SPSAS

Professor Carlos Nobre

Carlos Afonso Nobre, co-author of the Fourth IPCC Report—awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize—is a member of several major scientific academies. A full professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA-USP), he is an electronic engineer (ITA) and a Brazilian climatologist of international renown. He holds a PhD in Meteorology from MIT, served as a researcher at INPA and INPE, founded CEMADEN, and has held key positions in scientific leadership, including President of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change and Director of CPTEC-INPE. He is Co-Chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon and leads the Amazonia 4.0 Project, which promotes a sustainable bioeconomy by integrating science, technology, and traditional/local knowledge. He was also a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Scientific Advisory Panel on Global Sustainability.

Professor Shose Kessi (South Africa)

Shose Kessi is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town and Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her work in the field of political psychology explores the complex ways in which individuals construct their identities and shape their behaviours within society, and how they join forces to drive change—whether through institutional reforms, social movements, or other forms of individual and collective action. She is co-founder of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa, a space for research and academic work that embraces a decolonial and feminist aesthetic and praxis for psychological work in South Africa, Africa, and the diaspora. She is also the co-founder and first chairperson of the UCT Black Academic Caucus. Shose has published on the psychology of racism in higher education and other decolonial and African-centered approaches to psychology.

Professor Gabriel Feltran (France-Brazil)

Professor of Research at the CNRS, affiliated with the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po. Visiting Researcher at Oxford University and Goldsmiths College (2019); Visiting Professor at Humboldt University (KOSMOS Fellow, 2017) and at CIESAS, Mexico (2015). Author of the books Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo’s Urban Conflict (Wiley SUSC Series, 2022), The Entangled City: Crime as Urban Fabric in São Paulo (Manchester University Press, 2020), and of the documentary series PCC: The Secret Power (HBO Max, 2022), which adapts his Portuguese-language book Irmãos: uma história do PCC (2018).

Professor Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva (Brazil)

Petronilha B. Gonçalves e Silva is Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), where she is a Senior Professor in the Department of Theories and Pedagogical Practices and a founding member of the Afro-Brazilian Studies Center (NEAB). She served on Brazil’s National Education Council and was the rapporteur for the 2004 National Curriculum Guidelines on Education for Racial-Ethnic Relations and the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History (CNE/CP 1/2004). Her work focuses on education, racial-ethnic relations, curriculum policy and human rights; in 2011 she was admitted to Brazil’s National Order of Merit.

Prof. Sean Jacobs (USA)

Sean Jacobs is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in New York. He founded and edited (2009 - 2023) Africa Is a Country. Previously, he was on the African-American and Communication Studies faculties of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Sean has held fellowships at New York University and Harvard University and was a Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar. Sean was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, where he later worked as a journalist and as a political researcher.

Professor Francesco Callegaro (Argentine-France)

PhD in Political Studies from CESPRA (EHESS), Paris. Foreign correspondent for the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Study of Reflexivities (LIER-FYT, EHESS), and professor at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina), where he teaches political philosophy and sociology at the Interdisciplinary School of Advanced Social Studies, and conceptual history and psychoanalysis at the School of Humanities. His research project seeks to renew political philosophy through engagement with the social sciences, clarifying their conceptual and normative implications for a deeper understanding and critique of modernity. In recent years, he has complemented his theoretical work with political involvement at the National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (INAES) and in collaboration with social movements linked to the popular economy, co-founding, with Alexandre Roig, the Laboratory for Research on Movements, State and Society (LIMES, UNSAM).

Professor Roberto Beneduce (Italy)

Roberto Beneduce is Full Professor of Cultural/Medical Anthropology in the Department of Culture, Politics & Society at the University of Turin. A psychiatrist and anthropologist, he founded the Frantz Fanon Center in Turin, a service dedicated to clinical, psychosocial and research work with migrants, refugees and victims of torture. At UniTo he leads courses in medical and psychological anthropology, with research spanning ethnopsychiatry, memory, violence and migration.

Professor Miriam Debieux Rosa (Brazil)

Full Professor at the Department and Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo (USP). She coordinates the Laboratory “Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics” (PSOPOL/IPUSP) and the research group Veredas: Psychoanalysis and Immigration (PSOPOL/IPUSP). Deputy Vice-Rector for Inclusion and Belonging at the University of São Paulo (2022–2026). She has been a CNPq productivity fellow and is currently developing the project Toward a Mental Health Policy in the University: The Socio-Political Suffering of Young People in the University (2024–2027). Member of the ANPEPP Working Group Psychoanalysis: Politics and Culture. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (France), funded by CNPq – Brazil (September 2015 to July 2016), on the theme of violence and immigration. Former President of the Inter-American Network of Psychoanalysis and Politics (REDIPPOL, 2018–2022) and current researcher in the International Network Coletivo Amarrações: Politics with Adolescents.

