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The Amazon and its Peoples

This training activity is part of CES goes to School, a program that disseminates academic research among students from Portuguese schools, aged 6 to 18. During the sessions, we discuss the current situation of the Amazon and its human and non-human inhabitants. We also mention some of the threats to the rainforest. We briefly talk about the history of the Amazon, its Indigenous caboclo and riverine […]

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Symbolic act of the Pyri People (Tenharin)

March 30, 2023 University of São Paulo A group of Indigenous Tenharin people attended the Curt Nimuendajú Conference, the annual event of the Center for Amerindian Studies, CEstA-USP, and performed a Symbolic Act. At the same event, one of their leaders joined the VII Curt Nimuendajú Conference discussion group with João Paulo Tukano.

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Museology training workshop for Tenharin leaders

Week of training in museology with a group of Tenharin Indigenous people. The program included training at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo, a mediated visit to the exhibition “Nhe’ẽ Porã: memória e transformação” (Nhe’ẽ Porã: memory and transformation) at the Museum of the Portuguese Language, and a meeting […]

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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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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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