Organisation of scientific events

Member of the Organizing Committee of Book Launch: The Mind of Plants, Arts Front Foundation, 28 to 28 October by 2021 (com Vieira, Patrícia; Gagliano, Monica; Ryan, John).

Organization of Diálogos: Mente de las | das Plantas, Santiago, Chile, 09 to 09 July by 2021.

Member of the Organizing Committee of The Mind of Plants Symposium, Arts Front Foundation, 09 to 09 April by 2021 (com Vieira, Patrícia; Gagliano, Monica; Ryan, John).

Organization of Seminário "Portuguese Literature, Hunting, and the African Natural Environment under and after Colonialism" pela Prof. Isabel Gould, Universidade de Georgetown, 19 to 19 November by 2019.

Organization of Seminário "Brasil, Sertão e Amazônia - Fronteiras e Narrativas" , Universidade de Coimbra, 09 to 09 July by 2019.

Presentations in scientific events

Vieira, Patrícia (2024), "Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking as Ecocinema", paper presented at Modern Languages Association Conference., Philadelphia, 03 to 07 January.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Phytographic Indigenous Filmmaking from the Amazon", paper presented at Conference on "Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life.", Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, India, and Southern Cross University, Australia, online, 12 to 12 December.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Plant and Animal Inscription in Indigenous Amazonian Thought and Art", paper presented at Early Text Cultures Seminar, Oxford University, online, 27 to 27 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Arte Indígena Contemporânea na Amazónia: Zoografia nas Obras de Denilson Baniwa", paper presented at nternational Seminar "Leituras da Amazônia." , Sorbonne University, Paris, 23 to 23 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "More than Human Creations: Plants and Animals in Contemporary Indigenous Amazonian Art", paper presented at Environmental Humanities Conference - Recent Approaches to Environmental Humanities: Literary and Cultural Reflections on the Human and More-than-Human World, online, 18 to 18 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Plants in Indigenous Amazon and the Language of Environmental Rights", paper presented at Agency of Plants Symposium, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, 21 to 21 September.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Presentation of the project ECO - Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin", paper presented at ERC-funded Amazon Research Webminar. Euraxess and the European Research Council, online, 19 to 19 September.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "O que é uma Urbe? Comunidades Humanas e Mais-que-Humanas em Águas do Pastaza de Inês Alves", paper presented at ABRE Conference, Lisbon, 07 to 08 September.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking as Environmental Activism", paper presented at SALSA Conference, Leticia, Colombia, 26 July 30 January.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Utopia e Distopia num Mundo sem Nós", paper presented at .Curso de Verão em Literatura, Humanismo e Cosmopolitismo, Centro de Estudos Globais da Universidade Aberta, online, 29 to 29 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Plant Cinema from the Amazon.", paper presented at LASA conference, Vancouver, online, 24 to 27 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Direitos Não-Humanos em Sociedades Mais que Humanas.", paper presented at II Congresso Internacional de Direitos Animais: Salve a Amazônia, os Animais e o Planeta, online, 13 to 14 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Cosmopolitismo y derechos no humanos en sociedades multiespecies", paper presented at Colóquio "Modos de Conocer", Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, 31 to 31 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Indigenous Amazonian Phytofilm as Animist Cinema", paper presented at Luso-Ecologies: More-Than-Human Complexity, Agency, and Resistance in the Lusophone Anthropocene, "Indigenous Amazonian Phytofilm as Animist Cinema." Luso-Ecologies: More-Than-Human Complexity, Agency, and Resistance in the Lusophone Anthropocene. Oxford University, March 2023. , 29 to 31 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Cosmopolítica Interespécies", paper presented at Seminar "Abril Caminhos", Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra , 25 to 25 January.

