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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…

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)…

The USP newspaper did an article about the 50 years of USP by the coordinator and founder of LISA, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.
Check it out at https://jornal.usp.br/ articles/sylvia-caiuby-novaes-50-anos-de-usp/

“Jornal da USP” published an article promoting the premiere of the film "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana", by directors Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. The article features interviews with the directors and protagonists, presenting the idea behind the film's conception.

The exhibition will take place on April 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carlos Reichenbach room at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia - Rua Maria Antônia, 294.

Free entrance!

Link to the article: https://jornal.usp.br/diversidade/artistas-africanos-conquistam-espaco-em-sao-palco-a-cidade-afropolitana/

Folha de S.Paulo magazine publishes an article honoring the teacher's 50-year career Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, founder and coordinator of LISA.

The article addresses the dilemma between motherhood and work, using Sylvia's history, which shows that, in order to reconcile both areas, she decided to bring her daughters along with her during the field research among the Bororo.

The article also talks about her trajectory as a researcher and a teacher, besides presenting LISA's history too.

Access the article here.

Photography: Zanone Fraissat/Folhapress

Afro-Sampas, produced at LISA and directed by Rose Satiko and Jasper Chalcraft, is at a festival in Palermo, Italy.

More information at this link

The film Afrosampas, by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and directed by LISA was ranked 3rd in the Ethnographic Film - Medium Film category. In Afrosampas we observe what can happen when musicians from both sides of the Atlantic are brought into contact in the city where they live. Yannick Delass (DRC), Edoh Fiho (Togo), Lenna Bahule (Mozambique) and Brazilians Ari Colares, Chico Saraiva and Meno del Picchia accept our invitation for a first meeting in which they experience sounds, memories and creativity.

In addition, the film Carlos Caps Drag Race and the short Cybershota, by Mihai Andrei Leaha, received 1st and 2nd place, respectively, in the categories Ethnographic Film - Medium Film and Ethnographic Film - Short Film. Both works also received support from LISA. In Carlos Caps Drag Race, three Brazilian drag queens prepare for a Drag Race in São Paulo. While getting ready for the show, Satine, Di Vina Kaskaria and Gabeeh Brasil share how the…