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2026

VI Latin American Congress of Political Ecology

  • Amazonian Graphic Inscriptions as a Living Archive: Visuality, Knowledge, and Politics in Multispecies Contexts.- Elena Gálvez

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru, August 5 – 8, 2026.

Congress

LASA 2026 Congress, Paris, May 28, 2026

International Colloquium Histories of Anthropology and Restitutions
 
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Museu Nacional de Etnologia. Lisbon, May 13–15, 2026

Lecture – O caso da restauração do Yasuní” em projeto: estudo de caso Florestania

  • O caso da restauração do Yasuní” em projeto: estudo de caso Florestania – Elena Gálvez

TBA21-Academy, Madrid, May 5, 2026

Keynote Address – Literature and Plant Imaginary: Theoretical Models and Forms of Composition

  • Should Humans Eat Plants? The Ethics of Food Consumption in Amazonian Poetry – Patrícia Vieira
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University, April 24, 2026.
 

Lecture – Department of Romance Languages

University of Georgia, April 15-16, 2026.

 

Lecture – Center for Global Humanities

  • The Amazon beyond Extractivism: Indigenous Stories of Entangled Beings – Patrícia Vieira
University of New England, April 1, 2026.
 

Conference– Water Cultures in the Portuguese-speaking World

New Bedford Whaling Museum, March 31, 2026.
 

Lecture – 12th RUB-Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

  • Entangled Bio-Social Diversity: Rethinking the Amazon Under Extractive Hegemonies – Raphael Uchôa

Ruhr University Bochum, 26–27 March, 2026.

Colloquium – Ecologias extrativas: mundos multiespécies e a formação colonial da Amazónia

  • Do “vazio demográfico” à sociobiodiversidade: ciência e ideias de diversidade na história da Amazônia – Raphael Uchôa
  • Dominadores vegetais: extração de madeira, aviamento e trabalho forçado na Amazônia – Emanuele Fabiano
  • Amazônia refúgio: os povos indígenas em isolamento e as frentes extrativistas – Karen Shiratori

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, March 24, 2026.

Lecture – Arte Actual

  • Forensia del látex: materialidades y memoria de la violencia extractiva – Elena Gálvez
FLACSO, March 13, 2026.

Lecture – Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature

SUNY Stony Brook, New York, March 11, 2026.

Lecture – Department of Portuguese

Brown University, Providence, March 3, 2026.

Lecture – Workshop: Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds 

  • From Amazonia to the Archive: Richard Schultes, Ayahuasca, and the Colonial Afterlives of Ethnobotany – Raphael Uchôa

University of Cambridge, UK, 11 February, 2026.

Lecture – Florida State University

Tallahassee, January 29, 2026

2025

Closing Event of the Exhibition – Pós-Extrativismo na Amazônia: Utopias e Ruínas do Desenvolvimento

  • Cidades abandonadas na Amazônia: o caso de Fordlândia – Patrícia Vieira
  • Vidas nos Escombros: Ruínas, Imaginários e Extrativismo na Amazônia – Raphael Uchôa
Tropigalpão Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, December 18, 2025.
 

Conference –  Futuros Possíveis num Planeta Ameaçado

Federal University of Espírito Santo, December 4 and 5, 2025.
 

Presentation – XXII International Congress of Philosophy

  • Sources of Knowledge from the Amazonian Visualization of Nature as Subject: An Ontological and Epistemic Discussion. – Elena Gálvez
Mérida, Mexico, December 1, 2025.

Conference  – Bifurcações Vegetais

Organization: Karen Shiratori and Etienne de France

Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo. 26 and 27 November.

Talk – VIII Semana de Letras

State University of Piauí, Oeiras, November 25, 2025.
 

Talk – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras

  • A Amazônia para além do Extrativismo: Poesia e Arte Amazônicas Contemporâneas – Patrícia Vieira
Federal University of Ceará, November 24, 2025.
 

