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"São Palco - Afropolitan City" received the audience award for feature film in the Territories and Memory Competition of the 14th Mostra Ecofalante, the most important South American event for audiovisual production linked to socio-environmental issues. The award ceremony took place on the evening of June 8, 2025, at Reserva Cultural in São Paulo
The trophy presented by Hermano Penna, the filmmaker honored at the 14th Mostra, was circulated among the protagonists present at the event: Shambuyi Wetu, Sassou Espoir, Edoh Fihon, Yannick Delass and Rose Satiko Hikiji, co-director of the film and professor at the Department of Anthropology at USP. Afro-diasporic art gains another stage, this time in the cinema.
"São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" is among those selected for the “Territories and Memory Competition” at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival. The competition is aimed at Brazilian productions or co-productions that deal with issues related to one or more territories in the country or that address themes linked to individual or collective memories.
Considered the most important South American event for audiovisual production related to socio-environmental issues, the Ecofalante Film Festival has free admission to all its activities and will take place from May 28 to June 11, 2025.
Produced by LISA and directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, the film features Shambuyi Wetu, Yannick Delass, Lenna Bahule, Edoh Amassize and other Afropolitan artists who occupy Sampa (and the world) with their diasporic creativity. "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" will be shown in the following cinemas:
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Applications will be open from March 20 to April 4, 2025, to participate in the Preparatory Workshops for admission to the USP Graduate Program in Social Anthropology.
The course will consist of two stages:
I – General Workshops (in 2025/01);
II – Project Tutoring Cycle (in 2025/02);
The Preparatory Workshop Cycle is organized by an independent group of students from the Program and aims to increase the participation of black people, indigenous people, quilombolas, people who belong to traditional peoples or communities, people with disabilities and trans people in graduate studies, especially in Social Anthropology courses.
Up to 100 places will be offered… leia mais
Number of vacancies: 20
Regular course:Social History Program
Mini-bio of the Professor. Instructor: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona (1985), a master's degree in Communication Arts from the New York Institute of Technology (1989), and a PhD… leia mais
Yara de Cássia Alves, a graduate of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (PPGAS/USP), received the Lélia Gonzalez Award for the best doctoral thesis defended in the area of Social Anthropology in the years 2022-2023.
The award ceremony took place during the 34th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, from July 23 to 26, in Belo Horizonte, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The thesis entitled “In the tracks of the past: seams of time in the construction of kinship and sociality among quilombolas in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais” has as its central objective to explore the notion of “trace,” which broadly seeks to revive the past in the present, expressing itself in different ways in spaces, festivals, bodies, etc.
“The thesis has an ethnographic approach and was written after approximately six months of fieldwork, divided into different stays that were related to specific events that take place… leia mais
Vagner Gonçalves da Silva launches on the USP Open Books Portal a work in which he records collective experiences of listing terreiros in São Paulo https://www.livrosabertos.
TRAINING PROGRAM IN ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH PROJECTS – 2/2024.
"Training Program in Academic Management of Research Projects" 2/2024 from PRPI - USP Pro-Rectory of Research and Innovation.
Scholarship to work on the thematic projects “From the heart of wars to the poetics of plasticity: creation and engagement in artistic thought in African contexts from the 1980s to the present day” (FAPESP 22/05923-9) and “Arts and semantics of creation and memory” (FAPESP 20/07886-8).
The scholarship holder must mainly: Participate in training activities, collaborate in the management of project activities such as implementation of tools, organization of meetings, logistical support for events and management financial.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Hold a PhD from any institution, national or foreign.
2. Not be a beneficiary of a scholarship from other programs or other funding agencies.
3. Not have an employment… leia mais
Registration is open for PPGAS students/graduates to participate as a volunteer in the Prepara PPGAS extension course: Workshops for Entrance Selection in 2024/25.
The workshop is aimed at people applying for the program's selection process and the activities will include tutorials on research projects in a virtual format.
Registration: 3 to 7 July 2024.
Link:https://forms.gle/3sFw2L26DPQqvyAR7
Project presentation meeting: 10/7/2024 at 7pm.
This is also an initiative of CoPAF – Permanent Affirmative Action Commission of PPGAS-USP.
Participate!
If you have any questions, send an email to colectivopreparappgas.usp@gmail.com