Newsletter #242

RESEARCH

New group will study Medicine at USP from a historical-epistemological viewpoint

The Board of the IEA approved the creation of the Research Group “Khronos: History of Science, Epistemology and Medicine” in December. The group will adopt a historical and epistemological viewpoint to study and carry out activities with respect to scientific knowledge produced by the University of São Paulo, notably in Health Sciences and related fields. The new group is a partnership between the IEA and the Interfaculty Center for the History of Science (CHC), associated with USP’s President’s Office, and will be headed by Gildo Magalhães dos Santos Filho, professor of History of Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH) and director of the CHC.

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Urban space and citizenship will be the focus of a new IEA study group

To promote an interdisciplinary view of the current urban crisis is the goal of the Urban Theory Study Group, validated in December by the IEA’s Board. Over the course of two years, researchers will focus on issues such as mercantilization of urban spaces, power relations, spontaneous revolts, organized social movements, employment policies and urban rights. The group will be headed by professor Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos, from the Geography Department of USP’s Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH).

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List of selected researchers for the Sabbatical Year Program in 2017 has been released

The names of the professors chosen by the IEA's Board for the 2017 edition of the Sabbatical Year Program at the IEA were made known on November 24. The selected research projects present several interdisciplinary connections, including themes from the areas of public health, psychology, environment, sustainability, urbanism, sport, anthropology, digital culture, history and historical heritage. Half of the selected professors will be on sabbatical for one year and the other half will stay at the IEA for six months. The program was established in 2015 by a resolution of USP's President Marco Antonio Zago and has the support of the Dean of Research.

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JOURNAL

Issue 88 of “Estudos Avançados” discusses environmental and health dilemmas, and the pre-salt oil reservoirs

Issue 88 of the “Estudos Avançados” journal, published this month, is now available in both the printed version and on the SciELO website. The highlight is the first part of the “Environmental Dilemmas and Frontiers of Knowledge” dossier, organized by Pedro Roberto Jacobi, head of the IEA’s Environment and Society Research Group, and Leandro Luiz Giatti, professor at USP’s Public Health School (FSP). The edition also contains three other sections (“Medicine,” “Crisis and Projects” and “Economy”), as well as reviews of works by Celso Lafer, Emília Viotti da Costa and Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones. According to the journal’s editor, Alfredo Bosi, the complexity of these articles is revealed “not only in the diver sity of subjects, but also in their reflection on the various modes of thinking about the Brazilian milieu as embraced in each of the chosen aspects.”

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REPORT

Seminar discusses how to turn São Paulo into a smart city

The intensive use of new information technologies allows us to identify and quantify much of what happens in a city. With this information, it is possible to generate specific solutions to monitor and improve a wide range of aspects of urban life, from traffic to the state of trees, from weather forecasting to public health care. The prospects of the city of São Paulo benefitting from these resources were discussed at the workshop “Smart Cities: How Can São Paulo Become One,” held on December 6. The meeting was part of the Strategic Workshops series, held by the Dean’s Office for Research in partnership with the IEA, and support from the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo. Organization was in charge of USP’s Global Cities Program at the IEA and the Computer Science Department of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME).

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SEASON'S GREETINGS

Happy holidays

USP's Institute of Advanced Studies wishes everyone a good holiday season and a 2017 with many achievements.

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