Program
International Conference
Ratio Ethica Towards Epistemic Justice
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) and BibliASPA
Organization: USP and SLSA
Coordinators: Paulo Daniel Farah, Rosane Borges, Artur Matuck
Monday, August 24
16:30–18:00 — Opening session: Opening Ceremony
- Welcome by university representatives
- Opening address — Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA, President of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)
- Opening remarks by the Coordinators of the Conference — Paulo Daniel Farah, Rosane Borges and Artur Matuck
18:00 — Reception
18:30–20:30 — Music program
Musical performance: “Voices of Women in Movement”, by the Coral Mulheres em Movimento (Diadema – SP), conducted by Luciana Silva Avelino. The choir promotes an encounter between memory, resistance, citizenship and female empowerment through collective singing and a repertoire of popular Brazilian music.
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
Tuesday, August 25
10:00–11:30 — Panel: Rethinking linguistic diversity for Indigenous and marginalized languages in South Africa and Brazil (part 1)
Thematic axis: Axis 8 — Linguistic Diversity and Epistemic Justice
- Quentin Williams (South Africa) — “Tracing the Miseducation of Kaaps Speakers in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusion and Epistemic Justice”
- Jason Richardson (South Africa) — “Language and Disability Studies: Working in the Margins”
- Babalwayashe Molate (South Africa) — “Theorising Family Multilingualism in Africa through a Southern Lens and Ikhaya”
- Paulo Daniel Farah (USP) — “Rethinking and Reimagining Language Policy in Brazil: Anticolonial Perspectives, Multilingualism, and Epistemic Justice”
- Camila De Oliveira (USP) — “Sustaining Orality, Reconstituting Language: Indigenous Schooling among the Guarani Mbyá and Tupinambá in Brazil”
- Kleber Silva (UnB) — “Necroalgorithmization, Linguistic Justice, and Decolonial AI: Rethinking Algorithmic Security through Epistemic Justice in the Global South”
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
11:30–11:45 | Coffee break
11:45–13:15 — Panel: Rethinking linguistic diversity for Indigenous and marginalized languages in South Africa and Brazil (part 2)
Thematic axis: Axis 8 — Linguistic Diversity and Epistemic Justice
Continuation of the morning session, with discussion and debate among the panellists.
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
13:15–14:30 | Lunch break
14:45–16:15 — Panel: Black aesthetics, archives, technics, and Afro-diasporic knowledges
Thematic axis: Axis 3 — Recognition of Indigenous and Afro-Diasporic Knowledges
- Sonya Squires-Caesar — “Handkerchief Banking and Hollowed Archives: A Cultural Economy of Barbadian Market Women”
- Kitso Seti — “The Aesthetics of Blackness Through Black Art”
- Silas de Souza Leite Floresta — “Ọfọ̀ Translation: +1 Crossroads”
- Mo Jai Mckeown — “Sylvia Wynter’s Media Theory: Autopoiesis, Invention, and Black Technics”
- Moderator: Rosane Borges
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
16:15–16:30 | Coffee break
16:30–18:00 — Panel: Expanded Curatorships for/in Contemporary Media Arts
Thematic axis: Axis 12 — Dialogical Processes between Science, Literature, and the Arts
- Xinyu Liu — “A Suspended Non-Place: Observation Deck as Communal Spectatorship and Spectral Anchor in Airport”
- Luis Fernando Medina Cardona — “Pirarucú 01: Speculative Probe Object Made of Recyclable Materials” (performance)
- Artur Matuck — “An Alterscience Extends Epistemic Justice to Animal Agencies”, followed by the launch of the book ANIMATHEOS, by Artur Matuck
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
Wednesday, August 26
10:00–11:30 — Panel: Aesthetics, cognition, technology, and artistic research
Thematic axis: Axis 12 — Dialogical Processes between Science, Literature, and the Arts
- Danilo de Athayde and Marco Bortolato — “The Continuum and the Cut: Self-Reference, Cognitive Heuristics, and the Figuration of the Whole”
- Chase Bucklew — “‘There’s a Body Alright’: David Lynch and the Atomic Sublime”
- Eleonora Coloma Casaula — “The Walk: Sensitive Research of the Obsolescence Group to Think about Artistic Creation in Latin America”
- María Angélica Ochagavía Toledo — “Mito como condición de posibilidad del conocimiento”
- Raquel Saad — “Protection Systems for the Elderly in the Brazilian Legal System”
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
11:30–11:45 | Coffee break
11:45–13:15 — Panel: Social and political narratives, and racial and epistemic justice [online session]
Thematic axes: Axis 2 — Insurgent Epistemologies and Decoloniality; Axis 5 — Environmental Sciences and the Rights of Nature
- João Pentagna — “The Animistic Unconscious”
- Mayne Souza Benedetto — “Necro-desire: Precarious Whiteness and Racial Autoimmunity in Brazil”
- Andrés Leonardo Góngora Sierra — “Research Perspectives on Memory, Heritage and Social Conflict”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
13:15–14:30 | Lunch break
14:45–16:15 — Panel: Rights, care, neurodiversity, and gendered vulnerability
Thematic axes: Axis 6 — Human Rights, Mental Health, and Neurodiversity; Axis 9 — Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights
- Vanessa Leal — “Neurodiversity, Neuroart, and Epistemic Justice: The Symbol as an Organ of Knowledge”
- Caroline Ferrante — “How Zoom Shapes What Counts as Knowledge: Autistic Epistemology, Storytelling, and Digital Cognitive Justice”
- Glaucia de Brida — “Clinical-Political Listening and Human Rights: Challenges and Potentialities in Caring for Women in Situations of Violence”
- Aurora Miller — “Not Your Mother’s Menopause: Opportunities Emerging from Menopausal Oppression”
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
14:45–18:00 — Exhibitions and interventions
- Luis Fernando Medina Cardona — “Pirarucú 01: Speculative Probe: Objects Made of Recyclable Materials” (installation)
- Isadora Matias — “Corre” (exhibition — portable suitcase)
- Fernanda Sousa — “Fair of That Which Crosses Us” (performance intervention)
Venue: University of São Paulo (USP) – Butantã Campus (Cidade Universitária). Building: FFLCH – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences. Department: History and Geography.