Roundtable: Post-extractivist Horizons in the Amazon

  • Oil extractivism in the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon – Elena Gálvez
Federal University of ABC (UFABC), November 16, 2025.

Book presentation – Cúpula dos Povos

  • Presentation 100 Steps for the Closure, Dismantling and Reparation of the Yasuní – Elena Gálvez

Belém do Pará, Brazil, November 12, 2025.

Talk – Department of Languages, Cultures and Film

  • Amazonian Metamorphoses: Poetry and Art from a Living Forest – Patrícia Vieira
University of Liverpool, November 12, 2025.
 

Presentation – 10th Seminar on the Non-Proliferation of Fossil Fuels in Indigenous Territories, “No More Wells”, organized by FACE Brasil.

  • Presentation of the Yasuní case and the book 100 Steps for the Closure, Dismantling and Reparation of the Yasuní – Elena Gálvez

Marajó Island, Brazil, November 11, 2025.

Round Table – EdenX: Planetariamente com outras Inteligências

Culturgest, Lisbon, October 29, 2025.

 

Roundtable – Epistemologías andinas y amazónicas: conceptos indígenas de conocimiento, sabiduría y comprensión 

Andean-Amazonian Reading Group/Grupo de lectura Andino-Amazónico, Union College, NY, October, 24, 2025.

Roundtable – Sabiduría y Salud amazónica 

Takiwasi, Peru, October, 21, 2025.

Conference – 10ª ReACT: Germinating Practices

University of the State of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, October 9, 2025.

 

Conference – Following the More Than Human: Multimodal Methods and Approaches, Roundtable “Creating and Writing with the More-Than-Human”

Institute for Social Studies, University of Lisbon, October 2, 2025.

Roundtable: “Agriculture? Between France and Brazil”
 
  • Vegetal Bifurcations (after Graeber and Wengrow): Workshop
    –     Karen Shiratori

EHESS, Condorcet Campus, September 27, 2025.

Plenary Conference – Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives

New University of Lisbon, September 26, 2025.

Lecture & Debate – 9ª Primavera dos Museus: Desastres, fronteiras e comprometimentos sociais dos museus – Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins

  • Memorializing Pain, Monumentalizing Struggle: The Brazil Nut Tree between Trauma and the Amazonian Garden – Raphael Uchôa
  • Science, Colonialism, and the Imaginary of the Amazon – Raphael Uchôa

Rio de Janeiro, September 23 and 24, 2025.

CICATRIZ — Escola Terra Batida

Espaço Parasita, Lisbon,  September 14, 2025.

Conference – Encontro Intercultural de Literaturas Ameríndias

Federal University of Minas Gerais, 10 September 2025.

Book launch – Vestígios da floresta: povos indígenas refugiados da floresta

  • Vestígios da floresta: povos indígenas refugiados da floresta and discussion – Daniel Cangussu, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha and Karen Shiratori

Sesc Ipiranga, São Paulo, August 19, 2025.

Conference – The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA)

University of Helsinki, August 6, 2025.

Debate – Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival 2025

  • Science, colonialism, and the imaginary of the Amazon – Raphael Uchôa

São Paulo, June 17, 2025.

Conference – Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)

University of Maryland, College Park, July 8, 2025.

Conference – 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

  • Objects in Transition: Digitization and Its Impacts on the Material Culture of Science – Raphael Uchôa
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 2, 2025.

Conference – American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

  • Zoophytographic Indigenous Writing from the Amazon: Márcia Kambeba’s More than Human Poetry – Patrícia Vieira 
May 30, 2025.

Conference – ReOrient Conference: Active Archives and (Counter) Colonial Spaces 

  • Amazonia, ethnobotany and the archives: towards an archaeology of Amerindian knowledge – Raphael Uchôa
Uppsala University, Sweden, May 28, 2025.

Conference – Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

  • Art and Extractivism in the Amazon: Indigenous Artistic Resistance to Extractivist Practices – Patrícia Vieira 

  • Plants and Animals in Amazonian Cultural Productions: Roundtable  – Patrícia Vieira 

San Francisco, May 24 – 25, 2025.

