The PPGAS/USP and the CÓCCIX Research Group invite you to the lecture by Prof. João Alipio Cunha (UNEB; LAH-UFRJ), "Black Anthropology and Epistemological Care: The Archives of Marlene Cunha," and the launch of the book "In Search of a Space: Gestural Language in Candomblé in Angola," by Black activist and anthropologist Marlene Cunha (in memoriam). The event will be held on September 10th, at 5:30 pm, in Room 161 of the Letters Building, at the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences of USP, on the University City campus.
Marlene Cunha was one of the few Black students at PPGAS/USP who defended her master's thesis in 1986, and its posthumous publication was initiated by her son, João Alipio Cunha, an anthropologist and historian, who has been recovering the memory of Marlene Cunha's important political and academic work.
Beyond her significant academic contributions, Marlene Cunha played a prominent role in the Black movement within the university context, having founded the André Rebouças Working Group in the 1970s, in partnership with historian Beatriz Nascimento—her close friend and collaborator in research conducted with quilombola communities in southeastern Brazil.
The publication of this work is part of a series of initiatives aimed at the preservation, systematization, and future public availability of Marlene Cunha's personal collection.