Screenings

A screening with extended discussion and expert panel about migration and mental health

The last screening was by Favela Providencia underneath a highway. We met at Central Station (see film with same name, very good!) and...

This I think was the best screening in Rio. The students at this state university had organised it very well, and a woman who was helping...

This was a small screening organised by the film lecturer, and the talk was a lot about film-based questions rather than social issues....

To screen in Rocinha was always important for obvious reasons. Actually it is at the edge of Rocinha across the road, in a school where...

The main speaker was an anthropologist called Mariana Calvacante. She said she had been crying the whole day due to Bolsonaro winning....

It was was the evening after the elections in which Jair Bolsonaro, the extreme right-wing conservative, had one the first round and made...

Debate speakers: Oswaldo Ferreira Leite Netto (IOP Psychoanalyst); Laura Andrade (IOP Dept of Psychiatric Epidemiology) Attendees: Staff...

Attendees: General public Debate speakers: Lee, Sam, Students at Cursinho Popular Martin Luthar King This was such a special night....

We spent the day in this part of São Paulo State called Cubatão. It is an example of how urbanisation projects can be done well. We saw...

Attendees: PUC teachers and post-doctorate students Debate speakers: Professor Bader Sawaia, PUC Course leader of the dept of Social...

Debate speakers: Gabriel Feltran, Maria Teresa Fedeli (Specialist in urban architecture, particularly in favela communities) Two women...

Place: Suzano, a district on the outskirts of SP State Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18; members of staff Debate speakers: Lee and...

Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18 from Sapopemba; human rights workers Debate speakers: Valdênia Lanfranchi (lawyer and human rights...

Attendees: Researchers and Post-Doctoral students mostly in sociology and anthropology; other staff members of CEBRAP Debate speakers:...

Place: Ferraz de Vasconcelos Attendees: Students mostly aged 16-18, mostly from Ferraz When we walked into the school the morning of our...

We were asked to talk in a conference of mainly academics from 27 countries discussing solutions to various urban issues.