Workshop – Ecocrítica: teorias e práticas

ISEG – University of Lisbon, May 15, 2025.

Conference – International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

  • Phytometamorphosis: An Ontology of Becoming in Amazonian Women’s Poetry about Plants  – Patrícia Vieira 

Medhavi College, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 3, 2025.

Symposium – Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Culture

Brown University, Providence, April 26, 2025.

Presentation – Book Amazónia

  • Presentation of the book Amazonia in the context of the indigenous cosmovisions of the region – Patrícia Vieira 

Casa da América Latina, Lisbon, April 16, 2025.

Lecture – Spring School: Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society 

  • Speaking objects: The colonial histories and Indigenous voices of Amazonian artifacts – Raphael Uchôa

Utrecht University, April 15, 2025.

Seminar – Politics of the Forest

  • Transversal connections: resonances of perspectivism – Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Gemma Orobitg, Alexandre Surrallés and Karen Shiratori

CCCB, Barcelona, March 25, 2025.

Presentation – Book Launch

  • Introduction to the poetry of Juan Carlos Galeano and presentation of the book Amazónia – Patrícia Vieira

Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, March 23, 2025.

Colloquium – Ripple Effect: An Environmental Humanities Symposium

New University of Lisbon, March 17, 2025.

Conference – MOTH Festival of Ideas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Earthly Flourishing

New Amazonian Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Multispecies Dialogue

New York University School of Law (USA), March 12-14, 2025.


2024

Seminar – Inter-saberes: Dialogues with Indigenous Peoples

  • Nukuri kahtiro turi: el món vegetal  – João Paulo Barreto, Karen Shiratori and Aníbal G. Arregui
CCCB, Barcelona, December 18, 2024.

Colloquium – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Languages, Cultures, and History of Contemporary Amazonia

  • The Song of Atxu: The Right to Memory and the Recovery of the Language of a Hi-Merimã Survivor –  Karen Shiratori 
  • New Perspectives on Omurano (isolate; Peru) Based on Archival Records and Oral Histories – Emanuele Fabiano, Zachary O’Hagan, Joshua Homan.

University of Berkeley (USA), December 13, 2024.

Latin American Congress of Social Sciences CLACSO-UACM

  • A borracha como sujeito da história: uma leitura crítica do século XX na Amazônia – Elena Gálvez
Mexico City, December 5, 2024.

Conference – Congresso Internacional Mundos Indígenas, Europa – Portugal

  • Poesia indígena amazónica e a existência mais-que-humana – Patrícia Vieira 

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon, December 3, 2024.

Keynote Address – Future of the Humanities

Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, November 27, 2024.

Debate – Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival

  • Archives and memory and the imaginary about the Amazon – Raphael Uchôa
Porto, November 27, 2024
 

Seminars – Pós-Colonialismos e Cidadania Global

  • Animais na Arte Amazónica: As Obras de Chonon Bensho e Denilson Baniwa  – Patrícia Vieira 

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, November 22, 2024.

Debate – Amazonies: el futur ancestra

  • A selva é mulher – Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, Ana Maria Machado and Karen Shiratori
CCCB, Barcelona, November 18, 2024.

Conference – Poética, Teoria, Ecologia

  • Zoofitografia: literatura amazónica como escrita mais que humana  – Patrícia Vieira 

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, November 14, 2024.

Seminar – II Futuros possíveis num planeta ameaçado

  • Ecological simplification, ontological proliferation: relational reconfigurations in collapsing worlds – Karen Shiratori

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), November 11-13

Conference – The History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting

  • Ethnobotany, “Savage Knowledge,” and the Colonial Ways of Extracting Indigenous Knowledge in the Amazon – Raphael Uchôa

Mérida, Yucatán, México. November 7, 2024.

Debate – FOLIO: Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos

Óbidos, October 19, 2024.

 

Book Launch – FOLIO: Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos

Óbidos, October 18, 2024.

