The Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT) at UFMG will hold the IEAT 2024 Annual Seminar on the 10th, 11th and 12th of December, as part of the celebrations of the institute’s 25th anniversary. With the theme Paving the Future, the event will take place in auditoriums 1 and 4 of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (FACE) at UFMG. Over the three days of the seminar, the program will feature a large conference, round tables, book launches and an exhibition of resident professors and IEAT research groups. The complete schedule can be acessed here.

Registration must be made through the UFMG Event Management System. Registrants who sign the attendance list on the day of the event will receive a certificate.

On December 10th, in auditorium 1 of FACE, at 10 am, the opening session of the seminar will take place, with the participation of the Pro-Rector of Research at UFMG Fernando Marcos dos Reis and the director of IEAT, professor Patrícia Kauark. Soon after, Professor Marcello Musto, from York University, will give a Grand Conference on War and the Left. Professor Juarez Guimarães, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, will mediate.

Marcello Musto explains that the left has a long and rich tradition of opposition to militarism, dating back to the First International. Socialist theory offers a unique contribution by highlighting the relationship between war and the development of capitalism, serving as an excellent resource for understanding the origins of war conflicts in contemporary society and strengthening opposition to war.

At the conference, Marcello Musto will examine the positions on the war of the main leftist currents – including socialists, social democrats, communists, anarchists and feminists, as well as its most important intellectuals and political leaders, such as Robespierre, Engels, Kropotkin, Jaurès, Lenin, Luxemburg, Mao and Khrushchev. It will also address the different formulations of these authors, such as “defense war”, “just war” and “revolutionary war”.

On the same day, at 2 pm, the round table Paving Transdisciplinarity will be held at UFMG. Participating in this session are former IEAT directors Alfredo Gontijo, from the Institute of Exact Sciences, Carlos Antônio Leite Brandão, from the School of Architecture, and Estevam Las Casas, from the School of Engineering. Aretusa Duarte, head of the IEAT Administrative Secretariat, will mediate the panel.

Then, at 4 pm, the launch of books on research carried out at IEAT will be held. Professor Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa, from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, will present the book Health Assessment in the Transdisciplinary Perspective, launched this year in the IEAT Collection of the UFMG Publisher. Next, Sérgio Cirino, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Simone Dutra Lucas, from the Faculty of Dentistry, and Tatiana Queiroz, from the IEAT Administrative Secretariat, will talk about the book UFMG Pesquisa Egressos – Volume 2, launched by Editora Dialética.

On December 11th, the seminar program will take place in FACE auditorium 4. The day’s agenda will be dedicated to the IEAT Research Group Exhibition. From 9am to 12pm, there will be presentations by the IEAT research groups “Cosmópolis: Meta-method”, “Accessibility and Urban Mobility” and “The Laws of Science and Nature and (Un)Sustainable Development. Pathways to a Healthy Future.” Mediation will be carried out by professor Santuza Teixeira, from the IEAT Steering Committee.

At 2:30 pm, there will be presentations by the IEAT research groups “Childhood, Adolescence and Youth: from Complexity to Transdisciplinarity” and “MeTsarte: Transdisciplinarity – link between history, medicine, health, technology and art”. At 4:50 pm, there will be a debate with members of the IEAT research groups under the mediation of professor Armando Cunha, from the institute’s Steering Committee.

On December 12th, the activities will take place again in auditorium 1 at FACE, with part of the program dedicated to the IEAT Resident Teachers Exhibition. From 9 am to 12 pm, through the mediation of Wagner Nunes Rodrigues, from the IEAT Steering Committee, presentations will be made by IEAT residents. Professors Gustavo Ximenes Cunha, from the Faculty of Arts, Márcio Gonçalves and Ricardo Veiga from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Rousiley Maia, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, and Ana Cristina Côrtes Gama, from the Faculty of Medicine, present the results of their research. In the afternoon, from 2pm to 3:40pm, mediation will be carried out by Professor Estevam Las Casas, from the IEAT Steering Committee. We will have presentations by resident professors Walter Menon, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences and Eliane Pawlowski, from the School of Information Science.

Following this, the launch of the book Information and Imaginary from the IEAT Collection will be held at the UFMG Publishing House, with the participation of Eliane Pawlowski and Claudio Paixão, also from the School of Information Science.

To finalize the schedule for the IEAT 2024 Annual Seminar, the round table Paving the Future of Transdisciplinarity will be held from 4:20 pm. Participating in this session are former IEAT directors Ivan Domingues, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Maurício Loureiro, from the School of Music, Paulo Sérgio Beirão, Professor Emeritus from the Institute of Biological Sciences, and Laura Soares, from the National Petroleum Agency. This panel will discuss the International Transdisciplinarity in University-based Institute Advanced Studies (IAS) Collaborative Research Project, which is being carried out in partnership with the University of Turin and the Polytechnic of Milan, under the responsibility of professor Magda Fontana, from the University of Turin and chair of the IEAT in 2024. The director of the IEAT, Patrícia Kauark, will mediate the table.