History Events DA

Reinaldo Macuxi and Eric Kamikiawa (PPGAS/USP PhD students)

Indigenous students will bring their experiences when leaving the community for university, pointing out the challenges and opportunities that arose along the way, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA/USP)

Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - favo 8
University City - São Paulo - SP

Responsible Professor: Rafael Antunes Almeida
Postdoctoral student at the Department of Anthropology (USP)
Professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia (UNILAB)

Information on the poster.

The film “A Câmara”, by directors Cristiane Bernardes and Tiago de Aragão, will be shown on April 5th, at 3pm, in the auditorium of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA). After the session, a debate will take place with both directors present.

Synopsis:
“From the depths of the Brazilian parliament, we follow female deputies doing politics. Topics such as reproductive rights, education, secular state, racism and political polarization come to the fore, as we follow these women closely in their political struggles and performances.
The Chamber is an observational documentary that follows the routine of federal deputies in the 56th legislature. Filmed between May and July 2022, the film presents experiences and spaces in the Chamber of Deputies based on the presence and performances of women from different states and political spectrums exercising their mandates.”

I will present an ongoing research project, which aims to comparatively ethnograph radical and innovative initiatives to consolidate protected areas (in this case, indigenous lands and common use territories of riverside communities) and to achieve territorial rights, in the light of conservation conviviality and some subfields of anthropology, notably studies on science and technology. Convivial conservation presents itself as an approach to conserving biological and cultural diversity that takes seriously not only cascading species extinctions, but also the structural pressures of our economic system and the violent socio-ecological and increasingly authoritarian political realities in which we live. It is a set of management principles and a post-capitalist approach to conservation that attempts to promote radical equity, structural transformation and environmental justice, based on Ivan Illich's notion of a user-friendly tool.

The Urban Anthropology Center/NAU (today LabNAU, laboratory), celebrates three decades of activities – it began in 1988 – inspired by the initiative of two professors, Ruth Cardoso and Eunice Durham. In a department based mainly on classic authors, fundamental to the study and research in the area of indigenous ethnology (as was tradition at the time) and long before the current discussion about gender and female presence in the academic area, Ruth and Eunice led a turnaround: from the choice of study topics as postgraduate students – not without disagreements with the advisors – to the lines of research of their own students, already as professors in the Department of Anthropology at USP.

One of its initiatives, the “Monday Seminars”, which gives the title to this proposal, opened an opportunity for students to get in touch with unconventional authors in the bibliography of the department's programs at the time: Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci, Saskia Sassen, Jean Lojkine, Michel Foucault, Nicos Poulantzas, Howard Becker and others, from different orientations and areas of knowledge and outside the scope of classical Anthropology.

In Technology of the Oppressed, David Nemer draws on extensive ethnography to provide a rich account of how favela residents appropriate different technologies to navigate digital and non-digital sources of oppression - and even, at times, thrive . Based on the work of educator Paulo Freire, Nemer develops a decolonial and intersectional theoretical framework called Mundane Technology to analyze how technologies can simultaneously be spaces of oppression and tools in the struggle for freedom. Nemer also addresses the relationship between disinformation and radicalization and the rise of the new extreme right. Contrary to the techno-optimistic belief that technology will save the poor, even with access to technology, these marginalized people face numerous sources of oppression, including technological biases, racism, classism, sexism, and censorship. Still, the community spirit, love, resilience and resistance of favela residents enable their quest for freedom.

Political-educational formation and indigenous movements: reflections from the Kaiowa and Guarani peoples

With
Eliel Benites (Ministry of Indigenous Peoples)
Kerexu Mirim (EEI Krukutu)
Levi Marques Pereira (UFGD)
Mediation
Augusto Ventura dos Santos (Doctor PPGAS/USP)

02/27/2024, at 10am
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - favo 8

Closing lecture on CEstA 2023 activities with Maria Luísa Lucas (MAE/USP) and Leandro Varison (Museé du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac)

Shared collections: the Franco-Brazilian collections of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss

15/12/2023 - 2:30 pm
CEstA Headquarters - Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 - favo 8

Friday of the Month: Black Intellectualities

08/12
5pm
Room 24 of the USP Social Sciences Building
Broadcast via Youtube.

Guests:
Fernanda Martins (PhD student in Social Sciences/UNICAMP, Researcher at PAGU/UNICAMP and NUMAS/USP
Layne Gabriele (IEAL/UNICAMP Undergraduate, Popular Educator, Researcher and Communicator
Victor Mateus Duarte (Master in Philosophy UFABC and Specialist in Contemporary Philosophy IBF

Mediation:
Alessandra Tavares (PPGAS/USP PhD student)