History Events DA

The Cóccyx Research Group – (In)disciplinary Studies of the Body and Territory, from the Department of Anthropology, presents the lecture "The transits of the gift: the exchange of gifts and the idea of reciprocity between plastic surgeons and patients in the scope of trans medicine", by Prof. doctor Francisco Cleiton Vieira Silva do Rego (PPGAS-USP/UFRN), which aims to present part of the results of his research developed within the scope of the USP Post-Doctoral Program, in the Post-Graduate Program in Social Anthropology and in the Department of Anthropology of USP.

The event will be virtual and broadcast via the PPGAS/USP Channel on YouTube (Access link: https://youtube.com/ live/TyWNVT4vTB8) and will be mediated by Profe. Dre. Silvana de Souza Nascimento (USP) and with comments for Profa. Dr. Mónica Franch (UFPB).

The lecture intends to approach from an indigenous perspective, the notions of race, ethnicity and whiteness, with emphasis on Guarani epistemologies. Dr. Geni Núñez presents a summary of her research and doctoral thesis "Nhande ayvu is the color of the earth: Guarani indigenous perspectives on ethnogenocide, race, ethnicity and whiteness".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgg6qFFkzD43

The first event promoted by LETEC - Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies, of the Department of Anthropology and financed by FAPESP, will take place on June 29th, at 4 pm, in Room 24 (Social Sciences Building). This event inaugurates the Technology and Internet Debate Cycle, which will take place throughout 2023. In this first edition, we will have the round table "Weaving the Present: Interconnections between Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology and Society". Participants: Valdinei Freire (EACH/C4AI-CID-USP) Renata Wassermann (C4AI-CID/IME/USP) Mayane Batista (UFAM/FFLCH-C4AI-USP/Researcher) Thiago Marcílio (C4AI-USP/Researcher) Laísa Lima (NEPAM) -UFAM) Nicole Grell (C4AI-PROINDL-USP) Cássia Sampaio Sanctos (IBM-Research) Pâmela Ferreira (ICMC-USP) There will also be disclosure on Youtube.

In June, Mecila welcomes Professor Ángel Ramírez, from the Palta people of Ecuador and Vice-Rector for Research and Extension at the Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas Amawtay Wasi (UINPIAW) for a brief visit in São Paulo.

On June 29th (Thursday), Ángel Ramírez will participate in two activities organized by Mecila in partnership with the Center for Amerindian Studies (CestA-USP) and the Kaapora Chair (Unifesp) in room 8 of the Philosophy and Social Sciences (FFLCH-USP).

At 2 pm there will be a conversation on interculturality in indigenous degrees with Ángel Ramírez (UINPIAW), Valéria Macedo (Unifesp) and professors involved in the intercultural indigenous degree to be created at Unifesp.

After a short break, Ángel Ramírez's open lecture on “Intercultural Management of Knowledge, Decoloniality and Collective Intellectual Property” will begin at 5:30 pm, with comments by Tiago Nhandewa (PPGAS/USP). The lecture will be broadcast live on Mecila's YouTube channel.

Second meeting of the seminar "Decolonial Prefigurations in the Urban Space" (partnership between the City Anthropology Study Group (GEAC-USP), the Urban Anthropology Collective (CAU, Portugal) and the Peregum Black Reference Institute (Brazil )), with the participation of José Baessa de Pina, Ana Rita Alves and Stella Paterniani.
Registration: https://prefiguracoes2.eventbrite.com.br

Lecture with TRUDRUÁ DORRICO (postdoctoral student/UFRR)
Makunaimã Letters: the trunk of Makuxi Indigenous Literature

Discussor: Tiago Nhandewa (PhD student/PPGAS/USP)

Trudruá Dorrico belongs to the Macuxi people. PhD in Theory of Literature at PUCRS. Master in Literary Studies and degree in Portuguese Letters from UNIR. She is a poet, writer, speaker, researcher of indigenous literature. She won 1st place in the Tamoios / FNLIJ / UKA New Indigenous Writers contest in 2019. Administrator of the @leiamulheresindigenas Instagram profile and the YouTube channel Contemporary Indigenous Literature. Curator of the 1st Exhibition of Indigenous Literature at the Museu do Índio (UFU). Author of the work “I am Macuxi and other stories” (Caos e Letras, 2019). Curator of FeCCI - I Indigenous Film Festival, Brasília (2022). He is currently in the postdoctoral program at the Federal University of Roraima, UFRR, in contemporary indigenous literature: narratives of the Makuxi people, 2023. He has just finished his artistic residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2023).

On June 2, at 2 pm, the School of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of USP will hold the graduation ceremony of the title of Professor Emeritus to Kabengele Munanga, professor of the Department of Anthropology. The event will be held in the University Council Room.

Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Professor Kabengele Munanga is Brazilian by naturalization since 1985. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the Official University of Congo, where he worked from 1969 to 1975, and began his postgraduate studies with a scholarship received from the Belgian government, at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he stayed from 1969 to 1971. During this period, he was a researcher at the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, Brussels, and specialized in the study of traditional African arts. Due to the military dictatorship installed in his country, Munanga had to return before completing his doctorate.
In 1977, he completed his doctorate in Human Sciences, in the area of Social Anthropology, with a scholarship granted by USP. Entitled The Basanga of Shaba, An Ethnic Group of Zaire, General Anthropology Essay, his doctoral thesis was published in 1986 by FFLCH-USP.