 

Debate – Ministério da Qualidade de Vida

Fundação Gulbenkian, October 10, 2024.

 

 Debate – Science4Action

  • Dialogue of knowledge: a virtuous circle? – Karen Shiratori, Achille Massougbodji, María Gabriela Zurita-Benavides

Palais Pharo, Marseille, October 7, 2024.

Conference – American Portuguese Studies Association

Brown University, October 4, 2024.

Conference – Société des Américanistes

  • Presentation of the book Voix Végétales – Karen Shiratori, Pedro Pimenta and Laure Emperaire

Quai Branly Museum, October 3, 2024.

Debate

  • Presentation of the book Voix Végétales  – Karen Shiratori, Pedro Pimenta and Laure Emperaire

Maison Île-de-France, Cité Universitaire, October 4, 2024.

Workshop – Ecology and Society 

  • Decolonialidades na Educação Científica: Perspectivas curriculares e socioambientais para o Ensino de Biociências – Vinícius Leite

  • Discussants – Patrícia Vieira and António Gouveia

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, September 23, 2024

Talk – Animals & Society Program

Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, September 17, 2024.

Talk – Center for Amerindian Studies

Image and Sound Laboratory, University of São Paulo, September 11, 2024.

With a screening of the film “Bakish Rao: plantas en lucha” (Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico, 2023)

Roundtable: Isolation, contact and exile

São Paulo, September 10, 2024.

Talk – Faculty of Philosophy and Letters

  • Indigenous views of the Amazon, dialogues between contemporary art and history – Elena Gálvez

UNAM, Mexico, September 6, 2024.

Conference – European Sociological Association

  • Environmental Justice and More than Human Rights: A View from the Amazon – Patrícia Vieira

University of Porto, August 30, 2024.

Talk – Graduate Program in Literature

  • Pensamento amazónico e os direitos dos seres mais que humanos  – Patrícia Vieira

Federal University of Pará, Belém, August 23, 2024.

Talk – ANIMALIA Summer School

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, July 24, 2024.

Conference – 18th EASA Biennial Conference 2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology

  • Los campos del agua: explorando las perspectivas indígenas y más allá – Emanuele Fabiano and Óscar Muñoz
  • Simposio 60: Antropología de la Vida Onírica – Karen Shiratori

University of Barcelona, July 18 and 19, 2024

Keynote Address – “Nature, Thinking, from Romanticism and idealism to Ecological Philosophy”

Liverpool Hope University, July 11, 2024.

Talk – Conference “Arboreal Entanglements: Human, Non-Human, More-than-Human”

University of Giessen, June 20, 2024.

Talk – “Natureza”, III Curso de Verão em Literatura, Humanismo e Cosmopolitismo

Center for Global Studies, Open University, June 18, 2024.

Talk – International Environmental Film and Video Festival

Cidade de Goiás, June 14, 2024.

Conference – Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA)

  • Amazonian More-than-Human Indigenous Art as Resistance. – Patrícia Vieira
  • Aruba: Patronazgo, ganado y relaciones asimétricas entre los Urarina del río Chambira (Amazonía peruana) – Emanuele Fabiano
  • On the Way to the Long Rivers: Mythical Transformations of Isolation in a Collapsing World – Karen Shiratori

Bogotá, June 12-15, 2024.

Talk – Center for Science, Technology and Humanities of the São Paulo Foundation – Lumen

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, June 5, 2024.

Workshop –  Center for Science, Technology and Humanities of the São Paulo Foundation – Lumen

  • Vegetal Planet – Raphael Uchôa, Márcia Ferraz and Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, May 22, 2024

Talk  – Anozero Ágora

Coimbra Biennial, May 16, 2024.

Colloquium – Sentidos corporales indígenas

  • “La mujer es dulce, la caza picante”. Sabores corporales y conocimientos entre los Urarina de la Amazonía peruana – Emanuele Fabiano

University Complutense Madrid – UCM, Madrid, May 13-14, 2024

Talk  – Inter-Saberes. Diálogos con pueblos indígenas. IV Edicion

  • Diálogo con Leonardo Tello Imaina. El Río que camina: historias sumergidas del pueblo kukama de la Amazonía peruana – Emanuele Fabiano & Leonardo Tello Imaina.

