Newsletter #224

INSTITUTIONAL

Direction of the IEA will be chosen directly by a broad electoral college

The successor to the current director of the IEA, Martin Grossmann, will be chosen through a new electoral system: slates with candidates for director and deputy director (both professors at the USP) will run, and the winner will be the most voted by the substantially expanded electoral college considering the history of the IEA and the representation of all units of the USP. The process will be coordinated by an Election Commission. The change of the process has been inserted into the General Regulations of the USP through Resolution No. 7155 by President Marco Antonio Zago, who formalized the measure approval at the University Council meeting on December 8.

JOURNAL

'Estudos Avançados' #85 suggests ways to overcome unemployment

Unemployment is the theme of the main dossier on the 85th issue of the Estudos Avançados journal, launched on December 17, 2015. According to the publication's editor, Alfredo Bosi, "the dossier not only raises crucial questions of economic theory but also objectively analyzes certain situations", with reflections that "affect the structure of Brazilian capitalism at this time of financialization and acute deindustrialization". Issue 85 also features articles on urbanism in Brazil (especially in the city of São Paulo), literary criticism and philosophy, as well as reviews of the books Time, Work and Social Domination, by Moishe Postone, and Escritores, Gatos e Teologia ("Writers, Cats and Theology"), by Waldecy Tenório.

2015 HIGHLIGHTS

Intercontinental Academia, environmental issues, democracy and institutional critique featured on the 2015 agenda

2015 has marked the recent history of the IEA. We were in charge of an unprecedented and extensive academic event, the Intercontinental Academia; we have intensely discussed threats to democracy and important environmental issues; we have stimulated self-criticism of the University; and reached a historic mark with our journal 'Estudos Avançados'. Here we recall these and other highlights of the year.

Environment

• The consequences of the environmental disaster in Mariana
• Cycle Towards COP 21: The impact of climate changes in megacities
• IEA creates working group to discuss the water crisis in São Paulo
• Marina Silva inaugurates a course on the Amazon

University

• The challenges to interdisciplinarity
• University presidents discuss changes and new accountabilities
• “Higher education should strive to sharpen minds,” says Minister of Education

Institutional

• Estudos Avançados Journal is SciELO’s top ranking publication
• IEA's Board announces the selected names for the sabbatical year
• Paulo Saldiva is the new deputy director of the IEA-USP
• Institutes create the Brazilian Forum of Advanced Studies

Democracy

• Identity-Based Nationalism in Focus
• Hospitality towards foreigners as an essential element of democracy
• Seminar discusses the impacts of media transformations on society

Participants of the Intercontinental Academia present results of the event

SEASON'S GREETINGS

Happy holidays

USP's Institute of Advanced Studies wishes everyone a good holiday season and a 2016 with many achievements.

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA USP / INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES OF USP

Diretor / Director: Martin Grossmann — Vice-Diretor / Deputy Director: Paulo Saldiva — Conselho Deliberativo / Board: Martin Grossmann, Paulo Saldiva, Eugênio Bucci, Guilherme Ary Plonski, Regina Pekelmann Markus, Ricardo Ohtake, Beatriz Barbuy, Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli, and Fernando de Queiroz Cunha.
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