Newsletter #295

HIGHLIGHTS

IEA and Novartis bring experts together for a cycle on cardiovascular health

The IEA and the pharmaceutical company Novartis will promote the cycle of online seminars "The Brazilian Society and Cardiovascular Health Care" from September 27 to 30, daily from 5:00 pm. The activity is the starting point of a joint effort to expand discussions and multisectoral studies on heart health, considering the impacts of this group of diseases on the quality of life of the population, economy, and health systems in Brazil. The cycle will have one panel per day, broadcast live on IEA's website and on the Institute's YouTube channel. The initiative's ultimate objective is to plan and implement a model of a National Comprehensive Care Program for People at High Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases.

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Muniz Sodré will be sworn in as holder of the Otavio Frias Filho Chair on September 20

Sociologist Muniz Sodré, considered the most important communication researcher in the country, will take office as the first holder of the Otavio Frias Filho Chair of Communication, Democracy, and Diversity Studies on September 20, at 3:00 pm. During his tenure, Sodré will coordinate the cycle of lectures "Being Brazilian Today: Diversity and Democracy," which will lead to the publication of a book with contributions from selected researchers. Headquartered at the IEA, the Chair is the result of an agreement between USP and Folha de S.Paulo signed in the newspaper's centenary year.

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Cultural emergencies are the subject of a new publication of the Olavo Setubal Chair

The second volume of the series "Cadernos de Pesquisa" (or "Research Notebooks"), an initiative by the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science will be launched during a webinar on September 30, from 2:00 pm. This time, the theme is "Latin American Cultural Emergencies: from Stories to Events in Brazil." The meeting will be attended by the chair holder, Néstor García Canclini, postdoctoral fellows Sharine Melo and Juan Brizuela, the director of USP's Maria Antonia University Center, Lucia Maciel Barbosa de Oliveira, the coordinator of the Itaú Cultural Observatory, Luciana Modé, and the academic coordinator of the Chair, Martin Grossmann.

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NEW BOOK

IEA and C4AI launch a book on the evolution and impacts of artificial intelligence

Published in September by the IEA in partnership with USP's Center for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), the book "Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Trends" interdisciplinarily addresses one of the main themes in the study of the area's development: the relationship between artificial intelligence and society. The work is the result of contributions presented at the seminar "Artificial Intelligence and its Applications: Advances and Trends," organized by the IEA and the Dean of Research in June 2019. The publication has the support of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM, partners of the C4AI.

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INSTITUTIONAL

Dean appoints Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz as new member of IEA's Board

Physicist Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, a retired professor from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and senior vice president of Elsevier's Social Science Research Network (SSRN), was appointed by Professor Vahan Agopyan, Dean of the University of São Paulo, to be part of IEA's Board on September 8. He took over the position of civil society representative without a teaching relationship with USP, previously occupied by specialist in educational policies Cláudia Costin. Brito Cruz has been president and scientific director of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), dean and provost of research at UNICAMP, and director of the "Gleb Wataghin" Physics Institute at the same university.

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

An analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein on the meaning of the Twin Towers and their destruction

A year after the Al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001, issue #46 of IEA's journal "Estudos Avançados" published a dossier on the United States. One of the highlights was the article "The United States and the World: The Twin Towers as a Metaphor," by sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019). Known as the "world-systems' theorist," he argued that the Twin Towers constituted a perfect metaphor for the Americans' view that the US "are more cosmopolitan from their perspective" as they "pointed to limitless aspirations, announced great technological achievements, and were a beacon to the world." However, the towers were also a metaphor for the attack on the US: "built with remarkable skill... a technology [which] turned out to be a rather imperfect protective shield." The third metaphor associated with the towers, according to him, was the fact that it has been a choice to build them: "Will we manage to maintain our moral posture in the face of the uncertainty of knowing that the world we have created to this day is just one among thousands of alternative worlds that we could have created? And that the world we will be creating in the next 30 to 50 years may or may not be better? That it may or may not reduce the contradiction between our ideals and our privileges?"

AGENDA

September 16, at 5:00 pm - Increasing Hunger in the Face of the Fragility of Democracy: Perspectives for Strengthening Social Participation

This meeting will debate the institutional weaknesses of public management with a view to strengthening food and nutrition security councils. Watch live.

September 17, at 3:00 pm - Robotics is Coming to School, to the Hospital... to Our Houses! Are We Ready?

A roundtable on the opportunities and challenges that AI imposes on society. The activity integrates a cycle with themes of an international seminar to be held in December. Watch live.

September 20 to 22, at 2:30 pm - Proust, 150 Years

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Marcel Proust's birth, IEA's Brazil-France Research Group holds a seminar on his writing, characters, and reception in Brazil. Watch live.

September 21, at 4:00 pm - Didactics and Practices for Education in the Future Society (4th Colloquium)

A webinar of the Alfredo Bosi Chair of Basic Education which will analyze the perspectives for school organization, didactics, and practices for the formation of new generations. Watch live.

September 22, at 10:00 am - Legal Design and Visual Law – Innovation or the Death of Legal Language

A debate among specialists in law, semiotics, and design that seeks to provide a critical and propositional view on the effective use of the legal design and visual law techniques. Watch live.

September 23, at 8:30 am - The City as a Platform for Policy, Innovation, and Sustainable Development

Launch of the book "Intelligent Cities - A Human and Sustainable Approach," produced by the Chamber of Deputies' Center for Strategic Studies and Debate (CEDES). Watch live.

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