University of Barcelona, Barcelona, May 10, 2024.

Seminar  – Seminario de Antropología Jurídica

  • ¡El Río Marañón es sujeto de derechos! Aportes comunitarios para los Derechos de la Naturaleza – Emanuele Fabiano & Leonardo Tello Imaina.

University of Barcelona, Barcelona, May 9, 2024.

Keynote Address – Perspectivas Medioambientales en la edición y creación literárias

University of Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, May 7, 2024.

Talk – Mês das Amazónias

  • Arte amazónica contemporânea, ou como impedir a queda do céu – Patrícia Vieira

Biblioteca do Palácio das Galveias, Lisbon, April 5, 2024.

Talk – New Directions in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Seminar, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

McGill University, Montreal, March 19, 2024.

Conference – American Comparative Literature Association

  • Plants and Animals in Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Amazon – Patrícia Vieira

Montreal, March 14, 2024.

Colloquium – Other Minds, Diriyah Biennale

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 8, 2024.

Seminar – GI Diversity

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98172455921

ICS-ULisboa , February 29, 2024

Talk – Séminaire d’anthropologie américaniste. LAS, le LESC et Mondes Américains

  • Résister au Plantationocène : à la recherche de quelques pratiques de contre-domestication – Karen Shiratori
Paris, February 9, 2024

Talk – Congrés Català d’Antropologia 

Lleida, Espanha, January 24-26, 2024

Seminar – CREALM

  • Experiencias indígenas de las crisis ambientales/sanitarias: formas
    de pensar el devenir del mundo     –     Karen Shiratori
University of Barcelona, January 10-12 de Janeiro, 2024

Conference – Modern Languages Association

Philadelphia, January 4, 2024

 

2023

Talk – Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains : sociétés des Basses Terres seminar, EPHE-Paris Sciences et Lettres

  • Techniques chamaniques de contamination et énonciation de chants aüü chez les Urarina (Amazonie péruvienne) – Emanuele Fabiano

École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. December 14, 2023

Conference – Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, India, and Southern Cross University, Australia, December 12, 2023

Conference – First International Conference of the Histories of Anthropologies

  • “Savage knowledge,” ethnosciences, and the colonial ways of producing reservoirs of indigenous epistemologies in the Amazon – Raphael Uchôa
Università di Pisa, December 6 2023

Workshop – Forest Cities: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Urbanism in the Amazon

Max Plank Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, November 28, 2023
Talk – Early Text Cultures Seminar

  • Plant and Animal Inscription in Indigenous Amazonian Thought and Art  – Patrícia Vieira.
Universidade de Oxford, November 27, 2023

Colloquium – Leituras da Amazônia

  • Arte Indígena Contemporânea na Amazónia: Zoografia nas Obras de Denilson Baniwa  – Patrícia Vieira.
Sorbonne University, Paris, November 23, 2023

Conference – Environmental Humanities

  • More than Human Creations: Plants and Animals in Contemporary Indigenous Amazonian Art – Patrícia Vieira.
Transnational Press London and Journal of Ecohumanism, November 18, 2023

Roundtable – AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting. Interspecies Edges of the Global South – Comparing Critical Transitions of Multispecies Life Across South America and Southeast Asia.

 Metro Toronto Convention Centre, November 17,  2023

Engaged Anthropology Colloquium. Tribute to Manuela Carneiro da Cunha.

  • Traditional peoples and biodiversity. Coordination and debate: Karen Shiratori

47th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS, at UNICAMP, Campinas. Session 4.

October 25 and 27, 2023

1st Audiovisual training workshop for participatory documentation of Amazonian agrobiodiversity knowledge

In colaboration with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Coventry University (UK), Universida San Francisco de Quito (Equador)

Amupakin. Archidona,Tena (Ecuador), October 01-15, 2023.