Vieira, Patrícia (2023), "Amazon Animist Cinema and Non-Human Rights", paper presented at ASLE Conference, Portland, online.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Cosmopolitismo Multibiológico e Sociedades Interespécies", paper presented at Linha de Investigação em Literatura, Humanismo e Cosmopolitismo, Centro de Estudos Globais da Universidade Aberta, 19 to 19 December.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Outros Antropocenos - O Apocalipse Visto da Amazónia", paper presented at Galeria Energia, Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, 15 to 15 December.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "O Antropoceno visto da Amazónia: Perspetivas Indígenas sobre o Fim do Mundo", paper presented at Seminário "Conhecimentos Indígenas em Contexto Latino-Americano: Cruzando Perspectivas e Ampliando Diálogos, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 18 to 18 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Disaster: Reflections on the End of the World", paper presented at Workshop "Lands and Oceans of Knowledge: Arts in Education and Research.", Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 17 to 17 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Indigenous Apocalypses: What do Mad Max Films and Amazon Have in Common?", paper presented at Human Rights in Contemporary Societies Autumn Retreat, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 16 to 16 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Birds and Feathers in the Land of the Parrots", paper presented at Overlooking the World: Exotic Birds and Aviaries in Portugal (XVth-XXth century), Museu de História Natural e da Ciência, 10 to 11 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Amazonian Ecopoetry: Rainforest Zoophytography", paper presented at Colloquium - Literature and the Environmental Humanities, or How to Write the Ecocide of Real Biotopes, Universidade de Berna, 18 to 18 October.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Amazonian Phytofilm: Contemporary Amazonian Cinema as Vegetal Filmmaking", paper presented at American Portuguese Studies Association Conference, Brigham Young University, 06 to 08 October.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking and the Rights of Human and Non-Human Beings", paper presented at Global Meeting on Law and Society, ISCTE, 13 to 16 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Plant Activism in the Amazon: Frans Krajcberg's Tree Sculptures", paper presented at Logics of Production and Destruction in the Amazon, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study and Casa de Vélazquez, 27 to 27 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Filming the Ruins of the Amazon: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Cinema as Environmental Activism", paper presented at CEISAL, Universidade de Helsínquia, 13 to 15 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Amazonian Ecopoetry: Zoophytography as Shamanism", paper presented at Frankfurt Humanities Research Center, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 25 to 25 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Zoophytography in the Amazon: Animals and Plants in Amazonian Ecopoetry", paper presented at Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies, Cappadocia University, 16 to 18 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin", paper presented at LASA, San Francisco, 05 to 08 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Food Ethics in the Work of Astrid Cabral." ", paper presented at LASA, San Francisco, 05 to 08 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Understanding the Mind of Plants", paper presented at The Scientific and Medical Network, online, 13 to 13 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Humanidades Ambientais: Da Teoria à Prática", paper presented at Workshop "Roda de Saberes, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 07 to 07 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Filming the Amazon: Views from the Outside", paper presented at APEAA Conference, Universidade de Coimbra, 31 March 02 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Fitocinema Amazónico: Cinema Indígena Contemporâneo sobre Plantas", paper presented at La Amazonía Brasileña: Problemas y Desafíos, Universidade de Salamanca, 28 March 01 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Grounding Literature: The Poetry of Astrid Cabral", paper presented at BRASA, Georgetown University (online), 10 to 12 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "O que são as Humanidades Ambientais?" ", paper presented at Humanidades Ambientais e Naturezas Contestadas Workshop, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 01 to 01 February.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Interdisciplinaridade, Transdisciplinaridade e Indisciplina Académica." Mesa-Redonda "Inter/transdisciplinaridade: Epistemologias, Legados e Insurgências", paper presented at Colóquio "Inter/Transdiscipliridade para o Século XXI, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, 25 to 25 January.

