Paulo Ramos, native of no land but the womb of his mother Terezinha Ramos de Jesus, is an artist, poet and lawyer currently pursuing his doctoral degree in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, concentrating in Gender and Black Studies, at São Paulo’s Catholic University, the Pontifícia Universidade Católica.
He is a member of several study groups including the Nucleus for Studies of Urban Research (Nepur), Racism Observatory (Observatório do Racismo), and the Nucleus for Research on Sexuality, Feminism, Gender and Difference, INANNA). He is the creator of Pretaquisador, a stamp of approval for books on race and Black Studies.
2024
(Visiting Scholar) Bodies of water: Landscapes of AfroBrazilian women in São Paulo. Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) – Indiana University, Bloomington.
Body is of place most old in the civilizations. What would be of society without the body? Without he the histories not be talked? However, that bodies can talk yourself? The questions are present, one time that seek us answers. The body is the core of center of universe that it’s across. Through him we can understand social questions, be it in your visuality or in invisibility. However, the body is/was one of center elements for the formation of colonialism and capitalism Eurocentric and Americanism of North. These two classes we will go to discussion the body, while place theoretical, sedimented in theory body a concept under development. Whether reading or felling. Indianapolis, USA.
2024
(Speake/Lecturer) What did they do with the body? Indianapolis, USA.
The body is one of the oldest sites within civilizations. What would society be without the body? Without it, would stories not be told? But which bodies can speak for themselves? These questions are present as we seek answers. The body is at the heart of the universe that passes through it (Le Breton, 2018). Through it, we come to understand social issues, whether in its visibility or invisibility. However, the body has been and remains one of the central elements in the formation of Eurocentric colonialism and capitalism, as well as North American Americanism. In these two classes, we will discuss the body as a theoretical space, a concept that is developing through theory, whether by reading about it or experiencing it.
2024
(Org & Curator) Afropessimism in Brazil. SESC CPF – Research and Training Center. São Paulo, Brazil.
Title: Afropessism in Brazil: reception, dialogue and perspectives.
In this lecture series, we aim to reflect on the reception of Afro-pessimism in Brazil and its relationships with Afro-Brazilian black thought, the diaspora, and even other critical perspectives within radical black thought in the United States, not necessarily aligned with Afro-pessimism.
For this reflection, we have invited a multidisciplinary group of researchers and artists from anthropology, history, literary studies, and performance fields, capable of reflecting from various angles on this hemispheric conversation. The publication of “Afropessimismo” (2021) by Frank B. Wilderson III and other works by authors such as Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Cedric Robinson, among others, marks a significant and massive arrival of Black radical thought in Brazil. How has this production been received and engaged with in the Brazilian context?
2024
(Visiting Scholar) Bodies of water: Landscapes of AfroBrazilian women in São Paulo. Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) – Indiana University, Bloomington.
Body is of place most old in the civilizations. What would be of society without the body? Without he the histories not be talked? However, that bodies can talk yourself? The questions are present, one time that seek us answers. The body is the core of center of universe that it’s across. Through him we can understand social questions, be it in your visuality or in invisibility. However, the body is/was one of center elements for the formation of colonialism and capitalism Eurocentric and Americanism of North. These two classes we will go to discussion the body, while place theoretical, sedimented in theory body a concept under development. Whether reading or felling. Indianapolis, USA.
2024
(Dashboard Org). BRASA – Brazilian Studies Conference. San Diego University
Dashboard Organizer 2024. Racial Relations and Environment: Territory, Memory, Ancestry, and Cosmologies of Care. Paper selected for the upcoming “Corpos d’agua: An Exploration of Environmental Racism and the Black Woman’s Relationship with Water.
2024
(Commentator/Moderator) IU – In Light Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Discussed Film: “Between the Rains” director by Andrew H. Brown Cinema Indiana University, The Media School.
2023
(Atendee) RAM – Mercosul Anthropology Meeting
(Paper) Title: “Corpos d’ água: Um balde cheio de memórias”. Reconnections and challenges from the global south. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2023
(Atendee) Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
(Paper) Title: “Quilombo Hídrico – Três Baldes: um rio, um mangue, um mar.” Conference on Fugitivity, Marronage, Abolition.
