Colloquium

III Possible Futures on a Threatened Planet 

3, 4, 5 December, 2025

Cine Metrópolis, Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil)

We live in times of climatic, environmental, social, mental, and spiritual catastrophes. A fractured planet, entire worlds silenced by colonial habitation and capitalist exploitation. How did we arrive at this present moment? Moreover, how can we imagine futures - not ideal, but possible - in the cracks that resist?

The third edition of the event seeks to reflect on these issues through a transdisciplinary debate, focusing on decolonial arts and experiences that evoke counter-hegemonic images, narratives, poetics, and sounds against domination, invasion and expropriation of territories-worlds. The aim is to bring into debate and alliance different ecologies of knowledges and practices, in particular the knowledge and sensibilities of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, Afro-diasporic peoples, and others who are human.

The event was conceived by GAIA: Peoples of the Earth research group (UFES), co-organised with ECO - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin (CES, University of Coimbra), with funding from the Espírito Santo Research Support Foundation (FAPES), and in collaboration with the Centre for Visual Anthropology (NAV/UFES), the Music and Sociality Laboratory (LabMuSo/FAMES) and the Indigenous Intercultural Degree Programme (PROLIND/UFES).