The Lower Tapajós region, a multi-ethnic territory in western Pará, Brazilian Amazon, is home to 13 Indigenous peoples, numerous traditional riverside communities, and several quilombola communities. This area now faces profound ecological and social upheavals due to the rapid expansion of soy plantations and the infrastructure necessary for grain export. In this talk, I examine […]
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This presentation delves into the journey of Swiss botanist Jacques Huber (1867-1914) and his photographic work in the Amazon, which began in 1895. Huber, who later became the director of one of Brazil’s most prominent natural history museums, the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, was part of a generation of botanists who integrated photography into their […]
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The volume brings together previously published poems, as well as unpublished poetry and aphorisms, by the Amazonian poet Juan Carlos Galeano. Published for the first time in Portuguese, in a bilingual edition, this poetry offers a panorama of the Amazon rainforest and the ties that bind the region’s Indigenous and riverside communities with the more […]
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Screening of the film in the lecture: Plant insurgencies against the oil palm empire: preliminary notes on a breeding experiment in Ucayali Image and Sound Laboratory, University of São Paulo. September 11, 2024 Participation: Renato Sztutman, Karen Shiratori and Emanuele Fabiano Comando Matico and native medicine: dialogue on the mothers […]
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This film festival explores the effects and impacts of mining on the ways of life of individuals and communities and their environment in different locations on the planet. We present a selection of documentaries and feature films that address this topic, the discussion of which is fundamental in the face of the devastation of nature, […]
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Antônio Bispo dos Santos, a quilombola leader based in the Brazilian state of Piauí, is one of the most important thinkers in contemporary Brazil, known for his countercolonial ideas. Notions such as confluence, transfluence, biointeraction and involvement are founding concepts in an Afropindoramic, polytheistic grammar. His epistemology is structured around the organic circularity of beginning, […]
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The formulation of a shaman poetics aims to dynamize relations between extra-Western and Western imaginary powers, focusing on mythopoetic productive webs that operate within the geopolitical space-time that is now called Brazil. It seeks, at the same time, to strengthen “the encounter between different knowledges and the knowledge of the encounter,” by moving pieces of […]
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How does Amazonian art visually and verbally narrate the contamination of the human andnon-human landscape by heavy metals? How can the creative process and the artistic effectof image and word convey poetry by exploring symbols, images and narratives that link thepolitical force of art with the promotion of environmental awareness? Considering traditionalknowledge, spirituality, and connections […]
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In numerous travel accounts about immersion in the Amazon rainforest, the metropolitan subject faces an oppressive experience due to the intense heat, dense vegetation, fauna noises, and persistent insects, resulting in disorientation, torn clothes, and fever. Some are even swallowed by the jungle, as exemplified in the novel “La vorágine” by José Eustasio Rivera. Despite […]
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Series of events about the Amazon, including an exhibition by Denilson Baniwa (ongoing) and a talk by Patrícia Vieira on April 5 at 6pm. March-April 2024 Galveias Palace, Lisbon In collaboration with the Lisbon City Hall. Program
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