Talk – Agency of Plants Symposium

  • Plants in Indigenous Amazon and the Language of Environmental Rights – Patrícia Vieira

 Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, September 21, 2023

Conference – XI Congresso Ecuatoriano de Historia

  • “Hule´s Gods, Rubber Demons” contrasted visions of vegetation in history – Elena Galvéz

Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Ecuador, September 20, 2023

Webinar – ERC-funded Amazon Research

  • Presentation of the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin – Patrícia Vieira

Euraxess & European Research Council, September 19, 2023

Conference – ABRE 

  • O que é uma Urbe? Comunidades Humanas e Mais-que-Humanas em Águas do Pastaza de Inês Alves – Patricia Vieira
ISCTE, Lisbon, September 7, 2023

Talk – Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA)

  • Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking as Environmental Activism – Patrícia Vieira
  • Plant dominators. Timber extraction, habilitación-enganche and forced labor among the Urarina of the lower Chambira (Peruvian Amazonia) – Emanuele Fabiano
  • Guerras vegetais: xamanismo e escatologia entre os Jamamadi do médio Purus (Amazônia brasileira) – Karen Shiratori

National University of Colombia, July 26-30, 2023.

Talk – Los Derechos de la Naturaleza: Una lectura desde la violencia

  • Los Derechos de la  Naturaleza: Una lectura desde la violencia – Elena Galvéz

Central university of ecuador INDIGED. July 25, 2023.

Talk – Tejiendo territorios de vida. Miradas interdisciplinarias al modelo extractivista en Ecuador

  • Arte, estética y política en clave ecológica – Elena Galvéz

Salesian Polytechnic University, Quito, July 12, 2023.

Conference – ASLE

Portland, July 10, 2023.

Talk – Summer Course in Literature, Humanism and Cosmopolitanism

Center for Global Studies at the Open University, June 29, 2023

Talk – Dialogos sobre vida onírica: pensar el sueño desde la interdisciplinaridad

  • Sueños: especulación, prefiguración, contraefectuación” (08/06) – Karen Shiratori
  • Aquello que nos quitaron: un sueño premonitorio entre los Tenharin” (09/06) – Karen Shiratori
College of Geografia e Historia. University of Barcelona, June 8 and 9, 2023
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Talk – Yasuní. El último pedazo, o el primer paso?

    • Balance histórico de la Primera Consulta Ciudadana para dejar el crudo en el subsuelo del Parque Nacional Yasuní. – Elena Gálvez
UCLA, May 31 2023

Colloquium – Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA)

  • Plant Cinema from the Amazon  –  Patricia Vieira
  • Entre la Civilización y la barbarie: Los Derechos Humanos a inicios del siglo XIX en la Amazonía y el Congo – Elena Gálvez

Vancouver, May 24 – 27, 2023

Talk – II Congresso Intenacional de Direitos Animais: Salve a Amazônia, os Animais e o Planeta 

  • Direitos Não Humanos em Sociedades Mais Que Humanas  –  Patricia Vieira

Faculdade de Direito de Conselheiro Lafaiete, Carijós, Brazil, April 14, 2023.

Talk – Cosmopolíticas – Núcleo de Antropologia /UFF

April 11, 2023, ICHF/UFF, Rio de Janeiro

 Talk – Rio de Janeiro State University

  • Pesquisa de campo na Amazônia brasileira: reflexões sobre método e escrita etnográfica entre os Jamamadi. –  Karen Shiratori

  • Investigaciones etnográfica en la región del Abanico del Pastaza. El trabajo de campo en comunidades urarina (Amazonía peruana) – Emanuele Fabiano

March 31, 2023, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Brasil.

 Talk – Colloquium “Modos de Conocer”

  • Cosmopolitismo y derechos no humanos en sociedades multiespecies  –  Patricia Vieira

FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, March 31, 2023.

