This workshop discusses so-called “lost cities” in the Brazilian Amazon created during different waves of developmentalism in the country and later abandoned when those extractivist projects failed. The workshop analyzes these cities from a variety of perspectives, including history, urban studies and the environmental humanities. Virtual access to the event through the QR-code or […]
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This event discusses the connections that rubber extraction established between the Amazon and Europe through literature, photography and historiographical reflection. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87231057687?pwd=d1JGL0NkM3hVWnUySlRlNk9aclFDdz09 November 14, 3 pm – 6 pm Sala de Seminários, CES – Lisbon
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The Monocultures conference brings together specialists from the natural, social, and human sciences to reflect upon the phenomenon of monocultures from a global, eco-cultural perspective by exploring patterns of connection between culture and nature beyond epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. In an era of environmental crises and climate change, this conference will consider monocultures on a […]
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October 6, 7:30 pm Livraria da Travessa, Lisbon Book launch Animalidades: Zooliteratura e os Limites do Humano (Instante: São Paulo, 2023) by Maria Esther Maciel. Presentation by Maria Esther Maciel and Patrícia Vieira, mediated by journalist Isabel Lucas.
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Amazonian Animals in Contemporary Brazilian Literature Maria Esther Maciel October 4, 3 pm Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon In collaboration with ABIDE project and the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon This talk will discuss poetic-fictional Brazilian texts from the 21st century focusing on Amazonian animals. The goal is to […]
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Another History of the Lost Cities of the Amazon: Development and Utopia in Contemporary Brazil Danielle Heberle Viegas | Munich Centre for Global History In this session, the speaker proposes an analysis of the emergence and disappearance of cities in the Brazilian Amazon throughout the twentieth century to the present, in the context of developmentalist […]
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Indigenous Visual Arts and the Paradoxes of Building Indigenous Identities Through Contemporary Art A critical tour through the visual arts of the indigenous Peruvian Amazon since their irruption in Lima at the end of the last century will be presented. We will note how the themes developed by the artists move between visual narratives of […]
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The starting point of this event was a reflection on the notion of the future based on theoretical and methodological approaches that take the Amazon and its human and more-than-human inhabitants as their central political-speculative context. If the environmental crisis can be translated as a crisis of the Western imaginary—its institutions, philosophical references, modern political […]
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Indigenous Ontologies in Contemporary Amazonian Arts To see with the heart is a beautiful expression of the Candoshi Amazonian people. With a sharp poetic sense, this phrase conveys various modes of understanding and establishing relationships with the different forms of life and invisible beings that share the territory with the Indigenous communities of the Amazon […]
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Possible Futures: Imagination and Speculation to Resist in the Anthropocene Prof. Dr. Renato Sztutman(Universidade de São Paulo) The focus of this presentation is the place of imagination and speculation in the Anthropocene, a geological epoch in which humanity has become the in which humanity has become the predominant force, putting the integrity of the planet at […]
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