UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies

Please share this opportunity with any grad students you know in Latin America who might be interested:

"It is with immense pleasure that we announce the Getty Foundation’s new Connecting Art Histories program: “Art, Science, and Traditional Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Community-Engaged Interdisciplinary Research in Art History,” coordinated by Claudia Mattos Avolese (Tufts), Thiago Sevilhano Puglieri (UCLA), and Adam Sellen (UNAM). This initiative aims to train art historians and students from related fields to conduct participatory research with traditional communities in Latin America. We are currently selecting nine graduate students from Latin America to participate in the program, and we would greatly appreciate your assistance in disseminating our call. For more information about this program, please visit our website and Instagram: https://ccrah-cah.com/en/; .cah"

Home - EN - Community-Centered Research in Art History ES PT EN Community-Based Research in Art History A Travelling Research/Training Program supported by the Getty about the project The present project directly aligns with the aims of the Getty Connecting Art Histories initiative by bringing together art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, mu...

Upcoming event of interest at Cardiff University, comparing the anti-colonial struggle of Guaraní-speakers on the Brazil-Paraguay border with that of Palestinians. (Those in California should note the 8-hour time difference).

Land and World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani-Kaiowa Join us online to explore the land and world struggles of Palestinians and Guarani-Kaiowa peoples

Check out this upcoming event from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Centering Indigenous Knowledges in Contemporary Brazil
Tuesday April 21, 2026
2:00–3:30 PM Pacific (5:00–6:30 PM Mato Grosso do Sul)

In this online panel we will hear from three Brazilian educators (broadly defined) about their work promoting the wellbeing of their Native communities and cultures in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Drawing from the fields of cultural geography, human rights, film, education, and beyond, these panelists will discuss how the worldviews of the Terena and Guató peoples inform their professional work in Brazilian universities, primary schools, and cultural institutions and media. UWM professors Mark Freeland (Anthropology, American Indian studies) and Susana Antunes (Portuguese) join them to draw comparisons across regions and disciplines. This discussion will be in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation for both languages.

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Centering Indigenous Knowledges in Contemporary Brazil Tuesday April 21, 2026 4:00–5:30 PM CT (5:00–6:30 PM Mato Grosso do Sul)

Check it out! Our affiliated faculty member Thiago Puglieri (Art History) has received a $330,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to study community-engaged research methods, and to train scholars in the practice! Parabéns, Thiago!

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Our director, Susanna Hecht, will be chairing this discussion at the University of Bristol on Monday, 2/23, at from 8:00-9:30 AM PST. "Beyond Micro and Macro: Rethinking the Methods and Politics of Scale." There is a virtual component for those of us not in the UK.

This keynote fireside chat approaches scale not as a neutral analytic category but as a social and political process. It examines how scales are produced, stabilized, and contested through institutional practices and methodological choices, and how this practice shapes what counts as knowledge and whose perspectives circulate.
The talk, which is based around a series of “fireside” questions, will explore time and spatial scales, scaling solutions and methodologies, the frictions and exclusions generated by scalar logics, and the methodological and ethical stakes of working across scales.

Speakers:

Michael Lempert is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist from the University of Michigan who researches social interaction and communication and the history and politics of scale. He has written widely on the theme of scale, including (with E. Summerson Carr) Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life (2016) and From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale (2024).

Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment. She is one of the world’s leading experts on urbanization and its effects on the planet, with a focus on time and spatial scales, as well as scaling solutions and methodologies. Her book, City Unseen, co-authored with Meredith Reba (YSE MEM ’14), uses satellite imagery to show how cities shape landscapes and how landscapes shape cities.

Beyond Micro & Macro: Rethinking the Methods & Politics of Scale A public lecture from the department of Anthropology and Archaeology and the INFRACURSIONS project

Call for submissions: LASA Brazil Section Awards. Deadline: February 16, 2026

The Brazil Section of LASA invites members to submit scholarly work for annual prizes in all areas of Brazilian Studies. Submissions in Portuguese, English, or Spanish will be considered in the following categories:

a) Book (monograph)
b) Article
c) Doctoral Thesis

For more information, visit the link in the comments.

Summer research grants for UCLA graduate students!

Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2025 Graduate Student Research Grants Summer research awards of up to $2,000 for UCLA graduate students

Check out the recording from our webinar "COP30: Postpartum or Postmortem?"

COP 30: Postpartum or Postmortem? Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Check it out! Our affiliated faculty member Thiago Puglieri talks with UCLA's Division of the Humanities about how he incorporates input from Brazil's Tikuna people into his research on their cultural and artistic practices.

Indigenous people are partners in this cultural conservation research The study led by UCLA professor Thiago Puglieri incorporates meaningful input from the Amazon region’s Tikuna community.

A new issue of Latin American Research Review that may be of interest to scholars who study race in Brazil and Latin America.

In this collection, Race and Ethnicity, African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies, there are studies on Afro-Latinx identity, racialization, black and Indigenous history, and indigenous groups in Latin America.

Race and Ethnicity, African Diaspora, Indigenous Studies Welcome to Cambridge Core