Keynote Address – Luso-Ecologies: More-than-Human Complexity, Agency and Resistance in the Lusophone Anthropocene

Oxford University, March 31, 2023

Talk – Aquilombar o Antropoceno, Contra-colonizar a Ecologia fórum do livro Uma Ecologia Decolonial

University of São Paulo, March 13, 2023

Colloquium – La Brujería en América Latina: prácticas ancestrales y contemporáneas 

  • Dioses del hule; demonios del caucho. Prácticas mágicas y chamanismo en la extracción de goma en Mesoamérica y en la Amazonía – Elena Gálvez

Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, February 7 and 8, 2023

Talk – Seminário “Abrir Caminhos” 

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, January 25, 2023

 

2022

 

Conference  – British Ecological Society, Annual Meeting 2022

  • Non-human entities in wetland ecosystems: indigenous knowledge and conservation among the Urarina of the Chambira river basin (Peruvian Amazonia) – Emanuele Fabiano

EICC, Edinburgh, Scotland, december 18-21, 2022.

Talk – Linha de Investigação em Literatura, Humanismo e Cosmopolitismo 

  • Cosmopolitismo Multibiológico e Sociedades Interespécies – Patricia Vieira

Centro de Estudos Globais, Universidade Aberta, December 19, 2022.

Talk – Galeria Energia

Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, December 15, 2022.

Talk – Universidad Comunal del Cempoaltépetl (UNICEM)

Comunidad de Tlahuitoltepec (Oaxaca, México). 14 and 15 december.

Talk – 4S/CITE Society for Social Studies of Science. Reunion, Recuperation,  Reconfiguaration: Knowledges  and technosciences for leavin together.

  • Roundtable: Anti-Encyclopedia – reconfiguring knowledge in academic practice – Karen Shiratori

IBERO. Cholula, Mexico, December 7-10, 2022

Conference – Alteridades Vegetais. Emaranhamanetos multiespecíficos com as plantas

  • Resistir ao plantationceno: em busca de práticas de contradomesticação – Renato Sztutman e Karen Shiratori
  • Árvores em guerra, guerra às árvores: Cidades dendríticas e diplomacia vegetal entre os Urarina da Amazônia peruana – Emanuele Fabiano

Universidade de São Paulo, Sala 8, Prédio de Ciências Sociais e Filosofia, FFLCH-USP, November 29-30, 2022.

Conference – Cambio social y transiciones en América Latina. Abordajes interdisciplinarios.

  • La praxis perspectivista en los parios indígenas de Ecuador del 2019 y 2022 – Elena Gálvez

CALAS-FLACSO, Quito, November  24-25, 2022

Conference – II Congreso Internacional sobre Amazonía Peruana: Investigación para el Desarrollo, Perspectiva y Retos – CONIAP 2022

  • Entidades no humanas, conocimientos indígenas y prácticas locales de bienestar material e
    inmaterial     –     Emanuele Fabiano

Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, November 23, 2022.

Conference – V Congreso de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD): Miradas desde el sur

  • The Urarina Digital Heritage Project: A case study in transnational collaboration and Indigenous digital archives. Bartholomew Dean, Brian Rosenblum,  Sylvia Fernández and Emanuele Fabiano 

Facultad de Lenguas de la Universidad Nacional de Comahue, Gral Roca/Füskü Menuko,  November 17-18, 2022.

Seminar – Conhecimentos Indígenas em Contexto Latino-Americano: Cruzando Perspectivas e Ampliando Diálogos

  • O Antropoceno Visto da Amazónia: Perspectivas Indígenas sobre o Fim do Mundo – Patricia Vieira

Center for Sociais Studies, University of Coimbra, November 18, 2022

 Workshop – Lands and Oceans of Knowledge: Arts in Education and Research

  • Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Disaster: Reflections on the End of the World – Patricia Vieira
  • Political Imagination and Perspectivist Practice in the Anti-Extractive Struggles of the Ecuatorian Amazon – Elena Gálvez

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, November 17, 2022

Talk – Human Rights in Contemporary Societies Autumn Retreat 

  • Indigenous Apocalypses: What do Mad Max Films and the Amazon Have in Common? – Patricia Vieira

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, November 16, 2022

Book presentation.

