Launch of Piseagrama magazine, special issue “Vegetalities”
With a round table discussion with guest editors Anai Vera, Karen Shiratori and authors. November 18 1pm Belo Horizonte
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Launch of Piseagrama magazine, special issue “Vegetalities”
Round table discussion with Eduardo Goés Neves, Marina Vanzolini, Fábio Baroli, André Bailão, Renato Sztutman, Carlos Papá, Emanuele Fabiano and guest editors Anai Vera, Bianca Chizzolini and Karen Shiratori. In colaboration with BDMG Cultural, n1edicoes.org and piseagrama.org October 28, 2023 16h São Paulo
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Lecture Series 2023
The Process of De-Constitution of Indigenous Rights in Brazil The National Constituent Assembly that took place in Brazil in 1987 and 1988 was the scene of conceptual disputes over worldviews in various areas. With regard to Indigenous rights, the debate resulted in Chapter VIII of the current Brazilian Constitution, whose articles are considered the theoretical […]
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Forest Cities: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Urbanism in the Amazon
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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El caucho de la Amazonia global a inicios del siglo XX: una lectura histórica, visual y literaria
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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Monocultures: Eco-Cultural Perspectives
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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Animalidades: Zooliteratura e os Limites do Humano
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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Lecture Series 2023
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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Lecture Series 2023
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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Lecture Series 2023
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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