CLAM has just released its Monthly Newsletter for October 2025. Stay up-to-date with news on courses, events, and publications:
Extension Course “Medicalização do corpo: contribuições da problemática de gênero para os processos de saúde e doença” (4ª Edição 2025 – Reprodução Assistida).
Number of spots: 100 spots
Register now via the link: https://forms.gle/rcHXr1uX36fv9cXC6
Registration closes on October 10th
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) / Institute of Collective Health Studies (IESC)
Coordinator: Professor Fernanda Vecchi Alzuguir (IESC/UFRJ)
Collaborating Professors: Aureliano Lopes (DEPSI/UFRRJ and CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and Lucas Tramontano (IOC/FIOCRUZ and CLAM/IMS/UERJ)
Extension Student: Cauê Bentes Araújo (IESC/UFRJ)
Guest Professors: Camila Cavalheiro (UFRGS), Débora Allebrandt (ICS/UFAL), Fabiola Rohden (UFRGS), Hugo Paschoal (UERJ), Marcos Carvalho (UNIFESP), Olivia Nogueira Hirsch (PUC-Rio), Pamella Liz Nunes Pereira (FSP/USP), Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli (IMS/UERJ); Roberta Nunes (TJ-RJ), Rosana Machin (USP).
Total Course Load: 45 hours.
Certificate eligibility: The minimum requirement for obtaining the extension course certificate is participation in at least 5 out of 7 classes.
Start Date: October 17 / End Date: December 05, 2025.
Time: Fridays from 2 PM to 5 PM
Remote modality: https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
10/17: Opening class with Guest Professor: Rafaela Zorzanelli (IMS/UERJ); “A historical-conceptual overview of the medicalization of health and disease processes”
10/24: Medicalization of bodies and reproductive processes: a critical gender perspective
10/31: Substances
11/07: Images
11/14: Fertility Technologies
11/28: Circuits: biocapital and intersectionalities
12/05: Closing
Events:
10ª Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia: October 6th to 10th
Aqui está a tradução para o inglês, mantendo o formato e a clareza das informações:
Reflections and mobilizations around the transformations felt in recent editions, with explorations of ethnographies concerning science and technology studies, considering the tensions between scientific and “native” (non-scientific and non-academic) knowledge.
The researcher and professor Marina Nucci (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) will join colleagues in coordinating the following Thematic Seminar:
ST 13: Contemporary Co-productions: Biotechnological Interventions on the Body, Gender, and Sexuality
Coordinators Fabíola Rohden (UFRGS), Fernanda Vecchi Alzuguir (UFRJ), Marina Fisher Nucci (UERJ)
Session 01 – ST 13: Contemporary Co-productions: Biotechnological Interventions on the Body, Gender, and Sexuality Tuesday, October 07, 2025 – 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 8032 – Block F, 8th floor, Faculty of Administration and Finance (FAF)
Session 02 – ST 13: Contemporary Co-productions: Biotechnological Interventions on the Body, Gender, and Sexuality Wednesday, October 08, 2025 – 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 8032 – Block F, 8th floor, Faculty of Administration and Finance (FAF)
Session 03 – ST 13: Contemporary Co-productions: Biotechnological Interventions on the Body, Gender, and Sexuality Thursday, October 09, 2025 – 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 8032 – Block F, 8th floor, Faculty of Administration and Finance (FAF)
Access the full program here.
Location: UERJ, Maracanã Campus, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524 – Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro.
XIV Seminário de Pesquisa do IMS : Corpos estranhos: fronteiras e confluências na saúde coletiva
Dates: November 03 to 06, 2025. The seminar is an initiative collectively built by students from the three areas of concentration — 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). Researchers and professors Camila Fernandes (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and Ueslei Solaterrar (CLAM/IMS/UERJ), along with students Carolina Aita Flores (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and Iohanna Sanches (CLAM/IMS/UERJ), are part of the Event Organizing Committee.
Learn more at: XIV IMS Research Seminar – CLAM – Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights
5ª Conferência Não Monogamias e Intimidades Contemporâneas (NMCI)
November 29 and 30: Online format
December 03, 04, and 05: In-person format (UFRJ – Praia Vermelha Campus)
This conference is a space for inter- and transdisciplinary reflection and dialogue, bringing together different fields such as Social Sciences, Psychology, Law, Health Sciences, Communication, and Arts, as well as social movements. The event seeks to integrate a series of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality, family and kinship, coloniality, race and ethnicity, human rights, and political economy, as well as transfeminist themes, queer/cuir theory, cultural studies, post and transhumanism, among others. The researcher Antonio Cerdeira Pilão (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and the student Laís Peixoto Schimidt (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) are part of the Conference Organizing Committee.
Learn more at: 5th Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference (NMCI) – CLAM – Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights
Publications:
Researchers Claudia Mora (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and Simone Monteiro (IOC/FIOCRUZ) published the article “PrEP and PEP communication in Brazil: exploring the meanings of communication materials and analyzing the conceptions of governmental agents” in the Revista Cadernos de Saúde Pública, linked to the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro.
Article Abstract:
Informed by criticisms about the end of the exceptionality paradigm in the AIDS response in Brazil, the paper analyzes the conceptions and communication practices regarding HIV prevention by governmental agents and their symbolic and programmatic implications. This reflection is part of a broader study with users, professionals, and managers from five municipal HIV and/or AIDS programs in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Federal Government.
Based on contributions from the social sciences for understanding representations and social practices in health, the investigation involved: analysis of interviews with managers (federal and local) and health professionals about the communication strategies for combined prevention (PC) and pre-exposure (PrEP) and post-exposure (PEP) prophylaxes for HIV; and analysis of 24 communication pieces on PC, PrEP, and PEP.
