Spring 2012 Events
January 2012
Classes Begin
January 25
February 2012
OPEN HOUSE [PDF]
Friday, February
3
3:00pm-5:00pm
Location: 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Conversa [PDF]
"Trânsito e política: artistas brasileiros nos Estados Unidos nas décadas de 1960 e 1970"
Professora Dária Jaremtchuk, Universidade de São Paulo
Wednesday, February
8
12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Seminar [PDF]
"Realism and Reality of Blood: City of God Ten Years Later"
Professor Fábio Akcelrud Durão, UNICAMP
Thursday, February
23
12:00pm
Location: Pembroke Hall 202
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Department of Modern Culture and Media, and the Office of International Affairs.
"Corruption in Early Modern Portuguese India"
Nandini Chaturvedula, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Wed, February
29
12:00pm
Location: Hillel House
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
march 2012
"Portugal's African Vassals: Slaving and Cross-Cultural Excvhange in the Black Atlantic World"
Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Virginia
Wednesday, March 7
12:00pm
Location: Hillel House
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
conference [LINK]
"Feeding 9 Billion: The Future of Large-Scale Agriculture in Brazil"
Thursday, March 8
8:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Co-sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies, the Brown University Office of International Affairs, The Population Studies & Training Center, The Woods Hole Research Center and more.
"Religion and Empire: A Case Study from Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Asia"
Liam Brockey, Michigan State University
Wednesday, March 14
12:00pm
Location: Hillel House
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
"Mutual Conquests: Portugal, Sri Lanka and the Making of Imperialism in Asia, 1506-1598"
Zoltan Biedermann, University of London
Monday, March 19
12:00pm
Location: Hillel House
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
culture [PDF]
BRAZILIAN Music Day
Wednesday, March 21
12:00pm; 8:00pm
See attached PDF for schedule and locations.
Made possible by the Belda Family Fund for Brazilian Studies.
April 2012
"Dissident Desires: Race, Sex and Abolition in 19th Century Brazilian Literature"
by Lamonte Aidoo
Mon, April 16
9:30am
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Advisor: Nelson H. Vieira
First Reader: Luiz F. Valente
Second Reader: Anani Dzidzienyo
Third Reader: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Conference [LINK]
"New Approaches to Poverty & Inequality Reduction in the Global South"
April 18 & 19
Location: Watson Institute
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, the Graduate Program in Development, the India Initiative, Middle East Studies, the Watson Institute for International Studies and the William B. Rhode Center for International Economics and Finance
Symposium [PDF]
"The Late Colonial State in European Empires. Genealogies and Legacies"
Friday, April 20
1:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Pembroke Hall 202
"Voices of Samba: Music and the Brazilian Racial Imaginary, 1955-1988"
by Stephen Bocskay
Thursday, April 26
11:00am
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Advisor: Nelson H. Vieira
First Reader: Luiz F. Valente
Second Reader: Anani Dzidzienyo
May 2012
Conversation [PDF]
A Conversation with Jacinto Lucas Pires (in Portuguese)
Tuesday, May 1
2:30pm
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
O curso POBS 620 contará com a presença do escritor português, Jacinto
Lucas Pires. O escritor falará sobre a sua obra no conjunto, mas
em particular, sobre o seu romance de 2011, O Verdadeiro Ator.
"O bilinguismo luso-espanhol: atitudes portuguesas"
Fernando Venâncio, Universiteit Amsterdam
Wednesday, May 2
4:00pm
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Conversation [PDF]
A Conversation with Milton Hatoum (in Portuguese)
Thursday, May
3
12:00pm
Location: Crystal Room (Pembroke Campus)
Milton Hatoum is regarded as one of the greatest living writers from Brazil. The author of four highly-praised novels, he has been awarded the Portugal Telecom Literary Prize and is a three-time recipient of the Jabuti Prize (Brazil's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize).
performance and exhibit night [pdf]
Friday, May 4 at 7:30PM
Smith-Buonanno, room 106
See attached PDF for more information.
Master's Thesis defense [PDF]
"Putting the 'and' back in 'Portuguese and Brazilian Studies'"
by Joshua Michael Marcotte
Monday, May 7
10:00am
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Advisor: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
Reader: Onésimo Almeida
pre-dissertation colloquium [PDF]
"Points of Subjectivation, Scenes of Writing: Individual Identity and the Reproduction of Empire"
by Daniel F. Silva
Friday, May 11
10:00am
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Advisor: Leonor Simas-Almeida
First Reader: Nelson H. Vieira
Second Reader: Anani Dzidzienyo
pre-dissertation colloquium [PDF]
"Subversive Literature in Brazil (1964-1985): Mythical Narratives of Authority and Resistance"
by Lauren E. Papalia
Friday, May 18
10:00am
Location: George Monteiro Conference Room, 159 George St., Department of
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Advisor: Luiz F. Valente
First Reader: Nelson H. Vieira
Second Reader: James N. Green
Commencement
May 27
June 2012
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