Newsletter #263

AGENDA

Conference addresses the updating of the Brazilian Legal Framework of Science, Technology and Innovation

The decree that regulates the New Framework of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, published in February, will be the theme of the meeting 'The Regulation of the New Framework of ST&I,' to be held on May 22, at 10.00 am, with the presence of Álvaro Prata, Secretary for Policies, and Research and Development Programs of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC). Among the changes to be discussed, there are the introduction of new rules for the granting of economic subsidy resources, the regulation of technological bonuses and the facilitation of the re-allocation of resources within ST&I projects. The conference will be broadcast live on the IEA website.

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Race and gender issues will be discussed on the third workshop of a cycle that seeks to create aesthetic pedagogy in human rights education

The third workshop of the cycle 'Art, Short Film and Human Rights,' which proposes to use art to work on human rights education, will address race and gender issues in an intersected way. It will take the French short film 'Liberté, égalité, cheveux lissés,' by Eleftherios Zacharopoulos, as a starting point. The film discusses racial prejudice and violence against women. Organized by IEA's Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy, Politics and Memory, the workshop will be held on May 24, at 9.00 am, with a live webcast.

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Meeting brings together research projects on education and justice

Six professors from various institutions will present the findings of their research on justice in education. The papers analyze themes such as inclusion, hospitality, acceptance, and tension between equality and difference in the school environment. The seminar 'Education and Justice, and the Arts of Doing the Common Things at School' will be held on May 29, at 9.00 am, at the IEA. Organized by the Institute's Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy, Politics and Memory, the event will be broadcast live over the web.

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Researcher analyzes the effects and contradictions of photographs of tropical diseases

The use of photography to characterize tropical diseases at the beginning of the 20th century will be the subject of the meeting 'Photographic Representations of Tropical Diseases: Ambivalences and Social Tensions' on May 24, at 2.00 pm. The speaker will be Kelly Ichitani Koide, a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH). The event has been organized by IEA's Research Group on History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science and Technology. There will be a livebroadcast on the web.

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Russia's role in shifting the global geopolitical scenario in depth

The impact of the military advances announced by Russia on the global geopolitical scenario will be the subject of a meeting with Mexican journalist Lorenzo Carrasco, correspondent of the newsmagazine 'Executive Intelligence Review' (EIR). 'The Scientific-Technological Factor in the Present Change of Global Time: the Case of Russia' will take place on May 28, at 9.00 am, at the IEA. For Carrasco, the rise of the Eurasian geopolitics represents "a singular perspective for the construction of a new world order." The event has been organized by IEA's Research Group Khronos: History of Science, Epistemology and Medicine. There will be a livebroadcast on the web.

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JOURNAL

'Estudos Avançados' #92 has politics as main theme

The 92nd issue of the journal 'Estudos Avançados' is already available in its printed version. Present in two dossiers, politics is the central theme, including articles dealing with political representation, representative democracy, the foundations of Brazilian society, public policies, the current phase of capitalism, the use of public resources and justice militancy for two characters in Brazilian history, namely Tiradentes and Luiz Gama. Further articles address Brazilian fiction and poets, contradictions of research and graduate studies in Brazil, and the Gurupi Mosaic - a territory formed by protected areas which include indigenous lands -, as well as book reviews. The issue is dedicated to the memory of councilwoman Marielle Franco, murdered on March 14, in Rio de Janeiro.

INSTITUTIONAL

IEA publishes activity report for 2017

The IEA has recently published the report on the activities held in 2017. The publication highlights the most relevant issues and brings together all the events held by the Institute last year. With a renewed format, the material has unpublished and objective texts, and focuses on the ease of finding the information. On IEA's website it is also possible to access the report for 2016, the first one from the management of directors Paulo Saldiva and Ary Plonski. The report is available in Portuguese only.

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