Day 2 - 29/04/2026

Time Room Event
9–10hIVSymposium 1 – Museums in a Technological Age: Preserving the Past for the Future
Chair: Prof. Dr. Mônica Santos de Freitas (UFRJ/Brazil)

Navigating turbulent waters - the reconstruction of the Museu Nacional

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Alexander Kellner (National Museum/UFRJ, Brazil)
10–11hIVPoster Session with Refreshments – PhD candidates and researchers
11–13hIVSymposium 2 – Can Advances in Technology and Artificial Intelligence Improve Scientific Reproducibility?
Chair: Prof. Dr. Katrin Gelfert (UFRJ/Brazil)

Investigating and fostering reproducibility at a national level

Experienced Researcher: Prof. Dr. Olavo Amaral (UFRJ/Brazil)

Zen in the art of reproducibility

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Marco A. R. Mello (USP/Brazil)

Open Science Practices: Beyond Technology Adoption

Junior Researcher: Dr. Andrey Anderson dos Santos (UFSC/Brazil)
13–14hRestaurantLunch
14–16hIII and IV Round Table 1 and Round Table 2
IIIRound Table 1 – Technological Advances: Global Political Implications
Chair: Raquel Lima Scalcon (FGV-SP)

From Statistics to AI: Knowledge, Power, and the Transformation of Political Judgment

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Mendes Cunha (UFMG/Brazil)

Platform Capitalism, Democratic Corrosion and the Consolidation of the Cybertariat in Brazil

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Carlos Henrique Vieira Santana (UNILA)

The Algorithmic Gavel: Mapping the AI Transformation of Justice — from Courts to the Streets of São Paulo

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Heloisa Estellita (FGV Direito SP)

Technopolitics in democratic (de)mobilization

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Henrique Cukierman (UFRJ/Brazil)
IVRound Table 2 – Machine Learning in Health Sciences: Advances, Applications, and Challenges
Chair: Prof. Dr. Horacio Santana Vieira (IFSC/Brazil)

Domain-Invariant Classification of Misplaced Medical Devices in Plain Chest X-Ray Images

Experienced Researcher: Dr. Leandro Aparecido Passos Júnior (UNESP/Brazil)

Germany-Brazil Collaboration on AI-assisted Gastroenterology

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. João Paulo Papa (UNESP/Brazil)

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita (UNICAMP/Brazil)

Quantum fluids as a platform for the development of quantum sensors and technologies

Humboldtian: Emanuel Alves de Lima Henn (USP/Brazil)
16–17hIVPoster Session with Refreshments – PhD candidates and researchers
17–19hIII Round Table 3 – Accessibility and Inclusion in a More Technological World: Why They Still Matter and How to Improve Them
Chair: Prof. Dr. Elaine Maria Souza-Fagundes (UFMG/Brazil)

The ‘Overview Effect’ and Technological Inclusion: Perspectives on Human Development from the Amazon

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Jonas Carvalho e Silva (UFPA/Brazil)

Contours of structural ableism: from information access to the representation of people with disabilities in the media

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Ildo Francisco Golfetto (UFSC/Brazil)

Carta para o futuro

Experienced Researcher: Dietmar Starker (UFRJ/Brazil)

From Access to Understanding: Communication as the Key to Inclusion

Experienced Researcher: Juliana Guarany (Hamburg University/Germany)
17–18:20hIV Round Table 4 – Does Access to Information Automatically Produce Knowledge? Teaching the Philosophy of Learning
em>Chair: Prof. Dr. Mônica Santos de Freitas (UFRJ/Brazil)

The perception and reframing of teaching in the age of AI

Humboldtian: Gustavo Oliveira Pugliese (USP/Brazil)

Is AI producing new knowledge? A comparative case study

Humboldtian: Prof. Dr. Giorgio Venturi (University of Pisa/Italy)
18:20–19hIV Session - Revisiting the concepts of the Afterlife of Antiquity (A. Warburg), cultural memory (J. and A. Assmann), and transculturation (F. Ortiz): encounters between classical tradition and Brazilian culture

A Lyra Brasileira, Carnavalesca e Umbandista / The Brazilian Lyre, Carnival-inspired and Umbanda-practicing

Humboldtian: Fábio Vergara Cerqueira (UFPel/Brazil)

Sponsor

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation

Organizers

UFRJ – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro IBqM – Instituto de Bioquímica Médica inbeb – Instituto Nacional de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem Humanität Clube Humboldt do Brasil