Lectures and seminars The many roots of knowledge: thinking, feeling, and knowing otherwise
09-12-2026 Add to iCal
PUF-V invites you to a two-day workshop with Dr. Lilian Magalhães from Federal University of Sao Carlo, Brazil.
Through Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, and Latin American perspectives, the workshop examines multiple ways of knowing and their relevance for health care research, encouraging critical reflection on knowledge production, ethics, and research practice.
Knowledge has many roots, nourished by different histories, territories, experiences, and relationships with the world. Yet dominant academic traditions have often privileged particular forms of reasoning and evidence, obscuring the intellectual contributions of peoples and communities whose understandings of knowledge emerge from other histories, cosmologies, and ways of living.
Drawing particularly on Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, and Latin American intellectual traditions, this lecture explores the plurality of ways in which knowledge is constituted, experienced, expressed, and shared. It considers how thinking, feeling, memory, embodiment, ancestry, territory, and relationships with human and more-than-human beings participate in the making of knowledge. In dialogue with thinkers such as Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Orlando Fals Borda, Marisol de la Cadena, Lélia Gonzalez, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Ailton Krenak, the aim of the workshop is to examine how different epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies invite us to reconsider what counts as knowledge, who is recognized as a knower, and how different worlds become present,or remain invisible, within academic inquiry.
Drawing on experiences with participatory and visual research, the workshop also reflects on the possibilities and challenges of engaging with diverse ways of knowing in health care research practices, including the ethical and relational responsibilities that such encounters entail.Rather than positioning these intellectual traditions as alternatives awaiting recognition by Western academia, the presentation acknowledges their longstanding contributions and continuing vitality. It invites us to consider what becomes possible when we approach the plurality of knowledge not as a problem to be resolved, but as an essential condition of our shared intellectual and everyday lives.
Agenda
Day 1:
9-12 Doctoral students prepared themselves with recommended readings by Dr. Magalhães
13-16 Dr. Magalhães runs an engaging workshop The many roots of knowledge: thinking, feeling, and knowing otherwise
Day 2
9-12 Seminar: Applying new Knowledge to own doctoral studies seminar, facilitated by Dr. Magalhães