São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Immigration, Environmental Violence and Colonialism:
Strategies and Policies for Current Dynamics of Expulsion and Resistance
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Cost: The course is Free of charge!
FAPESP will cover travel expenses (airfare or ground transportation), travel insurance (for international students, as per values listed at www.fapesp.br/2921), and daily stipends for hotel, food and transportation (according to FAPESP rates) for students coming from other cities, states, or countries. FAPESP scholarship holders must use the Technical Reserve of their respective scholarships to cover per diem and transportation expenses if São Paulo is not the city where their research is based.
Target Group: Undergraduate students, graduate students (masters and doctoral) and postdoctoral.
Number of spots: Up to 100 students — master’s, doctoral, postdoctoral, and undergraduate — will be selected to participate in the course according to the criteria listed below

Intro
Contemporary societies are facing a convergence of crises: mass forced displacements, war resurgence, environmental collapse, growing social inequalities, and the erosion of fundamental rights, alongside the rise of authoritarian regimes. These interconnected crises reshape forms of life, subjectivities, and possibilities for resistance. At the core of these processes, enduring colonial logics continue to structure global economies, political systems, and knowledge regimes.
It is within this ethical, political, and scientific urgency that the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Immigration, Environmental Violence and Colonialism: Strategies and Policies for Current Dynamics of Expulsion and Resistance is established. Organized by the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL) at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (IP-USP) and funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), with institutional support from the USP Agency for National and International Academic Cooperation (AUCANI), this School aims to foster critical training and collective knowledge production on some of the most urgent challenges of our time.
The SPSAS is more than a thematic course — it is an interdisciplinary laboratory involving sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, psychoanalysis, education, environmental studies, and related fields. The School is grounded in the construction of solidary epistemologies and the pursuit of epistemic equity, recognizing the value of plural knowledge and experiences — especially those historically silenced.
Thematic Axes
Immigration will be explored not only as a geographic displacement but as a subjective and political experience marked by dehumanization and resistance.
Environmental Violence will be addressed as a product of colonial and capitalist logics, highlighting Indigenous cosmologies and proposals for ecological transition and climate justice.
Colonialism is approached as an ongoing structure that permeates economic hierarchies, racial regimes, and knowledge systems. It serves as the transversal axis of the School.
Course format
Each morning will feature a two-hour lecture by a guest professor, followed by a Q&A session. Afternoon roundtables will bring together faculty around critical questions posed by the speaker of the day, challenging the limits of their disciplines considering the course’s themes. These discussions will be recorded and transcribed for later publication.
Participants will present their ongoing research projects in poster sessions and will be encouraged to develop collective projects during the course, supported by structured mentoring sessions and by direct and continuous interaction with the course professors. These collaborative processes aim to extend beyond the event itself, fostering lasting academic partnerships and publications.
The provisional program of the course is available on the website, and additional guest participants, bibliography and a range of carefully curated cultural activities will be announced soon. The School will be conducted in English.
Speakers
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Organizing Committee

Marina Garcia Sawaya (IP-USP, Université Paris Cité)
Coordinator
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and PhD candidate in a cotutelle in Études Psychanalytiques at Université Paris Cité, in the laboratory Centre de Recherches en Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société (CRPMS), and in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (IP-USP), in the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL). She holds a Master’s degree (2021) in Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychopathology: psychoanalysis and interdisciplinarity from Université Paris Cité. She graduated in Psychology (2014) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She is a member of Relapso – the Interuniversity Research Group on Religion, Social Bond and Psychoanalysis (IP-USP and the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at PUC-SP). She is also a member of the Inter-American Research Network in Psychoanalysis and Politics (RedIPPol). She is currently focusing her studies on the forms of denialist discourses in Brazil and their articulation with knowledge, truth, and history, in an interdisciplinary work grounded in psychoanalytic research, taking denialism as a social figure and a symptom in which different discourses and the subjective and political effects of historical forms of exclusion of knowledge become explicit.

Gabriel da Silva Santos (IP-USP).
Coordinator
Psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst. Master in Social Psychology from the University of São Paulo (IP-USP). Researcher and Coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (LATESFIP – USP) and member of RELAPSO, the Interuniversity Research Group on Religion, Social Bond and Psychoanalysis (IP-USP and the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at PUC-SP). His academic trajectory focuses on the investigation of contemporary forms of suffering and processes of subjectivation, with emphasis on the effects of neoliberalism on social bonds and on the modes of producing meaning in the collective sphere. He works especially with Lacan’s theory of the discourses, critical social psychology, and debates among psychoanalysis, religion, and politics.

Bruna Bortolozzi Maia (IP - USP)
Member
Psychologist at the Application School of the School of Education of USP (FEUSP). PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of USP (IPUSP), affiliated with the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL-USP-CNPq), where she develops research in the area of climate change, childhoods, and youth. She completed her Master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Psychology at the School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), with a CAPES scholarship (2022–2024), affiliated with the Teaching and Research Laboratory in Health Psychology (LEPPS-USP-CNPq). During this period, she worked as a volunteer psychologist in the Eating Disorders Assistance Group (GRATA) at the University Hospital (HC-FMRP-USP).
She received her degree from the School of Sciences and Letters of the São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – FCL/UNESP, Assis campus (2016–2022), during which she conducted scientific initiation research with FAPESP and CNPq scholarships, affiliated with the Laboratory for Studies and Research in Psychoanalysis and Bonding (Lapsivi-UNESP-CNPq). Her current research interests include childhoods, youth, climate change, decolonial epistemologies, psychoanalysis, and politics.

