On November 21, 2024, the current holder of the José Bonifácio Chair, former French Minister of Justice CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA, held the first working meeting with the Research Group she will coordinate at the José Bonifácio Chair in 2024 and 2025. The meeting took place in the Congregation Room of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at the University of São Paulo (USP).

The José Bonifácio Chair is a USP research support program that each year welcomes a prominent figure from the Ibero-American region to guide academic activities on a topic of current relevance. Originally from French Guiana, the professor chose Amazonian society as her research topic, giving her project the title “Sociétés amazoniennes, diverses et plurielles: un espace partagé; un destin commun?” (Amazonian societies, diverse and plural: a shared space; a common destiny?).

Comprising 56 researchers, the vast majority of whom are young students from different USP graduate programs, the Research Group was formed based on the affinity of its members' research projects with the theme indicated by the Professor. Conducting its activities in French, the Professor's native language, the Research Group will hold regular meetings with Christiane Taubira in late 2024 and throughout 2025 to examine the set of elements of Amazonian reality included in the study program she has established.

Besides impacting the production of dissertations and theses, this reflection will result in the publication, in the second half of 2025, of the annual volume of the José Bonifácio Chair collection, with articles written by members of the Research Group and personalities invited by the Chair. Intended as USP's contribution to the debates surrounding COP 30, scheduled to take place in November of the same year in Belém do Pará, the book will join the 11 previous volumes of the Chair's collection, which constitute a substantial and up-to-date repository of studies on Ibero-America, all freely accessible at https://www.livrosabertos.edusp.usp.br/edusp/catalog/category/relacoes-internacionais