Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence

This course proposes a critical analysis of structural, symbolic, racial, gender-based, and epistemic forms of violence. It seeks to examine the connections between ethics, social justice, and aesthetics by integrating theoretical perspectives, historical archives, and activist practices in order to reflect on modes of resistance and possibilities for structural transformation. The seminar, theoretical, critical, and participatory in orientation, also addresses the problematization of the figure of the victim, the politics of fear, and the spectacle of violence in contemporary media. [In collaboration with Renata Guadagnin and Nythamar de Oliveira.]

Graduate Program in Philosophy
School of Humanities
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Graduate Course
August — December 2025


Gender-based Violence

The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the anthropological, conceptual, and social dimensions of violence, with a focus on gender relations. It addresses topics such as the symbolic construction of sexual difference, women’s identity and participation, as well as definitions and typologies of violence (physical, psychological, and domestic). The course also examines the legal, political, and educational implications of the issue, articulating discussions on power, family, and inequality. Throughout the units, it aims to analyze the structures that sustain gender-based violence and to reflect on strategies for prevention and the promotion of equality. [In collaboration with Renata Guadagnin.]

Master’s Degree in Criminology and Forensic Sciences
School of Law
Universidad de la Empresa (UDE)

Graduate Intensive Course
October — November 2025


Aspects of Latin American Feminist Philosophy

LATAM feminist philosophy from the second half of the 20th century to the twenty-first century, addressing themes such as decolonial feminism, epistemologies of resistance, and social justice. Throughout the course, we seek to understand the connections between ethics, social justice, and social movements, promoting a critical analysis of the possibilities for emancipation and structural transformation. The proposal articulates theoretical readings with the investigation of activist practices and historical archives. [In collaboration with Renata Guadagnin and Nythamar de Oliveira.]

Graduate Program in Philosophy
School of Humanities
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Graduate Course
March — July 2025


Image and Legibility: Opening the Eyes of History

In-depth study of the book Remontages du temps subi — L’Œil de l’Histoire II, by Georges Didi-Huberman. Drawing on this work, the course develops a critical understanding of the relationship between image, memory, and legibility in the construction of historiographical discourse. It also examines the use of images as documentary evidence in historical and legal contexts, particularly those related to the Holocaust; reflects on the ethics of representing traumatic events visually and on the role of images in the dignification or humiliation of victims; and explores the concept of montage. [In collaboration with Valéria Cazzeta.]

Graduate Program in Cultural Studies
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
University of São Paulo

Graduate Course
March — July 2025


Political Iconology: An Education Through Images

In-depth study of the book Images in Spite of All, in which Georges Didi-Huberman analyzes four photographs taken in August 1944 by members of the Sonderkommando inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp while it was still in operation. Following the argument developed in the two essays that compose the book, the course seeks to understand the procedures of montage and the production of political iconology. [In collaboration with Valéria Cazzeta.]

Graduate Program in Cultural Studies
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
University of São Paulo

Graduate Course
August — September 2024


Decoloniality, Feminism, and Racialization: Critical Approaches to Emancipation

Presentation and critical discussion of feminist and intersectional theories. Emphasizing contemporary approaches and developing antiracist, queer, and decolonial critiques, the course encourages the application of these perspectives to the analysis of phenomena shaping contemporary sociopolitical life. [Developed in collaboration with Camila Barbosa, Renata Guadagnin, and Nythamar de Oliveira]

Graduate Program in Philosophy
School of Humanities
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Graduate Course
March — July 2024


Special Topics: Bilderatlas

This theoretical–practical course focuses on the development of the “image atlas” procedure, grounded in the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne by Aby Warburg. By introducing and elaborating Warburg’s atlas methodology, the course approaches the image as a form of thought and visual montage as a technique for the production of meaning. Working with images from the perspectives of montage and anachronism, the course problematizes distinct theoretical positions adopted in relation to visual materials. The program culminates in a guided exercise involving the creation of an original image plate.

Department of Visual Communication
School of Fine Arts
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Undergraduate Course
March — July 2022
August — December 2022


Design Theory II

This undergraduate course is devoted to presenting and critically examining contemporary philosophical and aesthetic approaches to design (conception and project development). It surveys the principal theoretical frameworks in the field and investigates their relations to specific political and economic contexts, with the aim of fostering critical reflection on disciplinary canons. The course also addresses key notions of visual language, syntax, and graphic style.

Department of Visual Communication
School of Fine Arts
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Undergraduate Course
March — July 2022
August — December 2022


Digital Media II

The course approaches the digital environment from a direct theoretical-practical perspective, introducing core concepts such as media, medium, and message, cyberculture, and convergence culture, and moving toward applied topics including interactivity, user-centered design, fluid layouts, and digital storytelling. In the second part of the semester, the focus shifts to interaction design and information architecture, articulating conceptual foundations with project development.

Department of Visual Communication
School of Fine Arts
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Undergraduate Course
March — July 2022
August — December 2022


Zine and Photobook Project

The course focuses on the development of handmade publications inspired by zine/fanzine practices and photobook publishing, combining aesthetic experimentation with critical reflection. It introduces the history of alternative and independent publications while presenting the stages of editorial creation, with particular emphasis on the project-based thinking required for image-driven books. Throughout the semester, students will plan and produce both digital and print publication exercises, exploring the intersections of photography, design, and narrative, as well as strategies for circulation and autonomy within the publishing field.

