The mini-course “Plant Archives: Insurgent Histories, Contemporary Art, and Colonial Memory” brings together researchers, artists, and professionals from different fields to discuss the relationships between contemporary art, colonial memory, the history of science, and the plant world. Held at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST), the […]
Ler MAis
This lecture examines scenes of navigation in the fiction of Alberto Rangel, paying particular attention to his book Inferno Verde (1908). It focuses on two main aspects. First, it explores the rhetoric surrounding engineer characters in Rangel’s stories. Given that Rangel himself was an engineer who worked in the Amazon, the lecture examines the logics and […]
Ler MAis
The aim of this lecture is to examine, from the perspective of human-animal history, the encounters between human animals and serpent animals published in the Amazonian periodical press during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The objective is to seek the real, rather than metaphorical, animal, making the moment of the encounter — as reported […]
Ler MAis
On October 13, 2025, the Tsiuni indigenous collective filed a lawsuit against the Peruvian government with the Mixed Court of Nauta, in the Loreto region, demanding the creation of a truth commission to investigate the serious human rights violations committed during the rubber boom era. This discussion aims to create a space for transdisciplinary dialogue […]
Ler MAis
The so-called Rubber Boom era constitutes a historical period spanning more than threedecades, beginning in 1879, during which the expansion of the rubber industry wassustained by the systematic exploitation of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon,leading to processes of enslavement, structural violence, and the genocide of numerousindigenous peoples. For many families and communities, the memory […]
Ler MAis
This talk examines food forests in the Kichwa community of Mulchi Yaku (Napo) as practices of sowing in the ruins of Amazonian extractivism. From the perspective of an irregular and fragmented Anthropocene, it argues that these agroforestry assemblages constitute community-based responses that regenerate soils, knowledge, and multispecies relations. In the face of mining, industrial fish […]
Ler MAis
Since January 2026, peoples of the Tapajós River, including Indigenous and riverine communities, in articulation with civil society organizations and socio-environmental movements, have mobilized against Decree No. 12.600/2025, which included more than 3,000 kilometers of Amazonian rivers — such as the Tapajós, Madeira, and Tocantins — in the National Privatization Program, opening the way for […]
Ler MAis
The thought of Antonio Bispo dos Santos, a quilombola master from the caatinga region of Piauí, has been fundamental for understanding counter-coloniality. This lecture aims to present the seed-words of Nego Bispo and his method of occupying words, as well as to situate these concepts within the context of contributions to environmental issues and the […]
Ler MAis
This event brings together researchers from various international institutions to discuss the multifaceted relationships between water, culture, and society in the Portuguese-speaking world. Through approaches drawn from environmental humanities, history, literature, and cultural studies, participants explore how rivers, oceans, and aquatic landscapes have shaped social practices, cultural imaginaries, and forms of knowledge in different contexts […]
Ler MAis
This colloquium explores how colonial and contemporary extractivism has shaped the Amazon as a deeply entangled multispecies world of humans, animals, plants, and other beings. It draws on perspectives from environmental history, political ecology, and ethnography to reflect on both the lasting impacts of colonial extraction and emerging possibilities for more just and sustainable ways […]
Ler MAis