In-person event
Date: November 25th and 26th
Time: from 9am to 6pm (registration at 8:30am)
LocalAuditorium of the Ipiranga Museum
Free registration: extended until 21/11 in this link
Job openings: 200
Certification: Participants will receive a USP certificate.
There will be simultaneous translation in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language), English, and Portuguese.
Suitable for all ages.
Reflecting on our history allows us to understand how memories were shaped, and how they can be transformed.
On November 25th and 26th, the Ipiranga Museum will hold the International Seminar on Whiteness in Question: Challenges to Decolonizing Memory and Museums, a meeting that brings together leading national and international researchers to discuss the role of cultural institutions in the construction and reproduction of historical narratives.
The seminar invites the public to discuss how whiteness and hegemonic views have shaped collective memories, broadening perspectives on the history, culture, and diversity that characterize societies worldwide. The program proposes a dialogue between museums, memory, and decoloniality.
This initiative is a joint effort of the Museu Paulista of USP, the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), the Center for Latin American Studies (University of Pittsburgh), and the University of Exeter, with the support of the Fundação de Apoio ao Museu Paulista (FAAMP).
Participation is free and participants will receive a USP certificate.
Check out the full schedule:
Download the full schedule in Portuguese..
Download the full program in English.
November 25th
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – Opening Institutional Speech
9:30 – 10:30 – Opening conference – Perspectives on whiteness in Brazil, from a critical perspective on neoliberal subjectivist anti-racism.
Lourenço Cardoso (Unilab)
Moderator: Aline Montenegro Magalhães (Paulista Museum – USP)
10:30 - 12:00 – Dialogue (re)discussing whiteness
James Mark (University of Exeter – United Kingdom)
Barbara Weinstein (New York University – USA)
Moderator: Márcia Chuva (Unirio)
12:00 - 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 -16:00 – Roundtable discussion: Whiteness and memories of immigration.
Zoltán Ginelli (Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences – Slovakia)
Odair da Cruz Paiva (UNIFESP – Retired Professor)
Cristina Branco (Immigration Museum – SP)
Moderator: Ana Paula Nascimento (Museu Paulista – USP)
16:00 – Break
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM – Visit to the exhibition “Debret in Question: Contemporary Perspectives”
November 26
9:30 – Registration
10:00 – 12:00 – Roundtable discussion: Coloniality and racial democracy in memory projects
David Ribeiro (Paulista Museum – USP)
Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape – South Africa
Keila Grinberg (University of Pittsburgh – USA)
Moderator: Guilherme Soares Dias (Guia Negro)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00- Roundtable discussion: whiteness and (dis)memories in museums and cities.
Aline Rochedo Pachamama – Churiah Puri (Instituto Pachamama)
Joyce Farias (Unifesp – SP)
Abílio Ferreira (Tebas Institute – SP)
Moderator: Leila Bianchi Aguiar (Unirio)
16:00 – break
16:30 -18:30 – Round table: Gender, identities, and emancipatory curatorship.
Leandro Karaí Mirim (Museum of Indigenous Cultures – SP)
Lia Vainer Schucman (UFSC)
Geri Augusto (Brown University (USA)
Moderator: Solange Ferraz de Lima (Paulista Museum – USP)
Organizing Committee:
Aline Montenegro Magalhães – Paulista Museum – USP
David William Aparecido Ribeiro – Paulista Museum – USP
Gustavo Carbonaro – Foundation for Support of the Paulista Museum (FAAMP)
Isabela Ribeiro de Arruda – Museu Paulista – USP
James Mark – University of Exeter
Joselaine Mendes Tojo – Foundation for Support of the Paulista Museum (FAAMP)
José Paulo Herreira Bueno – Paulista Museum – USP
Keila Grinberg – Center for Latin American Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
Márcia Chuva – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Roberta Assadourian Santana – Paulista Museum of USP
Solange Ferraz de Lima – Paulista Museum – USP
Scientific Committee:
Aline Montenegro Magalhães – Paulista Museum – USP
David William Aparecido Ribeiro – Paulista Museum – USP
James Mark – University of Exeter
Keila Grinberg – Center for Latin American Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
Márcia Chuva – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Join us in this reflection!
