Events DA

We invite everyone to the AntropoCena screening of the film “Drags in da House”, directed by Paula Bessa Braz, Mihai Andrei Leaha, Caio Rincon, Gab Italiani and Dida Silva. Paula and Mihai will be in attendance for a discussion, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

Synopsis: When two anthropologists and three drag queens meet at a drag race competition in São Paulo, an ambitious project to document the city’s vibrant queer scene is born. But the onset of the pandemic radically transforms this creative journey. What was to be a conventional documentary becomes something deeper: an experimental collaboration in which the boundaries between observers and those being observed dissolve. Through video diaries, digital performances and virtual meetings, the group captures not…

LISA will host a lecture entitled ‘The "Mateira" Science and the Protection of Isolated Indigenous Groups’, given by Daniel Cangussu.

Daniel Cangussu is a botanist and specialist in indigenous affairs. At FUNAI, he heads the Madeira River Ethno-Environmental Protection Unit. In his Master’s dissertation, “Vestígios da Floresta” (published by SESC), and in his doctoral thesis, “Ecologias do Não Contato”, he adopts the concept of “Mateira Science” to define the set of traditional practices and knowledge used to identify and monitor isolated and recently contacted groups.

The event will also feature a screening of the documentary “Vestígios” by Leão Serva and Rogério Assis, which follows the work of Daniel Cangussu and his team in protecting isolated indigenous groups.…