History Events DA

Amatiwana Trumai. The painting of nostalgia.
Film screening (30 min) + conversation with Emmanuel de Vienne (University Paris Ouest Nanterre)

What kind of Amazon emerges from the contemporary effort of computational modeling to try to predict the effects that climate change will have on the forest? In his research that will be presented this Friday, May 9, Felipe Mammoli, PhD in Science and Technology Policy - DPCT/Unicamp, starts from the Anthropology of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) to discuss how computational and ecological issues mix in the practices of knowledge production about the future of the Amazon rainforest. Based on an ethnography at the Computational Modeling Laboratory of the international research program on the Amazon, AmazônFACE, Mammoli proposes that there is a new Amazon rainforest taking shape, one that is not made up of living and non-living beings and is not located in South America, but rather a disaggregated forest, composed of digital data and distributed globally in several global environmental data systems. The event will take place at the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA).

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will host on April 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m., the lecture "Ruins of photography: migrations of family archives and their ecosystems of belonging" by researcher Dr. Fabiana Bruno, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP supervised by Professor Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.

The lecture will address the context and policies of “emerging collections” formed with abandoned or discarded photos, in particular, vernacular family photographs unlinked from personal albums. The starting point will be the presentation of an overview of the stories of three “emerging collections” researched: Arab Image Foundation (AIF), Lebanon; Found Photo Foundation, England; and ACHO – Arquivo Coleção de Histórias Ordinárias, Brazil.

The topic of indigenous school education has received renewed anthropological interest over the past twenty-five years, in line with changes in legislation resulting from the 1998 Constitution and the indigenous movement demanding schooling and access to higher education and postgraduate studies. Recent ethnographies of indigenous schools have revealed the articulation of everyday school life with several other spheres of social life (shamanism, corporality, notion of person, gender, social and political organization, among others). Despite the difficulties in managing indigenous schools in Brazil, several experiences have managed to transform their daily lives in such a way as to make room for non-hegemonic sources of knowledge, non-human teachers and alternative processes of teaching and learning. I suggest that the grounds of these schools are privileged spaces for the emergence of a more equitable inter-epistemic dialogue, since they are anchored in the daily life of the villages, with their own dynamics and temporalities.

Ilê Aiyê: the factory of the Afro world
photographs by Milton Guran
translation by Mirella Botaro and Raquel Camargo

Event attended by the author, Luiz Paulo Ferreira Santiago (PPGAS) and Heitor Frúgoli Jr. (DA/PPGAS professor).

Next Thursday, April 10th, the film Holobiont Society by Swiss artist Dominique Koch will be shown at the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology - LISA/USP. The activity will take place from 8 pm onwards.
As part of a visual exhibition that has been touring several countries, Holobiont Society delves into a complex set of issues related to hierarchies, power structures and concepts of coexistence, defined by the term holobiont.
Created by biologist Lynn Margulis, co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis, the concept refers to an integrated ecological and evolutionary unit formed by a host organism and all the microorganisms that live in association with it.
In the film, the holobiont is visualized through scientific images of corals, bacteria and other symbiotic organisms, which emerge on the screen along with an elaborate sound design, which acts in synergy with excerpts from interviews with biologist, feminist and writer Donna Haraway, as well as philosopher and sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato and molecular biologist Scott Gilbert.

This paper is an invitation to “put disability in mind” when doing anthropology. Thinking with disability provocatively and severely distorts our imaginative repertoires, our assumptions about what a body can and cannot do, our understandings of what it means to be a subject, our languages ​​about equality, difference and hierarchy, our horizons of desire, our political horizons, our understandings of morality, our understandings of what is good, what is whole, what is complete, what is human, what is shared or universal. In the paper, we will address these issues through a journey through works and critical contributions of disability studies in anthropology, with a focus on Brazilian production and recent transformations in the universe of Higher Education.

Editora 34 and the Center for Amerindian Studies at USP invite you to the launch of Mythology of the Chulupi Indians, by Pierre Clastres - translated by Ian Packer and with an afterword by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés.

Chat with Antonio Guerreiro and Renato Sztutman

Presence of Absence: An analysis of whiteness in five Brazilian images - Lilia Schwarcz