1st International Brazilian-German Seminar: Circulation, Exchange, Contact Zones

The 1st International Brazilian-German Seminar: Circulation, Exchanges, Contact Zones will take place on the occasion of the bicentennial of German immigration to southern Brazil and will address the complexity of relations between the two countries. Twenty-four researchers from Brazil, Germany, Spain, Israel and Italy from 17 different institutions will come together to address topics such as refugees, ecology, the debate on disease vectors, health and the climate crisis, natural and social sciences, mental health and politics, as well as methodologies involving archives on both sides of the Atlantic.

The research of German naturalists in Brazil since the 18th century, exchanges between the two countries in the natural and social sciences, and more contemporary issues such as ecology and the climate crisis are among the topics that will be discussed on the first day of the seminar. At the opening conference, professors Stefan Rinke and Karina Kriegesmann from the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) will present a critical edition of Hugo Gensch's 1908 work The Education of an Indian Child, which deals with the adoption of an indigenous child by a German doctor.

More information (in Portuguese) can be found here.