Friday of the Month - Research practices in an international context

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Room 8 - Social Sciences Building FFLCH/USP (Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315 - Butantã/SP)

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.

👥 Invited guests:
* Thais Tiriba (PhD student at PPGAS/USP)
* Guilherme Amorim (Master's student at PPGAS/USP) • @gui.namorim
* Liza Acevedo Saenz (PhD student at PPGAS/USP)
* Laura Moutinho (Professor at the Department of Anthropology at FFLCH/USP) • @lalamou_

▶️ Link to broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/b_9F7e0HwLQ

The table is open to all audiences, so feel free to participate and bring colleagues.

📷 The statue, called the beginning and the end, is located in the main square of the University of the Western Cape campus and depicts a domestic worker and her graduate son, by artist David Hlongwane (photo by Thais Tiriba)