Happened at LISA

We invite you to the AntropoCena session about the film “Drags in da House” directed by Paula Bessa Braz, Mihai Andrei Leaha, Caio Rincon, Gab Italiani and Dida Silva. The screening will feature Paula and Mihai for a chat, mediated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. Synopsis: When two anthropologists and three drag queens meet in a drag race competition in São Paulo, an ambitious project is born to document the city's vibrant queer scene. But the arrival of the pandemic radically transforms this creative journey. What would be a conventional documentary becomes something deeper: an experimental collaboration in which the boundaries between observers and observed…

The Unicamp Literary Festival will host a roundtable discussion on the book "Musicar local", which will explore its research and production; "Musicar local: Pathways to Musical Studies" analyzes musical practices and their sociocultural concepts.

The event will feature Suzel Reily (Unicamp), the project coordinator, and researchers Flávia Toni (IEB-USP) and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji (Department of Anthropology, USP / LISA). The book is the result of the FAPESP thematic project “Local Music-Making – New Paths for Ethnomusicology,” developed with support from LISA-USP.

LISA will host a lecture entitled ‘The "Mateira" Science and the Protection of Isolated Indigenous Groups’, given by Daniel Cangussu.

Daniel Cangussu is a botanist and specialist in indigenous affairs. At FUNAI, he heads the Madeira River Ethno-Environmental Protection Unit. In his Master’s dissertation, “Vestígios da Floresta” (published by SESC), and in his doctoral thesis, “Ecologias do Não Contato”, he adopts the concept of “Mateira Science” to define the set of traditional practices and knowledge used to identify and monitor isolated and recently contacted groups.

The event will also feature a screening of the documentary “Vestígios” by Leão Serva and Rogério Assis,…

NAU Cidades invites everyone to the second meeting in the *Seminários na Urbe* (Seminars in the City) series, dedicated to the phenomenon of modern board games and their connections to ethnography, research, and various fields of study.

“Much like a film, a book, or a museum exhibition, a modern board game is a work—a medium of expression—that comes to life through affects and finds its fulfillment in the ‘reading’ performed by its audience. After all, ‘to read’ is a polysemic verb. Yet, the act of playing introduces a crucial distinction: the fundamental role of agency—or, more precisely, the player’s ‘operation.’ Without it, a game ceases to be a game; it might, at best, be a…

The Multimodal Ethnomusicology Laboratory (MULTIMUS) is delighted to welcome researchers Eduardo Pontin and Francisca Sousa for the lecture ‘Lezeira: Afro-indigenous dance of the Sertão region of Piauí. Fieldwork experiences and the challenges of heritage recognition’. The event will take place on 22 October, from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm, in Room 113 of the ECA-USP Central Building.

Presentation

Lezeira is a circle dance for adults that has been practised since at least the 19th century by farmers in quilombos and traditional rural communities in the Sertão region of Piauí. Between 2020 and 2022, researchers Eduardo Pontin and Francisca Sousa lived in the region where the…

AntropoCena presents: Muxa - A Marca
Film screening and conversation with filmmakers

📅 October 29, 2026
🕠 at 5:30 pm

After the screening, Damë Bëtxun Matis, Chawa Matis, Lionel Rossini, directors of the film, participate in a conversation mediated by Nadja Marin, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and indigenist.

Short synopsis:
Twenty-four hours remain for Damë Bëtxun, Matis filmmaker, to receive on her face the mark that every Matis bears forever. In this wait, between fear and pride, it is his own voice that guides the spectator until the moment when the palm thorns make him, like his father before him, definitively Matis.

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AntropoCena presents: How Far the View Reaches - Film screening and conversation with directors

Participants: Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero
Mediation: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

As far as the eye can see
77 min. | Directed by: Alice Villela and Hidalgo Romero

Three generations of indigenous Kariri-Xocó people join forces on an expedition to recognize the memorial territory of these people, stolen over the painful centuries of colonization. Their language, knowledge, and even sacred rituals were hidden as a survival strategy. Now, armed with cameras, drones, pipes, headdresses, and maracas, they travel along the geographic landmarks of their…

We invite you to a discussion on AI in research, in a hybrid format. The event will take place in person at LISA-USP, with an online livestream and recording.

 Join us on Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/eea-rxsq-zoe

We look forward to seeing you!

On August 19 and 20, 2026, LISA-USP will host the Social Anthropology Postdoctoral Seminar: Music, Cinema, and Anthropology. Organized by the GRAVI and PAM research groups, the event aims to showcase ongoing research by postdoctoral fellows in Social Anthropology at FFLCH/USP focusing on "Music, Cinema, and Anthropology," as well as to foster dialogue and academic debate around these themes. The event is free and open to the public.

Program:

August 19, 2026 (Wednesday)
Moderator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Music, Ethnography, and Anthropology (Jorge Lampa, Rafael B. A. Norberto, Mateus de Oliveira, and Gabriel Improta França)
6:00 PM…

Discussion of the book "Musicar local: trilhas para estudos musicais" (Local Musicking: Pathways for Music Studies), which explores the potential of the concept of “local musicking,” inspired by the neologism coined by Christopher Small—“musicking”—a term intended to encompass any form of engagement with music.

Featuring Suzel Reily (coordinator of the Fapesp Thematic Project “Musicar local: new paths for ethnomusicology”), Flávia Toni (musicologist and full professor at the IEB-USP Institute), and Rose Satiko (associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at USP).

Registration: sescsp.org.br/cpf

Research and Training Center
Rua Dr. Plínio Barreto,…