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The film São Palco - Afropolitan City will be shown on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at the University of Oxford.

Shambuyi Wetu, Yannick Delass, Lenna Bahule, Edoh Amassize and other Afropolitan artists occupy Sampa and the world with their diasporic creativity.

Synopsis: What do African artists who arrive in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas dialogue – the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery? What stages are occupied, built, filled with the performances of artists who cross the ocean? Ancestry updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be bold, to color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openings,…

On September 17th and 18th, 2024, the USP School of Communications and Arts (ECA) hosted the symposium “Corpo-archive: practices, memories and audiovisual imaginations”, organized by Delfina Cabrera, Cecilia Gil Mariño, Carola Saavedra (UzK), Peter W. Schulze (PBI-UzK/Mecila) and Mateus Araújo (ECA-USP), with the support of the Postgraduate Program in Audiovisual Media and Processes at ECA-USP and the Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), a center dedicated to investigating the interactions between coexistence and inequality in Latin America. The event brought together archivists, curators and researchers to debate the role of archives in preserving marginalized stories and memories. In a scenario of growing discussions about memory, preservation and representation, the event highlighted the relevance of so-called "smaller audiovisual archives", a concept proposed by researcher Juana Suárez.

The symposium addressed the need to…

This Tuesday, 24/09, we screened the film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana at Usp Ribeirão Preto. On Wednesday, @shambuyiwetu and Rose Satiko participate in the @dra.francirosy course.

The August 2024 edition of Revista Pesquisa FAPESP mentions Alice Villela's postdoctoral research, carried out at the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Rose Satiko, within the scope of the thematic project funded by FAPESP entitled “Local Musicar: New trails for ethnomusicology”.

The FAPESP article addresses the growth of indigenous film production in recent years in Brazil, which has inspired several studies. Among the main purposes of the productions are demands for land and rights.

Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero directed the film Toré as part of the project “O Musicar Local: New trails for ethnomusicology”. Released in 2022 and lasting 18 minutes, the film portrays the Kariri-Xocó indigenous people, who live on the banks of the São Francisco River, in Alagoas. The group has a place of strength in its traditional songs and rituals to resist a colonial history of violence and invisibility. Stripped of their…

We celebrate with joy Sylvia Caiuby Novaes' 50 years as a professor at the University of São Paulo. Full professor at the Department of Anthropology, the longest serving professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo, Sylvia is the founder of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP).

In a ceremony at LISA, on May 24th 2024, Sylvia received a surprise reception from her family, classmates from her class at Maria Antônia, where she entered in 1968, some friends from school at Colégio Dante Alighieri, many of her students (current and alumni, today professors at several universities in São Paulo and other states), as well as professors and employees at USP. The session opened with the presence of Dorothy Boom (Regina Muller), who celebrated Professor Sylvia with the joy she deserved.

We published a…

Registration for the Unified Scholarship Program (PUB) is now open for the project "Anthropology Online: Production of content for dissemination and scientific dissemination"
Registration for 01 scholarship, aimed at undergraduate students at the University of São Paulo (USP), is open until 18/08 at the link https://uspdigital.usp.br/juno.
The scholarship recipient must be interested and available to work 40 hours a month in communication activities, dissemination, creation of graphic materials, administration of social media and website, information management for the production of indicators, among other tasks.
The scholarship recipient is expected to have basic knowledge of photo editing, creating visual elements and Google Document Editors (Spreadsheets, Documents and Forms).

Registration for the Unified Scholarship Program (PUB) is now open for the project "Scientific Journalism: Production of content for dissemination and scientific dissemination"

Applications for 02 scholarships, aimed at undergraduate students at the University of São Paulo (USP), are open until 18/08 at the link https://uspdigital.usp.br/juno

The scholarship holder must be interested and available to work 40 hours a month in communication, dissemination, information management for the production of indicators, preparation of reports, including texts, audiovisual documents, sound (scientific dissemination podcast) and photographs, among others. tasks. One of the grants is intended, especially, for collection cataloging activities, in addition to producing reports on LISA's archival practices and LISA's relationship with the populations represented in the collection.

The scholarship holder is expected to have the ability to develop texts of…

Registration for the PUB scholarship "Audiovisual Monitoring at the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology"!, aimed at undergraduate students at USP, is open at the link https://uspdigital. usp.br/juno until 08/18.
The scholarship recipient will have 40 hours of contact per month with video editing of works, recordings of events, digitization of items from the collection, among other activities involving audiovisual in anthropological research.
The scholarship holder is expected to have basic knowledge of computers and audio and video production programs, as well as basic knowledge of language, narrative and audiovisual aesthetics.

Registration for the PUB scholarship "LISA's film collection: subtitling and accessibility", aimed at USP undergraduate students, is open at the link https://uspdigital.usp.br/juno until 18/08.
The scholarship recipient will have 40 hours of contact per month with video subtitling of works, especially the inclusion of subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (LSE). The scholarship holder will also work with subtitling in other languages, thus contributing to the internationalization of the unit, in addition to the accessibility that LSE brings. Some of the laboratory's video work is available at https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/videos.
The scholarship holder is expected to have basic knowledge of computers and audio and video production programs, as well as basic knowledge of language, narrative and audiovisual aesthetics."

Lia Malcher, researcher of the PAM research group and Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos, researcher of the GRAVI and PAM groups, were awarded at the Pierre Verger Award!

The film Jijet - Como estudiamos nossos cantos, by Lia Malcher and Hugo Prudente and the photo essay De palha e de ouro, by Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos received honorable mention in the exhibition.

More details at https://premiopierreverger.com/2024/premiados/

Check out the ranking:

1st Place Medium-length film:
Uma Mulher Common (Directed by: Debora Diniz)
2nd Place, medium-length film:
ZUMVI Collection - The Rising of Memory (Directed by: Iris de Oliveira);
3rd Place, medium-length film:
I Am Modern, I Am Indian (Directed by: Carlos Eduardo Magalhães)

Honorable Mention:
Jijet - How we study our songs (Directed by: Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher)

Photography:
1st Place:
Mirrors of memory: archive images and…