Newsletter #261

INSTITUTIONAL

Culture

Eliana Sousa Silva, director of the Tide Networks, takes on the Olavo Setubal Chair in Art, Culture and Science

On March 27, educator and social activist Eliana Sousa Silva took office as the new holder of IEA's Olavo Setubal Chair in Art, Culture and Science, a partnership with Itaú Cultural. She replaces designer Ricardo Ohatke, who took the place in 2017. In a ceremony marked by emotion, the professor recalled the death of her friend Marielle Franco, a city councilwoman brutally murdered on March 14 in Rio de Janeiro. For Silva, who like Franco grew up in the Favela da Maré, the chair is an opportunity to contribute to "the struggle for many other Marielles to emerge and to live in fullness, joy and freedom." She wants to contribute to the university "being more open, more democratic, more black and peripheral."

International

Directors of institutes for advanced study define international network guidelines for the next two years

The IEA-USP has become a protagonist of the international network UBIAS (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study) for the next two years. This happened with the election of the Institute's deputy director, Guilherme Ary Plonski, to be the coordinator of the entity until 2020. Plonski's choice came during the directors' business meeting, one of the sessions of the network's conference held at the IEA-USP from March 19 to 23. The conference addressed the activities of the network in the last two years, discussed topics for joint activities of the institutes and approved the enlargement from 39 to 44 members. Among the new participants is the IEAT-UFMG (Instituto de Estudos Avançados Transdisciplinares), which joins the Brazilian representation in the network alongside the IEA-USP and the IDEA-UNICAMP.

AGENDA

Earth

Carlos Nobre addresses research advancements on the Earth System

Carlos Afonso Nobre, one of the country's leading specialists in global environmental change and a researcher at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), will hold a talk on the Earth System on April 10 at 10.00 am in IEA's Alfredo Bosi Room, with live streaming. According to the organizers, as old as the suspicion that the Earth should be understood as a system may be, this idea only began to mature in the second half of the 1980s. In this encounter, Nobre will address advancements in the studies on the Earth System.

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Knowledge

Seminar proposes to rethink the division of the great areas of knowledge

The division of knowledge into three major areas will be the subject of a meeting that intends to question such separation and propose a new format to be used in Brazilian universities. The seminar '(Re)discussion on the Great Knowledge Areas' will take place on April 13, at 2.00 pm, in IEA's Alfredo Bosi Room, with a live broadcast through the Institute's website. The organizer of the event, musician and professor Rubens Russomanno Ricciardi, argues that the crystallized division of knowledge in Exact, Biological and Human Sciences has not infrequently led to academic results that are less fruitful than desired, harming the planning and carrying out of teaching, research and extension activities.

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Human Rights

Brazilian ambassador will be at the IEA to give a conference and launch a book on the threat to human rights

The crisis which human rights are undergoing, the discredit that part of the population gives to the subject and the real threats to these rights are the subject of the new book of ambassador José Augusto Lindgren Alves. He will be at the IEA on April 6, at 2.00 pm, to launch his work and discuss the issue with the lecture 'Human Rights in Brazil and in the World.' There will be a live webcast.

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Democracy

German political scientist discusses the various forms of democracy

The pros and cons of the debates on democracy and current aspects of approaches to different types of democracy will be discussed at the conference 'Democracy beyond Institutional Orders?,' which will take place on April 20, at 9.00 am, at the IEA. Anja Mihr, founder and program director at the Center on Governance through Human Rights, Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform in Berlin, will address multilevel, multi-stakeholder, liquid and "beyond institutionalism" democracies. The issue of what would happen if the institutions - parliaments, governments, political parties and even courts and effective bureaucracies - were no longer key to stakeholders will also be addressed. The IEA will offer live broadcast through its website.

Cities

Seminar debates the struggle of vulnerable urban segments for better living conditions

Representatives from various vulnerable social segments struggling for better living conditions in urban space will present their positions at the seminar 'Recent Urban Movements and Groups: Voices of the City,' on April 6, at 10.00 am, at the IEA, with a live webcast. The discussions will be guided by three aspects: 1) how these social segments are affected by processes of segregation, constraint, and social, physical and symbolic damages promoted by the dynamics of urban space production; 2) how to compose the repertoire of actions for the social groups in question; and 3) what the specificities of collective action at the present time are. The meeting is an initiative of IEA's Study Group on Critical Urban Theory.

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