Governmental agents reported strategies for disseminating PrEP and PEP to health professionals through consultation material and workshops, in the face of staff turnover and moral and ethical-political resistances. However, the public dissemination of the prophylaxes is discreet or occurs only digitally.
The exploration of the meanings of the communication pieces indicates an emphasis on the clinical dimension of prophylaxes in governmental materials and in the materials from non-governmental organizations, where there is greater contextualization of PC strategies for sexual scenes, practices, and identities. A shift in communication strategies is noted towards a grammar informed by the availability of biotechnologies and their scattered enunciation. The weakening of governmental communication in the PC era compromises the realization of the right to prevention.
Keywords:
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis; Post-Exposure Prophylaxis; HIV; Communication; Symbolism.
Access the full article here.
Reference:
MORA, Claudia; MONTEIRO, Simone. PrEP and PEP communication in Brazil: exploring the meanings of communication materials and analyzing the conceptions of governmental agents. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 2025, V.41, nº 9: September.
The researcher Juliana Vieira (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and professors Rogério Azize (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and Marina Nucci (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) published the article “Between gender and health technologies: an analysis of preventive campaigns for HPV and cervical cancer from 2014 to 2020” in the Revista Ciência e Saúde Coletiva, edited by the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (Abrasco).
Article Abstract:
In this article, we analyze preventive campaigns for cervical cancer (CCU) and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination developed by the National Cancer Institute (INCA) of the Ministry of Health, as well as some campaigns produced by non-governmental organizations and private institutions, in the period from 2014 to 2020. In light of a socio-anthropological perspective, our objective is to understand how these health technologies trigger and produce gender representations.
We developed seven categories of analysis (“Generationality of care,” “Schooling,” “Childhood and Youth,” “Gamification,” “Health Risk,” “Men’s Health,” and “Neutrality”) that allowed us to discuss the themes that emerged in the graphic materials. Through the medicalization and monitoring of women’s sexual and reproductive health, the campaigns highlight what we call here a politicization of the uterus, which maintains excessive scrutiny of the female body.
Keywords:
Health campaigns; Health communication; HPV; Cervical cancer; Medicalization.
Access the full article here.
Reference:
VIEIRA, Juliana Rodrigues; AZIZE, Rogério Luiz; NUCCI, Marina Fisher. Between gender and health technologies: an analysis of preventive campaigns for HPV and cervical cancer from 2014 to 2020. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva [Internet], Rio de Janeiro, 2024.
The researcher Amaral Arévalo published the chapter “Biopolitics Counterattack: Moral Panic, Feminism, and Lesbians in Post-war El Salvador” in the book Biopolitics, Gender Violence, and Resistance in Latin America.
Chapter Abstract:
The objective of this book chapter is to analyze – under the focus of biopolitics and its resistances – a moral panic, executed as a practice of extermination against the emergence of the first feminist lesbian collective in post-war El Salvador. A qualitative methodology was used for the preparation of this text, with documentary analysis of memory archives as the main technique.
The text is divided into three sections: the first addresses the device of sexuality operating under the format of motherhood as the manifest destiny of women within post-war El Salvador. In the second section, I develop the idea that during the post-war period there were centers of resistance against biopolitics, represented in the constitution of the contemporary Salvadoran feminist movement and the emergence of lesbian political identity within the country. In the third section, the counterattack of biopolitics against these points of resistance executed by women dissenting from the power system is analyzed, through a moral panic against the lesbian-feminist collective La Media Luna in the context of the VI Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encounter held in November 1993 in El Salvador.
Reference:
Arévalo, A. (2025): Contraataque de la biopolítica: Pánico moral, Feminismo y lesbianas en El Salvador de postguerra. In: Ugalde, A.; Chinas, C. & Hatzky, C. Biopolítica, violencias de género y resistencias en América Latina. Buenos Aires: CALAS/Clacso, pp. 161-197.
The researcher Amaral Arévalo published the chapter “Imperfect Justice: judicialization of homicides against LGBTI+ people in El Salvador” in the book Sex-Gender Dissidences: identities, bodies, voices, and histories of Our America.
Chapter Abstract:
The objective of this chapter is to analyze the intersection of public policies, LGBTI+ people, and access to justice in the recent history of El Salvador. A qualitative investigation was carried out, using the documentary review technique. Among the main results, it stands out that a specific scaffolding was built within the Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía General de la República) to provide attention, training, registration, investigation, and judicialization of crimes against this population segment.
However, the analysis of five judicial processes selected between 2021 and 2023 shows that there are difficulties in the Prosecutor’s Office in legally substantiating the motive of hatred based on gender identity and expression or sexual orientation. In conclusion, the application of a perspective of imperfect justice is observed; there is judicialization of some homicides against LGBTI+ people, but legal identity denials persist, preventing the full recognition of the facets—from the most visible to the least evident—of gender and sexuality that involve these types of homicides.
Reference:
Arévalo, A. (2025): Justicia imperfecta: judicialización de homicidios contra personas LGBTI+ en El Salvador. In: Hernández, S.; Albores, M.; & García, G. Disidencias sexogenéricas: identidades, cuerpos, voces e historias de Nuestra América. Tuxtla Gutiérrez: UNICACH, pp. 72 – 97.
Centro Latino-americano em Sexualidade e Direitos Humanos
Instituto de Medicina Social
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Campus Francisco Negrão de Lima (Maracanã)
Address: Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro – 6th Floor – Block E
