History Events DA

CEstA Duo with Julia Castro and Pedro Meniconi
August 14, 2026, at 5:30 PM

Julia Silva de Castro
PhD candidate in Social Anthropology (PPGAS/USP) under the supervision of Prof. Renato Sztutman, with FAPESP funding (2023/07123-8). Associate researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA). She has been conducting research with the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin since 2023, with fieldwork carried out in the Xikrin do Cateté Indigenous Territory in southeastern Pará. She holds a Master’s degree (2018) and a Bachelor’s degree (2015) in Social Sciences from UFES.

MÉTIS and CEstA invite you to:
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (National Museum/UFRJ)

"THE MORAL CONDITION OF TRUTH IS IMAGINATION": NOTES FOR A COMBAT ANIMISM

"Animism" as the ethics of the Anthropocene—the moment-event in which ethics becomes ontology. Justice as the political condition of truth. The continuous reimagining of the persons/things divide. The cosmopolitics of the "planetariat" as a singularity-of-any-kind. The planetariat as the community that remains.

MÉTIS – Arts and semantics of creation and memory
FAPESP Thematic Project 2020/07886-8
Organized by: USP, UFSCar, UNIFESP, FAPESP, CEstA – Center for Amerindian Studies (University of São Paulo), Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library

August 13, 2026, 4:00 PM
István Jancsó Auditorium
Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library
Rua da Biblioteca, 21, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP

www.metis.fflch.usp.br
www.cesta.fflch.usp.br
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In-person event
Free admission, subject to venue capacity
No registration required

We invite the entire academic community and the general public to participate in the 1st Hip Hop Seminar: Culture, Transit, and Trajectories, taking place on August 11, 12, and 13 at the Urban Anthropology Center Laboratory (LabNau/USP) at the University of São Paulo (Room 22, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM).

...21st century through the articulation of memory with creation. Session guests will discuss terraforming practices within their respective research fields and intellectual trajectories. Time, memory, and creation are mobilized through diverse approaches—such as Afrofuturism, Afropessimism, Indigenous Futurism, and digital machines that establish conceptual, perceptual, and prospective regimes—to question hegemonic and seemingly triumphant conceptions of the future. This involves a critical analysis of practices that occupy distinct, if not openly conflicting, positions within the contemporary political landscape.

August 7, 2026: Extended Debate Session 3: Morning speakers and 20 invited researchers debate and develop the theme of ET3—Yearnings for the Future.

Further program details can be found on the Métis website: https://metis.fflch.usp.br/divulgacao/iii-simposio-internacional-metis

We invite everyone to the preview screening of the documentary *INSURRENTOS*, directed by Breno Sousa.

Synopsis: For nearly 30 years, the Capoeira Angola group Guerreiros de Senzala, led by Luiz Antônio Nascimento Cardoso (Mestre Pinguim), has been active at the University of São Paulo. Operating independently, the collective fosters the convergence of traditional Afro-Brazilian knowledge, academic research, and artistic creation.

The "Sexta do Mês" (Friday of the Month) event, organized by students of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), invites everyone to the June thematic panel!

Theme: "Internet, masculinity, and violence: becoming men through the digital world"

Considering the increasing media and social media coverage of cases of violence against girls and women, the proposal for June's "Sexta do Mês" aims to bring together researchers who are examining the interconnections and resonances between masculinity and the internet.

The panel will focus on how the internet has become a means of constructing masculinities that are often entangled in discourses that glorify violence. The so-called "machosphere" has become a space on social media where hatred towards the bodies of women and LGBTQIA+ people is propagated. These discourses have produced ways of understanding ourselves as men and boys based on this aversion to the other who challenges the hegemony of a cis-hetero-white masculinity. In this sense, the discussions proposed by the panel aim to question these ways of becoming men, especially with/through social networks.

Guests:
Isabela Venturoza
Pablo Ornelas
Fabio Mariano da Silva
Débora Cajé Yamamoto (moderator)

Seminar - Weaving Care, Cultivating Lives: Indigenous Women, Knowledge, and Territories

The leading role of Indigenous women (allied with men) in cultivating their fields and caring for their groups is remarkable, and even more expressive when faced with epidemiological and environmental crises such as those witnessed in the Anthropocene. This is because, as Sandra Benites affirms, the land is feminine, it is mother and ancestor. Bodies and territories (as the Indigenous women's movement emphasizes) are intertwined, one impacting the other, inflicting toxicities and violence upon them.

The medicalization of the processes of living and dying imposes new regimes of care and bodily fabrication. Thus, reproductive events, such as childbirth, are directly affected by the acquired vulnerability of bodies. Midwives, herbalists, prayer leaders, and shamans thus have to hold the world above their heads (to draw an analogy with the agency of the Yanomami shamans spoken of by Davi Kopenawa), both in their villages and beyond.

Apigawa reta yandé nheenga katu
 The arts in our own words
8 a 10 de junho, das 14-18h
Locais: MAC USP e Casa do Povo

Organized by: MAC USP and MAE USP
DECAY and Center for Documentation of Indigenous Languages ​​and Cultures, Scientific Events Grant from the Pro-Rectorate for Research and Innovation of the University of São Paulo

Support: Casa do Povo, Parquinho Gráfico and CEstA

FREE REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/4dWjiT1
FULL PROGRAM: http://www.mac.usp.br/mac/conteudo/academico/atuais/89.asp

Africa, Amazonia, and Afro-Americas: Long Duration, Circulations, and Historical Ecologies

PROGRAM

9:30 AM - Opening
Rafael Scopacasa (Director of the Postgraduate Program)
Marcos Leitão de Almeida (Department of History/USP)

David L. Schoenbrun (Northwestern University)
Eduardo Neves (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/USP)
Moderator: Alexandre Marcussi (Department of History/USP)
9:45 AM - 11:45 AM - Narratives, linguistic and archaeological data, and regimes of proof

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch

Rosa Vieira (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/USP)
Jennifer Georgina Watling (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/USP)
Sónia da Silva Domingos Pom (Museum (Department of Archaeology and Ethnology/USP)
Moderators: Guilherme Bianchi (DH/USP) & Zacarias Chambe (DH/USP)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
PANEL 1: Field research: plants, people and techniques

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Coffee break

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
PANEL 2: Linguistics, language and indigenous, African and Afro-diasporic concepts

Cooking with Lévi-Strauss and the Enawenê-nawê Women: In Search of the Human Condition in the Details of Everyday Life