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<\/a>In their different expressions, relations between Brazil and Germany will be the theme of an international event on September 26th and 27th in the auditorium of the Museu da Vida Fiocruz. Registrations must be made on the virtual campus website<\/a> by September 20th, and places are limited.<\/p>\nThe 1st Brazil-Germany International Conference: Circulation, Exchange, Contact Zones<\/em> coincides with the bicentennial of German immigration to Southern Brazil and will address the complex relations between the two countries. Twenty-four researchers from Brazil, Germany, Spain, Israel, and Italy, from 17 different institutions, will come together to discuss topics such as refugees, ecology, vectors, health and the climate crisis, natural and social sciences, mental health and politics, and methodologies involving archives from both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n The research of German naturalists in Brazil since the 18th century, the exchanges between the two countries regarding natural and social sciences, and more contemporary topics, such as ecology and the climate crisis, are among the issues that will be discussed on the first day of the conference. In the opening lecture, professors Stefan Rinke and Karina Kriegesmann from the Free University of Berlin (FU-Berlin) will present a critical edition of Hugo Gensch’s 1908 work The Education of an Indian Child<\/em>, which deals with the adoption of an indigenous child by a German doctor. The day’s discussion will close with a debate on bilateral research relations in historical archives and the circulation of knowledge.<\/p>\n Wars, refugees, and reparations will be the debate topics on the second day. Avraham Milgram, who worked for over 30 years as a historian at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, will close the event with a lecture on the so-called “Vatican Jews,” refugees who managed to come to Brazil through negotiations with the Holy See.<\/p>\n According to Cristiana Facchinetti, researcher at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC\/Fiocruz) and one of the event organizers, the seminar expands the possibilities for debates on social life, the different historical contexts, and the Brazil-Germany relations forged over the past 200 years, giving visibility to research problems arising from the accumulated expertise of the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health (PPGHCS) at Fiocruz. “With this ‘circulation, exchange, contact zones,’ we seek to shape quite original debates on these bilateral intersections that, we hope, will provoke and open the field for new investigations,” says Facchinetti.<\/p>\n