Thiago Braga is visiting scholar from Brazil and will be working at UC Davis during the 2026-2027 academic term. His research focuses on aesthetic practices and relational ontologies, urban cultures and consumption patterns, everyday ethics (particularly in the intertwined contexts of multispecies assemblages engendering of/engendered by artistic practice), affect theory and experiments in fieldwork around/through the deployment of affects, philosophical anthropology and comparative philosophy, tea culture, tea worlds, and human/plant relations broadly, East Asia (especially Taiwan and China).