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About the presenter: Paulo Ramos is born from the womb of his mother, Terezinha Ramos de Jesus. He is an Afro-Brazilian visual artist, performer, actor, and poet whose multidisciplinary work spans video, performance, and poetry. His acclaimed poetry book, Corpos d’água, was published in 2023 in Brazil. And in 2026, the book, titled Bodies of Water, will be released in the United States, in English, by NP-PRESS and Counterpath Press. Ramos' compelling performance piece, presented at the 12th At First Sigh New Works Festival Indiana University and in venues across São Paulo and Tepoztlán, gave rise to the thought-provoking and, art installation “Bodies of Water, a way” in Center Research of Race and Ethnicity and Society Paulo Ramos is a Ph.D. in Social Science in Gender and Black Studies in PUCSP. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo,Paulo Ramos continues to explore and amplify the narratives of Afro-Brazilian identity.
Learn more about Paulo Ramos: https://www.paulo-ramos.com/
About the lecture topic: His dissertation, Bodies of Water: EthnographWE of Black Poetics of Feeling-Doing (2025) [Corpos d’água: A etNÓSgrafia do sentir-fazer negra] is a multidisciplinary work that combines art, literature, and anthropology of the senses and images transformed into emotions. Corpos d’água is about my mother, grandmother, and aunt and the relationship these Black women had with the waters of the Bahia River, an aquatic current between the river, the mangrove, and the sea which becomes the Atlantic Ocean. The work-research him analyzes these geographies as spaces of escape, freedom, and energy connected to Black women mothers. Paulo’s art is a meditation on water and Black women in literature and art as a diasporic force that, even though traversed by the rupture and violence of colonialism, does not erase ancestry or Black life.
About the Miranda Joseph Endowed Lecture series: The annual Miranda Joseph Endowed Lecture (MJEL) honors the scholarly and institution-building work of Miranda Joseph, a former UA GWS Professor whose leadership efforts contributed to the creation of the LGBTQ+ Institute. Her vision to turn the University of Arizona into a hub of critical interdisciplinary scholarship in transnational gender and sexuality studies continues annually with the MJEL by inviting distinguished scholars in this field. Learn more at: https://lgbt.arizona.edu/initiatives-research/miranda-joseph-endowed-le…
This event is sponsored by the University of Arizona LGBTQ+ Institute and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
- This event will be hybrid.
- Refreshments will be available before the lecture. We are working with catering to ensure dietary-friendly items for individuals, so please put your request in your reservation, so we can ensure we have food that you can enjoy.
- Parking is available directly east of ENR2 in the Sixth Street Garage (1119 E 6th St), which costs $2/hour. The parking garage has over 10 disabled permitted spots on the south side of the first floor of the garage. There are bicycle racks between the parking garage and ENR2. There is motorcycle parking in the area between the parking garage and building as well. The #3 Sun Tran bus has stops off 6th Street near the south side of the building. The #6 and #1 have stops just west of the building off 6th Street and Euclid.
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