Events DA

On June 6 (Friday) there will be a seminar entitled "Genetic taming and the narrowing of multispecies futures", which will be taught by the professor of the Department of Anthropology at UFRGS and researcher at the Department of Humanistic Studies at Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, Dr. Jean Segata. The event will be held from 4 pm to 6 pm, in auditorium 8 of FFLCH - USP, and is promoted by the anthropology collective CHAMA.

The film “Rio das Mortes: nossa vida” will be shown in the AntropoCena session on June 12, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the LISA auditorium, in partnership with the Visual Anthropology Group of the University of São Paulo (GRAVI-USP), and will feature the presence of Ana Lúcia Ferraz, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Ethnographic Film Laboratory of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).

Ana Lúcia graduated from USP and holds a master's degree in Anthropology (1999), a PhD in Sociology (2005), and a postdoctoral degree in Social Anthropology (2010). She currently works in the fields of Indigenous Ethnology and Visual Anthropology, and is the author of a series of ethnographic films, including, with the Guarani Nhandeva, Nhande Ywy/Nosso Território (2018) and Öwawe dahoimanadzé/Rio das Mortes: nossa vida (2024).

Based on the experience of Zapatista territories in Chiapas, Mexico, the presentation addresses indigenous autonomy as dynamic processes of territorialization and creation of their own forms of sociopolitical organization. In dialogue with other Latin American experiences, we will reflect on how the Zapatistas (re)construct, on a daily basis, autonomous spaces in opposition to the processes of heteronomy imposed by the State and capital.

With
Fábio M. Alkmin (PhD in Human Geography/USP)
Lucas Keese dos Santos (PhD student at PPGAS/USP)
Mediation: Silvia Adoue (Unesp and Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes)

Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation

The II Métis International Symposium - Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, whose theme is “Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation”, aims to investigate theoretically and ethnographically the various conceptions of the notion of creation, exploring its polysemy and its relations with memory, in line with the objectives of the Fapesp Thematic Project (2020/07886-8) to which it is linked. Based on the successful experience of the I SIM (2024), this second symposium stands out for promoting the encounter between professionals of different generations and subfields within anthropology and related areas, such as history, archaeology, philosophy, architecture and arts. It also welcomes people from other areas of knowledge, in line with an intellectual and political perspective of establishing intra and extra-university dialogues.

In Brazil, as in other dimensions of the Highlands and Lowlands of the Amerindian scenario and context, each indigenous ethnic group has a specific, particular, independent and interdependent model of social organization guided by ethnic-wide methodologies that allow for a life followed by self-identification. Therefore, from the point of view of the ethnic scenario of Brazilian indigenous cultures, patrilineal systems and matrilineal systems prevailed as the foundations of self-identification of an ethnic group. More than being systems, they are in fact educational methods of a sociocultural framework. Given the scenario in which the demands of ethnic identifications become fundamental in the face of public policies and academic policies, necessary and differentiated as aspects of indigenous law, we intend to approach the theme Hierarchy and system of social organization: the Tukano kinship machine, as a way of providing debate based on the reading of the Tukano social organization experienced as an educational methodology and as a machine of indigenous social organization in the context of the northwest Amazon.

The National Meetings of Anthropology of Law (ENADIR) are biannual events promoted by the Center for Anthropology of Law (NADIR), based in the Department of Anthropology (DA) and the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) of the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP).
 The goals of the event have remained the same since the first Meeting (2009): to generate new knowledge and promote the improvement of the quality of scientific production in the fields of anthropology of law and related areas, encouraging and supporting exchanges between researchers from various higher education and research institutions, especially national graduate programs.
Likewise, with regard to postgraduate programs, ENADIR aims to contribute to the ongoing and systematic articulation between legal anthropologists in Brazil and study centers in the area, without neglecting to include foreign partnerships.