Newsletter #316

INSTITUTIONAL

Roseli de Deus Lopes and Marcos Buckeridge are elected directors of the IEA

On March 19, professors Roseli de Deus Lopes, from USP's Polytechnic School (Poli), and Marcos Buckeridge, from the Institute of Biosciences (IB), were elected to lead the IEA for four years starting this month. A full professor of electrical engineering at Poli, Lopes is the first woman to hold the position of director. Since April 2020, she has been deputy director of the Institute. Buckeridge, appointed the next deputy director, is a full professor of botanical biochemistry at the IB, as well as the creator of the USP Global Cities Synthesis Center.

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TRIBUTE

Exhibition celebrates the work and life of Alfredo Bosi

The exhibition Alfredo Bosi: Between Criticism and Utopia is open until May 26 at USP's MariAntonia Center. The public will be able to learn more about the academic trajectory and social activism of the professor, historian, and literary critic. Starting with Bosi's childhood and youth, the exhibition addresses his training and work as a teacher in high school and a professor at USP, in addition to his engagement with entities such as the São Paulo Justice and Peace Commission, and the D. Paulo Evaristo Center for the Defense of Human Rights, in the 1970s.

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RESEARCH

New study group addresses the impact of changes in work on health

IEA's Board approved the creation of the Study Group on the Impacts of New Morphologies of Work on the Life and Health of the Working Class on March 20. According to its proponent, public health scientist René Mendes, a collaborating researcher at the Institute, the new group aims to expand and enhance the observatory on the same topic that he already coordinates. The mission is to contribute to the vigilant and prospective monitoring of the work environment in all its dimensions and diversity.

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OPPORTUNITIES

CAENI opens selection for doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships in scientific diplomacy

The Center for International Negotiations Studies (CAENI) is welcoming applications for the selection of a doctoral fellow and a post-doctoral fellow until April 4. The objective of the research support center based at the IEA is to develop activities in the international project Neworld@a (Negotiating World Research Data – A Science Diplomacy Study). The scholarships (R$ 4,572.90 and R$ 9,047.40) will be granted for 12 months from April 15. The respective workloads will be 30 and 40 hours per week.

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Walter Neves will teach a course on human evolution

The third edition of the scientific dissemination course Contemporary Debates in Paleoanthropology will begin on May 17. There will be 11 classes taught by paleoanthropologist Walter Neves, a senior professor at the IEA. Those interested in participating must register by April 19 in the USP Apolo System. The course will take place on Fridays, from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm, totaling 27 and a half hours. The students must be fluent in reading English.

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AGENDA

April 4, at 2:00 pm - Climate Crisis and Planetary Health: Possible Solutions

A debate on how the acceleration of climate change impacts people's physical and mental health, and quality of life, making it necessary to adopt community solutions for planetary health. Watch live.

April 4, at 3:00 pm - Series on Complexity (9th Conversation)

Third meeting of the second season of the series, which resumes the testimonies of researchers aimed at better understanding the wide range of focuses and perspectives on complexity. Watch live.

April 5, at 9:30 am - Contributions of Science, Technology, and Innovation to the Promotion of Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security

A conference to prepare proposals that support the federal government's National Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (ENCTI) regarding food and nutritional sovereignty and security. Watch live.

April 10, at 2:00 pm - Goethe and Philosophy: Theater and Life as Formation and Culture

An analysis of the novel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (or The Renunciants), by Goethe, based on its philosophical, aesthetical, literary, educational, psychological, and social importance to this day in the human sciences. Watch live.

April 11, at 3:00 pm - Plurinational State: Relevance and Current Affairs

A debate on how official plurinationality (the case of Ecuador and Bolivia, for example) in partnership with other institutionalized dimensions can democratize national states and facilitate the realization of diversities. Watch live.

April 11, at 3:00 pm - The 50th Anniversary of the Essay "The Myth of Economic Development", by Celso Furtado

The intention of this seminar is to verify whether speakers can show evidence contrary to the idea that Celso Furtado was a kind of "denier" of sustainable development. Watch live.

April 16, at 9:00 am - 1st International Seminar Philanthropy Meets Science

To promote dialogue between the scientific and philanthropic communities in Brazil and abroad, this meeting will bring together academic leaders, philanthropic entities, funding agencies, and science and technology authorities. Watch live.

April 16, at 2:30 pm - Nature, Andean Culture, and Jesuit Doctrinal Conceptions

A presentation of the book with research outcomes from Carla Ranguello's doctoral thesis on churches built between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries on the southwestern shore of Lake Titicaca, in Peru. Watch live.

April 17, at 2:00 pm - Heisenberg’s Theory of Turbulence and its Applications

The speaker will present the foundations of the German physical theory in its original formulation and in its historical context, also emphasizing the use of the theory in different branches of current science. Watch live.

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA USP / INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES OF USP

Diretor / Director: Guilherme Ary Plonski — Vice-Diretor / Deputy Director: Roseli de Deus Lopes — Conselho Deliberativo / Board: Guilherme Ary Plonski, Roseli de Deus Lopes, José Eduardo Krieger, Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú Alleoni, Sergio Adorno, José Vicente, Sandra Regina Ramos Braz, Nina Beatriz Stocco Ranieri, Carla Ventura, and Elisabete Moreira Assaf.
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