Newsletter #298

JOURNAL

Culture, sustainability, and religious spaces are themes of the latest issue of "Estudos Avançados"

Issue #103 of IEA's journal "Estudos Avançados," launched this month, features the dossiers "Culture and Society," "Hybrids of Knowledge II," and "Religious Spaces II." According to the publication's editor, Sérgio Adorno, the first dossier "seeks to approach the possible or perhaps even lost meanings of the present times" from different methodological perspectives applied in various thematic and conceptual areas. The other two sets of articles complement the respective dossiers that began in the previous issue. The digital version can be downloaded free of charge from the SciELO website (Portuguese only).

HIGHLIGHTS

IEA launches book on sustainable alternatives for the Amazon

"Amazon: Alternatives to Devastation" is a sample of what "can be done to radically change the way in which this fundamental part of the territory is treated," according to the organizers of the book, geographer Wagner Costa Ribeiro and sociologist Pedro Roberto Jacobi, both members of IEA's research group Environment and Society. With eight chapters written by 16 researchers - including Ribeiro and Jacobi - and 147 pages, the publication has been produced by the Institute and can be downloaded free of charge. It is dedicated to the memory of geographer Neli Aparecida de Mello-Thery, author of one of the chapters who died in April. She was an expert in environmental policy and sustainability.

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OPEN CALL

USP Global Cities receives applications for the selection of researchers until November 29

Those interested in conducting postdoctoral research or acting as a collaborating researcher at the USP Global Cities Synthesis Center have until November 29, at 3:00 pm, to apply for the selection. The selected ones will be able to join the project of one of the Center's 19 themes for a period of six months to five years. There are no grants. The minimum workload is 960 hours (20 hours a week), and it is mandatory to carry out at least one symposium and submit an article to a scientific journal, among other assignments. The selection's result will be announced on December 14. The activities start on March 24, 2022. In addition to developing their research projects.

RESEARCH OUTCOMES

Néstor García Canclini presents outcomes of his research on institutionality of culture

The meeting "Latin American Cultural Emergencies: Institutions, Creators, and Communities in Brazil and Mexico," to be held on November 25, at 3:00 pm, will gather cultural anthropologist Néstor García Canclini, current holder of the Olavo Setubal Chair of Art, Culture, and Science, and the postdoctoral fellows Sharine Melo and Juan Brizuela. They will present the results obtained by conducting the research project "The Institutionality of Culture in the Current Context of Sociocultural Changes" from September 2020. The trio has worked with data from Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin American countries.

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COLLECTION

Highlights of IEA's 35-year history

Floram Project, a 1990 proposal to help slow the greenhouse effect

On June 30, 1990, there was a seminar to launch the Floram Project – Forests for the Environment, developed at the IEA (watch the video in Portuguese). The central proposal was the reforestation of 200,000 km2 in Brazil (2.3% of the territory) in 30 years. It would be a contribution to a worldwide effort to sequester CO2 present in the atmosphere in order to delay the risks of the greenhouse effect by 50 years. During the period, the development of carbon-free energy sources and uses would be prioritized. The origin of the project was a challenge by Wilfred Bach, from the University of Münster, to the Brazilian delegation at the Climate and Development congress, in 1988, in Germany: "Why doesn't Brazil, with such a huge territorial extension and a climate that allows the rapid growth of forests, develop a large-scale reforestation project aimed at fixing the excess carbon floating in the atmosphere in phytomass?" The dean of USP at the time, José Goldemberg, requested the IEA to initiate studies on the issue in May 1989, leading to the Floram Project, coordinated by geographer Aziz Ab'Saber (1924-2012). The full text of the project and additional comments were published in issue #9 of the journal "Estudos Avançados" (Portuguese only).

AGENDA

November 22, at 9:00 am - Between Metaphysics, Dystopia, and Patronage

A conference on the fictitious social theories present in the book "O Choque das Raças ou O Presidente Negro" ("The Black President or The Racial Shock"), by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato, and how they reflect present and future social theories based on reality. Watch live.

November 22, at 2:30 pm - The 150 Years of Darwin's Other Great Work

A conversation between professors involved in history, philosophy, and life sciences about the importance of the book "The Descent of Man," published by British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1871. Watch live.

November 23, at 9:00 am - Report of the Inter-American Commission and the Persistent Human Rights Violations in Brazil

This meeting will present and debate the report released in early 2021 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the Brazilian situation, referring to the visit to the country in 2018. Watch live.

November 24, at 9:00 am - Governance, Municipal Planning, and Citizen Co-production

A debate on innovative initiatives such as the work developed by the Pólis Institute in the Global Platform for the Right to the City and the Citizen Monitoring Network "Ver a Cidade," maintained by FloripAmanhã. Watch live.

November 25, at 3:00 pm - Latin American Cultural Emergencies: Institutions, Creators, and Communities in Brazil and Mexico

Néstor García Canclini, holder of the Olavo Setubal Chair, will present the results of the research project "The Institutionality of Culture in the Current Context of Sociocultural Changes" with Sharine Melo and Juan Brizuela. . Watch live.

November 26, at 3:00 pm - New Political Ecologies and/or Anthropocene

This meeting will discuss the biopolitical implications of the Anthropocene from the point of view of the Earth as a political agent and politics as a geological agent, according to the assumption of American political philosopher Jane Bennett. Watch live.

November 30 and December 1, at 6:00 pm - Memory/Erase – Biographies and Voids in the History of Art in Latin America

A meeting to reflect on the theme of biographies and biographical voids in a transdisciplinary way, in order to contemplate and confront different facets of the performance of artists and/or artists' communities. Watch live.

December 2, at 3:00 pm - Street Policy in the Workers' Party (PT) Governments

A conference by sociologist Angela Alonso, from USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literatures, and Human Sciences (FFLCH), in the annual cycle of the Otavio Frias Filho Chair. She will talk about conducting research on the 2013 demonstrations, which will result in a book and a documentary. Watch live.

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