Newsletter #256

AGENDA

Education

Experts discuss distance learning and technology in basic education

The seminar 'Technologies, Distance Education, Full-Time School: On What Place Are We?' will bring together a group of experts to address the difficulties of using interactive educational technologies in schools, the problems and challenges of distance learning, and how the modality can be an ally in teacher training. It will take place on November 22, from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm. Instructional design, hybrid education and the role of digital media in education will also be discussed. The meeting is the third in a series of five organized by IEA's Study Group Basic Public Education: Apparent Difficulties, Actual Challenges. There will be live webcasting.'

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Arts

Frederico Morais and Marcus Lontra recall artistic events that marked the 70's and 80's

Critics and curators Frederico Morais and Marcus Lontra will be at the IEA on November 14th, at 2.30 pm, to address some of the most important artistic events held in the 1970s and 1980s in Brazil: 'From Body to Earth,' held in various places of Belo Horizonte in 1970; 'Creation Sundays,' which took place from January to July in 1971 at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro, and the exhibition 'How Are You, Generation 80?,' headquartered at the School of Visual Arts of Laje Park, Rio de Janeiro, in 1984. The meeting is part of the cycle 'Culture, Institutionality and Management,' organized by the Olavo Setubal Chair on Art, Culture and Science, an IEA partnership with Itaú Cultural. There will be a live webcast.

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Innovation

A meeting at the IEA will discuss innovations to improve productivity in Brazil

Aiming at thinking about ways to improve productivity of the Brazilian economy, the conference 'Challenges of Innovation' will promote a debate on the technological changes affecting production in Brazil, taking into account, among other things, the educational background of Brazilian youth in universities, the capacity to generate scientific knowledge and the innovation potential of companies. With live webcasting, the meeting will take place on November 21, at 10.00 am, with an exhibition by economist and researcher João de Negri, from the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), and moderation by Glauco Arbix, from IEA's Innovation and Competitiveness Observatory.

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Science

Symposium on History of Science will present research from USP, IPEN, IPT and Butantan Institute

The USP Symposium on History of Science and Technology: Building Interdisciplinary Dialogues will be held on November 13 and 14 from 9.00 am. The organizers are IEA's Research Group Khronos: History of Science, Epistemology and Medicine, and USP's Inter-Units Center for Science History. The event can be watched liveover the web. Seeking to promote debates and reflections on current topics in this area of research, the meeting will have oral communication sessions by professors, researchers and post-graduate students from USP, Instituto Butantan, IPEN, and IPT.

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REPORT

'Machado,' the survival novel by Silviano Santiago

Writer and professor of literary theory Silviano Santiago was at the IEA in October to talk about 'Machado,' his latest work, winner of the Jabuti Award for Best Romance of 2017. He classifies the book into a category he calls 'survival novel.' The theme of the work is the final four years of Machado de Assis's life. Santiago says that he tried to deal with his own old age ('not due to exhibitionism'), relating it to Machado's age, the death of his best friend, and works such as Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and Joseph Heller's 'Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.'

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