Bruna Ferreira de Oliveira (IP - USP)
Member
Bruna Ferreira de Oliveira is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of USP (IPUSP), affiliated with the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL), where she researches about gender, slam poetry and suffering. She holds a Master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (USP), funded by CAPES scholarship. Participated of the NUPPEC-Eixo 3, which she was a member of the Racialities Working Group. She holds her Bachelor degree in Psychology from the State University of Maringá (UEM).

Caique Mendes Cordeiro (IP-USP)
Member
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (IP-USP), in the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2021) from the São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP – Bauru). Member of Relapso – the Interuniversity Research Group on Religion, Social Bond and Psychoanalysis (IP-USP and the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at PUC-SP). He is currently focusing his studies on political and religious discursive formations linked to bolsonarismo, exploring the notion of truth through Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Cristina Rocha Dias (IP-USP)
Member
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Master (2014) and PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (IP-USP), in the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (1996) from Universidade Paulista (UNIP-SP). Member of the Inter-American Research Network in Psychoanalysis and Politics (RedIPPol). She is currently investigating the role of listening to socio-political suffering within the field of social assistance, in the care of children, adolescents, and families who are victims of violence, articulating the position of these workers and listening as a technology of care with the concept of transference in Freud and Lacan and with the production of countercolonial knowledge in Bispo dos Santos, based on the elements that sustain research in psychoanalysis.

Eliane Domingues (IP - USP)
Member
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Psychology at the State University of Maringá, and Postdoctoral Researcher at IP-USP.

Marina Pagani (IP - USP)
Member
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, and PhD candidate in a cotutelle in Sciences Humaines et Sociales – mention Psychologie at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, in the laboratory Unité transversale de recherche en psychogénèse et psychopathologie (UTRPP), and in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (IP-USP), in the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL). She holds a Master’s degree (2023) in Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychopathology from Université Paris Cité. She graduated in Psychology (2020) from the University of São Paulo. Member of the Inter-American Research Network in Psychoanalysis and Politics (RedIPPol). Training in Psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Studies Center of São Paulo. She is currently focusing her studies on the intersection between critical theory and psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on studies of subjectivity and the world of work.

Victória Kniest (IP-USP)
Member
Psychologist (UFCSPA) and psychoanalyst. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychoanalysis from the Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She is currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (USP), funded by a CAPES research scholarship, under the supervision of Prof. Gabriel Inticher Binkowski, with the dissertation titled “The Capitalist Discourse between Psychoanalysis, Symptom, and Fantasy.” Researcher at the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL–IP USP). She is a Psychology Professor at Universidade Nove de Julho and a psychoanalyst in private practice in the city of São Paulo and online. She is also a member of the Clinical Team at Com Verso – Clinical Psychoanalytic Care and Poetic Experiences.

Priscilla Santos de Souza (IP - USP)
Member
Psychoanalyst, she holds a PhD degree in Clinical Psychology at IPUSP. She is a professional staff member in Education at UFABC and she is general coordinator of the SinTUFABC union. She is a member of the Desorientalismo Collective and the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society, and Politics (PSOPOL) at IPUSP, and is part of the faculty at Instituto Gerar. Additionally, she is an activist in the Olga Benario women's movement and the Tamuya School of Popular Education.

Germano Almeida (IP - USP)
Member
He earned his Degree in Psychology from the Federal University of Uberlândia (2013) and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology, specializing in the Psychoanalysis and Culture axis, from the same institution (2018). He is currently a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (2025–). A practicing psychoanalyst, he is an associate member and founder of the Haeresis Psychoanalysis Association in Uberlândia (MG). He currently maintains a private clinical practice, offering both in-person sessions in São Paulo (SP) and online consultations. Additionally, he provides individual and group clinical supervision. His primary areas of interest include Psychoanalysis, Extreme Situations, Public Health, and Psychopathology.

Glaucia Valéria Pinheiro de Brida (IP - USP)
Member
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the State University of Maringa (UEM) and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Clinical Psychology Program at IPUSP

Roana de Jesus Braga
Member
Psychologist and psychoanalyst, graduated from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) and holds a master's degree from the same institution with funding from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), entitled "Bond between teachers and elderly people at the Open University for the Third Age (UNATI) in Assis". She developed research within the Institutional Program of Scientific and Technological Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC), entitled "Female Aging of UNATI Participants at FCL-Assis" in 2015. Continuing this, she conducted research with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) entitled "Experiences of Aging in Men Participating in an Open University for the Third Age Project". Member of the Inter-university Research Group on Religion, Social Bond and Psychoanalysis (RELAPSO), a partnership between USP and PUC-SP; from Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society, and Politics (PSOPOL-USP) and the Transcultural Psychoanalytic Clinic Axis of the Veredas-SP Extension and Culture Project - Psychoanalysis and Immigration

Lucas Lujan
Member
Psychoanalyst with a degree in Theology. Specialist in Mental Health and in Contemporary Philosophy and History. Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (LATESFIP – USP) and member of RELAPSO, the Interuniversity Research Group on Religion, Social Bond and Psychoanalysis (IP-USP and the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at PUC-SP). He investigates the intersection between psychoanalysis, religion, and politics based on the theory of Jacques Lacan.

Mariana Deolindo
Member
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Doctoral Candidate and Master's in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (USP). Researcher at the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL-IP USP). Has teaching experience as a Clinical Supervisor and in the Teaching Improvement Program with a PAE Scholarship. Has experience in institutional clinical care with immigrants and people in socially vulnerable situations, in addition to working as a psychoanalyst in private practice. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, where she was a Scientific Initiation scholarship researcher under the PIBIC MackPesquisa program.
Locations
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Auditório Prof. Francisco Romeu Landi
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Travessa 3, nº 380 – Cidade Universitária, São Paulo (SP)
Auditório István Jancsó (Brasiliana Library)
R. da Biblioteca, 21 - Vila Universitaria, São Paulo - SP, 05508-065
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