Newsletter #296

HIGHLIGHTS

Former ministers and former secretaries of Human Rights will discuss national policies for the area

All former ministers and former secretaries of the Secretariat for Human Rights* from 1997 to 2016 will meet online on October 1, from 2:00 pm, for a dialogue on the "Construction and Dismantling of National Policies of Human Rights in Brazil." At the end of the activity a manifesto signed by the participants will be read. The event is part of the Cycle of Memories of the Brazilian Institutional Policy on Human Rights, an initiative for the 2021-2022 biennium of IEA's Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy, and Memory (GPDH) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies (CEDEC).
*The current institutional name is being used. The participants of the meeting, each in their own time of performance, have been representatives of institutions with different designations within different ministerial structures.

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Francisco Weffort will be honored in a webinar on October 7

Francisco Weffort, who died at the age of 84 on August 1, has dedicated his life and academic career to the defense of democracy. All of his work addresses the most fundamental questions of the future and functioning of the democratic regime from different perspectives, says political scientist José Álvaro Moises, one of the organizers of the "Homage to Professor Francisco Weffort," which will be held on October 7, at 9:30 am. Besides Moisés, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, Luiz Werneck Vianna, Lourdes Sola, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, João Paulo Cândia Veiga, and Juan Carlos Torre will also participate.

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Meeting brings together French and Brazilian experts to discuss fixed book prices

40 years ago, the so-called Lang Law established a fixed price for books sold in France and limited discounts on them. The debate on this issue now affects professionals in the sector and, especially, the readership in Brazil. However, it is necessary to shed light on the unequal conditions of production, trade, and distribution of books in an unequal country with continental dimensions, argue the organizers of the meeting "For a Law of Bibliodiversity," which takes place from October 13 to 15, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture in France who has implemented the aforementioned Law, will be among the participants.

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NEW MOOC

Research group launches online course on Jesuit missions in Guarani territories

Pre-registration for the massive open online course “Jesuit Missions in the Guarani Territory: History” will open on October 10 on the Coursera platform. The MOOC is scheduled to be launched on October 15 and has been produced by the Institute's research group Time, Memory, and Belonging, coordinated by senior professor Marina Massimi, who is one of the presenters. The course is composed of two modules: "The Proposal of Reductions: Characterization of Space and Actors Involved" and "Jesuits and Guaranis: Conflicts, Attacks, Exodus, and Wars in the Reductions."

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EXHIBITION

Exhibition on human evolution, curated by Walter Neves, will open in a mall in São Paulo

The new stage of the traveling exhibition "Do Macaco ao Homem – Transições" will start on October 1, at 10:00 am, at the mall Internacional Shopping, in Guarulhos. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the IEA, the Catavento Museum, and the company Modulart. It addresses the human evolutionary process from the first bipeds (7 million years ago) to the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern man) about 200,000 years ago. Paleoanthropologist Walter Neves, a senior professor at the Institute, is the curator.

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

100 years of Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire, the Patron of Brazilian Education and one of the most influential pedagogues in the world, died in 1997. On September 19, the centenary of his birth was celebrated. In honor of the author of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," it is worth recalling some of his ideas for the construction of a democratic and popular school as exposed in "Letter to the Teachers" (Portuguese only), published in issue #42 of IEA's journal "Estudos Avançados," in 2001. Originally, the letter was published in "Professora, Sim; Tia, Não – Cartas a Quem Ousa Ensinar," a book written by Freire in 1993, shortly after his tenure as Secretary of Education for the city of São Paulo.

AGENDA

September 29, at 2:00 pm - Food and Drink in the Atlantic Missionary Culture (16th to 19th century)

A webinar on how European missionaries described eating and drinking habits of Latin American peoples in letters, treatises, and other documents. Watch live.

September 30, at 2:00 pm- Latin American Cultural Emergencies: from Stories to Events in Brazil

Launch of the second volume of the series "Cadernos de Pesquisa" (or "Research Notebooks"), an initiative by the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science, with texts by Néstor García Canclini, Sharine Melo, and Juan Ignacio Brizuela. Under Canclini's coordination, the postdoctoral fellows discuss the Aldir Blanc Law and the places of culture in the agreste zone in the state of Bahia. Watch live.

October 5, at 3:00 pm - The Climate Issue through the Lenses of Political Science

This meeting aims to overcome the lack of participation of studies in international relations in the debate on climate change, seen as a problem of world governance. Watch live.

October 6, at 2:30 pm - Decolonizing Psychology and its History

A debate on how the issue of decolonization crosses areas of psychology and on the contribution of historical studies focusing on the relationship between psychology and the sociocultural context. Watch live.

October 14, at 11:00 am - Loreto in the Americas

Held in English, this webinar will address the reception and circulation of the devotion to Our Lady of Loreto in the Americas. The objective is to focus on the status of conducted research and projects underway on the subject.

October 18, at 4:00 pm- Artificial Intelligence and Work: the Challenges Imposed on Education by New Man-Machine Interfaces

This meeting will discuss how to introduce logic and fundamentals of AI in Brazilian education from the basics, this being knowledge that the organizers consider mandatory to one to maintain relevance in professional and social life in the 21st century. Watch live.

October 19, at 9:00 am - Integrated Risk and Disaster Management: Adaptation and Prevention in Brazilian Cities

A seminar of the UrbanSus series that will address paradigms related to risk and disaster management in Brazil in the context of Law No. 12,608/2012, which establishes the National Policy on Protection and Civil Defense (PNPDEC). Watch live.

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