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"São Palco - Afropolitan City" received the audience award for feature film in the Territories and Memory Competition of the 14th Mostra Ecofalante, the most important South American event for audiovisual production linked to socio-environmental issues. The award ceremony took place on the evening of June 8, 2025, at Reserva Cultural in São Paulo
The trophy presented by Hermano Penna, the filmmaker honored at the 14th Mostra, was circulated among the protagonists present at the event: Shambuyi Wetu, Sassou Espoir, Edoh Fihon, Yannick Delass and Rose Satiko Hikiji, co-director of the film and professor at the Department of Anthropology at USP. Afro-diasporic art gains another stage, this time in the cinema.
Produced by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), the… Read more
"São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" is among those selected for the “Territories and Memory Competition” at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival. The competition is aimed at Brazilian productions or co-productions that deal with issues related to one or more territories in the country or that address themes linked to individual or collective memories.
Considered the most important South American event for audiovisual production related to socio-environmental issues, the Ecofalante Film Festival has free admission to all its activities and will take place from May 28 to June 11, 2025.
Produced by LISA and directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, the film features Shambuyi Wetu, Yannick Delass, Lenna Bahule, Edoh Amassize and other Afropolitan artists who occupy Sampa (and the world) with their diasporic creativity. "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" will be shown in the following cinemas:
Reserva Cultural, room 03 - Avenida Paulista 900, Paraíso
Thursday… Read more
Listen to the interview - "City, graffiti and anthropology" - at: https://open.spotify.com/
Applications will be open from March 20 to April 4, 2025, to participate in the Preparatory Workshops for admission to the USP Graduate Program in Social Anthropology.
The course will consist of two stages:
I – General Workshops (in 2025/01);
II – Project Tutoring Cycle (in 2025/02);
The Preparatory Workshop Cycle is organized by an independent group of students from the Program and aims to increase the participation of black people, indigenous people, quilombolas, people who belong to traditional peoples or communities, people with disabilities and trans people in graduate studies, especially in Social Anthropology courses.
Up to 100 places will be offered to people belonging to these groups.
The activities will be held on Saturdays, remotely and completely free of charge.
Registration can be done through the link: https://forms.gle/wx6QMnmwYGzZPdSp9
If you have any questions, please contact us:
Enrico Spaggiari discussed topics from his doctoral thesis and the co-organization of the collection 'Popular Football' (published with support from the National Institute of Science and Technology, INCT) in the aforementioned article (1/3/25): https://revistapesquisa.
Julio Cesar Talhari discussed topics from his doctoral thesis (defended in Sep./24) about the Museu Paulista, in an interview with the FFLCH-USP Scientific Dissemination website (2/14/25): https://www.fflch.usp.br/
Silvana de Souza Nascimento, from the Department of Anthropology, provides a historical overview of this field of study and shows how it has grown over the years
Number of vacancies: 20
Regular course:Social History Program
Mini-bio of the Professor. Instructor: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona (1985), a master's degree in Communication Arts from the New York Institute of Technology (1989), and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1997). He was awarded a John… Read more