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NAPEDRA (Center for Anthropology, Performance, and Drama) invites everyone to a meeting with Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Gonçalves at the event " Views, Imaginaries, and (m) Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis," which proposes to reflect on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political urgencies.

The event "Glances, Imaginaries, and (m)Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis" proposes a reflection on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and on how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political emergencies.

Marco Antônio Gonçalves is a Full Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ) and at the Graduate Program in Ethnography and Cultural Criticism at UFRJ. Since 1998 he has worked as a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Research Productivity. He is a Scientist of Our State,… leia mais

On September 15, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature Alex Flynn, a professor at the University of California (UCLA), who will present the research "Paths to Utopia: Temporalities of Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement."

Founded in 1984, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has become an international reference for the struggle for agrarian reform. For forty years, the MST has represented a beacon of hope, and while other progressive movements have faded, it remains reinvigorated: 450,000 families settled; more than half a million people with access to land and housing security. Yet, members of the movement speak of agrarian reform and the MST itself as both a desire and a contradiction. The utopian nature of the movement is discussed, both as an impossibility and as a future solution—in other words: a dream, but also a device. How can we understand such contradictions? How do the linear contours of a utopian politics intersect with the forms and flows of an ongoing generational struggle taking place on the land? From a long-term ethnographic perspective, this talk examines how productive internal tensions between utopian ideals and emerging counter-utopian practices contribute to the movement's longevity, beyond its recognized… leia mais