Emanuele Fabiano, Graeme Burnley & Samuel Nuribe. ArahuataInuaelü nenakaaürüte karitiin nereretaaüre. Ninichu kuruuaje nenakaaürü Urarinaaürü nereretaau / The ancestors told me. Urarina myths and stories from the lower Chambira – Emanuele Fabiano.

Iquitos (Peru), November 11, 2022 Iquitos. 

Colloquium – Overlooking the World: Exotic Birds and Aviaries in Portugal (XVth-XXth Century)

Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, November 10-11, 2022

Colloquium – Representação e “Presentação” política ameríndia. Coexistência e hibridização de regimes do político na América do Sul tropical

  • Indigenização da política institucional Brasileira: notas sobre candidaturas de mulheres indígenas na eleição de 2022 – Renato Sztutman e Karen Shiratori
  • “Autoridad que vale, reparte”. Reflexiones sobre la política representativa urarina a partir de los modelos locales de circulación de carne cruda – Emanuele Fabiano

AMAZ/LAS – Collège de France / CEstA, University of São Paulo, October 24-26, 2022

Colloquium – Littérature et humanités environmentales ou comment écrire l’écocide de biotopes réels

University of Berne, October 18, 2022

Conference – American Portuguese Studies Association

  • Amazonian Phytofilm: Contemporary Amazonian Cinema as Vegetal Filmmaking – Patricia Vieira

Brigham Young University, October 6-8, 2022

Conference – Law and Society Association

  • Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking and the Rights of Human and Non-Human Beings – Patricia Vieira

ISCTE, Lisbon, July 13-16, 2022

Colloquium –  Logics of Production and Destruction in the Amazon: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Humanities 

  • Plant Activism in the Amazon: Frans Krajcberg’s Tree Sculptures – Patricia Vieira

Casa de Velázquez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study, June 27, 2022

Conference – CEISAL (Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina)

  • Filming the Ruins of the Amazon: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Cinema as Environmental Activism – Patricia Vieira

University of Helsinki, June 13-15, 2022

Colloquium – Cultural Anthropocene Studies Group

Humanities Research Center, University of Frankfurt, May 25, 2022

Conference – Critical Animal and Plants Studies

  • Zoophytography in the Amazon: Animals and Plants in Amazonian Ecopoetry – Patricia Vieira

Environmental Humanities Center, University of Cappadocia, May 16-18, 2022

Conference – XLIV Convegno Internazionale di Americanista, Universitá degli Studi di Padova

  • Las enfermedades que llegan de lejos. L’esperienza dei popoli amazzonici del Perú – Emanuele Fabiano, Andrea Zuppi

Virtual Conference, Padova (Italy), May 09.

Conference – Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 

Virtual Conference, May 5-8, 2022

Keynote Address – Chicago Graduate Conference, Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latinx Studies 

  • Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants – Patricia Vieira

University of Chicago, April 15, 2022

Colloquium – The Scientific and Medical Network 

Online Colloquium, April 13, 2022

Workshop – Roda de Saberes

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, April 7, 2022

Conference – Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos 

University of Coimbra, March 31 – April 2, 2022

Conference – La Amazonía Brasileña: Problemas y Desafíos 

  • Fitocinema Amazónico: Cinema Indígena Contemporâneo sobre Plantas – Patricia Vieira

Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Salamanca, March 28 – April 1, 2022

Conference – Brazilian Studies Association 

Online Conference, Georgetown University, March 10-12, 2022

Workshop – Roda de Saberes: Humanidades Ambientais e Naturezas Contestadas

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, February 1, 2022

Colloquium – Inter/Trans-Disciplinaridade para o Século XXI

  • Interdisciplinaridade, Transdisciplinaridade e Indisciplina Académica – Patricia Vieira

Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, January 25, 2022

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