April 2024
Federal University of São Paulo
Rua Carvalho de Mendonça 144
Santos, SP 11070-100 Brazil
renzo.taddei@unifesp.br
+55 (11) 9 8605-6414
Higher Education
2005 Ph.D., MPhil in Anthropology, Teachers College, Columbia University
2000 MA in Language and Education, School of Education, University of São Paulo, Brazil
1995 BSc in Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Academic Appointments
Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil
2013– Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Institute of Marine Studies
2023– Faculty, Intercultural Indigenous Degree in Education (Licenciatura Intercultural Indígena).
2013– Faculty of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences
2019– Faculty of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean
2013– Coordinator of the Research Laboratory on Sociotechnical & Environmental Interactions (LISTA)
2020– Member of the board of the Sustainability and Visions of the Future Chair; member of the advisory board of the Kaapora Chair of Traditional and Non-Hegemonic Forms of Knowledge
Duke University, USA
2018 Mellon Visiting Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Fall 2018
Columbia University, USA
2005–2016 Principal Investigator, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
2007 Adjunct Professor, Teachers College, Anthropology Programs, Fall 2007
University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
2018, 2019 Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities
2017-2023 Visiting Professor (Profesor Asociado Extranjero), Graduate Program in Agronomy, Rural Sociology
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
2009–2013 Assistant Professor, School of Communication
2009–2013 Faculty of the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture
State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
2008–2009 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Yale University, USA
2006–2007 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), USA
2005–2007 Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (joint appointment)
2002–2005 Researcher Assistant for the Climate Communication and Decision Making in Ceará, Northeast Brazil project
The City University of N. York, Borough of Manhattan Community College, USA
2001–2002 Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences Department
Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM), New York, USA
2000–2001 Research Assistant for the Ganja in Jamaica website
Universidade Bandeirantes, Brazil
1997–2000 Adjunct Professor, Department of Education
Other Appointments
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
2022– Member of the Standing Committee on Climate Services
2020–2022 Member of the Standing Committee on Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Services
National Institute for Science and Technology on Climate Change (INCT-MC), Brazil
2021– PI and Coordinator of the cross-cutting theme ‘Communication, dissemination of science, and education for sustainability.’
Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (CIFAS), New York, USA
2020– Director of the Summer School in Ethnographic Methods program
2003 Co-founder of the Summer School program
Editorial Boards
2022– The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
2020– Frontiers in Climate
2019– Society & Natural Resources
2017–2021 Cultural Anthropology
2016– ClimaCom Cultura Científica – pesquisa, jornalismo e arte (Campinas, Brazil)
2015– Territorium (Coimbra, Portugal)
Ad-Hoc Reviewing
Journals
| Agriculture and Human Values Ambiente e Sociedade (Campinas) American Anthropologist American Ethnologist Anthropological Quarterly Anthropology & Education Quarterly Anthropology Today Antipoda Revista de Antropologia y Arqueologia Antropología. Revista Interdisciplinaria del INAH Anuário Antropológico Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas Bulletin for Latin American Research Caderno Eletrônico de Ciências Sociais Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia Chungara-Revista de Antropologia Chilena ClimaCom Cultura Científica – pesquisa, jornalismo e arte Cultural Anthropology Current Anthropology | Delta. Documentação de Estudos em Linguística Teórica e Aplicada (PUCSP) Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (UFPR) Earth Perspectives Earth System Governance Environmental Politics Gaia Scientia GeoHumanitie GIS – Gesto, Imagem, Som – Revista de Antropologia Global Environmental Change História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Horizontes Antropológicos (UFRGS) Human Ecology Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Ideias (Unicamp) International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Journal of Hydrology Journal of Languages and Culture |
| Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Matrizes (USP) Novos Debates Pragmatics and Society R@U: Revista de Antropologia Social dos Alunos do PPGAS-UFSCar Regional Environmental Change Revista Religião & Sociedade Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte Revista de Antropologia (USP) Revista de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso | Revista do Centro de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Revista Uruguaya de Antropología y Etnografía Science, Technology, & Human Values Sociedade e Estado (UnB) Taiwan Journal of Democracy Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and SocietyTrama Weather, Climate, and Society |
Funding agencies
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (Chile)
Comisión Académica de Posgrado (Uruguay)
Comisión de Investigación Científica Tecnológica (Chile)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)
Research Council of Norway
Research Projects and Grants
2023–2025 São Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq (R$ 288.622): researcher. Title of the project: Perceiving-making forest – alliances between arts, sciences and communications in the face of the Anthropocene (Perceber-fazer floresta – alianças entre artes, ciências e comunicações diante do Antropoceno). Coordinator: Susana Oliveira Dias (State University of Campinas).
2022–2022 National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq (R$ 41.000): coordinator and PI Title of the project: Socio-climatic imaginaries and meta-cognitions: their roles in interdisciplinary research and scientific communication in a case study of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Climate Change (INCT-MC).
2022–2026 São Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq (R$ 9.696.750): Co-PI. Title of the project: Brazilian National Institute for Science and Technology on Climate Change, INCT-MC. Coordinator: José Marengo (National Center for Disaster Monitoring and Warning-CEMADEN).
2022–2025 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-FIOCRUZ; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development-CNPq (R$ 325.531): researcher. Title of the project: Amazon as a microcosm of the Anthropocene: the history of transnational research in Amazonian ecology and the environmental impacts of the Great Acceleration (1952-2002). Coordinator: André Felipe Cândido da Silva (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)
2020–2022 Belmont Forum (€ 1,448,000): researcher. Title of the project: OCEAN Sustainability Pathways for Achieving Conflict Transformation. Coordinators: Michael Schilek (Södertörn University, Sweden), Ronald Christofoletti (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil).
2016–2020 Belmont Forum (€ 1,642,000): researcher. Title of the project: Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-Production: A Euro-South American Initiative For Strengthening Societal Adaptation Response to Extreme Events. Coordinators: Carolina Vera (UBA, Argentina/CNRS, France), Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies [CPTEC], National Institute for Space Research [INPE], Brazil)
2013–2016 Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research – IAI ($ 162,000, based at the University of the Republic, Uruguay): Co-PI. Title of the project: Transferring climate knowledge in the science-policy interface for adaptation to drought in Uruguay. Coordinator: Gabriela Cruz Brasesco (UdelaR, Uruguay)
2012–2017 Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research – IAI ($ 765,499.16, based at the University of Buenos Aires): Co-PI. Title of the project: Towards usable climate science – Informing sustainable decisions and provision of climate services to the agriculture and water sectors of southeastern South America. Coordinator: Cecília Hidalgo (UBA, Argentina)
2005–2014 NSF Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Center for Research on Environmental Decisions ($12,500,000, based at Columbia University): Co-PI. Title of the sub-project: Study of individual and group decision-making under imperfect information and climate uncertainty in Ceará, Brazil. Directors: Ben Orlove (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University), Kenneth Broad (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami), Elke Weber (Department of Psychology, Princeton University)
2006–2007 Tinker Foundation ($150,000, based at Columbia University): social science researcher, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Title of the project: Water Allocation, Efficiency, and Vulnerability in Northeast Brazil: Mechanisms based on Groups’ Behaviors, Perceptions, and Recommendations. Coordinator: Alex Pfaff (Sanford Institute, Duke University)
2005–2007 NOAA Office of Global Programs, Climate and Societal Interactions Division ($448,346, based at the University of Miami): social science researcher. Title of the project: Analysis of impacts of the use of climate information on water decisions on different stakeholders in Ceará, Brazil. Coordinator: Kenneth Broad (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)
2004–2005 World Bank/Government of the State of Ceará ($100,000, based at Columbia University): researcher. Designing strategies for improving the effectiveness of communicating climate information to diverse societal groups in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast. Coordinator: Kenneth Broad (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami)
Distinctions, Scholarships, and Awards
2024 National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) Research Productivity Scholarship, Level 2
2023 Keynote Lecture, Geosciences Department, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
2023 The curatorial team of Artíssima Art Fair, Turin, Italy, picked the 2023 edition of the event from the book chapter Intervention of Another Nature (2022)
2023 Best Master’s Thesis Award of ESOCITE.BR (Brazilian Association for Social Studies of Science and Technology) given to advisee Felipe Silva Figueiredo
2018 Mellon Visiting professorship at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University
2012 Keynote Lecture, Geography Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC), Mina Gerais, Brazil
2005 Dissertation nominated for the Bancroft Award, Columbia University
2003–2004 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2003 Research Institute for the Study of Man/Landes Grant – Summer, 2003
2001–2005 CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council) International Doctoral Studies Scholarship – Fall 2001 to Spring 2005
2001 Tinker Grant – Summer 2001
2001 Columbia University, Teachers College Anthropology Programs Scholarship – Spring 2001
2000 Columbia University, Teachers College Intern. Scholarship – Fall 2000
Community Engagement and Outreach
2022 Main proponent of a petition to the University Council of the Federal University of São Paulo to grant an honorary doctorate to the Yanomami indigenous leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa[1]. The petition was approved unanimously and by acclamation on May 11, 2022, and the title was granted on March 15, 2023.
