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The proposal for the Meeting of Knowledges Seminar at USP was developed by the Pro-Rectory of Inclusion and Belonging (PRIP), the Institute of Psychology (IP) and the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL), in dialogue with professors and researchers from several units and universities (IP/USP; FFLCH/USP; PROLAM/USP; IB/USP; FFCLRP/USP; DAN/UnB; Transversal Training Program in Traditional Knowledges/UFMG; FCM/Unicamp; Kaapora/Unifesp; Xingu Project/Unifesp; ICH/UFJF).

The Seminar will promote contact between the academic community and interested parties with traditional knowledge from the teachers present (from some Afro-diasporic and indigenous traditions).

Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA/USP)
Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts at USP 

Hybrid Event

Link to all sessions: https://meet.google.com/huf-vvvo-ckh

Schedule

October 14 (Monday)
– Online schedule via Zoom

● Afternoon (2:00 p.m.):
o Welcome from the organizing committee
John C. Dawsey, Pâmilla Vilas Good morning, Fernanda Marcon.
○ Canoe Path: between mirrors and water roots (conversation circle)
Carlos Corrêa Praude (UNB) Rita de Almeida Castro (UNB; NAPEDRA/USP) (remote).
○ Falling Bodies: A film, a massacre, a cyborg and the spiraling time of performance
Scott Head (GESTO/UFSC) (remote)
○ Around the World (Short Film Screening, 14’12)
Alice Villela (NAPEDRA/USP) (remote)
○ Andanças de Fé (Documentary Screening, 46’)
Carlos Alberto Corrêa Moro (UNICAMP; NAPEDRA/USP) (remote)

Inhabiting fires

Monday, October 14 at 2:00 p.m. - Room 1037

The presentation will be based on the way in which the quilombolas of Jalapão (TO) inhabit the general environment. Instead of establishing static borders, buildings, and individualizing possession, it is a way of living that is expressed through wandering activities in areas with different temporalities of post-fire regeneration. In addition to demonstrating how this way of living broadens our understanding of the conditions of habitability at the time of large forest fires, the presentation will also seek to outline an ethnographic theory of quilombola freedom. In short, it is an experience of freedom that cannot be reduced to ecological autonomy, since it is guided by demands that are more than human, the effects of which have repercussions on a way of relating to fire that goes beyond its control.

The Ponto.Urbe magazine, a periodical linked to the Laboratory of the Center for Urban Anthropology at USP, announces Urbe em Foco VII! Next Wednesday, October 2nd, starting at 3:00 p.m., in the Anthropology Auditorium (Room 24) of the Social Sciences and Philosophy Building (FFLCH), we will discuss the dossier “Cities at War”, published in our latest issue. Participate! No prior registration required. Certificates will be issued for in-person participants. Check out the participants: Frank Daves and Lia de Mattos Rocha (UERJ) Our cities at war: notes on militarization and coloniality from Rio de Janeiro Carolina Parreiras (DA/LETEC/USP) Digital inequalities in Rio de Janeiro's favelas: uses and infrastructures between precariousness and militarization Apoena Mano (PPGS/USP) Organized crime and urban violence in Latin America Mediation: Silvana Nascimento (PPGAS/USP)

International Study Conference - Techniques of the Body: 90 years of Marcel Mauss's essay

The conference aims to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the essay Techniques of the Body (1934), by French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). The event's motivation, through its anniversary, is not exactly to provide a remembrance of the text, but rather to encourage its reinterpretation by the Brazilian public. Often cited in Brazil as an inspiration for the anthropology of the body, the essay is also considered, in France, the founder of the anthropology of technique. This second line of investigation repositions contemporary anxieties surrounding technophobias and techno-utopias, in addition to outlining methodological paths, including audiovisual ones, for the perception and description of the “traditional and effective acts” that constitute technique. In keeping with the interdisciplinarity that characterizes the essay, the event will promote connections between anthropology and archaeology, understanding that Marcel Mauss's emphasis on mastering technique through the body underscores the continuity between the biological, the psychological, and the social.

Prof. Clara Han at USP

Clara Han is a Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on how territories and medical and legal institutions intertwine with intimate life in contexts marked by economic precarity and violence. Han has conducted over two decades of fieldwork in low-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile, exploring illness, violence, and kinship under conditions of deprivation. Most recently, she has conducted research in Korea, with a special focus on the Korean War. She is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile and Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War, the latter of which won the Senior Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology in 2022. Her work addresses the slow shifts in subjectivity, the dynamics of care and neglect in intimate relationships, and how violence is inherited across generations. Han also co-edited the volume Living and Dying in the Contemporary World with Veena Das.

Graduate students are invited to a meeting/debate with anthropologist Clara Han (John Hopkins University, United States).

With joy, Sexta do Mês invites everyone to the two thematic tables that will take place in September. The first of them, entitled "Listening and welcoming: experiences of promoting mental health at university", proposes to debate institutional policies and collective practices of care, welcoming and listening that occur within the scope of higher education, with the presence of professors, researchers and students from different public colleges.

Restore, document, repair: thinking about the intersections between indigenous peoples and their collections.

The Study Group "Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiracy Formations" aims to analyze and discuss, from an anthropological perspective, the phenomena of post-truth, denialism and conspiracy theories.

Meeting theme: "Pragmatic Encounters" vs. denialism
The group will discuss the following text: 

ALMEIDA, Mauro W. Barbosa de. Ontological Anarchism and Truth in the Anthropocene. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 23, n. 1, p. 10–29, 2021.

https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ilha/article/view/78405

Dear all,

We invite you to the 1st International Seminar on Influences in the Arts from Dakar, held by the USP Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the thematic project Link'Art Africas (FAPESP), which will bring together researchers from Senegalese, French and Brazilian institutions from September 16 to 19, 2024, in the city of São Paulo.
In the attachment, you can check the schedule and the link to register.here 
The event will be held in person and the panels will have simultaneous translation from Portuguese to French and from French to Portuguese.

Sincerely,
Organizing Committee