Happened at LISA

On April 24, 2026, at 2 PM, LISA will host the first edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle of the Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA).

The opening lecture, entitled “Restoring Pyrodiversity: Learning from Cultural Fire and Knowledge Co-production in Intercultural Fire Management,” will feature Bibiana Bilbao from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and the COBRA Collective (England).

RESPIRO is the project “Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado,” developed within the scope of the BIOTA/FAPESP – Discovery 2024 Program, in the Young Researcher modality, under the coordination of Guilherme Moura Fagundes (CHAMA/PPGAS/USP). FAPESP…

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LISA-USP will host researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin for a presentation and discussion on music and sound system culture. Organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology group (PAM-USP), the seminar "Sound System Epistemologies" will be an opportunity to discuss sound epistemologies with researchers active in the international music scene.

Meet the guests:

Stefanie Alisch - Diretora do projeto "Sound System Epistemologies" (DFG) na Universidade Humboldt de Berlim.
É musicóloga e DJ em Berlim, pesquisadora de música e dança do Atlântico Negro, com foco em Sound System Epistemologies, língua portuguesa, políticas do prazer e culturas de DJ. Realizou…

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We invite you to the seminar "Black Ethnomusicology: Crossroads of Knowledge and the African Legacy in Musical Studies" with the participation of Professor Pedro Acosta (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA), organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM-USP), the Black Ethnomusicology Collective (CEN-UFBA), and the Black Memory project at FFLCH.

The event aims to share experiences in Black Ethnomusicology through the historical agency of Black people in musical studies, art, and culture. This project, carried out in Brazil together with the community of African Music, Dance, and Dramatic Arts studies, emphasizes the legacy of African and Black knowledge production in its…

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PAM - Research in Musical Anthropology
invites you to a discussion and lecture with Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto:

Roundtable discussion with researchers (2:00 PM)
Lecture (4:00 PM): Music, Recôncavo, Living Heritage – a musicological journey

In this lecture, I intend to trace the path of my own career as an anthropologist, musician, and musicologist, starting from the Recôncavo Baiano, where I began working in 1982, to outline a field of research that has evolved—also in relation to cultural agents—and where the academic contribution necessarily includes engagement with many of the pressing issues of today’s world.

Tiago de Oliveira…

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Rose Satiko Hikiji, coordinator of LISA, presents research developed with the Department of Anthropology at USP at two universities in Norway.
On January 30th, the film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, a LISA-USP production directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko, will be screened at UIT - The Arctic University of Norway, with the presence of the directors, who will also hold a workshop on Film and Collaborative Anthropology on February 2nd.
On February 28th, she will present the conference Filming musicking: listening nearby with Afro-diasporic musicians in Brazil at the University of Oslo, in the SAI seminar series of the Department of Social Anthropology. More…

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How can images become a critical tool in anthropology? The course "Photography as Ethnographic Writing: Case Studies from Amateur Football" proposes an immersion in the connections between ethnography and photography. Taking amateur football as a central case study, we will explore photography as a critical tool for the production of anthropological knowledge.

Topics discussed:
* The origins and historical context of the use of photography in anthropology;
* How to work with, read, and interpret photographic archives in research;
* Methodologies for constructing ethnographic visual narratives;
* The practice of immersive photography "up close and from…

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Seminar - Cinema of Transformation: around The Transformation of Canute

Link to the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGogSEOQxWg

Tuesday, December 9, 2025
2:30 PM, at the LISA Auditorium
Screening of the film "The Transformation of Canute" (Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho, 2024, 130')
After the film there will be a discussion with the filmmakers Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
10:00 AM, at the LISA Auditorium
Roundtable discussion "The Cinema of Transformation" with Tânia Stolze Lima, Clarisse Alvarenga, Juliana Fausto, Ariel Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho, Bruno Huyer,…

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On December 3, 2025, at 5 PM, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) will host the seminar “Ethnographies in the Amazon: from the transits in the ‘Beiradão music’ to the ‘Rap AM’ circuit in Manaus,” which will be presented by Rafael Branquinho Abdala Norberto, researcher of the “Research in Musical Anthropology” group (PAM-USP) and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP (DA-FFLCH-USP). The event is open to the public.

The event aims to foster debate around two musical cultures of/in the state of Amazonas – “Beiradão music” and “AM Rap” – based on…

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On November 28, 2025, at 2:30 PM, LISA will host the seminar "(Im)mobilities of Fire: Exploring the Relationships between Human and Non-Human Mobilities and Fires in Brazil".

The event is an initiative of the CHAMA-USP research group and will feature the participation of Greta Mazzocchi, a researcher on the ERC FIREPOL project and a doctoral candidate in Urban and Regional Studies in the inter-university program at the Polytechnic University of Turin, in co-supervision with the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at USP.

Event open to the public, free of charge and subject to space limitations. Location: Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária… mais

Film screening: São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana
by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

Synopsis: What do African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? The documentary presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and tensions.

The event is part of the activities of the project Presença e Memória Negra na FFLCH: para além de novembro (Black Presence and Memory at FFLCH: beyond November). Check out the schedule:…

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