2022 Regular collaborator with the Schools for Climate Project in Brazil and with the Cemaden Education team, at the National Center for Disaster Monitoring and Warning (Cemaden), as part of my activities at the National Institute for Science and Technology on Climate Change (INCT-MC). See also the list of presentations in the invited lectures section of this CV.
2021 Collaborator on the III Forum of Young Ocean Ambassadors: Climate Conference[2], attended by students from schools in different parts of Brazil and organized by the Ocean Tide (Maré de Ciência) outreach program at the Federal University of São Paulo, June 16, 2022.
2021 Collaborator to the II Forum of Young Ocean Ambassadors: COP26 and Climate Change[3], attended by students from schools in different parts of Brazil and organized by the Ocean Tide (Maré de Ciência) outreach program at the Federal University of São Paulo, November 11, 2021.
2020– Acted as a consultant in the creation of an Intercultural Indigenous Degree in Education (Licenciatura Intercultural Indígena) at the Federal University of São Paulo and became a faculty member subsequently.
2015– Collaborated with many artists linked to climate change, the Anthropocene, and environmental issues in general, including the artist and performer Marina Lobo Guzzo[4], the artist and writer Susana Oliveira Dias[5], and the artist Camila Sposati. The interactions with Sposati resulted in lectures at the Peres Art Museum in Miami as part of The School of the Forest[6] exhibition by Marjetica Potrč in 2015. In 2023, the director of the Italian art gallery fair Artíssima picked the theme of that year’s edition based on my 2022 book chapter Intervention of Another Nature (see book chapter list)[7].
2008, 2012 Collaborated as a field producer for the shootings in Brazil for the documentaries One Water (2008) by filmmakers Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi (University of Miami) and On Cities (2012) by filmmaker Sanjeev Chatterjee.
2007 Member of the Engineers Without Borders Faculty Advisory Committee, Columbia University.
Other Synergistic Activities and Public Service
2023 Member of the Consultive Council of the Protected Area Parque Estadual Xixová-Japuí (PEXJ), in the city of São Vicente, state of São Paulo.
2022 Session chair of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Forum 2022 – Scientific Event, Brasília, May 31 to June 2, 2022. The event was held in preparation for the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA) Declaration, signed on July 13, 2022, in Washington, DC.
2021- Member of the Affirmative Action Office of the Dean of Research and Graduate Programs of the Federal University of São Paulo.
2021–2023 Member of the Committee for Expatriate and Refugee Students of the Federal University of São Paulo.
2021 Member of the working group that created the Policy for the Promotion of Ethnic-Racial Equity and Equality, Prevention and Combat of Racism of the Federal University of São Paulo.
2020–2022 Member of the Accessibility and Inclusion Committee, Santos Campus of the Federal University of São Paulo.
2020–2021 Member (elected) of the Council for Students’ Affairs, Federal University of São Paulo.
2017–2021 Member of the Internal Review Board of the Federal University of São Paulo.
1993–1994 Councilman (elected) at the University Council for Culture and Extension Activities, University of São Paulo.
1993–1994 President of the Student Senate of the Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil (Grêmio Politécnico).
Ten Selected Publications on the Anthropology of Climate Change and Related Topics
10. Asayama, S.; De Pryck, K.; Beck, S.; Cointe, B.; Edwards, P. N.; Guillemot, H.; Gustafsson, K. M.; Hartz, F.; Hughes, H.; Lahn, B.; Leclerc, O.; Lidskog, R.; Livingston, J. E.; Lorenzoni, I.; Macdonald, J. P.; Mahony, M.; Miguel, J.C.H.; Monteiro, M.; O´Reilly, J.; Pearce, W.; Petersen, A.; Siebenhuner, B.; Skodvin, T.; Standring, A.; Sundqvist, G.; Taddei, R.; van Bavel, B.; Vardy, M.; Yamineva, Y; Hulme, M. Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC. Nature Climate Change, v. 13, p. 01, 2023.
9. Miguel, J.C.H., Taddei, R. and Monteiro, M. Civic Epistemologies. In: Pryck, K. and Hulme, M. (orgs.), A critical assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 217-224
8. Taddei, R.; Shiratori, K; Bulamah, R. Decolonizing the Anthropocene (wbiea2519). The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
7. Taddei, R. Kopenawa and the environmental sciences in the Amazon. In Bubandt, N. and Wentzer, T.S. (eds.), Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis. London: Routledge, 2023, p. 353-372.
6. Taddei, R. Alter geoengineering (Alter geoengenharia). In Viveiros de Castro, E., Danowski, D, and Saldanha, R. (eds.), The Thousand Names of Gaia (Os Mil Nomes de Gaia). Rio de Janeiro. Editora Machado, 2022, p. 218-238.
5. Taddei, R. Anthropology and the Pragmatics of Climate Knowledge in Brazil. American Anthropologist, v. 122 (2020), n. 4, pp. 944-947
4. Taddei, R. The field of Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives. In: García-Acosta, V. (ed.), The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 45-62 (republished in Spanish in 2021 by Editorial Gedisa Mexicana/COLEF/CIESAS/COLMICH, pp. 99-124)
3. Fleury, L.C.; Miguel, J.C.H.; Taddei, R. Climate Change, Science and Society. Sociologias, Porto Alegre, v. 21, n. 51, p. 18-42, Aug. 2019
2. Taddei, R. Meteorologists and Rain Prophets: knowledge, practices, and politics of the atmosphere (Meteorologistas e profetas da chuva: conhecimentos, práticas e políticas da atmosfera). São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 2017.
1. Taddei, R. Anthropologies of the Future: On the Social Performativity of (Climate) Forecasts. In: Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, eds., Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 246-265 (republished in Helen Kopnina (org.), Environmental Anthropology, Major Works, 4 vols. London: Taylor & Francis, 2015, v. 3, pp. 149-168).
Complete List of Publications
Books
3. Marras, S; Taddei, R. (eds.). The Antropocene: on ways of composing worlds (O Antropoceno: sobre modos de compor mundos). São Paulo: Editora Fino Traço, 2022.
2. Taddei, R. Meteorologists and Rain Prophets: knowledge, practices and politics of the atmosphere (Meteorologistas e profetas da chuva: conhecimentos, práticas e políticas da atmosfera). São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 2017.
1. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. (eds.). After the Rain Didn’t Come – Social Responses to Droughts in the Amazon, Northeast, and Southern Brazil (Depois que a chuva não veio – Respostas sociais às secas na Amazônia, no Nordeste, e no Sul do Brasil). Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos/Instituto Comitas para Estudos Antropológicos, 2010.
Articles
53. Cavalcante, E.R.; Ribeiro, V.V.; Taddei, R.; Castro, I.B.; Alves, M.J. High levels of anthropogenic litter trapped in a mangrove area under the influence of different uses. Marine Pollution Bulletin, v. 200, p. 116045, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116045
52. Asayama, S.; De Pryck, K.; Beck, S.; Cointe, B.; Edwards, P. N.; Guillemot, H.; Gustafsson, K. M.; Hartz, F.; Hughes, H.; Lahn, B.; Leclerc, O.; Lidskog, R.; Livingston, J. E.; Lorenzoni, I.; Macdonald, J. P.; Mahony, M.; Miguel, J.C.H.; Monteiro, M.; O´Reilly, J.; Pearce, W.; Petersen, A.; Siebenhuner, B.; Skodvin, T.; Standring, A.; Sundqvist, G.; Taddei, R.; van Bavel, B.; Vardy, M.; Yamineva, Y; Hulme, M. Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC. Nature Climate Change, v. 13, p. 01, 2023.
51. Taddei, Renzo. Is there Room for Other-than-Human Agency in Transdisciplinary Research? An Ethnographic Reflection. Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia Tecnología y Sociedad (en línea), v. 18, p. 247-264, 2023.
50. Martins, I. M.; Prado, D. S.; Gonçalves, L. R.; Jacobi, P. R.; Kefalas, H. C.; Oliveira-Monteiro, N. R.; Scachetti, R. E.; Taddei, R.; Vianna, L. P.; Vivacqua, M.; Quito, L.; Vilches, V. N.; Xavier, L. Y.; Christofoletti, R.A. Ocean conflicts for whom and why? Participatory conflict assessment in the southeast coast of Brazil. Maritime Studies, v. 22, p. 40, 2023.
49. Masterson-Algar, P.; Jenkins, S.R.; Windle, G.; Morris-Webb, E.; Takahashi, C.K.; Burke, T.; Rosa, I.; Martinez, A.S.; Torres-Mattos, E.B.; Taddei, R.; … Christofoletti, R.A. When One Health Meets the United Nations Ocean Decade: Global Agendas as a Pathway to Promote Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Nature Relationships. Frontiers in Psychology, v. 13, p. 809009, 2022.
48. Miguel, J.C.H.; Taddei, R. Electrical energy infrastructure and social worlds: an anthropological perspective on the circulation of meteorological artifacts. Energy Research & Social Science, v. 90, p. 102641, 2022.
47. Miguel, J. C. H.; Taddei, R.; Figueiredo, F. S. Coronavirus, infrastructures and the sociotechnical (dis)entanglements in Brazil. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, v. 4, p. 100146, 2021.
