Newsletter #289

COOPERATION

In a conference with Angel Gurría, USP and OECD start an approach for the exchange of knowledge

Secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Angel Gurría will be the keynote speaker at the online event "OECD and USP: Reconfiguring the World from Knowledge" on May 6, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. The meeting will mark the beginning of formal relations between USP and the OECD. After 15 years as secretary-general, Gurría will leave the organization in May and is expected to become a researcher at the IEA later this year.

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COURSE

Course discusses the reception of Brazilian authors in France and French authors in Brazil

Registration is now open for the online course "Brazilian Authors in France, French Authors in Brazil: Translation and Reception," conducted by IEA's Brazil-France Research Group. With a workload of 12 hours, divided into eight 90-minute classes, the course will take place from June 7 to 30 and will discuss the cases of Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, Gilberto Freyre, Rubem Fonseca, Sérgio Milliet, Voltaire, and François Guizot.

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JOURNAL

Current status, perspectives, and challenges of artificial intelligence are the subject of "Estudos Avançados" #101

The main dossier of issue 101 of "Estudos Avançados," IEA's four-monthly publication, is dedicated to the analysis of the current status, perspectives, and impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). In its nine articles, the dossier analyzes the development of AI since the 1950s, its applications, and the debates it raises in the scientific and technological fields and in relation to ethical, social, political, and cultural aspects. The online version (Portuguese only) is available at SciELO.

EXHIBITION

"About Academia," a video installation by Antoni Muntadas, opens with a round table on the future of universities

"Which University Do We Want?" was the theme of the round table that opened the virtual exhibition "Antoni Muntadas: About Academia I-II, an Online Interpretation, 2011-2017 (2021)" on April 30. The debaters were Muntadas himself, a Spanish artist based in New York, indigenous leader, environmentalist, and philosopher Aílton Krenak, cultural anthropologist Néstor García Cancline, a chair holder at the IEA, and educator Macaé Evaristo, former Minas Gerais State Secretary of Education. The exhibition will run until October 31 at aboutacademia.iea.usp.br. Two further round tables will be held on May 10. See the programme below.

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

The institutions out of place, according to Néstor García Canclini

On October 6, 2020, at the online conference "The Institutions Out of Place," cultural anthropologist Néstor García Canclini, from the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico City, was officially appointed as the new holder of the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science, a partnership between the IEA and Itaú Cultural. Canclini said that the term "cultural institution" does currently not apply only to museums, libraries, cinemas, theaters, and concert halls, but also encompasses applications such as WhatsApp and services such as downloading movies and e-books. For him, the digital institutions socialize as much as families, schools, universities, and factories, "but they also desocialize what has been articulated by the classic institutions or generate disputes in the ways between different generations and educational levels, and in the way in which they are inserted in the community, urban, and na tional forms that continue to contain us."

AGENDA

May 10, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Round tables "Intercontinental Academy" and "University and Context," which are part of the programme of the video installation "Antoni Muntadas: About Academia I-II, an Online Interpretation 2011-2017 (2021)", opened on April 30.

May 11, at 9:00 am

"Climate Change: Characteristics, Advancements, and Challenges," a panel dedicated to the discussion on political and legal responses to the phenomenon at the regional, state, and municipal levels in Brazil, and the involvement of governmental and non-governmental actors.

May 12, at 2:30 pm

"Lydia Hortélio and Children's Culture: Children's Games and Songs as an Intangible Heritage of Brazil," a seminar with Lydia Hortélio, from the "Casa das Cinco Pedrinhas" Association. The activity has been organized by IEA's Research Group on Time, Memory, and Belonging.

May 13, at 2:00 pm

"Urban Atmosphere: Emissions, Impacts, and Trends in the Well-Being of Cities," a seminar of the UrbanSus cycle of USP Global Cities' Synthesis Center. With Otto Klemm, Guaciara Macedo dos Santos, Patrícia Iglecias, and Marcos Buckeridge.

May 14, at 10:30 am

"Research Progress: Corruption and Integrity System," a seminar with Emmanuel de Oliveira and José Veríssimo, both from USP's Center for Public Policy Research (NUPPs). An event organized by IEA's Quality of Democracy Research Group.

May 14, at 3:00 pm

"Construction and Dismantling of Human Rights and Policies for Women in Brazil" will gather former presidents of the National Council on Women's Rights, and former ministers of the Secretariat of Policies for Women and of the Ministry of Women, Racial Equality, and Human Rights.

May 17, 11:00 am

"Florence, 1436: the Cathedral, the Filioque, Technoscientific Innovation, and Other Aspects of the History of Ideas," a conference by Gildo Magalhães dos Santos Filho, coordinator of IEA's Research Group Khronos: History of Science, Epistemology, and Medicine.

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