History - PPGAS Events

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 (…

"Our words are not concepts": Towards an ecology of ways of thinking

Starting from a specific historical experience—the irruption, in Brazilian universities, of affirmative action policies involving quotas for minorities, encounters of knowledge and, more recently, the so-called epistemic quotas—this presentation (part of an ongoing collaborative work with Vladimir Moreira Lima, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro) critically analyzes the postulate that different ways of thinking are essentially equivalent. From there, it proposes an ecological perspective that takes into…

International Symposium
Indigenous Atlantic

University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo
Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Santos
Guarani Tekoa Mirim Village, Praia Grande
March 11-13, 2026

Support: EDGES Project
Organizers:
Susana Matos Viegas (ICS-ULisboa, EDGES)
Valéria Macedo (UNIFESP)
Marta Amoroso (USP)
Maria Inês Ladeira (CTI)
Thiago Mota Cardoso (UFAM/EDGES)

Organization: EDGES, CEstA, CTI, LINDI - Kaapora Chair/UNIFESP, BNDS / FAM

Locations:
March 11 – USP - LISA (morning) and…

FEMINIST ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
Conversation between Gabriela Silva Loureiro and Heloisa Buarque de Almeida
February 27, 2026
4 PM
Room 266 – Letters Building - FFLCH-USP
What emotions are present in the construction and maintenance of Brazilian feminist solidarity? What to do when expectations of emotional support clash with political divergence?

In this conversation, Gabriela Silva Loureiro discusses with Heloisa Buarque de Almeida her book Emotions, Consciousness-Raising and Feminisms in the Global South: On Building Solidarity (Routledge, 2025…

Inspired by the global Open Science movement, which aims to make scientific research more transparent, collaborative, and accessible to everyone, this edition of "Sexta do Mês" (Friday of the Month) will feature a meeting to share experiences related to the process of writing editorials for scientific journals, as well as the entire mechanism that drives and sustains a journal and the dialectical feedback between editors, authors, and readers. Scientific journals function not only as repositories of research output but also play a fundamental role in the democratization and circulation of…

2 PM - Panel: The hunting deities in African-based traditions in Brazil with Mãe Zana, Tata Katuvanjesi (Walmir Damasceno) and Doté Jorge Gbadesi.

Moderation: Juliane Olivia dos Anjos (FEUSP).

3:40 PM - Panel: Afro-Brazilian Cosmoperceptions and the Living Nature of the World with Cláadia Alexandre (Post-Doc-USP), José Pedro da Silva Neto (PPGAS-USP) and Vagner Gonçalves da Silva (FFLCH-USP).

Moderation: Rosenilton Silva de Oliveira (FEUSP).

5:30 PM - Book Launch: "Oxóssi, the Divine Hunter" - Pallas Editora

December 10, 2025, from 2 PM to 7 PM…

CEstA and LISA invite you to the Seminar

Cinema of Transformation: focusing on The Transformation of Canuto

Link to the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGogSEOQxWg

Tuesday, December 9, 2025
2:30 PM, at the LISA Auditorium
Screening of the film "The Transformation of Canuto" (Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho, 2024, 130')
After the film there will be a discussion with the filmmakers Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
10 AM, at the LISA Auditorium
Roundtable…

Full Program Announcement!

The event "Sexual Economies, Care, and Social Markers of Difference" is coming soon, taking place at USP (University of São Paulo) from December 8th to 11th, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) and the Faculty of Public Health (FSP).

Throughout the program, we will bring together activists and researchers from different areas to discuss central themes on sexual economies, care, and social markers of difference—reflecting on gender, sexuality, race, class, and other axes.

The full program is now available and…

Lecture with Lenin Alfonso Morales
(PhD student, University of São Paulo)

December 5, 2025, at 3 PM
CEstA Headquarters: Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - Favo 8
University City, São Paulo-SP

Nainu: Gunadule cosmotechnics to rethink the water-energy-food nexus in Abya Yala

In this presentation, Lenin Alfonso Morales shares the results of participatory research developed with the Gunadule indigenous community of Dubwala, in Gunayala (Panama). Based on the concept of Nainu—an agroforestry and cosmotechnic system that articulates agricultural,…

On December 3, 2025, at 5 PM, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) will host the seminar “Ethnographies in the Amazon: from the transits in the ‘Beiradão music’ to the ‘Rap AM’ circuit in Manaus,” which will be presented by Rafael Branquinho Abdala Norberto, researcher of the “Research in Musical Anthropology” group (PAM-USP) and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP (DA-FFLCH-USP). The event is open to the public.

The event aims to foster debate…