Vieira, Patrícia (2022), "Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants", paper presented at Graduate Conference in Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latinx Studies, University of Chicago.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "O Que Pensa uma Oliveira? Reflexões sobre a Mente das Plantas", paper presented at Encontros de Alvito: Arte, Ciência, Ecologia, Alvito, 16 to 16 October.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Rainforest Aesthetics: Plant Art from the Amazon", paper presented at Streams - Transformative Environmental Humanities Conference, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 03 to 06 August.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Estética Amazónica: A Arte da Floresta", paper presented at Estados Unidos da Investigação: Transferências Ibéricas nas Artes e Humanidades. Literatura, Artes e Meio Ambiente, Universidade de Salamanca / Universidade de Coimbra, 30 to 30 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Plants as Environmental Activists: Amazonian Vegetal Expression in Frans Krajcberg's Sculptures", paper presented at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, 26 July 06 August.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Can Plants Write?", paper presented at Peripheral Perspectives Colloquium, Porto Design Biennale, 16 to 16 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Encountering the Non-Human World Anew: Lessons from the Amazon", paper presented at Green Hispanismos International Conference, Swansea University, 06 to 07 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Can Plants Become Environmental Activists? Amazonian Thought in the Work of Frans Krajcberg", paper presented at Beyond Modernity: Alternative Incursions into the Anthropocene, CES, Universidade de Coimbra, 15 to 16 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Trabalho Académico e Ambientalismo", paper presented at Roundtable "Agir com e para a Terra: Que Caminhos para Lá da Crise Climática?" Part of the CES Summer School Reacender a Imaginação Cívica para a Mudança Social, CES, Universidade de Coimbra, 10 to 10 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Utopia and Dystopia in Brazil Today", paper presented at Radical History Book Talk Series, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, 02 to 02 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Movimientos Sociales y Utopia", paper presented at Roundtable "Es un estallido social lo que pasa en Colombia?", Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, 31 to 31 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Olive Tree (Olea Europaea)", paper presented at The Mind of Plants Symposium, Arts Front Foundation, 09 to 09 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Portuguese Colonial and Post-Colonial Cinema", paper presented at Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University, 08 to 08 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Human/Non-Human Relations: Presentation of The Mind of Plants", paper presented at ASLE Spotlight Series, 19 to 19 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Animals and Plants in Amazonian Cultural Productions", paper presented at Latin American Studies Association Conference.

Vieira, Patrícia (2021), "Distopia e Utopia no Brasil Contemporâneo", paper presented at Distopia: Crise do Presente ou Mal-Estar do Futuro, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "The Humanities in the Age of Covid", paper presented at Faculty Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, 12 to 12 November.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Utopian and Dystopian Thought in the Age of the Anthropocene", paper presented at (Re)Thinking Earth: From Representations of Nature to Climate Change Fiction, Portuguese National Library, 22 to 23 October.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), " Forum Team Leader. ReVista Launch: The Future of the Amazon, Lessons from the Past", paper presented at Brazilian Amazon at a Crossroads, Harvard University, 05 to 05 October.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Crise Climática e Pandemia [Climate Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic]", paper presented at Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 14 to 14 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Movies on the Move: Cinematic Travels in the Amazon", paper presented at Amazonia Week, Florida State University, 02 to 02 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Um Cinema Natural? Mulheres e Natureza na Filmografia de Realizadoras Portuguesas", paper presented at Federal University of Paraíba, 12 to 12 February.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Cinema Português no Feminino: O Meio Ambiente na Filmografia de Noémia Delgado e Teresa Villaverde", paper presented at WomanArt Seminar, University of Minho.

Vieira, Patrícia (2020), "Que Futuro para a Ideia de Futuro? Utopia e Distopia numa Época de Pandemia", paper presented at VI Congresso de Literatura e Utopia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas.

Vieira, Patrícia (2019), "Voices from the Rainforest", paper presented at MLA International Symposium, Universidade Católica de Lisboa, 23 to 25 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2019), "Phytografia: Escritas Amazónicas", paper presented at II Ciclo de Estudios Brasileños, Universidade de Salamanca, 12 to 12 July.

Vieira, Patrícia (2019), "The Amazonian Rainforest in Literature, Cinema and Art", paper presented at Vegetal Poetics. Narrating Plants in Culture and History, Technical University of Dresden / German Museum of Hygiene, 07 to 08 June.

