Happened at LISA

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,…

This creative gathering brings together intermedial approaches in the spirit of sharing, free-associating, and collaborative thinking. We invite researchers and artists working with fiery environments, seismic forces, and animal traversals of the planetary surface, among other topics, to share ideas and works-in progress in a space that leaves room for intuition and the unexpected.

Part I: Audiovisual Methods in Anthropology  
A Conversation with:  
Rose Satiko Hikiji, USP (University of São Paulo)  
Caterina Borelli, Ca’ Foscari 

Part II: Images of Fire, Animals, and Other Nonhumans
Geopraxis examines the different kinds of work involved in…

We invite everyone to the preview screening of the documentary INSURRENTOS, directed by Breno Sousa.

Breno is a researcher, ogã, and capoeirista. For the past three years, he has dedicated himself fully to the preservation and dissemination of traditional Afro-Brazilian culture. Through visual anthropology, he seeks to document memories and open up new horizons for research and the university, in dialogue with traditional and ancestral knowledge. The film is a production of LISA, resulting from his undergraduate research project "Jogo de Dentro, Jogo de Fora" (Inner Game, Outer Game), supervised by Rose Satiko Hikiji Gitirana.

Synopsis: For nearly 30 years, the Capoeira…

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…