São Paulo School of Advanced Science

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), this School is an interdisciplinary laboratory involving sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, psychoanalysis, education, environmental studies, and related fields.

The School’s program is divided into three Thematic Axes – Immigration (explored not only as a geographic displacement but as a subjective and political experience marked by dehumanization and resistance); Environmental Violence (addressed as a product of colonial and capitalist logics, highlighting Indigenous cosmologies and proposals for ecological transition and climate justice); and Colonialism (approached as an ongoing structure that permeates economic hierarchies, racial regimes, and knowledge systems. It serves as the transversal axis of the School).

Up to 100 students (master’s, doctoral, postdoctoral, and undergraduate) will be selected to participate in the course – 25 students from the state of São Paulo; 25 from other Brazilian states; 25 international students from the Global North; and 25 from the Global South.