Newsletter #206

AGENDA

Series of events brings back the memory of human rights in São Paulo

IEA-USP's UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy and Tolerance will hold three meetings related to the project "Human Rights Mapping in São Paulo" from November 3 to 7. The release of Human Rights Mapping, a digital tool that maps geographic landmarks of the city of São Paulo associated with the struggle for human rights, will take place on November 4. On November 6-7, artists and researchers from various fields of knowledge will discuss the educational potential of artistic expression in roundtables under the theme Memory, Art and Human Rights Education. The International Art-Memory Workshop, with Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz, will be held from November 3 to 5.

The importance of social and political memory for democracy

Recent research on the construction, consolidation and preservation of social and political memory in Brazil, Argentina and South Africa will be presented at the seminar Memory, Memorials and the Future of Democracies, to be held from November 12 to 14. The aim is to discuss the work done by memorials and museums, and research on memory in those countries. The seminar is sponsored by IEA-USP's UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy and Tolerance, and the Center for the Study of Diversity, Conflict and Intolerance (Diversitas), with support from CNPq, FAPESP, and USP's Faculty of Education (FE) and the Institute of Psychology (IP).

REPORT

The Stigma of Apartheid Beyond South Africa

At a conference held on September 9, social psychologist Christopher Sonn, a professor at the University of Victoria (Australia), spoke about the continuing effects of the apartheid on the identities of South African emigrants. The exhibition has highlighted the specific psychosocial processes of negotiation of a sense of belonging and accommodation of the subjectivities of individuals who migrated to Australia during the regime of racial segregation. Organized by IEA's Intercultural Dialogues Research Group, the meeting had three debaters: Adriana de Oliveira (UFABC), Ligia Ferreira (UNIFESP), Maura Véras (PUC-SP) and Sylvia Dantas (UNIFESP), coordinator of the group.

Martí Peran: Awareness of Fatigue as Element of Emancipation

According to Spanish critic and art curator Martí Peran, the present is marked by "afterpop capitalism," characterized by self-exploration of the individual in the production of immaterial goods and a major cause of a contemporary fatigue feeling. To him, "rethinking fatigue not as something that must be repaired, but rather as the possibility of awakening consciousness, turning fatigue into what writer Peter Handke called ‘capable tiredness’.” is necessary. Peran addressed the causes of fatigue and the exhibition he is organizing on the topic at the conference How to Convert Fatigue into an Art Exhibition?, held by IEA-USP's Permanent Forum Research Group: The Cultural System between the Public and the Private on September 8.

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