Professor Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky (France)

Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky is University Professor of Anthropology (India) at INALCO in Paris and a statutory researcher at CESSMA (UMR 245, Université Paris Cité/INALCO/IRD). A clinical psychologist, she practices at the Psychopathology Service of Avicenne Hospital (AP-HP) and is President of the Centre Primo Levi. She has served as Vice-Chair of INALCO’s Scientific Council and directs the University Diploma “Hospitality, Mediations, Migrations” (DU H2M). She is Director of the Institut Convergences Migrations (CNRS), a major national research and training consortium of 8 major Institutes and Universities in France. Her research and teaching address social exclusion and migration, particularly in India and Brazil, as well as migrants’ mental health".

Professor Miriam Debieux Rosa

(CV available in the “Professors” section – Will be a course professor)

Full Professor of Clinical Psychology – IPUSP

Coordinator of PSOPOL-USP

Vice-Rector for Inclusion and Belonging – University of São Paulo

Aline Souza Martins

Psychologist trained at UFMG, Master and Doctor in Clinical Psychology from USP, Psychoanalyst, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, with an academic production centered on the fields of psychoanalysis, violence, gender, clinical practice, and politics. She develops research and practices focused on clinical listening in contexts of social vulnerability, immigration, and public mental health. She works with group clinical methodologies, such as Photolanguage, and participates in interinstitutional research and extension projects, integrating groups such as GEPEF, PSOPOL, and Veredas. She collaborates with academic institutions in Brazil and abroad.

She has a diverse body of publications, with emphasis on the interface between psychoanalysis, clinical practice, violence, gender, and politics. She has published articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters organized by academic collectives and research institutions. Her writings address themes such as adolescents in conflict with the law, psychoanalysis and war, social recognition, clinical practices in contexts of vulnerability, and methodologies such as Photolanguage. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary collections and works aimed at scientific dissemination and university extension, with contributions also appearing in newspapers, magazines, and conference proceedings. Her publications reflect a commitment to clinical listening and to the critical analysis of contemporary social processes in light of psychoanalysis.

Maria Cristina Gonçalves Vicentin

Psychologist trained at PUC-SP, Master in Social Psychology from PUC-SP, and PhD in Clinical Psychology from PUC-SP. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Work Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo (USP), working in the area of Psychology and Law. She is also the deputy coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Psychology and a faculty member in the Professional Master’s Program in Occupational Therapy at USP. She is a member of several research groups and laboratories, such as the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (IPUSP) and the Human Rights, Democracy, and Memory Research Group (IEA-USP). She has participated in national and international research networks, including the International Network Coletivo Amarrações: Policies with Adolescents and the National Research Network on Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

She has worked in various lines of research focusing on the interface between subjectivity, violence, and social vulnerability. Her work approaches mental health, social justice, and human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective, with particular attention to social vulnerability, decolonial practices, and the challenges faced by marginalized populations, especially adolescents and young people. She aims to strengthen public policies that ensure more equitable and inclusive care, while promoting critical reflection on the interfaces between law, mental health, and subjectivity.

Gabriel Inticher Binkowski

Psychologist trained at UFRGS, Master Recherche Clinique Transculturelle from Paris 13, and PhD in Psychology from Paris 13. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo (USP), affiliated with the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology. He coordinates the Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL–USP) and has been involved in significant international collaborations, including projects with universities and research centers in France and Lebanon, as well as RELAPSO (PUC–USP), and serves as supervisor of the VEREDAS group.

His research encompasses themes such as the psychoanalytic clinic, socio-political suffering, psychopathology, migration, and inter- and transcultural issues, with a focus on the application of psychoanalysis in diverse social and cultural contexts. He is distinguished for his work on the relationships between religion, culture, politics, and psychology, particularly in how these fields interact within contemporary clinical practices. His work investigates psychoanalysis as a critical tool for understanding and intervening in social and psychological vulnerabilities, with particular attention to populations in contexts of migration and refuge. His academic and clinical practice is marked by the articulation between psychoanalytic theory and contemporary social realities, as well as the development of public policies and clinical practices aimed at promoting equity and mental health.