Thursday, April 20
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

Brown Undergraduate History Forum:
Life, Politics, and Culture during the Brazilian Dictatorship

10:30-11:50: “The 1964 Brazilian Military Coup and its Aftermath”

Chair and Opening Presentation: Natan Zeichner

• Abigail Jones, “The Changing Discourse of Ambassador Lincoln Gordon”
  
• Cara Goodman, “The U.S. War on Latin American Labor”
  
• Eli Marienthal, “Indian Policy in Brazil: Genocide and Myth-making”

Comments: Evelyn Duran

7:00-9:00 pm: Center for Latin American Film Series
Madame Satã (Brazil, 2002)

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Friday, April 21
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute

10:00-11:30: “Voices of Opposition”

Chair and Opening Presentation: Natan Zeichner

• Cecilia Fletcher, “Artists against the Dictatorship: The X Bienal of São Paulo”
• Emma Tai, “An Exemplar of Integrity: The Life and Work of Brady Tyson”
• Benjamin Brown, “Carter and Geisel: The Politics of Shared Liberalization”

Comments: Ashley Morse

12:00-1:00 Box Lunch for Colloquium Participants
Watson Library, 3rd floor

1:00-4:45: International Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity in Brazil
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute

Chaired by:

• James N. Green, Brown University
• Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
• Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Participants:

• Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh
  “Workers and Soldiers: Comparing Black Political Mobilization in Brazil and Spanish America, 1800-2000.”
• Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University
  “Afrodescendentes and Brazilian Race Relations: The Rise of Afros and the Decline of Brazilian Exceptionalism.”
• Antônio Sérgio Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo
  “Africanism and Racial Democracy: The Correspondance between Melville Herskovits and Arthur Ramos (1935-1949).”
• Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis
  “Negro Teimoso, marcado para morrer: The Defiant Life and Forgotten Death of Apulco de Castro.”
• Mary Karasch, Oakland University
  “Quality, Nation, and Color: Constructing Race and Ethnicity in Central Brazil, 1775-1835.”
• Marcos Chor Maio, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
  “Rethinking the UNESCO Race Relations Project in Brazil in the 1950s”
• Edward Telles, University of California, Los Angeles
  "Thomas E. Skidmore and Evolving Understandings of Race in Brazil and the United States."
• Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland
  “The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Whitening of Brazilian (Regional) History.”
• Daryle Williams, University of Maryland
  “The Redemption of Ham: The Visuality of Blackness and Beauty in Brazilian Fine Arts.”

5:00-6:30: Conference Opening Ceremony
John Hay Library, Brown University

Distinguished Guests

James N. Green, An Academic Biography of Thomas E. Skidmore

With the participation of:

• Patricia Figueroa, Ibero-American Studies Librarian
• Abigail Jones
• Jennifer Lambe
• Ana Loso
• Orville Carey Turnquist
• Yi Liu
• Natan Zeichner

6:30-7:30 Reception John Hay Library

(Informal dinner arrangements)

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Saturday, April 22
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.

Thomas E. Skidmore: An Historian and His Legacy

8:30 - 9:30 Coffee

9:30- 11:45 Latin American History: An International Gaze

Chair: Todd Diacon, University of Tennessee

• John Coatsworth, Harvard University
• Mary Kay Vaughn, University of Maryland
• Kenneth Maxwell, Harvard University

Commentators:

• Joel Wolfe, Rice University
• Herbert Braun, University of Virginia

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
Watson Institute, first floor lobby

1:00 - 3:00 Skidmore on Culture

• Luiz F. Valente, Brown University
• Nelson Vieira, Brown University
• Christopher Dunn, Tulane University

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 - 5:30 The Next Generation: Thomas Skidmore’s Legacy

Chair and Comments: Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina

• Roger Kittleson, Williams College
• Tia Malkin, Lebanon Valley College
• Chris Frazer, St. Francis Xavier University
• Zachary Morgan, Boston College
• Brian Bockelman, Dickinson College

5:30 - 6:00 Closing Remarks

• Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland
• Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

7:00 - 9:30 Conference Dinner at Brown Faculty Club
1 Magee Street

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Special thanks to: Kate Farrell, Patricia Figueroa, Samuel Streit, Fred Fullerton, Susan Hirsch, Abigail Jones, Adriana Marques, President's Office of Brown University, Jorge Caê Rodriques, Natan Zeichner, and the Skidmore Family

For more information, contact: James_Green@brown.edu

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