Friday of the Month: The multiple layers of reception: mental health on the university agenda
09/29 at 9:30 am in Room 24 of the Social Sciences Building at USP and also broadcast via Youtube.
Guests:
Regina Facchini (Anthropologist and researcher at PAGU/Unicamp)
Elizabete Franco Cruz (Psychologist and teacher at EACH)
Karaí Mirin (Guarani and master's student at IP-USP)
Mediation:
Felipe Paes Piva (Master's student at PPGAS-USP)
Health within the academic environment is a topic of fundamental importance for inclusion and retention policies in higher education. Upon entering university, freshmen experience a delicate process of institutional birth, now introduced to new circuits of sociability. Learning to inhabit these spaces, however, is not just limited to the initial moment of entry, but extends throughout the entire period of attachment. In this sense, it is understood that the construction of support networks must be a continuous demand on the part of all people who are part of this community.
Therefore, with the intention of debating how mental health affects the lives of students, teachers and technical-administrative employees, the Friday of the Month of September proposes a table on the collective production of care within public universities. Currently, in the context of a “post”-pandemic daily life strongly marked by the virtualization of human relationships, we propose to question the changes in the way illnesses are expressed. Furthermore, we seek to associate these discomforts with the combined markers of difference, in order to draw an expanded picture of social vulnerabilities and precarious conditions among the university public. The debate will not shy away from analyzing the role of affirmative action policies in promoting emotional acceptance, bringing into conversation the effects generated by institutional measures taken by each body or faculty, associating them with the more general public situation. In short, the notion of “mental health” that guides such policies will also be questioned, with the aim of shaping a perception regarding care that permeates the different spheres of existence.