Possible bridges between anthropology and philosophy
October 07, 2025Professor Sérgio Schneider is appointed UFRGS representative in MDS working group
Professor Sérgio Schneider, from the Postgraduate Program in Sociology at UFRGS, was appointed representative of the University in the Working Group for Academic Cooperation in support of the objectives of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, established by the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Combating Hunger (MDS). The...
October 07, 2025IFCH SEDIA VII Infernal Week with the theme “From sublime to grotesque”
Between October 15 and 17, 2025, the UFRGS Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences will be headquartered by the VII Infernal Week, which in this edition has as its theme "from sublime to grotesque". With a multidisciplinary character, the event will bring together communications and conferences that address different areas of knowledge, with extensive temporal and...
October 07, 2025VI ENEPCP brings together hundreds of participants and reinforces the institutionalization of the public field in Brazil
held between September 29 and October 3, the VI National Meeting of the Public Field (ENEPCP) was the UFRGS Central Campus in Porto Alegre. With an opening conference taught by Luciana Cingolani (University of Twente) and the presence of guests from various Latin American countries, the event confirmed the dynamism and consolidation of the public policy field in...
October 07, 2025Exhibition “Submers albums, emerging files”
The Olho Nu Gallery, at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at UFRGS, hosts the exhibition Submerged Albums, Emerging Archives, held within the scope of the Memory Rescue Project. The exhibition brings together a series of images resulting from the work of recovering photographic albums of families affected by the 2024 floods, preserving visual and...
October 07, 2025Dissertation discusses the possibility of the existence of God based on the ontological argument
Researcher Rafael Wurster defended, in 2025, his master's thesis in the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy at UFRGS (PPG Filosofia/UFRGS), entitled In favor of the possibility of the existence of God. The work was supervised by professor Rogério Passos Severo and proposes a new reading on one of the oldest and most debated themes in philosophy: the possibility...
October 07, 2025Book release beyond absences: black paternities in the post-abolition of Lages-SC
MATHEUS EDUARDO BORSA, Master and PhD student in Social History from the Graduate Program in History of UFRGS (PPGH/UFRGS), launches the book beyond absences: black paternities in the post-abolition of Lages-SC, published by Paco Editorial. The work is the result of the master's dissertation defended in 2024, under the guidance of Professor Rodrigo de Azevedo Weimer...
October 05, 2025Research group addresses art in different areas
Since 2015, the philosophical discourses on art, investigates the variety of aesthetic and artistic phenomena, based on interdisciplinary research between philosophy and history, literature, performing arts and fine arts. According to Professor Kathrin Lion Rosenfield, the group's leader, the participants are interested in the different theoretical discourses and...
October 05, 2025Marcelo Fischborn addresses the philosophy of science in high school
is available on the YouTube channel philosophical windows the presentation of Professor Marcelo Fischborn, who discusses his experience in teaching science philosophy for high school. PhD in Philosophy at UFSM and professor at the Farroupilha Federal Institute, Marcelo conducted postdoctoral internship at IFCH/UFRGS between 2024 and 2025, when he produced the book...
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