History Events DA

On May 12th, at 6 PM, we will host researcher Bryce Henson (University of Texas A&M) for the lecture “Emerging Quilombos: Black Life and Afro-Diasporic Cultures in Brazil.” The lecture will take place in the LISA auditorium.

Dr. Bryce Henson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Texas A&M. He is a qualitative social scientist and a researcher of African cultural studies in the diaspora, with an emphasis on Brazil. In 2023, his book *Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil* was published by the University of Texas Press. The book, about forms of quilombos (maroon communities) in urban environments, won four awards. Currently, he serves as an associate editor of *Transforming Anthropology*, the official journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. Finally, he is very proud to be a supporter of EC Bahia (a Brazilian football club).

Ethnoarchaeology of the Territory and Indigenous Peoples in a Historical Situation of Isolation in the Brazilian Amazon

Clouds of Indigenous Treasures: How to Return Them to the Forest’s Owners

On April 24, 2026, at 2 PM, LISA will host the first edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle of the Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA).

The opening lecture, entitled “Restoring Pyrodiversity: Learning from Cultural Fire and Knowledge Co-production in Intercultural Fire Management,” will feature Bibiana Bilbao from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and the COBRA Collective (England).

RESPIRO is the project “Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado,” developed within the scope of the BIOTA/FAPESP – Discovery 2024 Program, in the Young Researcher modality, under the coordination of Guilherme Moura Fagundes (CHAMA/PPGAS/USP). FAPESP Process: 2025/01710-9.

The project investigates the roles of traditional peoples and communities in the production of fire biodiversity in the Cerrado and seeks to problematize initiatives for the restoration of sustainable fire regimes for the biome.

The RESPIRO Study Cycle was created to bring together researchers associated with the project, strengthen the training of students and scholarship recipients, and open a space for exchange between partners from Brazil and abroad.

LISA-USP will host researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin for a presentation and discussion on music and sound system culture. Organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology group (PAM-USP), the seminar "Sound System Epistemologies" will be an opportunity to discuss sound epistemologies with researchers active in the international music scene.

Meet the guests:

Stefanie Alisch - Diretora do projeto "Sound System Epistemologies" (DFG) na Universidade Humboldt de Berlim.
É musicóloga e DJ em Berlim, pesquisadora de música e dança do Atlântico Negro, com foco em Sound System Epistemologies, língua portuguesa, políticas do prazer e culturas de DJ. Realizou pesquisas de campo sobre broken beat (Londres), kuduro (Angola, Moçambique, África do Sul, Lisboa, Paris, Amsterdã e Berlim), mazurka (Cabo Verde, Brasil e Polônia) e sound  systems (Londres, Brasil, Jamaica).

We invite you to the seminar "Black Ethnomusicology: Crossroads of Knowledge and the African Legacy in Musical Studies" with the participation of Professor Pedro Acosta (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA), organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM-USP), the Black Ethnomusicology Collective (CEN-UFBA), and the Black Memory project at FFLCH.

The event aims to share experiences in Black Ethnomusicology through the historical agency of Black people in musical studies, art, and culture. This project, carried out in Brazil together with the community of African Music, Dance, and Dramatic Arts studies, emphasizes the legacy of African and Black knowledge production in its plural forms of expression, as well as the epistemologies that involve each of its practices and knowledge production, whether community-based or academic.

Date: April 16, 2026 (Thursday)

4 PM | Roundtable discussion on music research (with professors Pedro Acosta, Rafael B. A. Norberto, and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji)
6 PM | Seminar "Black Ethnomusicology: Crossroads of Knowledge and the African Legacy in Musical Studies"

Location: LISA Auditorium

Fernanda Aires Bombardi
Holds a PhD in Social History from USP and is a professor at the Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará, working in the city of Cametá. She has experience in colonial indigenous America, focusing on the study of religious missions and long-distance indigenous trade networks in the Amazon during the 17th and 18th centuries.

PAM - Research in Musical Anthropology
invites you to a discussion and lecture with Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto:

Roundtable discussion with researchers (2:00 PM)
Lecture (4:00 PM): Music, Recôncavo, Living Heritage – a musicological journey

In this lecture, I intend to trace the path of my own career as an anthropologist, musician, and musicologist, starting from the Recôncavo Baiano, where I began working in 1982, to outline a field of research that has evolved—also in relation to cultural agents—and where the academic contribution necessarily includes engagement with many of the pressing issues of today’s world.

Tiago de Oliveira Pinto is Full Professor of the first UNESCO Chair in Musicology, affiliated with Transcultural Music Studies at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, Germany, where he has been based since 2009.

In 2025, he assumed the Musical Heritage Chair at the Kronberg Academy, Germany. His current research, teaching, and international projects focus on
Transcultural Studies in music and music as living cultural heritage. He has conducted international collaborative research in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Turkey, South Africa, Germany, Colombia, and Brazil.

The proposal for the March Friday event, organized by students of PPGAS-USP, aims to bring together transmasculine researchers and activists to discuss the relationship between transmasculine and non-binary thought in and with the University, the repercussions and remembrance of the people present at the First National Meeting of Trans Men and Transmasculine People – ENAHT (11 years later), discuss processes of self-denomination and naming, the historical presence of Black transmasculinities in the organization of the social movement, as well as the bodily and territorial experimentations possible from transmasculinities.

The panel will be guided by the questions: Why do transmasculine and non-binary bodies take to the streets and what knowledge and worlds do they imagine? How do regimes of invisibility and surveillance intertwine in Black transmasculinities?

Guests:
* Camilo Nunes – Historian and psychoanalyst, law student, political organizer of Casa Neon Cunha and member of IBRAT SP.

* Morgan Caetano – Non-binary transmasculine and PhD candidate at PPGAS-USP.

* Jackson Cruz Magalhães – Quilombola, from Bahia, transmasculine and PhD candidate at PPGAS-USP.

CEstA Dupla with Ana Carolina Beserra da Silva and Laura Pereira Furquim
March 20, 2026, at 5:30 PM

Ana Carolina Beserra da Silva
Ana holds a bachelor's degree and teaching certification in history and recently completed her master's degree in the Postgraduate Program in Social History (PPGHS/USP), with research focused on documents produced by the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro (Foirn), in their struggle for territory in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. She is a researcher affiliated with the Center for Mesoamerican, Amazonian, and Andean Studies (CEMAA) and is part of the team at the Training Center of the Museum of Indigenous Cultures of SP (MCI).