46. Escada, P.; Coelho, C.A.S.; Taddei, R.; Dessai, S.; Cavalcanti, I.F.A.; Donato, R.; Kayano, M.; Martins, E.S.P.R.; Miguel, J.C.H.; Monteiro, M.; Moscati, M.C.L. Climate services in Brazil: Past, present and future perspectives. Climate Services, v. 24, p. 100276, 2021.
45. Cruz, G.; Gravina, V.; Baethgen, W.; Taddei, R. A typology of climate information users for adaptation to agricultural droughts in Uruguay. Climate Services, v. 22, p. 100214, 2021.
44. Taddei, R. Anthropology and the Pragmatics of Climate Knowledge in Brazil. American Anthropologist, v. 122, n. 4, 2020, pp. 944-947
43. Peres, A. P.; Neves, N. C. R. F.; Taddei, R. Atitudes e percepções de gestores ambientais da Zona Costeira de SP frente às mudanças climáticas. Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, v. 58, p. e191793, 2020.
42. Taddei, R.; et al. CA comment on Haunting, Dutching, and Interference: provocations for the anthropology of time, by David Zeitlyn. Current Anthropology, vol. 61, No. 4, August 2020, pp. 507-508.
41. Taddei, R.; Scarso, D.; Castanheira, N. A necessária indomesticabilidade de termos como Antropoceno: desafios epistemológicos e ontologia relacional. Revista Opinião Filosófica, v. 11, p. 1-19, 2020.
40. Taddei, R.; Bulamah, R.; Schavelzon, S., eds. Bolsonaro and the unmaking of Brazil (Hot Spot collection). Editors’ Forum/Fieldsites, Society for Cultural Anthropology, January 2020. https://culanth.org /fieldsights/editors-forum/hot-spots
39. Fleury, L.C.; Miguel, J.C.H.; Taddei, R. Climate Change, Science and Society. Sociologias, Porto Alegre, v. 21, n. 51, p. 18-42, Aug. 2019
38. Taddei, R.; Haines, S. When climatologists meet social scientists: ethnographic speculations around interdisciplinary equivocations. Sociologias 21 (51): 186-209, 2019. DOI: 10.1590/15174522-0215107.
37. Taddei, R. No que está por vir, seremos todos filósofos-engenheiros-dançarinos ou não seremos nada. Moringa – Artes Do Espetáculo (UFPB), v. 10, p. 65-90, 2019.
36. Monteiro, N. R. O.; Scachetti, R. E.; Taddei, R. Relações amorosas na adolescência: desenvolvimentos humanos e novos desafios tecnológicos. Leopoldianum (Unisantos), v. 45, p. 85-90, 2019.
35. Guzzo, M. S. L.; Taddei, R. Experiência Estética e Antropoceno: Políticas do Comum Para os Fins de Mundo. Desigualdade & Diversidade (PUCRJ), v. 17, p. 72-88, 2019.
34. Scachetti, R.E.; Taddei, R. The falling sky: words of a Yanomami shaman [review]. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, v. 1, p. 47-49, 2018
33. Pfaff, A.; Velez, M.A.; Broad, K.; Hamoudi, A.; Taddei, R. Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision. Water Resources and Economics, p. 1, 2018
32. Cruz, G.; Baethgen, W.; Bartaburu, D.; Bidegain, M.; Giménez, A.; Methol, M.; Morales, H.; Picasso, V.; Podesta, G.; Taddei, R.; Terra, R.; Tiscornia, G. ; Vinocur, M. Thirty years of multi-level processes for adaptation of livestock production to droughts in Uruguay. Weather Climate and Society, v. 10, p. doi:10.1175/WCA, 2018
31. Bailão, A. S.; Pinheiro, J.; Oliveira, J. C.; Marini, M.; Taddei, R.; Marras, S. Entreviver – desafios cosmopolíticos contemporâneos. Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, v. 69, p. 13-22, 2018
30. Taddei, R. O dia em que virei índio – a identificação ontológica com o outro como metamorfose descolonizadora. Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, v. 69, p. 289-306, 2018
29. Taddei, R. El día en que me transformé en indio – la identificación ontológica con el otro como metamorfosis descolonizadora. Revista Uruguaya de Antropología y Etnografía, v. 3, p. 98-108, 2018
28. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Education, anthropology, ontologies. Educação e Pesquisa, v. 42, n. 1, 2016, pp. 27-38
27. Taddei, R.; Hidalgo, C. Antropología posnormal. Cuadernos de Antropología Social (Impresa), v. S/V, p. 21-32, 2016
26. Taddei, R. La invención de la violencia (de las hinchadas de buenos aires.) Antipoda Revista de Antropologia y Arqueologia, v. 24, p. 15-33, 2016
25. Taddei, R. Os desastres em uma perspectiva antropológica. ComCiência, Dossiê Desastres Ambientais, Campinas, No. 176, 10/03/2016
24. Di Giulio, G.; Groves, C.; Monteiro, M.; Taddei, R. Communicating through vulnerability: knowledge politics, inclusion and responsiveness in responsible research and innovation (RRI). Journal of Responsible Innovation, p. 1-37, 2016
23. Taddei, R. Conhecendo (n)o Antropoceno. ClimaCom, v. 3, p. 1, 2016
22. Macnaghten, P.; Owen, R.; Stilgoe, J.; Wynne, B; Lezaun, J.; …; Taddei, R.; et al. Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades. Teoria & Pesquisa, v. 24, p. 18-24, 2015
21. Rudiak-Gould, P.; Taddei, R.; et al. CA Comment on Climate Change and Accusation. Current Anthropology, v. 55, p. 382-383, 2014
20. Taddei, R. As secas como modos de enredamento. ClimaCom Cultura Científica – pesquisa, jornalismo e arte. Ano 01, No. 01, 2014 – “Redes”
19. Taddei, R. Ser-estar no sertão: capítulos da vida como filosofia visceral. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.50, pp. 597-607. Epub June 24, 2014. ISSN 1807-5762
18. Taddei, R. Sobre a invisibilidade dos desastres na antropologia brasileira. In: Valencio, N. (Ed.), “Emergências e desastres relacionados à água: o processo desumanizador implicado na disseminação da cultura institucional neoliberal de gestão técnica”. Cadernos de Trabalho WATERLAT, Água e Desastres
17. Macnaghten, P.; Owen, R.; Stilgoe, J.; Wynne, B; Lezaun, J.; …; Taddei, R.; et al. Responsible innovation across borders: tensions, paradoxes and possibilities. Journal of Responsible Innovation, v. 1, p. 191-199, 2014
16. Taddei, R. Difference, education, and the perversities of common sense: notes on the relation between Indians and non-Indians in Brazil. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, Vol 7, No 1 (2013), pp. 63-72
15. Pfaff, A.; Velez, M.A.; Taddei, R.; Broad, K. Unequal Information, Unequal Allocation: Bargaining field experiments in NE Brazil. Environmental Science & Policy (2013), v.26, 90-101
14. Taddei, R. The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters. Ethics, Policy & Environment, Vol. 15, Issue 2 (2012), pp. 252-267
13. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Marcas de uma democratização diluída: modernidade, desigualdade e participação na gestão de águas no Ceará. Revista de Ciências Sociais (UFC), Fortaleza, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2011), 8-33
12. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Etnografia, Meio Ambiente e Comunicação Ambiental. Caderno Pedagógico, Lageado, v. 8, n. 2, p. 09-28, 2011
11. Taddei, R. Watered-Down Democratization: modernization versus social participation in water management in Northeast Brazil. Agriculture and Human Values, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2011), 109-121. DOI 10.1007/s10460-010-9259-9
10. Orlove, B.; Taddei, R.; Podesta, G.; Broad, K. Environmental Citizenship in Latin America: Climate, Intermediate Organizations and Political Subjects. Latin American Research Review, 46.S (2011): 115-140
9. Van Oel, P.R.; Krol, M.S.; Hoekstra, A.Y.; Taddei, R. Feedback mechanisms between water availability and water use in a semi-arid river basin: a geographically explicit multi-agent simulation approach. Environmental Modelling & Software, 25 (2010) 433-443, doi 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.018
8. Peterson, N.; Broad, K.; Orlove, B.; Roncoli, C.; Taddei, R.; Velez, M.A. Participatory processes and climate forecast use: sociocultural context, discussion, and consensus. Climate and Development 2 (2010) 14-29, doi 10.3763/cdev.2010.0033
7. Taddei, R. Notes on the Semiotic Phenomenology of Social Discrimination. Galáxia, No. 17, 2009, pp. 147-159
6. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Gender and the Semiotics of Political Visibility in the Brazilian Northeast. Social Semiotics. Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2009, pp. 149-164
5. Taddei, R. Blame: the hidden (and difficult) side of the climate change debate. Anthropology News, Vol. 49, No. 8, November 2008, pp. 45-46
4. Taddei, R. A comunicação social de informações sobre tempo e clima: o ponto de vista do usuário. Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Meteorologia (BSBMET), Ago-Dez., 2008, pp. 76-86
3. Broad, K.; Pfaff, A.; Taddei, R.; Arumugam, S.; Lall, U.; Souza Filho, FA Climate, stream flow prediction and water management in Northeast Brazil: societal trends and forecast value. Climatic Change, Volume 84, Number 2, September 2007
2. Taddei, R. Os usos da lei e a vida social da legislação hídrica – Notas e reflexões sobre o caso do Ceará. Revista Teoria e Pesquisa, No. 44/45, jan./jul. 2004
1. Taddei, R. Notas sobre la economía política de categorías y denominaciones en el fútbol argentino. Educación Física y Deportes, Year 8, No. 55, December 2002
Chapters
24. Taddei, R. O Antropoceno exige pensar o cuidado de novas formas. In: Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria-Executiva. Superintendência Estadual do Rio de Janeiro.. (Org.). Encontros de cultura e saúde: como a antropologia pode ajudar a pensar o SUS hoje. Rio de Janeiro: Ministério da Saúde, 2024, p. 79-91.
