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Seminários NICS: ciclo pesquisas em andamento – Sounds of Bodily Memories: Monuments, Resonances and Ruins

Local: NICS – Rua da Reitoria, 165 – UNICAMP | Data: 10 de maio, 10h

Resumo: In this talk, Beneï will present the main lines of enquiry of the MOVING project around movement, bodies and memory, asking the following questions: What does movement do to embodied memories? And what part does sound play in the process?  

This enquiry anchors itself in a phenomenological and sensory approach in anthropology, while also drawing on a few other influences such as philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. In its present stage it is very much work in progress as it draws on experimental research I am currently leading as I write, on a site near Mata de São João in Bahia, about 1h30 drive from Salvador. I will articulate this with the work to be developed on the immersive platform that is an integral part of the project in its original conception.

Biografia:

Véronique Beneï‘s research lies at the intersection of political anthropology and a sensory and embodied approach. Her doctoral thesis at the EHESS in Paris was followed by a postdoctoral position at the French Institute of Pondicherry (India) that led her to join the CNRS. Concurrently, she conducted research and taught at the LSE (UK), Princeton and Yale (USA) and at the EHESS. After extensive work on the production of national attachments in India, Véronique redirected her research interests toward South America. There, she developed a research program on violence and the performative work of memory and history related to forced migration, whether the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th centuries or contemporary internal displacement. Having trained in a ‘conscious movement’ approach in the UK, Véronique has developed a reflective approach of embodied and sensitive presence, which she uses both in her teaching and in alternative artistic exploration to produce, articulate, and share her research. In 2025, she was awarded a 5-year grant from the ERC to develop an ethnographic and multi-disciplinary methodology to study the bodily traces of African-originated slavery in post-slavery and diasporic contexts in Latin America. The project focuses on people’s bodies, postures and moves, and the individual and social transformative potential of the movement of emotions and memories through that of bodies.

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Seminários NICS: ciclo pesquisas em andamento – Sounds of Bodily Memories: Monuments, Resonances and Ruins

Local: NICS – Rua da Reitoria, 165 – UNICAMP | Data: 10 de maio, 10h

Resumo: In this talk, Beneï will present the main lines of enquiry of the MOVING project around movement, bodies and memory, asking the following questions: What does movement do to embodied memories? And what part does sound play in the process?  

This enquiry anchors itself in a phenomenological and sensory approach in anthropology, while also drawing on a few other influences such as philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. In its present stage it is very much work in progress as it draws on experimental research I am currently leading as I write, on a site near Mata de São João in Bahia, about 1h30 drive from Salvador. I will articulate this with the work to be developed on the immersive platform that is an integral part of the project in its original conception.

Biografia:

Véronique Beneï‘s research lies at the intersection of political anthropology and a sensory and embodied approach. Her doctoral thesis at the EHESS in Paris was followed by a postdoctoral position at the French Institute of Pondicherry (India) that led her to join the CNRS. Concurrently, she conducted research and taught at the LSE (UK), Princeton and Yale (USA) and at the EHESS. After extensive work on the production of national attachments in India, Véronique redirected her research interests toward South America. There, she developed a research program on violence and the performative work of memory and history related to forced migration, whether the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th centuries or contemporary internal displacement. Having trained in a ‘conscious movement’ approach in the UK, Véronique has developed a reflective approach of embodied and sensitive presence, which she uses both in her teaching and in alternative artistic exploration to produce, articulate, and share her research. In 2025, she was awarded a 5-year grant from the ERC to develop an ethnographic and multi-disciplinary methodology to study the bodily traces of African-originated slavery in post-slavery and diasporic contexts in Latin America. The project focuses on people’s bodies, postures and moves, and the individual and social transformative potential of the movement of emotions and memories through that of bodies.