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Newsletter #233

by Richard Meckien - published Oct 21, 2015 04:45 PM - - last modified Jun 04, 2020 10:36 AM

Issue 233 — May 30, 2016
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RESEARCH

New study group will conduct research on urban agriculture in São Paulo

Urban agriculture in São Paulo will be studied by the IEA's Study Group on Urban Agriculture (GEAU), which was approved by the Institute's Board on May 9. The theme is a worldwide trend. Many cities in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania are encouraging food production in urban and peri-urban areas through public policy. The initiatives are increasing in Brazil due to the work of community and cultural movements as well as to the awareness in schools and actions driven by academia and the government.

New research group on human rights has been created

The IEA's Board approved the creation of the Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy, Politics and Memory on May 9. The involved researchers shall continue part of the activities undertaken by the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Human Rights, Democracy and Tolerance, active at the Institute until October 2014. In addition, the group intends to deepen the interdisciplinary nature of research in human rights in theoretical and conceptual levels, "testing their points of tangency and erosion in the consolidation or depreciation of democracies", according to the coordinators.

REPORT

Sergio Rouanet inaugurates the Olavo Setubal Chair of Arts, Culture and Science

"Modernity and its Ambivalences" was the opening conference of the Olavo Setubal Chair of Arts, Culture and Science, a project of theIEA in partnership with the Itaú Cultural Institute. Political scientist, philosopher and diplomat Sergio Paulo Rouanet addressed the influence of modernity in the economic, political and cultural contexts through the ideas of Enlightenment on May 17. He said that modernity was institutionalized in two vectors that incorporate aspects of each other: the functional one and the emancipatory one.

Digital publishing expands audience and changes procedures in the humanities, says historian

For historian Michael Elliott, from Emory University, the technological resources of digital publishing, such as audio insertion, video, motion graphics and varied possibilities for navigation, shall transform the very way of how researchers work in the human sciences. According to Elliott, these changes and the possibility of making work be easily accessed through the Internet will expand the audience of the humanities. He discussed these issues at the conference "The Humanities and its Publics" on April 19.

 


 

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