Happened at LISA

On October 21 at 2 p.m., LISA will host "Quimeras no Cinema," a shared film screening organized by the Art and Culture Festival and promoted by the Dean of Culture and University Extension in accordance with Resolution CoCEx 8451, dated July 30, 2023. The event will feature film screenings followed by a discussion with filmmakers.
Filmes em exibição:

Carlos Caps Drag Race 2022. 25'. dir: Mirai Andrei Leaha Jail Birds 2024. 10'55''. dir: Kelly Koide Montando a Baiana 2024. 12. 11'25''. dir: Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos e Aurélio Prates Rodrigues  Tabuluja (Acordem!) 2017. 11'25'' dir: Shambuyi Wetu, Rose Satiko e Jasper Chalcraft 

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On October 22nd, in partnership with CINUSP and LISA, we are pleased to organize a special screening featuring two films by Frédéric Létang: The Earth and the Comb and Amazonia, Shadows and Lights. Both documentaries portray the same group of Amazonian settlers, first in 1996 and then in 2021, showcasing the entire trajectory of the southeastern region of Pará during this period.

The screening will begin at 2:00 pm with the first documentary, and the two will be shown consecutively. At the end of the screenings, there will be a discussion with the director and João Godoy (CINUSP).

São Palco will be featured at the Brazilian Film Festival Silêncio e Voz (Silence and Voice), held in Cologne, Germany, from October 28 to November 9. São Palco will be screened on November 1 at Filmforum NRW at Museum Ludwiglmforum.
 

About the exhibition:

“Silence and Voice. Brazilian Film Exhibition” brings together nine films that address themes such as violence, religion, race, and gender, as well as ways of strengthening, emancipating, and empowering people and groups that are invisible in Brazil. The selected works express the challenges and struggles faced in order to legitimize their existence in Brazilian society. These themes take on even greater…

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On October 3, 2025, at 4 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature François Michel Le Tourneau, the director of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS USP). He will discuss his research on gold mining, which simultaneously destroys the forest environment and creates economic wealth. Drawing from field data on the inner workings of the gold mining industry and numerous interviews with miners, the speaker will explore the attitudes of these individuals regarding these two aspects, highlighting the nonlinearity of their relationship with time, their ambiguous perception of the forest, and the unique wealth/income creation model.

Suggested readings:

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Between September 24th and 26th, 2025, the Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts of the University of São Paulo (NECAAB) will hold the Afro-Brazilian Arts Meetings, with support from the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP), Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS-USP), group “Research in Musical Anthropology” (PAM-USP) and Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA-USP).

This year's edition is themed "WITHOUT GROUND, THERE'S NO ANGOLA," and activities include artistic expressions, traditional knowledge, decolonial practices, and ancestral technologies cultivated over nearly three decades at USP. It will be an…

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We invite you to a lively conversation about the film "Floresta de Fitas", directed by Priscilla Ermel, who will be present at the AntropoCena sessions, moderated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji.

The screenings will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (LISA-USP) on the following dates:

September 23, 2025: Sessions at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM
September 24, 2025: Session at 7:00 PM

In "Floresta de Fitas," São Paulo-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Priscilla Ermel revisits her artistic trajectory alongside poet Cora Coralina and anthropologist Carmen Junqueira, revealing resonances…

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On September 18, 2015, at 8 p.m., SESC Pinheiros will screen the film Montando a Baiana as part of the Encontro de Baianas Ricas event.

The directors of the film, Aurélio Prates and Kelwin Marques, as well as a researcher from the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP), will attend the film debate. The discussion will focus on the presence of Baianas Ricas in Maracatu Nation royal processions, particularly from the mid-20th century onward. During this period, individuals who challenged traditional gender norms, including transvestites and gay men, began to occupy central roles.

Supported by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), the film explores the…

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Between September 11 and 12, 2025, the Cinemateca Brasileira will host the seminar “Crossed views between France and Brazil on the challenges of preserving and accessing audiovisual heritage: focusing on the audiovisual memory of Indigenous Peoples”, with the support of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at USP (LISA-USP).

The event is free and will feature simultaneous French-Portuguese translation, interpretation in Libras, and live streaming on the Cinemateca's  YouTube channel. 

Focusing on indigenous memory, the seminar aims to discuss the representation and preservation of indigenous culture in audiovisual media, promoting its visibility and…

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The University of São Paulo (USP) will host the Franco-USP Week of Cooperation in Sciences, Arts and Humanities, from September 15 to 26, 2025. The event celebrates scientific collaborations between French universities and USP and, this year, gains special prominence by commemorating 200 years of bilateral relations between France and Brazil.

The program, which is the result of a partnership between different sectors of the University, the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, the Worlds in Transition Laboratory (IRL-CNRS-USP) and IdA-pôle Brésil, incorporates activities related to the Saison Croisée Brésil-France 2025, an agenda launched by Presidents Emmanuel Macron and…

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We invite you to a meeting with Prof. Dr. Marco Antônio Gonçalves on September 02, 2025, at 3:00 p.m., in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA-USP).

The event "Glances, Imaginaries, and (m)Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis" proposes a reflection on the contemporary challenges of anthropology and on how images, cinema, and other visual/expressive practices can inspire new languages, worlds, and methodologies in the face of current climatic, social, and political emergencies.

Marco Antônio Gonçalves is a Full Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Institute of Philosophy and Social…

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