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

Theme: "Indigenous Cosmopolitics of Care"

Cosmopolitics here can be understood both as a theoretical instrument and as a practice of intervention in the real world. More than a simple reaction to illness, this meeting focuses on the idea of ​​care as a plural production, understood as a dynamic process that articulates cosmological, physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. It is within this movement, but not limited to it, that collectives develop their own strategies of reception, protection, territorial recognition, translation, and cultural mediation. In this edition, topics such as Indigenous health and medicine, the production and circulation of knowledge, therapeutic pluralism, techniques and material handling, the poetics of oral performance, and the very notion of "cure" will be explored, highlighting how, in contemporary times, care has become not only a therapeutic practice, but also a field of creativity and affirmation of life and autonomy in its different modes of existence.

Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings, which will take place on September 24th, 25th, and 26th, 2025. This will be its sixth edition, and this year the theme will be "No Ground, No Angola," alluding to the importance of physical space for masters and mistresses to develop their cultural practices.

The program offers a wide variety of activities, including dance workshops, African fabric printing, artistic performances, musical presentations, discussion groups, an audiovisual exhibition, and our Caruru de Cosme e Damião (Caruru) for children.

We would be honored by your presence.

The Artisanal Fabric Printing workshop requires pre-registration through the online form https://forms.gle/TMH8oKHBP6KxBTcSA

More details are available on Instagram @nucleoartesafrobra

We invite you to a sonic conversation about the film "Floresta de Fitas," directed by Priscilla Ermel, who will be present at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

The screenings will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP), on:

September 23, 2025: sessions at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
September 24, 2025: session at 7:00 PM

In "Floresta de Fitas," São Paulo-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory alongside poet Cora Coralina and anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, revealing resonances between the musical creations in analog studios in the 1980s and the dreamlike universe of the Cinta-Larga indigenous people with whom she lived during this period. The script is woven through the stories of these characters featured on her debut album, "Saber Sobre Viver," produced by legendary sound engineer Hugo Gama.

DISCUSSION
BOOKS OF THE FOREST
Project presentation by João Cardoso, curator of BBM
Discussion with Betty Mindlin, Pedro Cesarino, and Robson Marubo

The event presents the Books of the Forest collection, composed of works by Indigenous authors and/or in Indigenous languages, and proposes a discussion on the relationships between Indigenous worlds and books as a form of expression.

Free admission and no registration required
Villa-Lobos Room
Rua da
Library, 21
Cidade
Universitária, São
Paulo

The University of São Paulo (USP) will host the Franco-USP Week of Cooperation in Sciences, Arts, and Humanities from September 15 to 26, 2025. The event celebrates scientific collaborations between French universities and USP, and this year it takes on a special role by commemorating 200 years of bilateral relations between France and Brazil.

The program, which is the result of a partnership between different sectors of the University, the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Worlds in Transition Laboratory (IRL-CNRS-USP), and IdA-pôle Brésil, incorporates activities related to the Saison Croisée Brésil-France 2025, an agenda launched by Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to strengthen ties between the two countries.

One of the highlights of the event is the international colloquium "Worlds in Transition: New Approaches to Fieldwork," which will include screenings of audiovisual productions from the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), followed by discussions with researchers and film directors:

September 17: "New York, Another City," at 7:30 PM, and "Hosts for Half a Century: The Mỹky Version of History," at 8:30 PM. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with André Lopes.

On September 15, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature Alex Flynn, a professor at the University of California (UCLA), who will present the research "Paths to Utopia: Temporalities of Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement."

Seminar Numas

Regimes of Intimacy and Racial Governance: Desire, Miscegenation, and Nation in the Global South

Lauro Moutinho - Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo

NAPEDRA (Center for Anthropology, Performance, and Drama) invites everyone to a meeting with Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Gonçalves at the event " Views, Imaginaries, and (m) Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis," which proposes to reflect on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political urgencies.

The event "Glances, Imaginaries, and (m)Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis" proposes a reflection on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and on how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political emergencies.

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.