Newsletter #274

AGENDA

Olavo Setubal Chair

Dance and music from the peripheries is the theme of the next meeting of the cycle "Peripheral Centralities"

What do dance and music echo from the peripheries and what do they say about the city? This is the question that artists and researchers will seek to answer at the next meeting of the cycle "Peripheral Centralities," an achievement of the Olavo Setúbal Chair in Art, Culture and Science. Addressing music, the presenters will be KL Jay, Karol Conka and Claudio Miranda. Renata Prado, William Severo dos Santos, Lia Rodrigues and Rubens Oliveira will talk about dance. Dance critic Helena Katz and Brazilian literature professor Acauam Oliveira will also interact. The event will be held on March 25, from 5:00 pm.

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History

Seminar debates different manifestations and nuances of colonialism

Twelve researchers from different areas will discuss the different characteristics of colonialism throughout history and today - there are still 61 colonized territories in the world - at the seminar "The Faces of Colonialism: Different Times, Places and Conjunctures," to be held from March 20 to 22. The event has been organized by the IEA and the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies on Technology and Territory (LINTT), linked to USP's Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (MAE). The coordinator is Fabíola Andréa Silva, a researcher of the MAE who joined the sabbatical year program at the IEA in 2018.

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University

José Goldemberg discusses the challenges of higher education and research in Brazil

At the conference "Higher Education and Research in Brazil," physicist José Goldemberg, a senior lecturer at USP's Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE), will discuss the current reality of the Brazilian university and its capacity to offer the results that the country needs for its development. During the presentation, to be given on March 19, at 10:00 am, he will use USP as a reference for the analysis. Professor emeritus and former president of USP, and honorary professor of the IEA, Goldemberg has been Brazilian minister of Education and president of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

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Mining

Meeting addresses the principles of precaution and accountability in tragedies such as the one in Brumadinho

The risks resulting from large mining enterprises and their tailings dams, the need for precautionary measures, and how to face legal accountability in the tragedies of Mariana and Brumadinho will be discussed at the meeting "About Brumadinho: Principle of Precaution and Accountability in Socio-environmental Tragedies," on March 19, at 2:00 pm. The debaters will be Hugh Lacey, from the Swarthmore College (USA), Zenaida Luísa Lauda-Rodrigues, a PhD student in environmental sciences at USP, and Daiane Hohn, coordinator of the Brazilian Movement of People Affected by Dams. The event has been organized by IEA's Research Group on Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science and Technology, of which Professor Lacey is a member.

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Culture

Researchers discuss the structural causes of museum destruction episodes in Brazil

From the fire at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro, in 1978, to the one that hit the National Museum in September 2018, several cultural institutions of the country have succumbed to major incidents. In order to reflect on the structural causes of this destruction scenario, IEA's Research Group "Fórum Permanente": Cultural System Between Public and Private, USP's Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin Library, and the Department of Museology, Conservation and Restoration of the Federal University of Pelotas, will hold the meeting "Risk Management or Management at Risk? The Situation of Safeguarding the National Cultural and Artistic Heritage," on March 21, at 10:00 am.

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RESEARCH

Research project analyzes the use of the FIFA World Cup by three BRICS members in order to increase their global influence

The geopolitical dynamics involved in the choice of host countries for the FIFA World Cup will be analyzed by physical educator Marco Antonio Bettine, from USP's School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH), participating in IEA's sabbatical year program as of this month. One of the objectives of the project is to understand how FIFA has become an economic, political and legal power. At the same time, Bettine intends to establish relations between the tournament in Brazil, Russia and South Africa and variations in the soft power of these three members of the BRICS.

OPEN CALLS

Funding for researchers abroad

University of Konstanz, Germany
Deadline: March 31 and April 30, 2019

University of Erfurt, Germany
Deadline: April 15, 2019

University of Erfurt, Germany
Deadline: April 22, 2019

University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Deadline: April 30, 2019

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