Dates: June 4th, 5th and 6th
Time: 9am to 6pm
Location: Auditorium of the Ipiranga Museum
Accessibility: Sign Language Interpreter
Participants will receive a USP certificate.
Free registration: From 8/5 to 25/05 in this link.
Between June 4th and 6th, the Ipiranga Museum will host the III Study Conference: Colonial São Paulo in Perspective, organized by professors Maria Aparecida de Menezes Borrego (USP), José Carlos Vilardaga (Unifesp) and Alberto Luiz Schneider (PUC-SP), in the Museum's auditorium.
The event brings together researchers dedicated to the study of the former captaincies of São Paulo and São Vicente, with the aim of sharing and debating the results of their most recent investigations. Grounded in historiographical transformations marked by theoretical, thematic, and regional pluralism, the Conference consolidates itself as a space for academic articulation among scholars from different institutions, in addition to fostering new research agendas on the colonial history of São Paulo.
In this edition, the event will feature 27 speakers distributed across six roundtables, with the following thematic areas: indigenous and African protagonism, circulation of knowledge and artifacts, socioeconomic and environmental dynamics, sources and archives, representations and memories, and editorial launches.
The program also includes a guided tour of the Museum's exhibitions related to the event's theme, as well as a special performance by the USP Philharmonic and the Academic and Youth Choirs of OSESP featuring colonial works from São Paulo and works by composers and poets from the BRICS countries. The event will conclude with the launch of recent publications and an autograph session.
Check out the full schedule:
Day 1 – 04/06 (Wednesday)
9am
Accreditation
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Opening
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Guided tour of the exhibitions at the Ipiranga Museum.
2 PM – 3 PM
USP Philharmonic and Academic and Youth Choirs of OSESP
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Opening lecture: Intermediaries in colonial São Paulo, with Alida Metcalf (Rice University).
Day 2 – 05/06 (Thursday)
9am
Accreditation
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Table 1 – Indigenous and African roles
Moderator: David Ribeiro (USP)
- Indigenous presence in the formation of Piratininga and some of its surroundings: “traces” of invisible protagonisms – Casé Angatu (UESC)
- Guardians of Tupiniquim Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Study on Women's Agency and the Materiality of São Paulo – Marianne Sallum (Unifesp)
- Multiethnic Amerindian revolts on the São Paulo plateau (1650s) – Gustavo Velloso (USP)
- Consultations and answers: slaves in government communications from the Captaincy of São Paulo in the 18th century – Ricardo Alexandre Ferreira (Unesp)
1 PM – 3 PM
Table 2 – Circulation of knowledge and artifacts
Moderator: José Rogério Beier (USP)
- Mysticism and Enlightenment in the Fields of Piratininga: the Morgado of Mateus and the founding of the Monastery of Light – Amilcar Torrão Filho (PUC-SP)
- Shared production of knowledge: asymmetries, power relations and the knowledge of local populations (18th century) – Gisele Cristina Conceição (USP)
- The trade in artifacts of written culture in colonial São Paulo – Jean Gomes de Souza (USP)
- The Mineralogical Journey in the Province of São Paulo: Edition and Nation-Building Project (France, 1820s) – Breno Leal Ferreira (ETEC-SP)
3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Table 3 – Socioeconomic and environmental dynamics
Moderator: José Carlos Vilardaga (Unifesp)
- The Secretariat of the Third Order of Saint Francis of São Paulo: Writing, Bureaucracy, and Socioeconomic Dynamics in the 18th Century – Phablo Fachin (USP)
- Free people, freedmen and enslaved people: the dynamics of the construction of an artisan village – colonial Itu – Anicleide Zequini (USP)
- Crosses, wayside crosses and chapels of Santa Cruz in rural and urban areas (1750-1850) – Francisco de Carvalho Dias de Andrade (USP)
- Historical maps: sources for economic and ecological history – Denise Moura (Unesp)
- Animals and the environment as everyday agents in colonial travels in São Paulo – Nelson Aprobato Filho (USP)
Day 3 – 06/06 (Friday)
9am
Accreditation
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Table 4 – Sources and files
Moderator: Francisco de Carvalho Dias de Andrade (USP)
- Knowledge for governing, strategies for demanding: the paths of information in the sources of the Overseas Council (São Paulo, 2nd half of the 18th century) – Andréa Slemian (Unifesp)
- Pastoral visits in colonial São Paulo: possibilities for analysis based on the Curia Archives – Aldair Rodrigues (Unicamp)
- Food under public scrutiny: documentation from the São Paulo city council and a study of practices related to health and food – Rafaela Basso (Unicamp)
- From colonial history to the formation of archives at the Memory Center – Unicamp: the contribution of historian José Roberto do Amaral Lapa – Juliana Gesuelli Meirelles (PUC-Campinas)
1pm-3pm
Table 5 – Representations and memories
Moderator: Alberto Luiz Schneider (PUC-SP)
- Four maps to write the history of the captaincy of São Paulo in the 18th century – José Rogério Beier (USP)
- Representations of travelers in paintings at the Museu Paulista: 1940s – Ana Paula Nascimento (USP)
- Memories of a Verona in São Paulo: the contemporary representation of the conflict between the Pires and Camargo families – Fabrízio Franco (Unifesp)
- Erected Memories: Uses of the Past in the Construction of São Paulo Identity – Raphael Fernando Amaral (USP)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Table 6 – Publishing Releases
Moderator: Maria Aparecida de Menezes Borrego (USP)
- Violence in the colony: crimes of sacrilege in the bishopric of São Paulo, 1745-1800. São Paulo: Editora E-manuscrito, 2024 – Walter Mesquita Barroso (PUC-SP)
- Concubinage: bastardy tinged by color (São Paulo, 17th century). Jundiaí: Paco, 2025 – Marília Tofanetto Alves (Unesp).
- Material and memorial dimensions of São Paulo's colonial past.. São Paulo: Museu Paulista da USP, 2025 (EPUB- Portal de Livros Abertos da USP) – Maria Aparecida de Menezes Borrego (USP)
- The challenges of translation and its relevance today. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil, by Alida Metcalf – Igor Renato Machado Lima
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Closing lecture: São Paulo in the construction of the (memory) of Brazil's Independence, with Cecília Helena de Salles Oliveira (USP)
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Autograph session
