“Bahia and the Transnational Invention of Afro-Brazilian Studies” with Livio Sansone, Federal University of Bahia

Livio Sansone received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has been living in Brazil since 1992, where he is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Prof. Sansone is the founder and director of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in African and African Diaspora studies – and coordinates the Digital Museum of African and Afro-Brazilian Heritage. Over the last years, his research has been on the circulation of ideas of race and emancipation between Southern Europe, Africa and Latin America, the transnational making of Afro-Brazilian anthropology in the 1940s and the cosmopolitan nationalism of Mozambican independence leader Eduardo Mondlane. Among other titles, he is the author of Blackness Without Ethnicity: Creating Race in Brazil (2003), La Galassia Lombroso, l’ Africa e l’ America Latina (2022) and Field Station Bahia. Brazil in the work of Lorenzo Dow Turner E. Franklin Frazier, Frances and Melville Herskovits – 1935-1967 (2023).