Vieira, Patrícia (2019), "Talking Trees in the Amazon", paper presented at Trees in/and/around Literature in the Anthropocene, Universidade de Turim, 21 to 22 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2019), "Uma Ecocrítica Tropical? O Meio Ambiente na Literatura e na Cultura Brasileiras", paper presented at Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 02 to 02 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Amazonian Posthumanism in the Poetry of Astrid Cabral", paper presented at IV Congresso Internacional de Literatura e Ecocrítica, Manaus.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "A Land of the Future: Utopia in Brazilian Culture", paper presented at American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference, Salamanca.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "The Immanent, Ecological Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen", paper presented at International Conference on Environmental Humanities, University of Alcalá.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Natural and Social Landscapes in the Work of Portuguese Women Directors", paper presented at Portuguese Women Directors Workshop, University of Lisbon.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "The Environment in the Cinematography of Portuguese Women Filmmakers", paper presented at American Portuguese Studies Association Conference, University of Michigan.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Paz entre as Espécies", paper presented at A Imaginação do Futuro: Saberes, Experiências, Alternativas, Universidade de Coimbra.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Phytognosis: Learning from Plants", paper presented at Living with Plants Forum, Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Amazonian Narratives: From Theology to Ecology", paper presented at George Washington University, Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Vieira, Patrícia (2018), "Utopia in Brazilian Culture: Presentation of Book 'States of Grace'", paper presented at Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Post-Utopia and Authoritarian Reactionarism", paper presented at Beyond Borders: People, Spaces, Ideas Conference, Open University of Lisbon, 17 to 19 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Phytographia: Writing with Plants", paper presented at Vegetal Mediations: Plant Agency in Contemporary Art and Environmental Humanities, Central European University, 05 to 06 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Turning to Plant: Towards a Phyto-Gnosis", paper presented at II REPORTHA Meeting: Environmental Changes in Historical Perspective, University of Lisbon, 04 to 06 May.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Multibiologism and Interspecies Relations", paper presented at European Graduate School, Valletta, Malta, 10 to 20 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), ""Of Wolves and Lambs: Interspecies Peace." European University of St. Petersburg. April 2017. Of Wolves and Lambs: Interspecies Peace", paper presented at European University of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, 05 to 05 April.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Convivências: Multibiologismo, Ecologia e Comunidades Inter-Espécies", paper presented at Conferência "O Desejo de Viver em Comum." , Teatro Municipal São Luiz, Lisboa, 25 to 25 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Interspecies Peace: Learning to Live Together", paper presented at International Conference on Histories of Nature and Environment: Perspectives and Dialogues, University of Lisbon, 15 to 17 March.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Amazonian Zoophytographia", paper presented at The Environment in Brazilian Culture, Washington, DC.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "O Fim do Planeta e os Limites do Capitalismo", paper presented at Cem Anos que Abalaram o Mundo: Hipóteses Emancipatórias.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Multibiologismo y paz entre especies", paper presented at Humanidades y Ecología para el Siglo XXI, South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, Maldonado, Uruguay.

Vieira, Patrícia (2017), "Amazonian Flora: A Phyto-Gnosis from the Rainforest", paper presented at Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "Ecological Utopian and Dystopian Discourses about the Amazon", paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Harvard University.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "Ecocriticism in Portuguese: Zoo-phyto-graphic Poetry", paper presented at Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies Conference, New University of Lisbon.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "Zoophytographia: Animal and Plant Writing on the Amazon", paper presented at Brazilian Studies Association Conference, Brown University.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "O Belo e o Bom: Estética, Uniformidade e Liberdade", paper presented at Invited Talk, Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "Utopías del vivir sin trabajar : El ocio y la ideología del trabajo", paper presented at Invited Talk, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Vieira, Patrícia (2016), "Literatura del Amazonas: La voz de la selva", paper presented at Invited Talk, Department of Modern Philology. University of Salamanca.