2022
(Research) “Bodies of water”. Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo, SP/Brazil.
PhD candidate in Social Sciences and Afro-Brazilian Studies.
Thesis: Bodies of Water: Environmental Racism, the River, the Mangrove, and the Sea” (“Corpos d’água: Racismo ambiental, o rio, o mangue e o mar”). Advisor: Maura Veras Bicudo (Pontifical Catholic University). Co-Advisor: Christen Smith (University of Texas, Austin).
2022
(Atendee) University of Costa Rica
(Paper) Title: “Chocolate descolonial”. VI Coloquio Repensar América Latina: Descolonización epistemológica desde otros saberes, creaciones y subjetividades.
2022
(Atendee) Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
(Paper) Title: “A via crucis: Sem lar e sem corpo, um desaparecer de si.”. Conference on Care Policies and Practices.
2021
(Research) “Bodily Marks and Identifiers of Social Negation”. Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo, SP/Brazil.
Masters in Social Sciences and in studies of race, gender, sexuality and violence
Dissertation: “Bodily Marks and Identifiers of Social Negation: The Torment of Trans Bodies” (“Marca Corpórea Identificadora da Negação Social: O suplício dos Corpos Trans”). Advisor: Edgard Assis de Carvalho
2021
(Atendee) Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Pesquisa e Moda
(Paper) Title: “Corpo-Cor: Corpos nu e cru entre peles e tecidos navegando sobre o Atlântico”. Fashion Colloquy, São Paulo, Brazil.
2021
(Atendee) Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
(Paper) Title: “Sentidos: Corpos Transfronteiriços”. Conference Illicit Encounters: Displacements, Borders, and Bodies.
2021
(Artistic Performance) University of Costa Rica
(Artistic Performance) Title: “Corpos d’ água.” VI Colóquio Internacional Repensar América Latina: desde otros saberes, creaciones y subjetividades.
2021
(Speaker/Lecturer) Universidade de São Paulo – USP.
(Lecture) Title: “Carolina Maria de Jesus: Consciência, política e identidade. Vozes não Humanas” and “Carolina Maria de Jesus: consciência, política e identidade negra.Comunicação, Estética, Identidade Negra.”
2019
(Speaker/Lecturer) Universidade de São Paulo – USP.
(Lecture) Title: “Carolina Maria de Jesus: Consciência, política e identidade. Vozes não Humanas” and “Carolina Maria de Jesus: consciência, política e identidade negra.Comunicação, Estética, Identidade Negra.”
2019
(Atendee) Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas
(Paper) selected for the upcoming, bodies of water, where flows, wars, floods, and wakes, in Morelos, Mexico. “Corpos D´Água: Racismo Básico feito por mãos negras”
2019
(2019) Autonomous University of Mexico
Selected Seminar student participant and commentator Indiana University Global Gateway.Puerto Global.
2017
(Bachelor Degree) UNIESP- União das Instituições do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Braz. 2017
Bachelor in Law
Monograph: “Law and social discrimination, preferred name and gender identity” (“Direito e discriminações sociais, nome social e identidade de gênero”).
2024
Queer LatinAmerican Voices
Book chapter: “Queer Latin American Voices: Revisiting the Past, Reading the Present, Writing the Future
2023
2023
Medidas Sócio Educativas: reflexões e desafios na atualidade
Back Cover: Medidas Socioeducativas: Reflexões e desafios na atualidade. Rio de Janeiro. Editora: Autografia, 2023.
2021
Cativeiro e ancestralidade
Book Blurb: Osmundo Pinho, Cativeiro: Antinegritude e Ancestralidade. Salvador: Segundo Selo, 2021.
2021
Identidade, Metamorfose e Emancipação diante da COVID-19
Book chapter: “Olhares da Pandemia: Aproximações e Problematizações
2021
Cross-border bodies: Crime of the body
Book chapter: Revista de Estudos e Investigações Antropológicas (REIA)
2020
Coronavírus expõe o racismo ambiental: negros são o corpo que o Estado secou.
(Coronavirus exposes environmental racism: blacks are the bodies the State has dried up)
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