History - PPGAS Events

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.

Tupi and Arawak Peoples in the Construction of Indigenous Trade Networks in the Middle and Upper Amazon (17th and 18th Centuries)
From the first chronicles that described Amazonian indigenous societies in the…

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…

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…

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…