History Events DA

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

The Center for Amerindian Studies invites you to our event:

Lecture with
Renato Sztutman (PPGAS-USP)
Karen Shiratori (PPGAS-USP)
Emanuele Fabiano (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS)

"Plant insurgencies against the palm empire: preliminary notes on a breeding experiment in Ucayali"

The event will feature a screening of the film "Bakish Rao: plants in struggle" (Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico, 2023)

Wednesday, 09/11/2024 - 3:00 p.m.
LISA Auditorium (Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology)
Anfiteatro Street, 181 - Colmeia 10

Lecture with Juliana Oliveira Silva
PPGAS/USP Postdoc
Fapesp Process 2023/02002-2

Study Group: Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiratorial Formations - 5th meeting

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

The group will discuss the following text:

HOLANDA, Jorge Garcia de. Aesthetics of a flat and stationary world: science, religion and conspiracism in the flat-earth digital ecosystem. 2023. Thesis (Doctorate in Social Anthropology) – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Porto Alegre, 2023.  Chapters 1 and 3

The symposium, organized within the Fapesp Thematic Project Arts and semantics of creation and memory (Process no. 2020/07886-8), seeks to promote meetings between professionals from different subfields and traditions within anthropology, as well as welcome people from other areas of knowledge, whose perspectives contribute to a production of knowledge that is critical and sensitive to the different ways of creating and inhabiting worlds. Conceived from four main axes that make up the thematic project – arts, ecology, kinship and politics –, the 1st International Métis Symposium foresees two Conferences and four Transversal Meetings (ET). Each presentation is expected to explore, based on ethnographic examples and theoretical analyses, aspects related to the guiding idea of ​​the Symposium. In this sense, it is desirable to make an effort to articulate research that initially belongs to different specialties, but that can illuminate each other based on an expanded understanding of the notions of creation and memory.