By Vanessa Munhoz • LISA Communication
Published: 09/04/2025
The University of São Paulo (USP) will host the Franco-USP Week of Cooperation in Sciences, Arts and Humanities, from September 15 to 26, 2025. The event celebrates scientific collaborations between French universities and USP and, this year, gains special prominence by commemorating 200 years of bilateral relations between France and Brazil.
The program, which is the result of a partnership between different sectors of the University, the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Worlds in Transition Laboratory (IRL-CNRS-USP) and IdA-pôle Brésil, incorporates activities related to the Saison Croisée Brésil-France 2025, an agenda launched by Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with a view to strengthening ties between the two countries.
One of the highlights of the event is the international colloquium "Worlds in Transition: New Approaches to Fieldwork", which will include screenings of audiovisual productions from the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) followed by discussions with researchers and film directors:
September 17: "New York, Just Another City" at 7:30 PM and "Hosts for Half a Century: The Mỹky Version of History" at 8:30 PM. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with André Lopes.
More information about the sessions: https://www.semanasfrancouspianas.com/session/s4
Synopsis:
New York, another city: Young leader and audiovisual filmmaker Patrícia Ferreira has been recognized for the documentaries she makes with her people, the Guarani Mbya. When invited to discuss her work at one of the world's largest ethnographic film festivals, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Patrícia encounters a series of exhibitions, debates, and attitudes that make her reflect on the world of the "juruá," contrasting it with Guarani ways of life.
Hosts for half a century: the Mỹky version of the story: The film presents the Mỹky people's perspective on 50 years of contact with the non-indigenous population of Mato Grosso, reflecting on the transformations experienced in their lives and in their ancestral territory.
September 18: "São Palco - Afropolitan City," at 7:30 p.m., followed by a debate with Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. More information about the session: https://www.semanasfrancouspianas.com/session/s48
Synopsis:
São Palco - Afropolitan City: What do African artists arriving in Brazil in recent years bring with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas—the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a graveyard—interact? What stages are occupied, constructed, and filled with the performances of artists crossing the ocean? Ancestralities are updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it's necessary to be bold, to color the gray. São Palco - Afropolitan City presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and tensions.
The screenings will take place in the LISA auditorium, with free admission and subject to space limitations.
Access the full Franco-Uspiana Week schedule on the website: https://www.semanasfrancouspianas.com/