Department of Visual Communication
School of Fine Arts
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Undergraduate Course
March — July 2022
August — December 2022


Da fotografia à política: introdução ao pensamento de Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

From Photography to Politics: Introduction to Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Short course presenting the central arguments of the theoretical proposal developed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, which connects photographic practice and contemporary modes of visual culture to political practices. The course examines key aspects of her proposed political ontology and critically interrogates traditional understandings of citizenship, history, and human rights, emphasizing the importance of worldly processes that create worlds and of imperial forms of violence that produce the past.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
Editions in 2024 and 2026


Recovering the Sensible: An Introduction to the Aesthetic Thought of Susan Sontag

This short course presents and discusses key aspects of the thought of the American philosopher Susan Sontag. Devoted to investigating how aesthetic dilemmas emerge in her reflections, the course is anchored in a set of essential texts for understanding her theoretical proposals. An indispensable figure in contemporary intellectual debate and a frequent interlocutor of the major aesthetic questions of the twentieth century, Sontag’s critical and essayistic work is often received in an informal and dispersed manner. This course seeks to reconstruct the foundations of her analyses, tracing a line of coherence that runs through her diverse intellectual projects and interventions.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
November — December 2025


Colonial Archive: Dismantlings and Emancipatory Fictions

This seminar explores the visual historical archive of colonial, royal, and imperial Brazil as a matrix for processes of remounting and reinterpretation. It mobilizes concepts such as visual archaeology, gai savoir, and fabulative speculation, while investigating tools and methodologies for rereading archival materials. These approaches function as catalysts for a process of critical montage and for the emancipatory reconstruction of Latin American memory.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
November 2024


Against Imperial History: Unlearning, Reclaiming, Repairing

Short course dedicated to presenting the central arguments of Potential History, by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. In this work, the author examines the consequences of approaching imperialism as a form of power that is not only political but also ontological, operating through photographs, archives, and museums. The technologies and discourses that produce the “past” perpetuate a violent framework that unequally distributes rights within the imperial order. The course introduces key concepts such as unlearning imperialism, the labor of repair, and the condition of worldliness.

Ubu Publisher Courses
Short Course (2 hours)
May 2024


Critical Visual Studies: paths for a situated gaze

This short course introduces key debates within the emerging field of Critical Visual Culture Studies. It examines inquiries into practices of seeing and into the production, circulation, and impact of visual images, objects, and experiences within contemporary visual culture. The discussion is grounded in recent work by Anne Lafont, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Natalia Brizuela, Rita Segato, Saidiya Hartman, and Tina Campt.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
April — May 2024


Grown-up Stories for Ghosts: An Introduction to Aby Warburg

This short course offers an introduction to the work of Aby Warburg, highlighting the principal studies and conceptual innovations articulated in his most influential publications. An unconventional historian of art and culture, Warburg founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg and developed a distinctive interpretative framework for understanding the survival and transformation of pagan antiquity within modern and contemporary cultural and artistic practices. The course examines key aspects of the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, alongside Warburg’s investigations into the history of Western art, Amerindian mythology, and astrology.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
Editions in 2021 and 2022


The Surface of the Abyss: An Introduction to the Thought of Vilém Flusser

Articulating a singular perspective on themes such as language, image, and technology, the Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser was a key thinker of our time. This course offers an overview of his work, focusing on the dialogues and translations he developed between writing and photography, communication and design, and critique and existence. It introduces central concepts of Flusserian thought—such as technical images, the black box, post-history, and the administrative society—through discussions of his major books.[In collaboration with André Araujo]

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
July 2022


The Eye of the History: Didi-Huberman’s Gayan Visual Knowledge

This course is devoted to The Eye of History, the book series by Georges Didi-Huberman, in which the philosopher foregrounds the role of images in the legibility of history and advances a “politics of imagination” grounded in visual archives, cinema, and contemporary photography. Drawing on figures such as Aby Warburg, Bertolt Brecht, Harun Farocki, and Sergei Eisenstein, the course examines how Didi-Huberman’s essayistic mode of thought operates as a theoretical–methodological tool, articulated through concepts such as gay visual knowledge, the negative power of images, and the dialectical image.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
Editions in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025


Remaining with the Dilemma: An Introduction to Didi-Huberman

This short course presents the central theoretical propositions of Georges Didi-Huberman through a close reading of his major texts, situating them within the broader arc of his intellectual trajectory. The program explores key case studies developed by the author over the past four decades in his extensive body of work, ranging from debates in art history to contemporary cinema, sculpture, and the production of imaginative politics.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
Editions in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023


Critical Visual Studies: paths for a situated gaze

This course offers a possible entry point into the vast field of Visual Studies, a research area whose contours began to take shape in the United States in the 1990s as an outgrowth of Cultural Studies. The course explores the work of authors such as W. T. J. Mitchell, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Horst Bredekamp, Martin Jay, Jonathan Crary, Régis Debray, and Jacques Rancière, as well as core conceptual questions and contemporary issues that have called for a more explicit positioning within the field, including decolonial and feminist critiques.

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
April 2021


Monsters in Images and Literature

This short course explores, through Latin American literature and the history of visual culture, the ways in which monstrosities emerge within the narratives of diverse human societies. Drawing on a Foucauldian framework, the course examines how hybrid, unsettling, and enchanting bodies function as sociopolitical figurations of health, knowledge, and morality. Figures such as vampires, melusines, mermaids, and demons are analyzed as symbolic operators through which cultural anxieties and normative regimes are articulated. [In collaboration with Priscilla Campos]

Association for Research and Practice in Humanities
Short Course (15 hours)
Editions in 2021 and 2022


What Is Photography Made Of?

The course offers a concise introduction to the relationship between photography and reality, exploring ontological questions through key texts in Photography Studies. Across two sessions, it addresses both aesthetic dimensions and meaning-making in images, as well as modes of representation—such as icon, index, and symbol—engaging debates on documentary, fiction, and objectivity. Designed for those interested in photography, journalism, and semiotics, it has no prerequisites.

UniRitter Summer School
Short Course (8 hours)
June 2015