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At a meeting held on August 25, the University Council approved the awarding of the *Doctor Honoris Causa* title to singer, songwriter, and musician Gilberto Gil and to photographer, artist, and activist Cláudia Andujar.

The proposal to grant the title to Gilberto Gil was submitted by the School of Communications and Arts (ECA)—through its Department of Cinema, Radio, and Television—which highlighted that the singer "is one of the greatest figures in national culture of the 20th and 21st centuries."

Meanwhile, the proposal to award the honor to Cláudia Andujar was presented by the School of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in recognition of "the honoree's invaluable contribution to the arts and human rights,…

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing, on August 21, 2026, of anthropologist, filmmaker, and indigenous studies scholar André Luís Lopes Neves. André studied Social Sciences at FFLCH-USP and completed his master’s and doctoral degrees in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP, under the guidance of Renato Sztutman.

Since 2019, he has been a member of the Ijã Mytyli Collective for Manoki and Mỹky Cinema. With the collective, he made many films, many of which won awards in Brazil and abroad. His research with the Manoki and Myky peoples of northwestern Mato Grosso dates back to 2008, when he worked at the NGO OPAN (Operação Amazônia Nativa). Since then, she has consistently worked with them, whether through collaborative filmmaking or by…

Writer, journalist, and researcher Claudia Alexandre makes her debut in young adult literature with *Exu-Mulher e o Mundo dos Homens* (Exu-Woman and the World of Men), a mythological tale inspired by Orisha cosmology.

Read more at: https://www.fflch.usp.br/179074

We are honored to announce the awards won by research projects and audiovisual works from our academic community at this prestigious festival:

1st Place (Medium-Length Film): "Haukanünu Nãu Iyayakapiri – O que dizem as mães" (What Mothers Say), by Aline Regitano (CEstA researcher) and Warakina Mehinako. The film was produced by LISA as part of Regitano’s doctoral studies at PPGAS-USP, under the supervision of Marina Vanzolini.

1st Place (Feature-Length Film): "Até Onde a Vista Alcança" (As Far as the Eye Can See), by Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero. The documentary stems from Alice Villela’s postdoctoral research at USP, supervised by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji (@rose.satiko), within the scope of the FAPESP Thematic Project "O Musicar Local: novas trilhas para a…

PhD student Felipe Paes Piva received an Honorable Mention at the XII Anthropology and Human Rights Award: Antiracism and Pluridiversity in the Master's Thesis category for his text "Building racial reparation in our own 'backyard': affirmative action and the 'survival of slavery' in the grammar of academic excellence at the University of São Paulo" during the award ceremony at the 35th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting in Goiânia. In the photo, committee members Taniele Rui and Diógenes Cariaga present the award to the thesis advisor, Heloisa Buarque de Almeida.

Fourth edition of *Classificados* released—the journal of the Métis Thematic Project (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2026)

*Classificados* (ISSN 3086-2744) is a biannual journal associated with the Thematic Project "Métis – Arts and semantics of creation and memory" (FAPESP Grant No. 2020/07886-8). Established in 2024, it reaches its fourth edition with the release of Volume 2, Number 1 (2026).
The journal disseminates research, creative work, and reflections originating from the Métis project and its partnerships. It serves as a channel for scientific communication, functioning both as an internal space for discussing ongoing research and as a platform for dialogue with the broader academic community.
Based at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and…

Professor Guilherme Moura Fagundes—a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP), a researcher at the Maison du CNRS, coordinator of CHAMA (Collective for Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity), and deputy coordinator of USP’s Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP)—received the "Environnement" Award in Brasília. The award was presented by the French Embassy in Brazil during the "Soirée Alumni" event.

The ceremony took place at the official residence of the French Ambassador to Brazil, Emmanuel Lenain, and was attended by the president of CAPES, Denise Pires de Carvalho, and the rector of the University of Brasília (UnB), Rozana Reigota Naves.

The distinction recognizes outstanding…

Registration for the Prepara PPGAS 2026 workshops is now open. The activities are free, held remotely, and open to all interested individuals, regardless of participation in the tutoring cycle.

Over the next few months, workshops will be offered on research project development, academic reading, the selection process, bibliographic research, ethics in research, and other topics related to training in anthropology and entry into postgraduate studies.

Registration can be done through the form: https://forms.gle/DYnFJgphfiDYfibWA

Interested individuals can register for the workshops until the day before each activity.

We hope to see you at our activities.

LAST DAYS: How does your research respond to the urgencies of the Anthropocene?

Abstract submissions for Working Group 8 – “Aesthetics of the End of the World: art, fabulations and narratives in the Anthropocene as a research device in the Anthropologies of the South” are open until June 20th.

If your research intersects with Visual Anthropology, the Arts, Literature, Performance, or proposes critical fabulations and counter-narratives to contemporary collapses from the Global South, Working Group 8 is your space for dialogue.

Our working group proposes an interdisciplinary space for debate that takes art and narratives not only as objects of study, but as epistemological methods and crucial research devices in the face of the planetary transformations of the…

FAPESP TT-IV Scholarship | RESPIRO Project – FFLCH-USP

A Technical Training Level IV (TT-IV/FAPESP) position is open for work on the RESPIRO project: Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado, based at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP.

The selected candidate will work on the conception and execution of the project's database, gathering ethnographic, audiovisual, cartographic, bibliographic, and documentary information as a preliminary basis for the PiroAtlas, a hypermedia platform on pyrodiversity heritage in the Cerrado.

They will also develop infographics, diagrams, timelines, visual schemes, presentation templates, materials for websites, social media, reports, events, and public communication actions for science.

Desired…