Events DA

On August 19 and 20, 2026, LISA-USP will host the Social Anthropology Postdoctoral Seminar: Music, Cinema, and Anthropology. Organized by the research groups GRAVI and PAM, the event aims to showcase ongoing research by postdoctoral fellows in Social Anthropology at FFLCH/USP focusing on "Music, Cinema, and Anthropology," as well as to foster dialogue and academic debate around these themes. The event is free and open to the public.

Program:

August 19, 2026 (Wednesday)
Moderator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Music, Ethnography, and Anthropology (Jorge Lampa, Rafael B. A. Norberto, Mateus de Oliveira, and Gabriel Improta França)
6:00 PM: Music circle

August 20, 2026 (Thursday)
Moderator: Vitória Grunvald
3:30 PM – 7…

Start: Friday, August 21, 2026, 10:00 AM
Room 1039, Philosophy and Social Sciences Building – USP
Graça Cordeiro, a faculty member at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, will give a lecture on ethnographic and historical research regarding Azorean-American communities (an event organized by GEAC-USP). For an interview on the subject, see https://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4EN/10699.html

Friday of the Month, an event organized by students from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP, invites everyone to the August themed table!

Theme: “Unified Black Movement: protest, popular struggle and anti-racist education”

The proposal of Friday of the Month in August is to discuss the relationships between political mobilization, knowledge production and institutionalization of agendas of the black social movement in Brazil, based on the trajectory of the Unified Black Movement (MNU). The panel starts with the following question: how does black protest in the streets unfold into political and institutional formulations in the field of education?

In this sense, it is proposed to articulate historical, ethnographic and political dimensions of…