History Events DA

INVITATION | Friday of the Month invites everyone to the May thematic panel! ✨

Theme: “Research practices in an international context”

Anthropology has historically consolidated itself as a field of knowledge intrinsically intertwined with colonial projects, oriented towards the construction and investigation of a supposedly radical Other, conceived from epistemic and political asymmetries, often designed as if it were located overseas. The production of this knowledge has always been crossed by internal and external disputes, including financial ones, involving multiple scales — local, transnational and imperial — that put tension on the ways of knowing, representing and relating to otherness.

The objective of this panel is to share the paths and obstacles involved in conducting ethnographic research in contexts of radical alterity. The proposal of this panel is to reflect on whether this previous construction is acceptable and makes sense in the type of research we currently conduct, on the dynamics of fieldwork and the processes of cultural and linguistic adaptation, and also on the possibilities and challenges related to research funding.

In this talk, I present the first reflections of an ongoing research project dedicated to investigating the processes of elaboration of gendered bodies among the Tupi peoples of the sixteenth century. By tracing the vocabulary of substances abundantly present in the chroniclers’ accounts—references to blood, semen, cauim, puba, among others—I seek to evoke echoes of a cosmopolitics of substances, in which gendered bodies were formed by voluntary, collective, and densely conceptualized acts. In this first approach, I propose a panoramic view: I begin with the role of substances and their flows in the rituals of post-menarche and post-homicide seclusion, which aimed at the formation of adult male and female bodies, and I conclude with a reflection on some figures that escaped the binary colonial technology of genders used by the chroniclers: the transgender figures “tebira” and “çacoaimbeguira,” the young “panema” and the old “uainuy.”

The Encyclopedia of Anthropology will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025! This date calls for celebrations, but above all for assessments and reflections on the work carried out in order to plan future projects.

In this sense, we invite the public to the roundtable "Digital encyclopedias in action: crafts, technologies, collaborations", organized in partnership with the Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies at USP.

The event will bring together scientific dissemination projects for an exchange of experiences on the production of digital encyclopedias, considering the challenges of collaborative management, editing and writing. In addition to EA, we will talk about the encyclopedias Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, from the Socioenvironmental Institute, and Bérose - encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie; and also about workshops on creating and editing Wikipedia entries, which have been held at the university, promoted by Wikimedia Brasil.

LISA, CEstA and GRAVI invite you to the screening of the film "Hosts half a century ago: the mỹky version of history" on May 23, 2025, at 2 pm, in the LISA auditorium.

TALK WITH PAULO MAIA
(UFMG School of Education and post-doctorate DA/USP)

Professor Julia Hang (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Professor in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and assistant researcher at CONICET. Moderation and debate: Mauricio Rodrigues Pinto and Débora Cajé Yamamoto
broadcast on the FFLCH YouTube channel

The lecture will address the intersections between gender, sports and politics, based on a reflection on how Argentine feminism has put pressure on the world of sports in recent years. The case of female fans, athletes, managers and club members who have organized themselves politically to change sports, thus also transforming Argentine society, will be presented.

From May 14 to 15, 2025, LISA-USP will host the colloquium "Archives, diasporas and belongings: research challenges with photography in anthropology", organized by Fabiana Bruno, a senior postdoctoral fellow at CNPq. The event will feature two panels and two research workshop sessions. The colloquium will be opened by Sylvia Caiuby Novaes (GRAVI-USP) and the first panel "Family archives, orphan archives and other emerging photography collections" will feature the participation of Paula Roush (Found Photo Foundation - London South Bank University); Clarice Ehlers Peixoto (INARRA-UERJ); Fabiene Gama (NAVISUAL – UFRGS) and Oscar Guarín Martinez (SENSOLAB - Pontifical Javeriana University) and will be mediated by Suely Kofes (PPGAS- IFCH, LA’GRIMA-Unicamp).

The second panel, “Archives, platforms and other artifacts: diasporas and image belongings,” will feature Cornelia Eckert and Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha (NAVISUAL and BIEV-UFRGS); Andrea Barbosa (VISURB-Unifesp); Mariana Petroni (LA’GRIMA-Unicamp; Unilab) and Edgar Teodoro da Cunha (NAIP-Unesp), mediated by Tatiana Lotierzo (postdoc USP). The panels will be coordinated by Fabiana Bruno (GRAVI-USP; LA’GRIMA- Unicamp).

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP) and the Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts at USP invite you to the AntropoCena session of the film "Alma e Sangue no Atlântico Negro - O pensamento de Luiz Felipe de Alencastro", directed by Celso Prudente, professor at the School of Education at the University of São Paulo (FEUSP), with assistance from Ana Vitória Prudente, who will be present to discuss the work.

Ana Vitória is a PhD candidate in Education at USP, has a master's degree in Education from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a degree in Arts from the University of Évora, in Portugal. She works on the educational programs of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) and the Campos do Jordão Festival. She is a curatorial and production assistant for the International Black Cinema Festival (MICINE) and a production assistant for the Quilombo Academia Program on Rádio USP 93.7 FM.

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).