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INVITATION | Friday of the Month (@sextadomes) invites everyone to the August themed panel! ✨

Theme: "Conceptions of Body and Corporeality"

Studies on the body follow distinct approaches, from the field of biomedical sciences, through the arts, and culminating in anthropological research. However, the dialogue between traditional conceptions of the body present in Indigenous ethnology and the field of performing arts, more specifically dance, seems to have lacked significant convergence, for various reasons aligned with disciplinary and, at times, overlapping projects. We are interested in considering theories of the body, from a Maussian perspective to recent research in gender studies, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Indigenous cultural manifestations, which (re)update and connect the different fields of the humanities and anthropological production.

How can we learn from animals to recover from catastrophic wildfires? In this presentation, Verónica Policarpo will discuss this question based on the interdisciplinary project "ERC ABIDE (ID 101043231): Animal ABidings: recovering from disasters in more-than-human communities," which studies post-fire recovery in three countries: Brazil, Portugal, and Australia. After a brief presentation of the project's objectives and methodologies, as well as their epistemological implications, the researcher will share some aspects of her field experience in the Serra da Estrela region. She will discuss possible paths to (re)imagine how animals can inspire us to build multispecies communities whose ecological diversity would contribute to greater post-fire regeneration and resilience.

Karai Djekupe (Guarani leader, São Paulo)
Morgan Labar (art historian, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France)
Camille Benecchi (conservator-restorer, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)
Léa Le Bricomte (artist, École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France)

On August 26th, at 5:00 pm, in room 24, LETEC, in partnership with Numas, will host the book launch and discussion of "Pavilhão das Sereias." Author Vanessa Sander will be present, and the discussion will be led by Professor Guita Grin Debert (Unicamp).

Vanessa Sander is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Crime and Public Security Studies (CRISP) at UFMG. During her doctorate in Social Sciences at UNICAMP, she developed the research that led to the book "Pavilhão das Sereias: an ethnography of the circles of criminalization and incarceration of transvestites and transsexuals," published in 2024 and awarded the Anthropology and Human Rights Prize by the Brazilian Anthropology Association.

We look forward to seeing you!

Deadline for submission of abstracts to the Working Groups extended until June 16

In response to several requests, the Organizing Committee of the IX National Meeting on Anthropology of Law has extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to the Working Groups until June 16, 2025. Take advantage of this new opportunity to present your research in this space for dialogue between Anthropology and Law.

The Collective of Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA) is pleased to invite you to the lecture "Steps toward an Anthropology of Life," with Perig Pitrou, professor at the Collège de France and researcher at the CNRS. The event will take place at the Tomie Ohtake Institute on Friday, August 22, from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, and will feature simultaneous translation.

By explaining how life can become an object of investigation for anthropology—and not just for the life sciences—this lecture will present the project of a "general pragmatics of life" developed in the book "What Humans Source with Life." This research program seeks to compare how different human societies attempt to socialize the power of life through ritual practices or technoscientific devices, while also establishing institutions to care for the fragility of human lives.

Friday, August 22, 2025
 2:30 PM—4:30 PM
 Free admission
Tomie Ohtake Institute (SP)

Lecture with Prof. Selnich Vivas Hurtado (University of Antioquia, Medellín)
Ábɨ iémo Ábɨ [Body is Territory]: A Poetics of the Vegetal Experience

Selnich Vivas Hurtado (1971) is a writer and professor of Indigenous and Afro-descendant literatures in Colombia, at the University of Antioquia, Medellín. For over twenty years, he has shared his experience with the Múrui-Múina culture of the Amazon, where he learned the Mɨnɨka language and ancestral chants. His poetry has been written and published in Spanish, German, and Mɨnɨka. In 2011, he received the National Poetry Prize for his book Lass uns die Worte finden [Let us find the words].

DATA: 20/08/2025, 18h
Sede do CEstA
Rua do Anfiteatro, Colmeia, favo 8
Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP

We are pleased to extend an invitation to the lecture "Anthropology of Astrobiology," with Perig Pitrou, professor at the Collège de France and researcher at the CNRS, which will take place at the Maison du CNRS (USP, Butantã Campus), on Friday of next week (August 15, 2025), from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

The event is a joint effort by the IRL Mundos em Transição (CNRS/USP) and the Anthropology, Environment, and Biodiversity Collective (CHAMA/USP), with support from the José Luiz Setúbal Foundation, PPGAS-USP, and CAPES. Professor Perig Pitrou's visit to Brazil is part of the II Winter School FFLCH/USP 2025, promoted by CCInt/USP and PRCEU/USP.

No prior registration is required.

Canibal – Anthropology Group of the Global South and East
Graduate Program in Social Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of São Paulo

We are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Rodrigo Ochigame, from Leiden University:
"Computer Science of the Oppressed and Other Technological Alternatives from the Global South."

August 12, 2025, at 2:30 PM
Room 08 – Social Sciences Building
FFLCH

"Anthropologist and historian, Rodrigo Ochigame researches computing and artificial intelligence from a critical perspective.
He holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and is the author of Informatics of the Oppressed (Funilaria, 2025)."

The objective of the course is to provide an anthropological and historical overview of the native populations of the east-west coast, especially those of Ceará, during colonial Brazil. Specifically, the course is organized around four axes: possible tools for analyzing these populations; presentation of representations of these populations in selected bibliographies; discussion of indigenous contacts with Europeans and the development of colonization; and, finally, elements on the construction of relationships between these populations in the region. Thus, we believe that this overview will present students with a critical perspective on the modes of existence of these populations and their development of social relationships with settlers and colonial institutions. Ultimately, we believe that the course can serve as fertile ground for further reflection on the proposed topic. The course will be taught entirely remotely via the Google Meet platform.

Workload: 12:00 p.m.

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Perrone Moisés, FFLCH.

Instructor(s): David Rodrigues Stigger and João Victor Diniz Ribeiro