Newsletter #290

RELEASE

Project inaugurates a platform with productions by USP on the peripheries

On May 27, at 10:00, the project Democracy, Arts, and Plural Knowledge (DASP), linked to the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science, will hold the launching webinar of the digital platform "Conexões USP-Periferias," a multidisciplinary database on academic production and other USP initiatives related to peripheries and favelas. The intention is that the platform becomes a reference for researchers and policy makers in favor of these communities.

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NEW PROGRAM

Program will monitor air quality in daycare centers and children's schools in São Paulo

Air quality around Children's Educational Centers (CEIs) and daycare centers in São Paulo will begin to be monitored this year by the Air Quality Citizen Program: New Airs for Early Childhood, to be implemented by the Metropolitan School Research Support Center, based at the IEA. The program's objective is to develop low-cost, high-impact local actions that make it possible to reduce children's exposure to urban pollution.

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OPEN CALL

New Airs for Early Childhood Program offers research scholarship to graduate students

The Metropolitan School Research Support Center will receive applications for an analyst scholarship in the research project New Airs for Early Childhood until May 21. The study aims to monitor the air quality around Children's Educational Centers (CEIs) and daycare centers in São Paulo in order to develop low-cost, high-impact local actions to reduce the exposure of children to urban pollution. The scholarship lasts 10 months and is intended for graduate students at USP, starting in June.

COOPERATION

OECD inaugurates partnership with USP in an event attended by the organization's secretary-general

The webinar "OECD and USP: Reconfiguring the World from Knowledge," on May 6, marked the beginning of cooperation between the partners. The speaker was the secretary-general Angel Gurría, who addressed the world during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. For him, Brazil takes advantage in the dispute with other countries to become a member of the OECD because "they are already in the family and, instead of waiting to be accepted, have already started to work with the organization."

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

Raymundo Faoro, first lecturer and first visiting professor

On August 25, 1986, two months before USP's president José Goldemberg issued the resolution that officially created the IEA, jurist, historian, and sociologist Raymundo Faoro (1925-2003) was the protagonist of the Institute's inaugural activity, the conference “Is there a Brazilian Political Thought?" Later, as the first visiting professor at the IEA, he transformed the content of the conference into a comprehensive study of the same name, published in the first issue of the Institute's journal "Estudos Avançados," launched in late 1987. According to Faoro's analysis, if liberalism had “authentically” developed in 19th-century Brazil, it could have broadened the democratic field and “the State would be another, not the patrimonial-stratified-authoritarian monster that is alive in the Brazilian reality.”

AGENDA

May 19, at 9:00 am - Innovation in the New Legal Framework for Basic Sanitation

Interdisciplinary debate on the main opportunities and obstacles to articulate the instruments to encourage innovation provided for in the Innovation Law in light of the New Legal Framework for Basic Sanitation.

May 19, at 2:00 pm - Biodiversity Tours: Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station

This first seminar in the series "Biodiversity Tours" will address threats to the conservation of the Jureia-Itatins Ecological Station, the most preserved of the protected areas on the coast of the Atlantic Forest, located in the State of São Paulo.

May 20, at 9:00 am - Between Geographies and Environments: Reflections on the Life and Work of Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry

A tribute to the researcher who died at the age of 65 on April 6. She was the coordinator of IEA's Public Policy, Territoriality, and Society Research Group.

May 24, at 9:00 am - Climate Governance in the Brazilian Experience: Advancements and Challenges

A panel on climate governance at national and local levels. Presentations by Márcio Astrini, from "Observatório do Clima," and IEA researchers Gabriela di Giulio, Débora Sotto, and Ana Maria Nusdeo.

May 26, at 9:30 am - The Future of Civil Service in the States and Municipalities of Brazil: Public Health

This will be the second event in the series "The Future of Civil Service in Brazil," which aims to debate the theme with a focus on subnational levels of government. The debaters will be Ana Maria Malik, from FGVSaúde, and André Medici, from the World Bank. Subscriptions | Watch it live.

May 26, at 4:00 pm - The Loss of the Corporate Name of Labour in Brazil: Contributions to the Coping and Reconstruction

Ladislau Dowbor, from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), will talk about the underutilization of production factors, while Graça Druck, from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), will address the social precariousness of work "as a domination strategy in Brazil in the current context of neoliberal capitalism." Watch it live.

May 28, at 3:00 pm - Technological Expansion and / or Network Security

A debate promoted by the Oscar Sala Chair to discuss network security if the Artificial Intelligence accelerator continues to work for the expansion of the digital universe. With Silvio Meira, chief scientist at The Digital Strategy Company, and Demi Getschko, CEO at the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br).

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