Happened at LISA

We invite you to the second edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle, which will feature the participation of researcher Laure Emperaire — IRD/France —, a leading figure in debates on agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, and biocultural heritage.

RESPIRO — Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado is a FAPESP Young Researcher Project, linked to the BIOTA-FAPESP Program, which investigates the role of traditional peoples and communities in the production, maintenance, and restoration of pyrodiversity in the Cerrado. The project articulates anthropology, fire ecology, agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, remote sensing, archaeology, paleoecology, and…

A gathering to discuss anthropological practice through the lens of Sylvia Caiuby Novaes’s career, from her work in Amerindian ethnology to visual anthropology, including photography and archival research, as well as her influence and the impact of the research she has supervised over the past decades.

📅 May 18 and 19, 2026

SCHEDULE

May 18

Panel 1 - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Ethnologies: With Carlos Fausto, André Drago, João Kelmer, Pedro Meniconi, and Yuri Werner
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/vutGpNXY-dg

Panel 2 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Ethnographic Practices: With Rose Satiko, Danilo Paiva Ramos, Luís Felipe Hirano, and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…