23. Miguel, J.C.H., Taddei, R. and Monteiro, M. Civic Epistemologies. In: Pryck, K. and Hulme, M. (orgs.), A critical assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 217-224.
22. Taddei, R. Kopenawa and the environmental sciences in the Amazon. In Bubandt, N. and Wentzer, T.S. (eds.), Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis. London: Routledge, 2023, p. 353-372.
21. Taddei, R.; Shiratori, K; Bulamah, R. Decolonizing the Anthropocene (wbiea2519). The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
20. Taddei, R. Alter geoengineering (Alter geoengenharia). In Viveiros de Castro, E., Danowski, D, and Saldanha, R. (eds.), The Thousand Names of Gaia (Os Mil Nomes de Gaia). Rio de Janeiro. Editora Machado, 2022, p. 218-238.
19. Taddei, R. Intervention of Another Nature: Resources for Thinking in (and out of) the Anthropocene. In V. Grossman, C. Malterre-Barthes, and C. Miguel (eds.), Everyday Matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2022, p. 125-141.
18. Taddei, R. Introdução. In: Medeiros, E. O jornalismo em equívoco: sobre o telefone celular e a invenção diferenciante. Juiz de Fora: Editora UFJF, 2022, v. 1, p. 4-9.
17. Taddei, R.; Oliveira, J. C.; Scaramuzzi, I. Povos indígenas, populações tradicionais e mudanças climáticas. In: Edson Grandisoli; Pedro Henrique Campello Torres; Pedro Roberto Jacobi; Renata Ferraz de Toledo; Sonia Maria Viggiani Coutinho; Kauê Lopes dos Santos. (Org.). Novos temas em emergência climática: para os ensinos fundamental e médio. São Paulo: IEE-USP, 2021, p. 59-63.
16. Taddei, R. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil. In Espírito Santo, D. and J. Hunter (eds.), Mattering the Invisible – Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral. Berghahn Books, 2021, pp. 179-199.
15. Taddei, R. The field of Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives. In: García-Acosta, V. (ed.), The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America; State of the Art. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 45-62 (republished in Spanish in 2021 by Editorial Gedisa Mexicana/COLEF/CIESAS/COLMICH, pp. 99-124)
14. Taddei, R. O que conta como sucesso quando a ciência interage com o resto da sociedade? E quem decide isso?. In: Susana Oliveira Dias, Renato Salgado de Melo Oliveira, Fernanda Cristina Martins Pestana. (Org.). Conversas in-finitas: mudanças climáticas, divulgação científica, educação e…. Campinas: BCCL/UNICAMP, 2020, pp. 36-52.
13. Taddei, R. Sertão-terapia para velhas certezas (ambientais) em crise. In: Gabriel Cid Garcia. (Org.). Cinema em Foco: cinema, cultura e pensamento, Vol. III. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2020, p. 247-258.
12. Taddei, R. La construcción de las bases del diálogo interdisciplinario: especulaciones etnográficas. In: Hidalgo, Cecilia; Vienni, Bianca; Simón, Claudia. (Org.) Encrucijadas Interdisciplinarias. Buenos Aires: Fundacción CICCUS; CLACSO, 2018, v. 1, p. 47-55
11. Taddei, R. The invention of violence. In: Silva, D. (Org.). Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017, v. 1, p. 33-56
10. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Prefácio à edição brasileira. In: Shome, D; Marx, S. (Org.). A Comunicação das Mudanças Climáticas: Um guia para cientistas, jornalistas, educadores, políticos e demais interessados. Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Pesquisas sobre Decisões Ambientais, 2016, v. 1, p. 11-12
9. Monteiro, N. R. O.; Scachetti, R. E.; Taddei, R. Atendimento à gestante: algumas sinalizações psicossociais e antropológicas. In: Liliana Takaoka; Lúcia Coutinho; Rosa Maria Eid Weiler. (Org.). Odontopediatria: A transdisciplinaridade na saúde integral da criança. Barueri: Manolo, 2015, v. 1, p. 33-41
8. Taddei, R. O lugar do saber local (sobre ambiente e desastres). In: Siqueira, A.; Valencio, N.; Siena, M.; Malagoli, MA. (Org.). Riscos de desastres relacionados à água: aplicabilidade de bases conceituais das Ciências Humanas e Sociais para a análise de casos concretos. São Carlos: Rima Editora, 2015
7. Taddei, R. Devir torcedor. In: Arthur A. L. Ferreira, André Martins e Robert Segal (orgs), Uma bola no pé e uma ideia na cabeça: o que o futebol nos faz pensar. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da UFRJ, 2015.
6. Taddei, R. Anthropologies of the Future: on the social performativity of (climate) forecasts. In Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, eds., Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions. London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 246-265 (republished in: Helen Kopnina (Org.). Environmental Anthropology (Major Works, 4 vols.). London: Taylor & Francis, 2015, v. 3, pp. 149-168).
5. Taddei, R. Social participation and the politics of climate in Northeast Brazil. In: Latta, Alex; Wittman, Hannah (Orgs.). Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012, pp. 77-93.
4. Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. Introdução. In: Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L. (Org.). Depois que a chuva não veio. Respostas sociais às secas na Amazônia, no Nordeste e no Sul do Brasil. Fortaleza: Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos/Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study, 2010
3. Taddei, R. Oráculos de lluvia en tiempos modernos. Medios, desarrollo económico y transformaciones de identidad social de los profetas del Sertão. Historia y Desastres Vol. III, La Red/CIESAS, Mexico, 2009, pp. 331-352
2. Taddei, R. Oráculos da Chuva em Tempos Modernos: Mídia, Desenvolvimento Econômico, e as Transformações na Identidade Social dos Profetas do Sertão. In Martins, Karla (org.), Profetas da Chuva. Fortaleza: Tempo d´Imagem, 2006.
1. Taddei, R. O Orifício de Pandora – A Imagem e a Imaginação. In Miranda, Hercilia Tavares de and Luís Carlos de Menezes (orgs.). Almanaque de criação pedagógica: a aventura da explicação – ciência e linguagens. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2002.
Translation
Shome, D; Marx, S. (Org.). A Comunicação das Mudanças Climáticas: Um guia para cientistas, jornalistas, educadores, políticos e demais interessados [Translated by Taddei, R.; Gamboggi, A.L.] Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Pesquisas sobre Decisões Ambientais, 2016 [Original publication: The Psychology of Climate Change Communication – a guide for scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public. N.Y.: Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, 2009.]
Graduate work
Taddei, R. Of Clouds and Streams, Prophets and Profits: the Political Semiotics of Climate and Water in the Brazilian Northeast. Ph.D. diss., Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005. Nominated for the Bancroft Award. Advisor: Lambros Comitas.
Conference Organization
19. Round table chair. Title: Anti-Encyclopedia – reconfiguring knowledge in academic practice. Joint annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (ESOCITE), Cholula, Mexico, December 9, 2022.
17. Member of the scientific committee. VIII Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. November 22 to 26, 2021, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
16. Panel organizer. Panel “Infraestruturas e ecologias em crise: reflexões do tempo presente e de alianças futuras”, with Jean Miguel and Lorena Fleury. VIII Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. November 23 to 25, 2021, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
15. Panel organizer. Panel “Ciência, a Agenda 2030 e a Década do Oceano”. Congresso Acadêmico da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, June 22, 2021.
14. Member of the scientific committee. VI Meeting of the Latin American Anthropological Association (ALA). Montevideo, Uruguay/Online, November 23 to 28, 2020.
13. Member of the scientific committee. 8th Brazilian National Science, Technology, and Society Symposium. Belo Horizonte, 15-17 August 2019.
12. General organizer Seminar The Challenge of Anthropologies of/in Multiple Worlds: Politics, Decolonization, and Beyond, with the participation of Marisol de la Cadeña (UC Davis), Mario Blaser (Memorial University), Christine Folch (Duke), and Margaret Wiener (UNC Chapel Hill). December 7, 2018.Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University.
