Comando Matico and native medicine: dialogue on the mothers of plants Local Comando Matico, Pucallpa, Perú. August 4, 2024 Participation: Comando Matico, Emanele Fabiano, Karen Shiratori, Roxana Davila, Wihtner FaGo Indigenous knowledge: collaborative projects between art and anthropology Centro Intercultural de la Amazonía (CIA), Universidad […]
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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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Screening of the film A Flor do Buriti, followed by a discussion with the film directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, moderated by Patrícia Vieira. March 23, 2024 9:30 pm Casa do Cinema de Coimbra In collaboration with the Caminhos do Cinema Português film festival.
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Linguistic heritage in private hands: comparing materials from the Arawak languages (Peru) with the case of California In recent years the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley (CLA; cla.berkeley.edu) has been acquiring archival materials — recordings, dcouments, photographs — on the Arawak peoples of Peru from a group of anthropologists, linguists, and ethnomusicologists […]
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February 5-16, 2024 Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra Exhibition by photographer André Paxiuta on olive tree monoculture in Alentejo.
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