The Research Seminar of the Institute of Social Medicine (IMS/UERJ) will take place from November 3 to 6, 2025. This initiative is collectively built by students from the three concentration areas—Human Sciences and Health, Epidemiology, and Policy, Planning, and Administration in Health—of the Graduate Program in Collective Health (PPGSC) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
More than a traditional academic space, the seminar has established itself, over the years, as a place for dialogue between different forms of knowledge and practices.
Its central objective is to promote critical debates on topics relevant to Collective Health and to the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS), in addition to disseminating, integrating, and valuing the work produced by IMS graduate students, students from other institutions, health professionals, researchers, activists, and members of social movements.
This year, under the theme “Corpos Estranhos? Fronteiras e Confluências na Saúde Coletiva”, the XIV Seminar is inspired by the political and poetic power of Matheusa Passareli and the tensions that mark the institutional and epistemological limits of the field. As a result of these provocations, this year’s seminar invites reflection on the multiple overlaps that shape collective health in Brazil: from precarious workers to students struggling for permanence, from technologies that silence differences to marginalized territories, from university mothers to transvestite researchers—all these bodies produce science, care, and resistance.
The XIV IMS/UERJ Research Seminar is a call. An invitation to think about collective health from the margins, the encounters, and the borders—where new ways of existing, researching, and caring are created.
Registration:
General participation in the seminar: https://www.ims.uerj.br/seminario-de-pesquisa/inscricao;
Specific activities:
Forums: https://forms.gle/2Wge2PBaCvdtBNfp6
Workshops: https://forms.gle/Ecy3T46D845G8pmg6
Mini-courses: https://forms.gle/DKsircGUHX6snhDG9
General registration for the event must be completed before registering for specific activities.
Program:
November 3:
2:00 PM | Opening Ceremony
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM | Opening Panel – Confluent Bodies: health, politics, and society
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
November 4:
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Mini-course – Environment and inequality: debating nutrition and physical activity in collective health
Sala Sara York | 7.004.E
• Workshop – Collective Health: from historical construction to the consolidation of an essential field for the SUS and society
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Roundtable Discussion – What is inscribed when writing? Challenges and potential of feminist writing
Sala Edna Roland | 7.003.E
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Forum – Bodies in Movement: Collective Health of Migrations
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
November 5:
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Forum – Amerifrican and Countercolonial Research Forum
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
• Roundtable Discussion – Whiteness and the (non)place in racial relations in Collective Health
Sala Edna Roland | 7.003.E
• Roundtable Discussion – Reproductive (in)justices with different perspectives from Collective Health based on data from Nascer no Brasil II
Sara York Room | 7.004.E
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Panel Discussion – Hacking health: (in)equity in data and technology
November 6:
1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
• Student Forum – Building the future of the UERJ Graduate Program in Collective Health
Auditório Nêgo Bispo – 6th floor / Block E
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Closing Panel – Environmental racism, territorial resistance, and collective potential
Auditório IMS – 6th floor / Block E
Text originally published on the website of the XIV IMS Research Seminar.
Address: Instituto de Medicina Social Hésio Cordeiro Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 7º andar, blocos D/E e 6º. andar, bloco E Pavilhão João Lyra Filho – Campus Negrão de Lima – Maracanã Rio de Janeiro – RJ