11. General organizer (with Marras, S. [USP-Brazil]; Oliveira, J. C. [UNICAMP-Brazil]; Bailão, A. S. [USP-Brazil]; Marini, M. [USP-Brazil]; Pinheiro, J. [USP-Brazil]) VI Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. May 16 to 19, 2017, Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
10. General organizer (with Kofes, M.S. [UNICAMP-Brazil]; Viana, M. [UNICAMP-Brazil]; Ingold, T. [Aberdeen-UK]; Taks, J. [UdelaR-Uruguay]; Rostagnol, S. [UdelaR-Uruguay]; Bolton, M. [Aberdeen-UK]; Simonetti, C. [Catolica-Chile].) British Council Tri-Lateral Workshop: “How anthropology can contribute to affirmative action in South America in the fields of human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability.” February 20 to 24, 2017, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
9. Panel organizer. Panel 20: “Climate and Climate Sciences from the Perspective of the South,” Anthropology of Weather and Climate Change Conference, May 27 to 29, 2016, British Museum and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK.
8. Member of the scientific committee. XI Meeting of the Anthropology of MERCOSUR. November 30 to December 4, 2015, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
7. Panel organizer (with Haines, S. [Oxford University-UK]). Session “Anticipating familiar/strange environments: the social lives of scientific predictions,” 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 18 to 22, 2015, Denver (CO).
6. Member of the scientific committee. V Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. May 20 to 22, 2015, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
5. Panel organizer (with Garcia Acosta, V. [CIESAS-Mexico].) Panel “Anthropology of risk and disasters,” II Mexican-Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, University of Brasília, Brasília, November 6, 2013.
4. Member of the scientific committee. IV Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. September 24 to 26, 2013, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
3. Panel organizer (with Manica, D. [UFRJ-Brazil].) Panel “Humans and non-humans: lines, becomings, symmetrizations,” IV Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology. September 24 to 26, 2013, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
2. Panel organizer (with Pennesi, K. [Western Ontario-Canada].) Panel “Anthropologies of Forecasting as Anthropologies of the Future,” 110th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, 2011.
1. Panel organizer (with Crate, S. [George Mason]; Halvorsen, K.E. [Michigan Tech]; Natcher, D.C. [Saskatchewan-Canada]). Sessions “Climate and Culture” I and II, Annual Meeting of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE). Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 2007.
Conference Presentations
41. Participant of the roundtable “Anthropology and Climate Change: Transitions”, organized by the American Anthropological Association Climate Change Interest Group, and held at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the AAA/CASCA in Toronto, Canadá. Toronto, November 16, 2023.
40. Meteorological services through knowledge co-production in the Brazilian energy sector: organizational context, meteorology facts as communication devices, and the co-production learning curve. First WWRP/SERA Weather and Society Conference (online), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), March 10, 2022.
39. Spirituality and climate. I Encontro Latinoamericano de Estudios de Espiritualidade (webinar). April 28, 2021
38. Quem tem permissão para fazer antropologia reversa? O desafio da reversão do lugar de fala na pesquisa sobre Espiritualidade. GT50: Religião e Sociedade: reunir temáticas e revisitar limites. 44th Annual meeting of the National Association of the Graduate Programs in Social Sciences-ANPOCS, Federal University of the ABC, December 8, 2020.
37. Quem tem permissão para fazer antropologia reversa? O desafio da reversão do lugar de fala na pesquisa sobre Espiritualidade. In Simposio Antropologías Del Sur O Antropologías Propias: Praxis Concretas Y Reflexiones Sobre Antropologías In-Disciplinadas, De La Red De Antropologías Del Sur. Reunión de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropologia, November 25, 2020.
36. Coronavirus, infraestructuras y (des)entrelazamientos sociotécnicos en Brasil. Paper presented at Vivir, discutir la pandemia. COVID-19 desde la antropología del riesgo y los desastres en America Latina. Pre-conference event of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropologia, October 13, 2020.
35. VII Brazilian Meeting of the Anthropology of Science and Technology (REACT). Paper: What does not fit into anthropology? Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (Brazil), May 8, 2019.
34. 18th meeting of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUEAS). Paper: The Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: state of the art. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (Brazil), July 16, 2018
33. VI Congress of the Latin-American Anthropological Association (ALA). Paper: The development of an anthropology of disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá (Colombia), June 9, 2017
32. VII Connections Seminar – Deleuze and cosmopolitics and radical ecologies and new Earth and… Paper: Aberrant in-mediations. State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, November 28, 2017
31. VI Brazilian Meeting of the Anthropology of Science and Technology (REACT). Paper: Leaving the ontological closet. University of São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil), May 18, 2017
30. 30th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (RBA). Paper: The anthropology of disasters in Brazil. Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa (Brazil), August 4, 2016
29. Anthropology of Weather and Climate Change conference. Paper: Alter geoengineering. British Museum and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London (UK), May 29, 2016
28. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Paper: Post-normal anthropology. Denver (CO), November 18, 2015
27. XI Meeting of the Anthropology of MERCOSUR (RAM). Paper: Variables, axioms, and doxa in the construction of the discursive bases of interdisciplinary dialogue: an ethnographically informed analysis. University of the Republic, Montevideo (Uruguay), December 4, 2015
26. 29th Annual meeting of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (RBA). Paper: Ontological dimensions of the absent: materialities and corporalities, after the rain hasn’t come. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal (Brazil), August 5, 2014.
25. 29th Annual meeting of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (RBA). Paper: Geoengineering, Brazilian style. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal (Brazil), August 6, 2014.
24. Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Paper: Alter Geoengineering. Buenos Aires (Argentina), August 20, 2014.
23. II Meeting of Mexican and Brazilian Anthropologists (EMBRA). Paper: On the invisible transversality (or the transversal invisibility) of disasters in the Brazilian anthropological agenda. University of Brasilia (UnB), Brasília, November 6, 2013.
22. IV Brazilian Meeting of the Anthropology of Science and Technology (REACT). Paper: Being in the hinterlands: life as visceral philosophy. State University of Campinas, Campinas (Brazil), September 25, 2013.
21. II Mexican Ethnology and Social Anthropology Congress. Paper: The state (or its absence) is good to think (about the climate). Morelia, Michoacán (Mexico), September 26, 2012.
20. 12th Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Paper: Forecasting not to see the future: comments on the performative dimensions of climate forecasting. University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, Paris, July 12, 2012.
19. 28th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (RBA). Paper: The prognostication of climate as socio-comunicative performance. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil), July 3, 2012.
18. 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Paper: Anthropologies of Forecasting as Anthropologies of the Future: comments. Montreal (Canada), November 18, 2011.
17. Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding Through the Social Sciences (ICARUS). Paper: Assessing Adaptation Outcomes under Asymmetric Climate Information. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 7, 2011.
16. Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding Through the Social Sciences (ICARUS). Paper: Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 5, 2011.
15. III Brazilian Meeting of the Anthropology of Science and Technology (REACT). Paper: Practices of the knowledge of the future, and the knowledge of the future in practice: climate and anthropology. University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, October 29, 2011.
14. Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability, and Development in Semi-arid Regions (ICID 2010.) Paper: Uncertainty, culture, and climate change. Fortaleza, August 17, 2010.
13. XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).Paper: Oracles of Rain in Modern Times: Economic Development and the Changes in the Social Identities of the Rain Prophets of Northeast Brazil., Rio de Janeiro, June 11, 2009.
12. 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Paper: The Pragmatics of Prognostication in Times of Climate Change. Philadelphia, December 3, 2009.
11. Conference of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology: Weather, Knowledge and Everyday Life. Paper: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Climate, Risk, and Blame in the Brazilian Northeast. Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST), Rio de Janeiro, May 27, 2008.
10. ECRG Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Series – World Bank. Paper: Water Bargaining & Climate Adaptation: asymmetric access to information affects equity. Authors: Pfaff, A.; Velez, M.A.; Broad, K.; Cordeiro, J.H.M.; Taddei, R. Washington, D.C., May 7, 2008.
9. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Watered Down Democratization: the effects of the modernization discourse on social participation in water management in Northeast Brazil. Washington, DC, November 30, 2007.
8. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Lambros Comitas Through His Visual Anthropology. Washington, DC, November 28, 2007.
7. XV annual meeting of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE). Paper: Decision making, cultural context, and the “human dimensions” of climate studies. Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 2007.
6. North American Productivity Workshop. Paper: Measuring the Impact of Improving Water Availability on Rural Household Welfare in Ceará, Brazil: A Multi-Output Primal Approach. Authors: Mueller, V.; Pfaff, A.; Broad, K.; Taddei, R. New York University, New York, June 29, 2006.
5. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (NOAA/CPASW) – Research and Applications on Use and Impacts. Paper: Understanding how meanings get transformed in the dissemination of climate information – the case of Northeast Brazil. Tucson, Arizona, March 21, 2006.
4. IV Anthropological Meeting of the MERCOSUR (RAM). Paper: Of donkeys, rain prophets and meteorologists: notes on the political semiotics of climate in the Brazilian Northeast. Working group “Society and Nature in South America: Anthropological Theories, Cultural Practices, and Environmental Conflicts.” Montevideo, Uruguay, November 16 to 18, 2005.
3. I International Symposium on Climatology of Northeast Brazil. Paper: The social communication of climate information: outline for a sociology of the field of climate communication in Northeast Brazil. Fortaleza (Brazil) October 23 to 27, 2005.
2. II International Conference on Sociocultural Research and Development. Paper: Local culture, economic development, and disputes over the legitimate representation of the environment: the social life of climate information in the Brazilian Northeast. Paredes de Coura, Portugal, October 28 to 30, 2004.
