Events

We invite you to the AntropoCena session about the film “Drags in da House” directed by Paula Bessa Braz, Mihai Andrei Leaha, Caio Rincon, Gab Italiani and Dida Silva. The screening will feature Paula and Mihai for a chat, mediated by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. Synopsis: When two anthropologists and three drag queens meet in a drag race competition in São Paulo, an ambitious project is born to document the city's vibrant queer scene. But the arrival of the pandemic radically transforms this creative journey. What would be a conventional documentary becomes something deeper: an experimental collaboration in which the boundaries between observers and observed dissolve. Through video diaries, digital performances, and virtual encounters, the group captures not…

LISA will host a lecture entitled ‘The "Mateira" Science and the Protection of Isolated Indigenous Groups’, given by Daniel Cangussu.

Daniel Cangussu is a botanist and specialist in indigenous affairs. At FUNAI, he heads the Madeira River Ethno-Environmental Protection Unit. In his Master’s dissertation, “Vestígios da Floresta” (published by SESC), and in his doctoral thesis, “Ecologias do Não Contato”, he adopts the concept of “Mateira Science” to define the set of traditional practices and knowledge used to identify and monitor isolated and recently contacted groups.

The event will also feature a screening of the documentary “Vestígios” by Leão Serva and Rogério Assis, which follows the work of Daniel Cangussu and his team in protecting isolated indigenous groups.…

Symposium “Multimodal Anthropologies: Emerging Practices, Insurgent Epistemologies and Situated Policies” in São Paulo, from November 30 to December 4, 2026, at USP.

Five days bringing together female researchers, researchers, filmmakers and artists working with images, sounds and other multimodal practices.

Save the date and don't miss it!

Organization: University of São Paulo (USP), LISA.

Schedule and participants coming soon.