History Auditorium (Auditório de História) — Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 338.
16:15–16:30 | Coffee break
16:30–18:00 — Panel: More-than-human worlds, symbiosis, and environmental imagination
Thematic axes: Axis 5 — Environmental Sciences and the Rights of Nature; Axis 7 — Human–Animal Interaction and Environmental and Animal Law
- Xinyi Yin — “Flickering Between Selves: Symbiosis, Scale, and Ecohorror in the Human-Fungal Encounter”
- Verónica Jimenez Borja and Elisa Sofia Jimenez Borja — “When Plants Speak: Relation, Memory, and More-than-Human Worlds in Latin American Art”
- Giovanna Gaba, Luanda Francine, Carla Santana Bulcão, Andrea Tedesco, Carolina Simon and Roberto Dal — “Columbid Notes on Epistemic Justice” (performance)
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
18:30–20:30 | Evening program — to be confirmed
Thursday, August 27
10:00–11:30 — Panel: Coloniality, memory, law, and Afro-Indigenous rights
Thematic axes: Axis 2 — Insurgent Epistemologies and Decoloniality; Axis 3 — Recognition of Indigenous and Afro-Diasporic Knowledges
- Sandra Pinto — “Can the Judiciary Hear the Terreiro? Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice in the Limits of Legal Recognition of Afro-Brazilian Religions”
- Jose Eduardo Malua Ferreira — “Epistemic Necropolitics: The Genocide of Afro-Brazilian Knowledge and the Demand for Reparation”
- Stella Maris Flores Cucatti — “Decolonial Studies and Indigenous Land Rights”
- Carolina Rodrigues de Faria — “The Resumption of Memory as a Place of Epistemic Justice at the Quilombo dos Coelhos/MG”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
11:30–11:45 | Coffee break
11:45–13:15 — Panel: Knowledge crises, colonial genealogies, and insurgent methods [hybrid]
Thematic axis: Axis 2 — Insurgent Epistemologies and Decoloniality
- Danilo Silvestre Janeiro — “Game and Conspiracism: The Ludic as a Response to the Epistemic Crisis”
- Danilo de Athayde — “After the Machine of the World: Allegorical Scarcity as an Epistemic Condition in the Expanding Universe”
- Chris Wildrick — “The Trickster and the Strongman: Exploring Peer Review to Regain a Consensus Reality” (online)
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
11:45–13:15 — Round table: “Tradition and Translation: Islamic Knowledge and Transformation” [parallel session]
Discussion with Adriana Oliveira, Marcelo Jafar Cipolla, Nátaly Safiya Cipolla and Mansur Peixoto.
Venue: Sala de eventos do CAPH.
