Happened at LISA

The Jaime Cortesão Chair invites you to the event “ÒMÌNIRA - Disputes and achievements for the black presence in history”, from May 12 to 15, 2025, at the Milton Santos Auditorium (Geography and History Building | FFLCH-USP). The objective is to discuss topics related to anti-racist struggles, the black presence in history and forms of resistance within the university.

The Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will be represented by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji at the panel “The tone of music: harmony and dissonance”, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 7 pm.

Check out the full event schedule on the website: https://cjc.fflch.usp.br/eventos

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Schedule:

April 25 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Valerie Seurin (EHESS)
Making the living: an anthropology of metamorphosis
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP

May 9 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Felipe Mammoli (UNICAMP)
Forest of knowledge and mystery: an ethnography of computational modeling of vegetation in the AmazonFACE program
Location: Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) - FFLCH-USP

May 23 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Maria Lua Vieira (USP) e Jéssica Cardoso (USP)
Discussion of research projects
Location:…

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) and the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI-USP) invite you to the AntropoCena session of the film "Alma e Sangue no Atlântico Negro - O pensamento de Luiz Felipe de Alencastro", directed by Celso Prudente, professor at the School of Education at the University of São Paulo (FEUSP), with assistance from Ana Vitória Prudente, who will be present to discuss the work.

Ana Vitória is a PhD candidate in Education at USP, has a master's degree in Education from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from the State…

Between May 14 and 15, 2025, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will host the colloquium "Archives, diasporas and belongings: research challenges with photography in anthropology", with support from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

The event will take place from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, in the LISA auditorium located at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, room/room 10, Cidade Universitária, SP.

There will be an online broadcast on LISA's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lisausp

PROGRAM:

May 14

Morning

Opening: Sylvia Caiuby…

On April 10, 2025, the film "Holobiont Society" by Swiss artist Dominique Koch will be shown at the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), starting at 8 pm.

Comprising a visual exhibition that has been touring several countries, Holobiont Society delves into a complex set of issues related to hierarchies, power structures and concepts of coexistence, defined by the term holobiont.

Created by biologist Lynn Margulis, co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis, the concept refers to an integrated ecological and evolutionary unit formed by a host organism and all the microorganisms that live in association with it.

In the film, the holobiont is…

The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) will host on April 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m., the lecture "Ruins of photography: migrations of family archives and their ecosystems of belonging" by researcher Dr. Fabiana Bruno, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP supervised by Professor Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.

The lecture will address the context and policies of “emerging collections” formed with abandoned or discarded photos, in particular, vernacular family photographs unlinked from personal albums. The starting point will be the presentation of an overview of the stories of three “emerging collections” researched: Arab Image Foundation (…

Registration for the extension course "Documentary and Ethnography in Brazil: The Cinema of Eduardo Coutinho" is open until April 21, 2025. It will be held from April 29, 2025 to July 1, 2025, in distance learning.

The course aims to explore the relationship between Eduardo Coutinho's documentary cinema and ethnographic practice, highlighting how the Brazilian filmmaker uses documentary as a tool for reflecting on the social reality of Brazil, especially after 1960. Based on the analysis of key works by Coutinho, the course seeks to investigate the specificities of his cinematic approach, which dialogues with anthropological methods of observation, description and the…

Amazon Film Course: An Immersion in the Region’s Audiovisual Production

Audience: Researchers, producers, students and everyone who is interested in the cinematic richness of the Amazon.

Objective: The course offers a deep reflection on recent transformations in Amazon cinema, exploring the cultural and identity diversity of Amazonian filmmakers. Focusing especially on documentary productions, the course highlights the social, cultural and aesthetic issues that define cinema in this rich and plural region.

Period of Realization: from 02/04/2025 to 16/04/2025
Hourly Load: 15 hours
Places: 5 to 50 students
Certificate: For…

During Black Consciousness Week, we invite you to the CINUSP session that will show the film "Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going?"

📅 11/21/2024 (thursday)
🕜 14h30
📌 CINUSP | Anfiteatro street, 109, Cidade Universitária

In the film, we follow the trajectory of Mozambican musician Lenna Bahule between São Paulo, her adopted home, and her hometown, Maputo.

We see how Lenna faces the difficulties of being a musician, a woman and a black woman in Brazil and Mozambique. The artistic world of São Paulo embraces its Africanity, its roots. Already in Mozambique, Lenna is now known for her success in Brazil.

Back in her…

Trajectories Cruzadas brings together photographs by Claudia Andujar, Lux Vidal and Maureen Bisilliat

For the first time, the exhibition presents the work of three women photographers who are involved in the defense of indigenous peoples and riverside and country communities 

USP's MariAntonia Center opens on October 19th, at 4 pm, the exhibition Crossed Trajectories with works by Claudia Andujar, Lux Vidal and Maureen Bisilliat, with approximately 300 photographs. It is curated by anthropologists Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Fabiana Bruno. Entry is free.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, photographs of three European women: Swiss Claudia Andujar,…