Lectures and Round-Tables

 

 

Opening Lecture -  Archaeology and Museum: a few facts about the beginning of MAE-USP

Lecturer: Ulpiano Toledo Bezerra de Meneses - FFLCH/USP

 

 

Round-Table: “Africas and archaeology: Atlantic dialogues”

Debater: Professor, PhD, Leila Maria Goncalves Leite Hernandez - FFLCH/USP

Abstract: In order to know the Americas we must also acknowledge the multiple Africas. In the last few years, Brazilian and Latin-American archaeologists have developed projects intended to understand material remains of Africans and their descendants along the diaspora, whether on American or African soil. This Session aims at uniting Brazilian and Foreign researchers around themes of African Diaspora, promoting the debate of ideas and actions in this growing field of inquiry.

Invited Lecturer: Professor, PhD Luís Claudio Symanski – Federal University of Minas Gerais

Invited Speaker: Professor, PhD  Julio Moracen Naranjo - Federal University of São Paulo

 

 

Round-Table: “Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeology of the Present”

Debater: Professor, PhD Fabíola Andrea Silva

Abstract: Ethnoarchaeology may be roughly understood as a branch of archaeological research where ethnographical observation is a means to apprehending cultural processes and ampler archaeological questions. In the last few years, however, it has gone beyond the assemblage of an ethnographic corpus of data for analogies addressed to the interpretation of archaeological record (so common to the North American processual studies of the 60’s and 70’s). New guidelines and issues have been added to the ethnoarchaeological research, as a response to contemporary demands for a more democratic, politically engaged and decolonizing Science; especially questions concerning the ethics towards studied communities and their territory. With this Session, we hope to make one more place for gathering and discussion of such topics, debating propositions, projects and ethnoarchaeological practices in Brazil anda round the globe.

Invited Lecturer: Professor, PhD Gustavo Gabriel Politis - La Plata Museum, National University of la Plata. 

Invited Speaker:  PhD Juliana Salles Machado – University of São Paulo

 

 

Round-Table: “Contemporary Methods in Archaeology”

Debater: Professor, PhD Ximena Villagran

Abstract: The use of interdisciplinary methods has been one of the pillars of the archaeological discipline. New approaches are built in the constant dialogue with correlated areas and in the application of different techniques for gathering and analyzing data in archaeological contexts. Nonetheless, it is in the clash with archaeological theoretical and methodological references that this new approaches take form. It is for that purpose that this Session proposes a debate on the contemporary approaches and their articulation with other fields of knowledge.

Invited Lecturer: Professor, PhD  Mariano Bonomo - National University of La Plata

Invited Speaker: Professor, PhD Daniela M. Klökler – Federal University of Sergipe/National Museum.

 

Round-Table: “Bioarchaeology and Funerary Archaeology”

Debater: Professor, PhD Veronica Wesolowski de Aguiar e Santos

Abstract: Bioarchaeology is one of the most present themes in archaeology, and can be understood as the investigation of archaeological issues through human body remains and social practices towards death. In Brazil, bioarchaeological studies have been used to investigate and delineate many aspects of labor and subsistence patterns, lifestyles, adaptability, demography and mortuary practices. Funerary archaeology is considered as a trend in bioarchaeology, focusing mostly on issues related to funerary practices, social standards towards death and its many possible symbolic meanings. And so, bioarchaeology and funerary archaeology are not a priori studies of death and extinction of human groups, but rather a study of their fundamental aspects while alive.

Invited Lecturer: Professor, PhD  Sheila Ferraz Mendonça de Souza - National School of Public Health Sérgio Arouca, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil).

Invited Speaker: Professor, PhD Sérgio Francisco S. Monteiro da Silva – Federal University of Pernambuco

 

Forum Archaeology in Conflict Zones.

 

The development of Archaeology in Brazil is deeply connected with the History of indigenous peoples, traditional communities, quilombolas (afro-decendentants) and so many other groups composing the country's mosaic of memories and cultures. In this scenario, there is a dialectical relationship between past and present, in which the knowledge constructed by the scholars has a great influence in the composition and scope of elements claimed by these different actors in the struggle for their rights (whether humans, territorials, etc.). The goal of this Fórum of Archaeology in Conflit Zones is to gather specialists from distinct areas, working on issues related to the archaeological praxis in places with social conflicts, in which Archaeology can play the role of (re)thinking public politics to guarantee memory and life. We hope that by sharing experiences and debating these questions, we can emerge new ideas and projects to further develop an engaged and critical archaeological practice.

 

Speakers:

- PhD Dorothy Lippert - Repatriation Office of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, EUA

- Ms., PhD Candidate Miguel A. Aguilar - Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History - World Archaeological Congress / Global Library Program

- Professor, PhD José Pablo Baraybar - Director of the Peruvian Team of Forensis Anthropology. (EPAF)

- Ms., PhD Candidate Rafael Abreu – MAE-USP. Director of the Archaeology Team of the Forensis Anthropology Office of the National Thruth Commitee (Brazil).

- Professor, Ms., PhD Candidate Bruna Rocha – Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará and University College of London.

 

 

Closing Lecture – From theory to archaeological practice: beyond discourse

Invited Lecturer: Professor, PhD  Luis Guillermo Lumbreras - Greater National University of San Marcos