Public engagement plays a critical role in facilitating and strengthening engagement between researchers and communities beyond universities. It ensures academic work has impact and relevance to wider society. Below you will find some examples of public engagement initiatives that I have had the pleasure of developing, organizing and/or moderating.
livestreamings
events
image, memory and museums in the amazon symposium
Co-organizer. A series of dialogues with scholars, artists, activists, documentarians, indigenous cultural producers, and museum professionals to reflect on the past, present and future of the cultures of the Amazon. Duke University, 2022
image, memory and museums in the amazon symposium
Co-organizer. A series of dialogues with scholars, artists, activists, documentarians, indigenous cultural producers, and museum professionals to reflect on the past, present and future of the cultures of the Amazon. Duke University, 2022
trema III
Co-organizer. Third Meeting of Women, Translation and the Publishing Market. Universidade de São Paulo in partnership with the Latin America Memorial, 2021
trema II
Co-organizer. Second Meeting of Women, Translation and the Publishing Market. Universidade de São Paulo in partnership with the Latin America Memorial, 2020
trema I
Co-organizer. First Meeting of Women, Translation and the Publishing Market. Universidade de São Paulo, 2019
brazil: resistances to the far-right
Co-organizer. Symposium with former congressman Jean Wyllys, University of Manchester, 2019
black feminisms across the americas: a tribute to political activist marielle franco
Co-organizer of the Princeton University Brazil LAB’s Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco, with Prof. Angela Davis, 2019
post-anthropocentric modulations in brazilian contemporary thought
Co-organizer. Symposium, University of Chicago, 2016
podcast
livrofonia
The Livrofonia podcast discusses sound, listening and music in literature. Musician Mariá Portugal and I produced it for Stanford University’s Sense and Sound project. In each episode, writers, musicians, artists and scholars talked about sound and literary writing. Available in Portuguese.
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