1st meeting of the “Indigenous Psychology, Health and Well Being” event cycle

Date: October 25, 2024  
Part I – 2 PM to 4 PM: Indigenous experiments and knowledge  
Part II – 4 PM to 6 PM: Indigenous universe in academic confluences – dialogue with Nandita Chaudhary and Renato Guimarães  
Location: Maria Amélia Matos Auditorium, Institute of Psychology’s Library, University of São PauloThere are a limited number of in-person slots available, and the possibility to participate in Part II online. Registration and more information at this link:https://forms.gle/CyKzkRw5B9jtcYpR8This Nhemboaty is part of a cycle of events organized by the Indigenous Support Network linked to the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. The cycle begins in October 2024.Seeking to deepen the understanding of conceptions, practices, and environments of health and well-being, and articulating dialogues between indigenous and academic communities, our meetings are composed of two parts.

Part I: Indigenous experiments and knowledge
Aiming to contribute to the inclusion of indigenous communities in the University, each meeting will feature one or more guests from an indigenous ethnicity who will share a cultural experience from their people.

Part II: Indigenous universe in academic confluences
Each meeting will have one or more academic guests who will share reflections from their research in dialogue with the indigenous universe.

How our meeting on 25/10 will be:

Part I: To be confirmed  
Part II: Dialogue with Nandita Chaudhary and Renato S Guimarães

Nandita Chaudhary is an independent scholar in the field of cultural developmental psychology, living and working in India. She is a consultant and collaborator on projects, programs, and publications on Child Development, Family Studies, and Cultural Psychology in India, with local and global relevance. She blogs at Masala Chai: Reflections on Little People [https://masalachaimusings.com/](https://masalachaimusings.com/). She has taught at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, was a full scholar at Clark University, USA, and a senior fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She has also taught in the Department of Psychology at Ahmedabad University and is currently at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, in a visiting professor program in Cultural Psychology.

Renato Silva Guimarães holds a degree in Cultural Mediation and Communication from the University of Nancy II; a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies from the European Film Institute (IECA); a Master 1 in Arts, Film Studies from Paris VIII Saint-Denis University; a Master 2 in Arts and Archaeology Film, Multimedia, and TV from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne; and a Ph.D. in Arts, Plastic Arts, and Musicology from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He is currently an independent researcher at the Institut für Romanistik at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his work, he seeks to bring forward discussions and thoughts from Brazilian intellectual production that he perceives as marginalized and which he considers important for understanding the social reality of the country.

Our event will take place in person at the Indigenous Cultures House at IP-USP, so we have a limited number of spots available for this modality. There will also be the possibility of online participation for Part II. In our registration form, we ask that you inform us about your availability and interest in participating in person (if the number of registrations exceeds the number of spots, a selection will be made, and the extra registrations will be directed to the online modality).
A certificate of participation will be provided according to the hours attended (Part I, 2 hours; Part II, 2 hours; both parts, 4 hours).

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Initiating the dialogues:

Indigenous Epistemologies and the Development Divide: How Cultural Psychology can help build bridges between communities of the ‘Fourth World’
Nandita ChaudharyIndigenous communities around the world constitute a total of 240 million people in 70 countries. The constitution of the ‘Fourth world’ is a category that includes Indigenous people from around the world. When we look at the profound and extensive knowledges of these communities, we find that they have suffered profound ecological and epistemic loss on account of being ignored in the project of development as well as the complicity between the bourgeoise of the Third World and the First. This presentation will focus on our academic responsibility to promote as theoretical significance and methodological strategies that could build bridges between different indigenous communities around the world. I propose to initiate this discussion by highlighting what is known about the tribal groups in India and what we can learn from them.

Time, Space & Health
Sumak kawsay, Kayanerenkó:wa, Lekil Kuxlejal

Renato S Guimarães

Western ways of knowing tend to separate subjects and create “Others” distanced spatially and temporally. Contrary to Western modern societies, whose cosmologies and epistemologies, capitalist and socialist alike, base their time and space categories on linking social macro-processes to linearity and futurity, Indigenous ways of thinking in their temporal dimension and dialogical quality extend to the world around us, their notion of “health.” Sumak kawsay in the south, Kayanerenkó:wa in the north, or Lekil Kuxlejal in the center of the Americas, seen as legal, political, and cultural proposal brings us a present defined in native terms and a particular way of conceptualizing and experiencing temporality more socially resonant. My presentation is an effort to bridge the gap in the perception of health between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, underscoring the relation between time, space, self-determination, and health.