V International Congress of Indigenous Worlds – Poland
V International Congress of Indigenous Worlds – Poland
Sources and Interethnic Narratives about Indigenous Peoples in the Past and Their Reflection in the Present

Location:
Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
Rynek Starego Miasta 31
00-272 Warsaw, Poland
(Old Town)
Date: November, 21–22, 2024
Hosting institution in Poland:
- Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- The Anthropos Doctoral School, Warsaw, Poland
Supporting international institutions:
- Center for Humanities – CHAM, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Olavide University, Seville, Spain
- Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France
- Postgraduate Program in History (PPGH/), Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Coordinators of the V COIMI – 2024 – Europe – Poland:
- Agata Błoch, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Juciene Ricarte Cardoso Tarairiú, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Postgraduate Program in History – PPGH/UFC, Brazil, CHAM/UNL, Portugal
Presentation
The International Congress on Indigenous Worlds (COIMI) takes place every two years and was launched as part of the Permanent Seminar on Indigenous Worlds – Abya Yala (SEPMIAI) at the Center for Humanities (CHAM/NOVA FCSH–UAC) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, together with the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, on April 27–28, 2015. In 2017, the SEPMIAI/CHAM-UNL group organized the II COIMI, with the support of the Pablo Olavide University, Seville, Spain, and in 2019 we started to organize the event also with the Sorbonne University, Paris, France. This year, 2024, the V COIMI – Europe will also take place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, with the central theme: Sources and Interethnic Narratives about Indigenous Peoples in the Past and their Reflections in the Present. COIMI is a space for building a larger collaborative network on a national and international level for discussions on topics related to the indigenous peoples of the Americas in the past and present. The V COIMI – Europe aims to expand the dialog between indigenous and non-indigenous researchers so that opportunities can be created for new epistemological, historical, documentary, anthropological, pedagogical, and other interdisciplinary avenues.
Program
Thursday, 21/11/2024
9.00 Welcome
Representatives of the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
9.15 Opening ritual with Indigenous leaders:
Celia Tupinambá,
Vanessa Wapichana,
Daniel Santana Potiguara
Joana Potiguara
Juciene Tarairiú
9.30–10.00
NAWA STER NextGenPhDs Labs: Special Lecture
The role of indigenous alliances in the formation of the Portuguese Empire
João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, CHAM-UNL
10.00–11.30
Roundtable 1: Indigenous Peoples and Their Political Practices in the Americas: Alliances and Different Forms of (Re)Existence
Pedro Daniel dos Santos Souza, UNEB, Brazil
Rafael Reichert, University of Warsaw, Poland
Beatriz Marin-Aguilera, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Agata Błoch, Institute of History/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland – Moderator
11:45–13:00
Roundtable 2: Interethnic Relations in Global Empires: Documentary Sources, Historical Research and Digital Humanities (Project Mape – Mapping The Atlantic Portuguese Empire)
Demival Vasques Filho, University of Luxembourg
Irene Vicente-Martin, University of Salamanca, Spain
Guillem Martos Oms, University of Barcelona, Spain
Saddam Hussain, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Junaid Ahmed, Kozminski University, Poland
Agata Błoch, Institute of History/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland and Juciene Ricarte Cardoso Tarairiú , UFCG/CHAM-UNL/Institute of History/Polish Academy of Science, Brazil – Moderators
14.15–14.30
Indigenous Medicine and Western Societes – The Research and the Documentary Project
Walther Vera
14.30–16.00
Roundtable 3: Indigenizing the Future: Decolonizing Knowledge – Reclaiming Relations
Paweł Chyc, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Mariusz Filip, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Małgorzata Poks, Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Joanna Ziarkowska, University of Warsaw
Ewa Domańska, Adam Mickiewicz, University, Poznań, Poland
Eugenia Sojka, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, and Institute of Culture, University of Silesia (US), Poland, Moderators
16.15–17.45
Roundtable 4: Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Brazil and Its Diversity in the Past and Today
Gliceria Jesus da Silva/Celia Tupinambá, Brazil National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Egídia Souto, CREPAL Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Brigitte Thierion, CREPAL Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Renata Curcio Valente, Museu Nacional UFRJ, Brazil
Paulo Henrique Martinez, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, Moderator
Friday, 22/11/2024
09.30–11.00
Roundtable 5: Perspectives on Indigenous Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Cultural Representation – Phd Research Carried out in Poland
Samuel Figueira-Cardoso, University of Warsaw Tonne Teixeira de Andrade Nardi, University of Warsaw
Szymon Głąb, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Magdalena Walczuk, Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland
Szymon Głąb, Moderator
11.15–12.45
Roundtable 6: School Education and Indigenous Languages in Brazil in the Past and Today
Jocyleia Santana dos Santos, PPGE-UFT, Brazil
Ananda Machado, Federal University of Roraima, Brazil
Vanessa Augusta do Nascimento Brandão e Costa, Wapichana, State University of Sao Paulo, UNESP, Brazil
Agata Błoch, Moderator
13.00–14.30
Roundtable 7: Themes, Problems about Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
Paulo Henrique Martinez, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Renata Curcio Valente, Museu Nacional/ UFRJ, Moderator