Newsletter #258

AGENDA

University

Seminar launches the Entrepreneurial Universities Index and an observatory on the theme

On December 12, at 10.00 am, the IEA will host the launch of the Observatory of Entrepreneurial Universities and the Entrepreneurial Universities Index (2017), organized by the Brazilian Confederation of Youth Enterprises (Brasil Júnior). An initiative of USP's Center for Policy and Technological Management (PGT), the Observatory is a collaborative space for knowledge production, which seeks ways to 'foster an interface between university institutions and their socioeconomic environment.' Coordinated by Guilherme Ary Plonski, deputy director of the IEA, the event will be broadcast live.

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Education

Experts discuss advantages and disadvantages of official education documents

Official documents that regulate education, such as those related to the National Curricular Common Base, and other resolutions of the National Education Council (CNE), from the Ministry of Education (MEC) or Secretariats of Education will be the theme of the fourth meeting on basic education promoted by IEA's Study Group Brazilian Public Basic Education: Apparent Difficulties, Actual Challenges. On December 20, from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm, experts on the theme will discuss how such documents influence public basic education. The will be live broadcast over the internet.

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Arts

Curator of the next São Paulo Biennial will present his projects and trajectory

Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, curator of the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, which will take place from September to December 2018, will be at the IEA to talk about his professional experience and his project for the upcoming cultural event. On December 13, at 2.30 pm, he will host guests from the artistic and museological milieu, such as were the meetings with artists Paulo Herkenhoff and Jochen Volz in 2016 and 2017. The organization is in charge of IEA's Research Group 'Fórum Permanente:' Cultural System Between Public and Private. It will be possible to watch the presentation live on the web.

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Society

Fragmentation processes of Latin American and European societies are the theme of an international workshop

Researchers believe that the various modern projects of democracies in the 21st century have led contemporary societies in the southern and northern hemispheres to face threats to their social integration in many dimensions. To discuss these movements, scholars from the Institute for Social Research at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, from the Center for Violence Studies at USP and other guests will be gathered at the workshop 'Fragmentation and Solidarity: challenge to modern integration spheres in Europe and Latin America,' which will take place on December 14 and 15, from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm, in the Former Room of the University Council. The event will be broadcast live on the IEA website.

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Researcher discusses the exchange and social participation in environmental disasters

Anthropologist Stelio Marras, one of the current participants in IEA's Sabbatical Year Program, will be the lecturer at a seminar that proposes to evaluate the current relevance of the notions of exchange and participation in the face of the constraints of crises and ecological or environmental disasters in recent years. 'Such a revision leads to the widening of these notions and, consequently, to a shake of human anthropocentrism or exceptionalism in its modern version,' he argues. 'Exchange and Participation in the End-Age: A Review of Concepts by Force of Ecological-Environmental Constraints' will take place on December 11, at 2.30 pm, at the IEA. There will be a live webcast.

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INSTITUTIONAL

IEA launches an unprecedented documentary on the struggle for human rights

On the International Human Rights Day, next Sunday, the IEA will launch an unprecedented documentary on the history of the struggle and conquest of human rights. The film 'Human Rights Mapping' presents the relation of the city with the struggles for the recognition and effectiveness of the equality of race, sex, gender; the fight for the right to vote; the struggle for housing and freedom of expression, among others. The idealization and conception is of members of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Human Rights Democracy and Tolerance, headquartered at the IEA until October 2014. The documentary can be found on the virtual platform Videocamp from December 10. Subtitles in English will be available.

Celso Lafer is the new member of IEA's Board

Former Foreign Minister of Brazil, Celso Lafer, also a professor at USP's Faculty of Law, is the new member of IEA's Board. He will take over the vacant position of Eugênio Bucci, from USP's School of Communications and Arts (ECA). With a term of two years, Lafer will represent the active or retired USP professors, a position chosen by the University's president from a triple list defined by the Board.

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

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