Workshop

Epistemologies of terreiros and processes of scenic design: a research on ancestral wisdoms

Daniela Beny (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

February 7, 2022, 15h00-17h00 (GMT)

Online event

Comments: Sara Araújo (CES/FEUC) | Moderator: Susana de Noronha (CES)


About

This final workshop was developed on the basis of Daniela Beny's MA and PhD researches, and is part of the activities of the doctoral internship during her stay at CES/UC. Here we intend to share with the participants how the traditional knowledges from the afro-religious Brazilian communities - the Candomblé and Umbanda terreiros - become potentiators of the processes of scenic design based on cosmology, philosophy, aesthetics and poetics from orality and the transmission of knowledge based on embodied experiences.


Objectives

  • To share research approaches with the participants;
  • To present to the participants Brazilian authors who dialogue directly with Epistemologies of the South;
  • To propose dialogues between Brazil and Portugal, as well as with the academic community of other countries that integrate CES activitities regarding academic research in the field of the arts and of traditional Afro-Brazilian cultures.


Bio notes

Daniela Beny holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (BR), is a PhD student in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia (BR) and a visiting PhD student at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (PT).

Sara Araújo is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics of the same university. She has a PhD in "Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st Century", with a thesis on legal pluralism and Epistemologies of the South. She is co-coordinator of the PhD programme in "Sociology of the State, law and justice" and of the Epistemologies of the South Summer School. She was part of the coordination team of the ALICE Project - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: leading Europe towards a new way of sharing experiences (B. S. Santos ERC Advanced Grant), today transformed into the Research Programme in Epistemologies of the South.

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