“Looks, Imaginaries and (in) Flames: Weaving Anthropologies in Times of Crisis”, with Marco Antônio Gonçalves (UFRJ)

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 Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS-UFRJ) and at the Graduate Program in Ethnography and Cultural Criticism at UFRJ. Since 1998 he has worked as a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Research Productivity. He is a Scientist of Our State, a program linked to the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). Master's and PhD in Social Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program of the National Museum, at UFRJ. His research focuses on Visual Anthropology, Anthropology and Cinema, Cosmology, Creation of Cultural Worlds, Indigenous Ethnology, Narratives and Subjectivities. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) between 1996 and 1997, under the supervision of Joanna Overing. He was a Visiting Scholar Senior, with a Grant from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), at New York University (USA), between 2015 and 2016, supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He did a Senior Internship with a CNPq Grant at New York University, in 2018, supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He was a Visiting Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), in 1998 and 2005, and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2000; Guest Researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France), in 2006, 2010 and 2011, collaborating with Carlo Severi, Phillipe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor. He did his Post-Doctorate at the Sorbonne Letttres (France), between 2021 and 2022; Guest Researcher at the Université Paris Nanterre (France), at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (EREA-LESC), between January and February 2024.

Over the past three years (2023–2025), Marco Antônio Gonçalves has taught open courses at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), addressing themes such as “Alterities/Alterations”, “Cinema to Postpone the End of the World: Imaginaries, Re-existences, Transformations” and “Cosmopoetics of Disobedience”. These experiences will be evoked in this discussion.

Online broadcast link: https://youtube.com/live/NsafnnqFpNg?feature=share

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations
• There will be a certificate of participation