The Department of Anthropology at USP invites the academic community to the second edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle, which will feature the participation of researcher Laure Emperaire — IRD/France —, a leading figure in debates on agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, and biocultural heritage.
The conference, entitled "From agrobiodiversity to pyrodiversity: SATs as a method and biocultural heritage as a horizon," will be held on May 22, 2026, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, at the Maison du CNRS, located in Praça dos Bancos, Butantã Campus of the University of São Paulo.
This activity is part of the RESPIRO Study Cycle, an initiative linked to the RESPIRO project — Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado, a FAPESP Young Researcher Project developed within the scope of the BIOTA-FAPESP Program. The project investigates the role of traditional peoples and communities in the production, maintenance, and restoration of fire biodiversity in the Cerrado, articulating anthropology, fire ecology, agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, remote sensing, archaeology, paleoecology, and audiovisual production.
In this edition, Laure Emperaire will discuss the shift from debates on agrobiodiversity and Traditional Agricultural Systems (TASs) to the problem of fire biodiversity, taking biocultural heritage as an analytical, methodological, and political horizon.
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Event: RESPIRO Study Cycle
Conference: From agrobiodiversity to pyrodiversity: SATs as a method and biocultural heritage as a horizon
Speaker: Laure Emperaire — IRD/France
Date: May 22, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Maison du CNRS, Praça dos Bancos, Butantã Campus of USP
Organization: RESPIRO — Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado
The RESPIRO Study Cycle is supported by CHAMA — Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity, IRL 2034 Worlds in Transition, BIOTA-FAPESP Program, Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology — LISA/USP, Center for Amerindian Studies — CEstA/USP, Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of USP — PPGAS/USP and FFLCH/USP.