Newsletter #251

AGENDA

Director of Pinacoteca presents his plans for the museum

Jochen Volz, director of the São Paulo Pinacoteca since May, will be at the IEA on August 7, at 2:00 pm, to present his plan for the museum and to exchange ideas with cultural management specialists. Panelists include Martin Grossmann, coordinator of the Permanent Forum Research Group: Cultural System Between the Public and the Private, which organizes the encounter; Ana Leticia Fialho, from the Ministry of Culture; Daniel Rangel, from N+1 Arte Cultura; Felipe Arruda and Paulo Myiada, from Tomie Ohtake Institute; Ilana Goldstein, from the Federal University of São Paulo; Jorge Schwartz, from Lasar Segall Museum; José Augusto Ribeiro, from the Pinacoteca museum; and Luciana Guimarães, from the Bienal de São Paulo Foundation. The event will be streamed on the IEA website.

Relationship between art, culture and politics will be the subject of meetings of the Olavo Setubal Chair in August

Three seminars this month will mark the beginning of the activities of the Olavo Setubal Chair in Art, Culture and Science under the stewardship of Ricardo Ohtake. On August 15, the seminar “Art & Politics: A Retrospect of the Career of Ricardo Ohtake” will bring together important names of the Brazilian cultural scene to offer a retrospective of Ricardo Ohtake’s career as a cultural leader in São Paulo. The debate will take place from 2:30 to 5:30 pm, in the Adoniran Barbosa Room of Centro Cultural São Paulo. The other two meetings will appraise the key contributions of five cultural institutions in São Paulo, with the presence of managing officers from the area and moderation by Ricardo Ohtake. The first, on August 22, at 2:30 pm, will be at the Afro Brasil Museum, followed by the event on August 29, also at 2:30 pm, in the Multipurpose Room of the Itaú Cultural Institute.

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Conference relates the power of books to fear and censorship in history

Jean-Yves Mollier, professor emeritus at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, will speak at the IEA’s Event Room on the power of books and how they have been opposed and censored over the centuries. The symposium “Who is afraid of the books?” takes place on August 17, at 10:30 am, with simultaneous translation (French to Portuguese) and livewebcasting. For attendance in person, prior registration is required. Mollier devoted his career to the history of books, printing and reading practices in France from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The meeting is organized by Marisa Midori Deaecto, from USP’s School of Communications and Arts, and is part of the IEA’s Sabbatical Year Program.

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The Academy as a Western institution and its relationship with higher education

Spanish artist and professor Antoni Muntadas, from the Architecture Institute of Venice, Italy, will give the lecture “On the Academy” on August 18, at 2:00 pm, in the IEA’s Events Room, when he will discuss the eponymous project that he has presented in many countries. The conference includes an exposition that stimulates reflection on two issues: the relationship between university structures and the Academy, considered as an institution of the Western world, and how the diversity of the American system of higher learning influences education and, consequently, various teaching models. At the event, he will propose a debate guided by the characteristics of the Brazilian higher education model. The event is organized by the “Permanent Forum Research Group: Cultural System Between the Public and the Private” and is coordinated by Martin Grossmann. The event will be streamed on the IEA website. For attendance in person, prior registration is required.

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SPORT

Legacy of the Rio Olympics will be the subject of a seminar

After nearly one year, the 2016 Rio Olympics left a questionable legacy for the host city and for the athletes. This issue will be discussed at the forum “One Year Later: What Remains of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games,” to be held on August 7, at 9:00 am, in the Old Room of USP’s University Council. “The material legacy remained in a limbo until two months ago, because municipal and state authorities said they were unable to care for it,” observes event organizer Katia Rubio, professor at USP’s School of Physical Education and Sports and a member of the IEA’s Sabbatical Year Program. There will be streamed liveon the IEA website. Pre-registration is required to attend the event in person.

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TECHNOLOGY

Seminar brings together researchers who study machine learning at USP and in companies

Company representatives, researchers and research groups will meet at the “Machine Learning Strategic Workshop” at the University of São Paulo, which will take place on August 14, at 8:30 am, in IEA’s Events Room. According to the organizers, the field of machine learning has made great strides in recent years. Systems of recommendation, decision making, information classification and extraction, diagnosis and teaching support are being automated at breathtaking speed. This workshop wants to bring together people who work in the area, identifying common and complementary interests that may lead to collaborative projects. Registration is required to attend. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be streamed on the web.

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