1. IV Sports and Social Sciences Conference. Paper: Notes on the political economy of categories and labels in Argentinean soccer. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina) November 16, 2002. Published at Educación Física y Deportes, Year 8, No. 55, December 2002.
Invited Lectures
115. Webinário: “Ciências Sociais e as Ciências do Mar”, organizado pelo Grupo de Trabalho (GT) Humanidades, conectado ao Comitê para a Formação de Recursos Humanos em Ciências do Mar (PPG-Mar) da Comissão Interministerial para os Recursos do Mar (CIRM). Online, 9 de novembro de 2023.
114. Debatedor convidado no 11° Ciclo de Cinema e Debate Urbanicidades – Mundos Humanos, Mundos Urbanos – filme “Antropoceno: A Era Humana”, de Nicholas de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal e Edward Burtynskyde -, realizado no Auditório Paulo de Camargo e Almeida no IAU-USP, pelo grupo de pesquisa Laboratório de Estudos do Ambiente Urbano Contemporâneo – LEAUC, no âmbito do Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo. São Carlos/online, 07 de novembro de 2023
113. Debatedor no painel The Planetary Curator, organizado pela revista italiana Cura e realizado na feira de arte Artíssima, em Torino, Itália. O tema do painel foi inspirado em meu texto “Intervention of another nature”, assim como foi a edição de 2023 da feira Artíssima. Torino, 4 de novembro de 2023.
112. Paper “¿Hay lugar para la agencia no humana en la investigación transdisciplinaria? Una reflexión etnográfica” presentado en el Seminario “Prácticas interdisciplinarias y transdisciplinarias en Iberoamérica: integración de conocimientos y diálogo con políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación”, organizado por el Nodo de Estudios sobre Inter y Transdisciplina, Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios Feministas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. Online, 17 de octubre de 2023.
111. Palestrante no evento “Modos de Habitar o Antropoceno”, da série Encontros de Cultura, Saúde e Humanidades, do Centro Cultural do Ministério da Saúde e Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Antropologia da Saúde, UniRio. Evento integrante da Semana Nacional de Ciência & Tecnologia. Auditório da Escola Nacional de Botânica Tropical, Jardim Botânico. Rio de Janeiro/online, 11 de outubro de 2023.
110. Palestrante na mesa “Afagar a terra, conhecer os desejos da terra”, com Daniel Munduruku, na FLIM – Festa Literomusical de São José dos Campos, no Parque Vicentina Aranha. São José do Campos, 16 de setembro de 2023.
109. Palestra “O que podemos aprender com os povos indígenas sobre cuidado com o meio ambiente no Brasil?”, no curso Urgente, Meio Ambiente na UAPI. Online, 13 de setembro de 2023.
108. Aula inaugural Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Federal do Pará, intitulada “O que o Antropoceno nos faz pensar: reflexões sobre os desafios futuros para as ciências e para a governança ambiental”. Online, 1 de setembro de 2023.
107. Palestra “A abundância da escassez no Antropoceno: enfrentando vulnerabilidades climáticas e sociais” no curso Democracia e Sustentabilidade: co-criando soluções para liderar a mudança em ecossistemas complexos, organizado pelo Instituto Democracia e Sustentabilidade e pela Cátedra Sustentabilidade e Visões de Futuro da Unifesp. Online, 29 de agosto de 2023.
106. Apresentação do trabalho “A inclusão dos modos de conhecimento indígena na governança ambiental global” no I Encontro da Cátedra Sustentabilidade e Visões de Futuro da Universidade Federal de São Paulo. São Paulo, 16 de agosto de 2023.
105. Apresentação no 3o. Grupo de Estudos do Ciclo “Ecopoéticas: educação, arte e Antropoceno” em homenagem a Bruno Latour. Ciclo de Seminários e Grupo de Estudos em comemoração aos 10 anos da Revista ClimaCom. Rede Latinoamericana de Comunicação e Mudanças Climáticas. Online, 7 de julho de 2023.
104. Paper “The role of the social and behavioral sciences in disaster-related meteorological services” Climate Science for Services Partnership Brazil Workshop, organized by the UK Met Office, Exeter, UK, June 6, 2023.
103. Participante na “Roda de conversa com Escritores/Organizadores sobre tema Os Profetas da Chuva”, Casa de Saberes Cego Aderaldo, Secretaria da Cultura de Quixadá. Quixadá, CE/online, 1 de junho de 2023.
102. Debatedor do filme EO, de Jerzy Skolimowski, no CineSesc. São Paulo, 24 de maio de 2023.
101. Participant of the roundtable “Science-Policy Interface: Integrating Indigenous, Traditional and Scientific Knowledge”, at the Regular Process Workshop for South Atlantic and Wider Caribbean – World Ocean Assessment III. Santos, May 11, 2023.
100. Moderador da Sessão 2 do “Fórum do livro Uma Ecologia Decolonial”, organizado pelo CEstA, PPGAS e LISA – Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas – Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, 13 de março de 2023.
99. Palestra “A Relevância do Pensamento Indígena Brasileiro para as Ciências Ambientais” ministrada na Semana Inaugural de 2023 promovida pelo Programa de Doutorado em Ambiente e Sociedade da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, 08 de março de 2023.
98. Aula de abertura do curso Antropoceno: Arte, Cuidado e Invenção, ministrada por Marina Guzzo no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Interdisciplinar em Ciências da Saúde – Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade, Unifesp. Online, 1 de fevereiro de 2023.
97. Paper ‘Can the (Indigenous) subaltern speak (at the IPCC)?’, presented at the Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene series, hosted by University College London Anthropocene initiative, in association with the Anthropology Department at UFRGS, Brazil, and CIESAS, Mexico. Online, January 23, 2023.
96. Mesa Escalas: dinâmicas fundo-superfície. Brazil Anthropocene Campus. Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, November 9, 2022.
95. Thinking with clouds in the sertão, in the forest, and in the laboratory (Pensado com as nuvens no sertão, na floresta e no laboratório), Seminar Learning with the clouds – ontoepistemologies between the sky and earth (Aprender com as nuvens – ontoepistemologias entre o céu e a terra), State University of Campinas, September 19, 2022.
94. Communicating risk and response. Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene (online) Seminar, Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, York Environmental Sustainability Institute, York University, July 13, 2022
93. Sustentabilidade em cena. Curso de Pós-Graduação em Cenografia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, July 9, 2022
92. Mediador na mesa Territórios em disputa: novas lideranças e frentes de atuação. Seminário Trajetórias do Ambientalismo Brasileiro, SESC Belenzinho, June 30, 2022
91. Os conflitos envolvendo a pesca artesanal no litoral de São Paulo: a importância da transdisciplinaridade. Congresso Acadêmico Unifesp (online), June 29, 2022
90. Democracia, sustentabilidade e políticas públicas. Congresso Acadêmico Unifesp (online), June 27, 2022
89. Forum Permanente Especial Desafios da Sustentabilidade, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, June 7, 2022
88. Intervenções de outra natureza: recursos para pensar no (e fora do) Antropoceno. Curso livre “História, ambiente e conhecimento no Antropoceno”, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, May 30, 2022.
87. Conversa com especialista: diálogo com a equipe do Cemaden Educação sobre Mudanças Climáticas e Prevenção de Desastres. Projeto Escolas Pelo Clima (online), May 12, 2022.
86. A Ciência dos desastres. Webinário de comemoração dos 15 anos da Rede Clima. April 12, 2022.
85. Dimensões sociais da mudança do clima no Brasil: percepções e perspectivas. Série de debates “Ciência, riscos e desastres”, Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alerta de Desastres Naturais (Cemaden), March 24, 2022.
84. Opening lecture: Pensando as mudanças climáticas no contexto do Antropoceno. IV Semana Acadêmica de Pesquisa, Inovação e Extensão (SAPIENS), Universidade Estadual da Região Tocantina do Maranhão (UEMASUL), February 22, 2022.
83. Commentator to the session Anthropology of data and comparison as technique, with Atonia Walford and Magda Ribeiro. VIII Brazilian Meeting of Anthropology of Science and Technology, Federal University of São Carlos, November 24, 2021
82. Saberes tradicionais, negacionismo e defesa da ciência. Jornadas de Antropologia John Monteiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, November 18, 2021.
81. O avanço das Mudanças Climáticas: consequências e perspectivas. II Semana Nacional de Ciências Ambientais-SENACAMB (online), November 11, 2021
80. Ambiente e aprendizagens. Curso Antropologia e Educação Ambiental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), September 21, 2021.
79. Antropoceno e cosmologias animistas. Curso livre “História, ambiente e conhecimento no Antropoceno”, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, May 27, 2021.
78. Chair and commentator to the session Indigenousness and Belonging – Perspectives on Opportunities, Rights, and Identities. 17th Development Dialogue, The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 2021.
77. Anthropology and the Pragmatics of Climate Knowledge in Brazil. Seminário Tiempo y Clima, Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais (FLACSO), July 1, 2021.
76. Sustentabilidade em cena. Curso de Pós-Graduação em Cenografia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, June 14, 2021
75. Inhabiting a future that will not repeat the past. Course: Reading the Contemporary World. University of Lisbon, January 13, 2021.
