Paulo Ramos’ 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.
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.
- We will send you email reminders both one week before the event, as well as the day before the event.