13:15–14:30 | Lunch break
14:45–16:15 — Panel: Poetics, spirituality, translation, and curatorial knowledge
Thematic axes: Axis 8 — Linguistic Diversity and Epistemic Justice; Axis 12 — Dialogical Processes between Science, Literature, and the Arts
- Adriana Santos de Oliveira — “Intercultural Translation and Epistemic Justice: Re-existence via Rhythm in Rumi’s Sufi Poetics”
- Ana Carolina Kerr — “The Mystical Experience of Sufi Women Through Art: Contributions of Oral Life History in the Study of Contemporary Islam”
- Carolina Ruoso — “Art History and Curatorship: Participatory Experiences and the Construction of Epistemic Justice”
- Maria Rita Taunay — “Beyond the State: Ancestral Feminine Practices and Non-Institutional Forms of Justice”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
16:15–16:30 | Coffee break
16:30–18:00 — Panel: Migration, displacement, language, and epistemic belonging
Thematic axes: Axis 4 — Valuing Refugee and Migrant Knowledges; Axis 8 — Linguistic Diversity and Epistemic Justice
- Ana Leviz — “Epistemic Justice and African Immigration in Brazil: From Theory to the Practice of Commitment to Cognitive Equity”
- Regina Silva — “Between Welcoming and Erasure: Immigration in Brazil from an Ethical Perspective”
- Sandra Alves — “Portuguese as a Language of Welcome (PLAc) and Epistemic Justice: Intercultural Practices with Migrants and Refugees at BibliASPA”
- Natalie Wang — “Hungry Ghosts: Homesickness, Embodied Grief, and the Asian-American Diaspora”
- Marianna Zawadi Kitenge Mukuna — “Researching from Within: Migratory Experience, Reflexivity, and Epistemic Justice in Knowledge Production”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
Friday, August 28
09:00–10:30 — Screening and discussion: Araguaia
Screening and discussion of the documentary Araguaia (Brazil, 2015, 40 min.), by Dagmar Talga. With Friar José Fernandes Alves, Paulo Abrão, Marta Costta, José Genoíno, Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh and Juvana Xakriabá.
Venue: Multimedia Room – Casa da Cultura Japonesa.
10:00–11:30 — Panel: Critique, interpretation, alter-science, and epistemic agency
Thematic axes: Axis 2 — Insurgent Epistemologies and Decoloniality; Axis 11 — Dialogical Critique and the Emergence of Alter-science
- José Ricardo Cunha — “The Victim as an Epistemic Subject: Ethics of Liberation, Exteriority, and Critique of the Coloniality of Knowledge”
- Irina Starikova — “Interpreting Before Evaluating: A Philosophical Criterion for Large Language Models”
- Luis Fernando Medina Cardona — “Experimental and Alternative Publications as a Collective Contestation of the Hegemonic Publishing Paradigm”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
11:30–11:45 | Coffee break
11:45–13:15 — Panel: Interspecies voice, visuality, and epistemological legitimacy
Thematic axis: Axis 7 — Human–Animal Interaction and Environmental and Animal Law
- Silvana Andrade and Paula Brügger — “Who Has the Right to the Narrative? Animalist Journalism, Epistemic Justice, and the Deconstruction of Media Anthropocentrism”
- Anna Caramuru Pessôa Aubert — “Epistemic Justice Beyond the Human: A Phenomenological Approach towards Interspecies Justice”
- Giovanna Gaba — “Visualities of Interspecies Justice: Anti-speciesist Activist Design and the Dispute for Epistemological Legitimacy”
- Luan Matias do Vale — “Can the Animal Speak? Animalist Reflections from Spivak’s Subaltern”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
13:15–14:30 | Lunch break
14:30–16:00 — Panel: The Ethical-Aesthetic Dimension of the Struggle for Land in Brazil
- Sérgio Luis Tomioka — “An Almost Alternative History of Science”
- Antonio Herci Ferreira Júnior — “Ontopower and Epistemic Justice: From the Algorithmic Production of Null Life to the Resistance of the Flesh of the World”
- João Paulo Guimarães, Katharina Kalinowski and Inês Caldas — “Uncharismatic Aliens: Epistemic Justice Beyond the Human”
- Daniela Castro — “Organicity in the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST): The Ethical-Aesthetic Dimension of the Struggle for Land in Brazil”
Venue: History Auditorium (Auditório de História).
Saturday, August 29
12:00–17:30 — Closing Session and Cultural Program at BibliASPA
BibliASPA is a cultural, educational, research and social centre that develops actions with and for refugees.
- Special lunch
- Closing ceremony: Artur Matuck, Paulo Farah, Rosane Borges and Rajani Sudan — plenary bringing together the symposium conveners and distinguished guests to reflect on the main themes, challenges and future directions of epistemic justice, fostering dialogue across disciplines, cultures and knowledge traditions
- Theatre play “From Now On” (Daqui pra frente)
- Exhibitions — “Istan”; “Watercolors”; "Deleite do Estrangeiro em Tudo o que é Espantoso e Maravilhoso" (by Paulo Daniel Farah) and “Arabic Calligraphy”
- Performances
- Featured performance: MIGRANTO — artists Paulo Zeminian, Artur Matuck and Itamar Vidal
- Music and poetry program
Venue: BibliASPA — Rua Baronesa de Itu, 639, Santa Cecília, São Paulo (near downtown).
Sunday, August 30
11:00–15:00 — Special programming: Guided walking tour of São Paulo historic downtown
An optional guided visit through São Paulo’s historic centre, exploring sites of historical, cultural and architectural significance.
Meeting point: to be confirmed. Duration: 2–3 hours (variable).