74. Invited commentator to Mario Blaser´s paper presentation: “Mas acá de lo comum (not about the Anthropocene): notas sobre la imaginación política”. Graduate Program in Anthropology, State University of Campinas, November 25, 2020.
73. What possible future? How to produce architecture, urbanism and design in the future? XI Ser Urbano, Department of Arquitecture and Urbanism, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, November 16, 2020.
72. Indigenous and scientific knowledge systems and the challenge of environmental protection in the Anthropocene. Terças com Ciência no IMar, Federal University of São Paulo, October 27, 2020.
71. Does the future exist? How to produce architecture, urbanism, and design in the Anthropocene. XVII Semana Viver Metrópole, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (FAU-Mackenzie)/UN Habitat, October 23, 2020.
70. Conversation with the autor, book Meteorologistas e Profetas da Chuva. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Laboratório de Antropologia das Controvérsias Sociotécnicas, October 8, 2020.
69. ¿Que és el Antropos de Antropología y del Antropoceno? Conversatorio Hacer antropología em la era del Antropoceno, Universidad de Buenos Aires, October 1, 2020.
68. Inhabiting a future that will not replicate the past. Zona de Contágio, Federal University of São Paulo, September 24, 2020.
67. Kopenawa e o Trabalho dos Xamãs: Reflexões sobre o Céu, o Clima e a Antropologia. Paper presented at the Fluminense Federal University, Atelier de Etnografias e Narrativas Antropolíticas, July 15, 2020.
66. Can humans change the climate with the help of non-humans? Minicurso “Curas Espirituais”, Departamento de Ciências das Religiões, Federal University of Paraíba. June 30, 2020.
65. Antropología del tiempo y el clima: del determinismo al Antropoceno. Seminario de Doctorado, Posgrado de la Facultad de filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, June 17, 2020.
64. As dimensões humanas das mudanças climáticas. O Mar Brasileiro e as Mudanças Climáticas, Curso de extensão Mar & Prosa, Federal University of São Paulo, June 10, 2020.
63. Traduções: jornalismos possíveis, mundos possíveis. Interview at Observatório Jornalismos, Federal University of Ouro Preto, May 12, 2020.
62. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil. Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Antropologia da Saúde, Federal University of the City of Rio de Janeiro, May 5, 2020.
61. In what is to come, we will all be philosophers-engineers-dancers, or we will be nothing. Conference at the School of City Architecture Faculty. São Paulo, Brazil, December 10, 2019.
60. Catastrophes and Socioenvironmental Conflicts in the Anthropocene: lines of flight. Federal University of São Paulo Social Wednesdays Seminar Series. Federal University of São Paulo, Guarulhos, Brazil, November 27, 2019.
59. Catastrophes and Socioenvironmental Conflicts in the Anthropocene. State University of Campinas Permanent Forum Series: A Post-Catastrophic Horizon: lines of flight Seminar. State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, September 30, 2019.
58. Anthropocene. 12th Architecture Biennial Exposition of São Paulo. SESC Cultural Center 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brasil, September 11, 2019.
57. Commentary. (I)magical experiments: crossed gazes on death seminar. Amerindian Studies Laboratory, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, June 18, 2019.
56. The state of the Earth: between land and territory. 10th International Conference on Environmental Education and Sustainability. SESC Cultural Center, Sorocaba, June 12, 2019.
55. In what is to come, we will all be philosophers-engineers-dancers, or we will be nothing. UNESCO Chair for Water and Culture, Network for the Environment, and Seminar of the Department of Anthropology of the Graduate School of Humanities and Education, University of the Republic of Uruguay. University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, May 22, 2019.
54. In what is to come, we will all be philosophers-engineers-dancers, or we will be nothing. Cartogram: art and performance in the public sphere seminar. Federal University of São Paulo, Santos, April 1, 2019.
53. Performative knowledge in/is the multiverse: ethnographic speculations. Negotiating Environmental Knowledges Seminar. Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, Oxford University. December 12, 2018.
52. The day I became indigenous. The Challenge of Anthropologies of/in Multiple Worlds: Politics, Decolonization, and Beyond Seminar. Duke University, Durham, December 7, 2018.
51. The Haunted Nature of Geoengineering: engaging with the atmosphere. Duke University Scholars Program Seminar. Duke University, Durham, November 1, 2018.
50. Transition to a sustainable society: a commentary. Transition to a sustainable society conference. SESC Cultural Center, Research and Education Center, São Paulo, July 2, 2018.
49. Interdisciplinarity is a (controlled) equivocation. Seminar of the Technology, Environment, and Society Research Group (TEMAS), Department of Sociology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Porto Alegre, December 1, 2017
48. The challenges in the communication between producers and users of climate forecasts – perspectives on the implementation of climate services in Brazil. Seminar of the Climate Study Group, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences (GrEC/IAG/USP), University of São Paulo. São Paulo, November 24, 2017
47. Workshop “Tekoa Paranapuã and the Juruá. What Amerindians say about the environment, what the environment says about the Amerindians, and what both say about us, non-Amerindians.” October 30 2017, Federal University of São Paulo, Santos, Brazil.
46. Social sciences and the environment: between the Anthropocene and coloniality. III International Seminar “Challenges of Diversity and Inequality,” Social Sciences Department (PPGCIS/PUC-Rio.) Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, September 27, 2017
45. The challenge of indigenous anthropologies – or preparations for intercultural collaboration in anthropology. British Council Trilateral Workshop UK/Brazil/Uruguay: “How anthropology can contribute to affirmative action in South America in the fields of human rights, gender equality, and environmental sustainability?”, University of the Republic. Montevideo, February 20, 2017
44. On the ontological question and STS in Latin America. Latin-American and Postcolonial Studies Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Brasília (UnB). Brasília, May 19, 2016
43. Knowing (in) the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Curriculum Conference: The Technosphere Issue. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, April 20, 2016
42. (Un)known Futures: Anthropologies of Forecasting Weather & Climate. Anthropologies of Forecasting Weather & Climate Conference, British Museum and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London, May 27, 2016
41. “Non-scientific” knowledge and climate change. Climate Change from the Perspective of STS Conference. State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas, April 11, 2016
40. Seeing from the Perspective of the End of the World. The School of the Forest, Miami Campus – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Miami, August 6, 2015
39. Ethnography in STS. STGlobal: Inspire Research, Foster Understanding. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington (DC), April 10, 2015
38. Alter geoengineering. The Thousand Names of Gaia Conference, House of Rui Barbosa Cultural Center. Rio de Janeiro, September 16, 2014
37. Ethnography as a tool for the study of and work with disasters. Water Related Disaster Risk Conference: Applicability of the conceptual bases of human and social sciences to the analysis of concrete situations. Fluminense Federal University. Campos dos Goytacazes, November 18, 2014
36. Geoengineering goes spiritual. Annual Meeting of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Earth Institute, Columbia University. New York, May 16, 2014
35. Spiritual geoengineering, or something like that. Anthropology of Science and Technology Study Group (GEACT), Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.Rio de Janeiro, August 26, 2014
34. Ontological Dimensions of the Absent: corporalities and materialities, after the rain hasn’t come. Nascent/Spring Affections (Afetos Nascentes) Workshop, Science Communication and Journalism Department, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas, November 14, 2014
33. Care, the future and the modernist project. Workshop on Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies. Science and Technology Policy Department, Geosciences Institute, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas, March 20, 2014
32. Climate change: new dilemmas and challenges. Challenges for Coastal Management Conference, Institute for Maritime Studies, Federal University of São Paulo. Santos, April 5, 2014
31. The effects of forecasts on how individuals and groups perceive and relate to the future. Annual meeting of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Earth Institute, Columbia University. New York, May 10, 2013
30. Environmental Anthropology: local knowledge practices in environmental studies. Keynote lecture, Geography Department, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-MG). Belo Horizonte, August 13, 2012
29. On the concept of ecological agenda. Brazilian National Science and Technology Week, “Ecological agenda in dispute: science, market, and society.” Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, October 19, 2012
28. Being in the backlands: chapters of life as visceral philosophy. Terioscopy: tracks and metamorphoses among animals and peoples. House of Rui Barbosa Cultural Center. Rio de Janeiro, October 9, 2012
27. Hinterland therapy for our crumbling environmental certainties – comment on film “Arido Movie.” Science in Focus Film Club, House of Science/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, June 2, 2012
26. Information about weather and climate: the communication challenge and the producer-user interface. XIV International Workshop of Climate Forecasting for the Brazilian Northeast Semi-arid Region. Fortaleza, January 17, 2012
25. Forecasting as communicative performance. Seminar of the Interdisciplinary Coordination of Contemporary Studies (CIEC), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, September 2, 2011
24. Water allocation in Brazil and Colombia [with Pfaff, A.; Velez, M.A.] Annual meeting of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), Earth Institute, Columbia University. New York, May 3, 2011
23. (Climate) forecasts as communicative performance. Social Sciences and Environment Program, Interdisciplinary Center for Climate Change, Interdisciplinary Space, University of the Republic. Montevideo, July 7, 2011.
