Associação Cultural Videobrasil, in partnership with Sesc São Paulo and the Goethe Institut, presented the Public Panel for the first São Paulo edition of the Summer Conversations workshop. The workshop was a sample of the upcoming Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism – a South African think-tank that tackles global issues from the perspectives of Southern countries, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), the Johns Hopkins University (USA), and the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California. With two main premises as its starting point – “Can we envision a society where race is not a predominant factor?” and “What challenges face us on attaining that vision, and what would it be like?” – the debate took place over the course of two days of meetings at the Goethe Institut headquarters, featuring artists and intellectuals from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States. The debate was held at the Sesc Pompeia Warehouse, which is currently hosting the 30 Years show of the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, and featured the filmmaker and researcher Joel Zito Araújo; USP historian Marina de Mello e Souza; the director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California (UCLA), David Goldberg; the researcher with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, Danai Mupotsa, and the UCLA assistant professor Nádia Fadil. The debate was mediated by the anthropologist Kelly Gillespie, of the University of the Witwatersrand.