History - PPGAS Events

Ethnoarchaeology of the Territory and Indigenous Peoples in a Historical Situation of Isolation in the Brazilian Amazon
This research analyzes the theoretical and methodological contributions of the ethnoarchaeology of the territory to understanding the forms of occupation, circulation, and relationship with space among indigenous peoples in a historical situation of isolation in the Brazilian Amazon. Considering the ethical and political restrictions arising from the guidelines of non-contact, the study mobilizes indirect sources of analysis, such as expedition records, material…

Launch lecture for the 2nd edition of “Reason, ‘Color,’ and Desire,” a book that explores how societies construct meanings for racial difference when shaped by desire and eroticization.

Featuring Prof. Dr. Laura Moutinho (USP),
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Carrara (UERJ) and
Prof. Dr. Márcia Lima (USP)

Registration: sescsp.org.br/cpf

Clouds of Indigenous Treasures: How to Return Them to the Forest’s Owners

Betty Mindlin’s experience of living alongside and defending the rights of more than 15 Indigenous peoples since 1978—documented in recordings, books, writings, and lectures—caught the attention of Indigenous women’s studies scholar Vanessa Pastorini, who is 50 years younger than Betty. They discuss how to preserve and pass on to younger generations the wealth of knowledge Betty gained from these peoples, and how to continue this alliance and closeness in the present day. One topic is the donation of Betty’s…

On April 24, 2026, at 2 PM, LISA will host the first edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle of the Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA).

The opening lecture, entitled “Restoring Pyrodiversity: Learning from Cultural Fire and Knowledge Co-production in Intercultural Fire Management,” will feature Bibiana Bilbao from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and the COBRA Collective (England).

RESPIRO is the project “Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado,” developed within the scope of the BIOTA/FAPESP – Discovery 2024 Program, in the Young…

LISA-USP will host researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin for a presentation and discussion on music and sound system culture. Organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology group (PAM-USP), the seminar "Sound System Epistemologies" will be an opportunity to discuss sound epistemologies with researchers active in the international music scene.

Meet the guests:

Stefanie Alisch - Diretora do projeto "Sound System Epistemologies" (DFG) na Universidade Humboldt de Berlim.
É musicóloga e DJ em Berlim, pesquisadora de música e dança do Atlântico Negro, com foco…

We invite you to the seminar "Black Ethnomusicology: Crossroads of Knowledge and the African Legacy in Musical Studies" with the participation of Professor Pedro Acosta (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA), organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM-USP), the Black Ethnomusicology Collective (CEN-UFBA), and the Black Memory project at FFLCH.

The event aims to share experiences in Black Ethnomusicology through the historical agency of Black people in musical studies, art, and culture. This project, carried out in Brazil together with the community of African Music, Dance…

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 (…