22. Multidisciplinary research on decision making and climate change: how to connect science and politics? Conference in Climate and Environmental Vulnerability in the Plata River Basin Region – Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Montevideo City Hall. Montevideo, July 22, 2011
21. Comment on the film “The Weatherman.” University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) Film Club. Fortaleza, February 3, 2011.
20. Forecasting and the social communication of science. State University of Campinas, Science, and Technology Policy Department. Campinas, April 4, 2010
19. Social participation and the politics of climate in Northeast Brazil. Environment and Citizenship in Latin America Workshop, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, April 24, 2010
18. The Communication of Meteorological Information: Some Contributions from the Social Sciences. XV Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Meteorological Society. São Paulo, August 28, 2008
17. Gender and the Semiotics of Political Visibility in the Brazilian Northeast. Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. New Haven, April 19, 2007
16. Why we need to understand how societies deal with uncertainty (if we want to understand how they deal with the climate). Picker Center in the School of International and Public Affairs/MA. Program in Climate and Society, Columbia University. New York, April 11, 2007
15. The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Climate, Risk, and Blame in Northeast Brazil. Department of Anthropology Monday Seminar Series at the University of Chicago. Chicago, March 26, 2007
14. Ethnographic and participatory methods: Understanding culture and fostering a relationship with a community, successful interviewing, and community workshop techniques. Engineers Without Borders – New York Regional Workshop, Columbia University. With Nicole Peterson (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Scott Lacy (Emory University). Saturday, September 30, 2006
13. The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters – Ethnographic Notes from Northeast Brazil. Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Yale University, Department of Anthropology. New Haven, December 4, 2006
12. The dissemination of meteorological information and the complex relationship between meteorology and society. XIII Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Meteorological Society. Florianópolis, November 30, 2006
11. Forecasting meanings: overcoming communicational barriers in the dissemination of climate information. International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) Seminar, Columbia University. Palisades, May 10, 2006
10. Understanding how meanings get transformed in the dissemination of climate information – the case of Northeast Brazil. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University. New York, March 17, 2006
9. Structure and process in evaluations on participation and decentralization in water management. Seminar on the “Evaluation of the Implementation of the National Water Resources Policies, in Brazil and in the State of Ceará,” promoted by the Ceará State Metropolitan Basin Water Committee. Fortaleza, August 11, 2005
8. Climate sciences and society in the Brazilian Northeast: socio-anthropological contributions to understanding the communicative processes related to climate issues.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) – Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera. Mexico City, June 1, 2005.
7. Drought, Climate Sciences, and Public Policy in Northeast Brazil. Conference on Vulnerability and Hydrometeorological Risk Management in Mexico, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Colégio de México (COLMEX). Mexico City, May 26 and 27, 2005
6. Lost in translation: drought, climate sciences and public policy in the Brazilian Northeast. Center for Brazilian Studies, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies of the School of International and Political Affairs, Columbia University. New York, March 31, 2005
5. The social life of water laws: notes and reflections on the Ceará case. Seminar in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Brazilian Water Law, organized by the Brazilian Association for Water Resources (ABRH). Fortaleza, July 9, 2004
4. Politics and gender in the Brazilian Northeast – Notes on the semiotics of political visibility. Anthropology Department, Social Sciences Division, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa. Mexico City, June 10, 2004
3. Watered Down Democratization: Participatory Development in Water Management in Ceará, Brazil. Seminário Teórico-Metodológico del Proyecto Gestión de riesgo de desastre ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) en America Latina, Sección México. CIESAS – Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. México City, March 6, 2003.
2. Watered down democratization: water management in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast. Anthropology Programs Colloquium, Teachers College, Columbia University. New York, February 6, 2003
1. Notes on an ethnographic study on hooliganism in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies of the School of International and Political Affairs, Columbia University. New York, September 27, 2001
Courses Taught
Graduate Seminars, USA
Whose Anthropocene? Global South Perspectives on Environmental Crisis, Duke University.
The Anthropology of Uncertainty, Yale University
Imaginaries of Development in Latin America, Yale University
Sociocultural Perspectives on Climate and Disaster, Columbia University
Ethnography and Participant Observation, Columbia University
Graduate Seminars, Brazil
The Anthropocene: transdisciplinary approaches, University of São Paulo
Climate, ocean, atmosphere, Federal University of São Paulo.
Society, Techno-science, and Power: Topics in Science and Technology Studies, Federal University of São Paulo
Graduate research seminar, Federal University of São Paulo.
Interdisciplinary research methods, Federal University of São Paulo.
Communication and Science and Technology Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Communication and Discourse, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Sign, Meaning and Power, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Graduate Seminars, Uruguay
Social sciences in the Anthropocene: challenges and critical perspectives, University of the Republic of Uruguay.
Contemporary debates on the ontological questions in the social sciences, University of the Republic of Uruguay
Undergraduate courses, USA
Water and Society: Concepts and Controversies in Latin America, Duke University.
Climate and Society, Yale University.
Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, Yale University.
Introduction to Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
The Sociology of the Family, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
Introduction to Anthropology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
Introduction to Human Geography, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
Undergraduate courses, Brazil
Culture and Society (Introduction to anthropology and sociology), Federal University of São Paulo.
Humans-technology-environments: interactions, Federal University of São Paulo.
Environmental Public Policy, Federal University of São Paulo.
Anthropology and Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Summer School
Summer School in Ethnographic Research Methods, with editions in Fortaleza (Brazil), Montevideo (Uruguay), and New York City (USA), Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study (CIFAS).
Advisement
Completed: 23 BA/BSc, 6 MA, 4 PhD, 4 postdoc
Current advisees: 2 BSc, 3 MA
List of completed graduate advisement:
Rodrigo Bulamah (Postdoc supervision, 2023), Social Sciences Graduate Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado (Postdoc supervision, 2022), Social Sciences Graduate Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Jean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel (Postdoc supervision, 2022), Social Sciences Graduate Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Felipe Süssekind Viveiros de Castro (Postdoc supervision, 2013), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gabriela Cruz Brasesco (PhD, 2017). Department of Agronomy, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Silvânia Mineira Ribeiro Sottani (PhD, 2016), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Lara Linhalis Guimarães (PhD, 2016), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Evandro José Medeiros Laia (PhD, 2016), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Giovana Mendes Silva Lega (MA, 2024), Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Eduardo dos Reis Cavalcante (MA, 2023), Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Felipe Silva Figueiredo (MA, 2022), Social Sciences Graduate Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Marianna Castellano Barcelos de Andrade (MA, 2022), Social Sciences Graduate Program, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Diogo Corrêa Meyer (MA, 2016), Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Luiz Henrique Coletto (MA, 2013), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
List of completed undergraduate advisement:
Laura de Carvalho de Souza (BSc, 2023), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Leila Miyoko Hatai (BSc, 2022), Environmental Engineering, Federal University of São Paulo
Ayaka Sato (BSc, 2021), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
José Mateus Marques Camara (BSc, 2017), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Anna Paula Peres (BSc, 2017), Environmental Engineering, Federal University of São Paulo
Alex Azevedo dos Santos (BSc, 2017), Environmental Engineering, Federal University of São Paulo
Nathalia Clyo Rizzo de Freitas Neves (BSc, 2017), Environmental Engineering, Federal University of São Paulo
Anna Paula Peres (BSc, 2014), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Nathalia Clyo Rizzo de Freitas Neves (BSc, 2014), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Victor Pinto Rajab (BSc, 2014), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Francisco Jardim Rios (BA, 2013), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Gregory Kaskus (BA, 2013), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Maria Eduarda Ornellas (BA, 2013), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Daniel Cabral Casado de Barros (BA, 2012), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Amanda Christine Leal Salles (BA, 2012), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Renata Franco Saavedra (BA, 2011), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Bruno Americano da Costa Negrão (BA, 2011), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marcella Gouvea Martha (BA, 2011), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Deborah Rebello Lima (BA, 2010), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Mariana Freire Lopes (BA, 2010), School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Nicole Haab (BA, 2007). Major in Anthropology, Yale University
Chloe Kolman (BA, 2007). Major in Anthropology, Yale University
Alem Giorgis (BA, 2007). Major in Anthropology, Yale University
List of current advisees:
Débora Pires Jeronymo (MA), Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Gerardo Ribero (MA), Master’s Program in Anthropology of the La Plata River Basin, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Hugo Brian Partucci (MA), co-advisor, Master’s Program in Geography, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thomás Carrara Tangerino (BSc), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Maria Claudia Pereira Macedo (BSc), Interdisciplinary Program in Science and Technology of the Ocean, Federal University of São Paulo
Languages
English, Portuguese, and Spanish
[1] See https://bit.ly/3AIjgJY
[2] See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I2NCEpzKHE
[3] See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3b0hazh4bo
[4] See for example http://climacom.mudancasclimaticas.net.br/marina-guzzo-mar-uma-danca-com-o-vento/ and http://cargocollective.com/marinaguzzo/21-acoes-para-mulheres-e-plantas
[5] See, for example, http://climacom.mudancasclimaticas.net.br/afetos-nascentes-2/
[6] See https://www.miamiartguide.com/pamm-presents-project-the-school-of-the-forest-miami-campus/
[7] See https://www.artissima.art/en/the-planetary-curator/.
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