Newsletter #292

HIGHLIGHTS

1st meeting between IEA chairs discusses the university-society relationship

On June 22, at 2:00 pm, the 1st IEA Inter-Chair Meeting will gather chair holders, coordinators, and professors that integrate the Institute's six chairs. The first part of the event will be dedicated to the colloquium "About the University: Criticism with Soul," which will reflect on the university-society relationship. The second part, restricted to members and former members of the chairs, will be a meeting to plan joint activities between them.

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Specialists analyze Brazil's recent trajectory of international insertion

Celso Lafer, Rubens Ricupero, Otaviano Canuto, and Laurence Whitehead will be the speakers of the webinar "The Economic, Political, and Climatic-Environmental Insertion of Brazil in the International System," to be held on June 25, from 9:30 am. The event integrates the project "Brazil as a Variety of an Emerging Market Democracy - Between the Democratic Agenda and the Globalization Agenda," coordinated by Lourdes Sola and Eduardo Viola.

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LITERATURE

Journal publishes articles resulting from the seminar "Celebrating José Saramago"

Issue 13 of "Revista de Estudos Saramaguianos" has published several articles produced from the exhibitions in the seminar "Celebrando José Saramago," held in December on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of the Portuguese writer, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Zoologist Jaime Bertoluci, a professor at USP's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) and a collaborating researcher at the IEA has organized both the seminar and the dossier published by the journal.

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INSTITUTIONAL

IEA's Research Committee has a new president

Elizabeth Balbachevsky, from USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences (FFLCH), is the new president of IEA's Research Committee, replacing Antonio Mauro Saraiva, from the Polytechnic School (EP-USP), who will dedicate his time exclusively to the Planetary Health Study Group. Previously occupied by Balbachevsky, the vice presidency became vacant, leading the Institute's Board to elect a new member for the Committee. The chosen one was Alcindo Aparecido dos Santos, from the Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP).

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

Book on the 2013-2015 water crisis may have lessons for the current situation

At a time when the possibility of a new water crisis is being evaluated it is worth resuming the analysis of the intense drought in 2013-2015, which substantially affected the water supply in Southeastern Brazil. One of the most critical situations was that suffered by the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. During that period, research groups of the IEA held several academic meetings to analyze what had happened and to discuss policies, strategies, and actions to mitigate the risks of a new similar episode. These discussions have resulted in the "Livro Branco da Água – A Crise Hídrica na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo em 2013-2015 – Origens, Impactos e Soluções" (or "The White Paper of Water" – The Water Crisis in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo in 2013-2015 – Origins, Impacts, and Solutions”), co-edited by the IEA and the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences (ACIESP), and published in 2018. The work was organized by Marcos Buckeridge, then president of ACIESP, and Wagner Costa Ribeiro, a researcher at IEA's Environment and Society Research Group.

AGENDA

June 21, at 2:30 pm - The Critical State of the Planet

Lawyer, writer, and photographer Eduardo Muylaert will speak about the threats to Brazilian biodiversity, addressing themes such as the Amazon, COP26, and international sovereignty and cooperation. Watch live.

June 22, at 10:30 am - What We Hope to Find in Our Heads – A Historical View of the Metaphors of Memory

A conference by André Frazão Helene, from USP's Institute of Biosciences (IB), who will discuss beliefs and metaphors about cognition and memory in different historical moments. Watch live.

June 23 and 24, at 10:00 am - International Seminar Glocalization: Cultural Heritage in Global and Decolonial Perspective

A meeting that will address the cultural heritage resulting from the global project of the Society of Jesus, considering local specificities in Asia and America. Watch live.

June 25, at 3:00 pm - Technological Expansion and/or Network Security

Virgílio Almeida, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Harvard University, will resume the debate on the feasibility of internet security in light of the expansion of the digital universe started on May 28. Watch live.

July 1, 7:00 pm - Mining Threads to Biodiversity and the Consequences of a Green Energy Transition

Laura Sonter, from the University of Queensland, presents the impacts of large mineral production to the energy transition on biodiversity. Watch live.

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