journal of the Métis Thematic Project (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2026)

*Classificados* (ISSN 3086-2744) is a biannual journal associated with the Thematic Project "Métis – Arts and semantics of creation and memory" (FAPESP Grant No. 2020/07886-8). Established in 2024, it reaches its fourth edition with the release of Volume 2, Number 1 (2026).
The journal disseminates research, creative work, and reflections originating from the Métis project and its partnerships. It serves as a channel for scientific communication, functioning both as an internal space for discussing ongoing research and as a platform for dialogue with the broader academic community.
Based at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and bringing together researchers from various universities in Brazil and abroad, the journal explores the polysemy and potential connections of the concept of "creation" within anthropology—covering themes such as art, science, material culture, ecology, economy, aesthetics, nature, kinship, and politics.… Read more

Professor Guilherme Moura Fagundes—a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP), a researcher at the Maison du CNRS, coordinator of CHAMA (Collective for Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity), and deputy coordinator of USP’s Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP)—received the "Environnement" Award in Brasília. The award was presented by the French Embassy in Brazil during the "Soirée Alumni" event.

The ceremony took place at the official residence of the French Ambassador to Brazil, Emmanuel Lenain, and was attended by the president of CAPES, Denise Pires de Carvalho, and the rector of the University of Brasília (UnB), Rozana Reigota Naves.

The distinction recognizes outstanding achievements in the environmental field by Brazilian alumni who completed part of their education in France. In its evaluation, the selection committee highlighted Guilherme Moura Fagundes's collaborations with French research institutions, as well as his academic and public engagement regarding… Read more

Registration for the Prepara PPGAS 2026 workshops is now open. The activities are free, held remotely, and open to all interested individuals, regardless of participation in the tutoring cycle.

Over the next few months, workshops will be offered on research project development, academic reading, the selection process, bibliographic research, ethics in research, and other topics related to training in anthropology and entry into postgraduate studies.

Registration can be done through the form: https://forms.gle/DYnFJgphfiDYfibWA

Interested individuals can register for the workshops until the day before each activity.

We hope to see you at our activities.

🌍 LAST DAYS: How does your research respond to the urgencies of the Anthropocene?

Registrations for abstracts for GT 8 - "Aesthetics of the End of the World: art, fables and narratives in the Anthropocene as a research device in Southern Anthropologies" are open until June 20.

If your research crosses the paths of Visual Anthropology, Arts, Literature, Performance, or proposes fabulations and counter-narratives critical of contemporary collapses from the Global South, GT 8 is your space for dialogue.

Our working group proposes an interdisciplinary space for debate that takes art and narratives not only as objects of study, but as epistemological methods and crucial research devices in the face of the planetary transformations of the Anthropocene, under South-South geopolitical coordinates. We invite graduate students and researchers from Social Sciences, Anthropology and Arts to submit their communication proposals.

👥 Coordination: Priscila Silva Queiroz Cevada (USP) and Tiara Zampedri (UBA) 🎙️ Moderation: Fabio Luiz Silva de Oliveira (USP)

FAPESP TT-IV Scholarship | RESPIRO Project - FFLCH-USP

A vacancy for Technical Training level IV - TT-IV/FAPESP is open to work on the RESPIRO project: Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado, based at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP.

The selected person will act in the design and execution of the project database, gathering ethnographic, audiovisual, cartographic, bibliographic and documentary information as a preliminary basis for PiroAtlas, a hypermedia platform on pyrodiversity heritage in the Cerrado.

It will also develop infographics, diagrams, timelines, visual diagrams, templates for presentations, website materials, social networks, reports, events and public communication actions of science.

Desired areas: Design, Information Design, Visual Communication, Architecture, Visual Arts, Communication, Library Science, Information Science or related areas.

Requirements: complete graduation; minimum of two years of professional or research experience after graduation, or… Read more

Métis Newsletter 2/2026 is now available!

The Métis Team launches Newsletter 2/2026 (March/April 2026)

The team of the FAPESP Métis Thematic Project (Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, No. 2020/07886-8) presents the Métis Newsletter 2/2026, covering the activities carried out by its members during March/April 2026!

The sections "Work Presentation," "Publications," "Defenses," and "Meetings" detail the activities, information, and collective and/or individual products of the Research Groups, Researchers, and Fellows.

Access the Newsletter at this link.

More information on the website, Team, Diálogos Videocast, Classifieds, Instagram.

Email: metis@usp.br

On May 30, 2026, the book *De maloca em Maloca* was launched. It was written by Leandro Carneiro, a doctoral student in the PPGAS program and a student of José Guilherme Magnani. The event took place at Café Colombiano/La Libreria and facilitated a discussion among academics, health and social service professionals who work with the realities of the homeless population, as well as educators and activists from the National Movement for the Homeless Population (MNPR). Magnani’s moderation framed the topic through the lens of urban anthropology; the author discussed aspects of social interactions and conflicts on the streets, and the guests’ participation helped deepen the debate. The event featured simultaneous translation into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), making it accessible to the deaf community.

Check out some photos below, and at this link, a video of the launch with a sign language translation!