Tuesdays 12:00 – 1:00 pm, 306 Coble Hall

Every semester the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies invites a number of distinguished scholars, faculty, and graduate students from UIUC and other institutions to present lectures on the foremost issues regarding Brazil’s economy, society, and culture.

Spring 2024

January 23rd
12:00 – 2:15 pm
306 Coble Hall

Dana Johnson| Graduate Student Workshop: Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals
January 30th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall		 Gana Ndiyae | “How Can One Be an African Sufi Muslim?”: Senegalese Migrants and Brazil’s New Racial Politics

February 8th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge

 Sidney Chalhoub | Fiction as Archive: Slavery in Literary and Legal Texts
February 13th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Bianca Kremer | Facial Recognition Technologies in the Brazilian Public Sector: Between Regulation and Racial Discrimination 
February 20th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Mateo Farina | Understanding How Early Life Conditions Impact Age-Related Health Among Older Brazilians
February 27th
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Jennifer Eaglin | Greening an Alternative Energy: The Rise of the Brazilian Ethanol Industry 
March 05th 
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall		 Thaís Duarte Zappelini | The Lipstick Lobby and the Letter of Brazilian Women to the Constituent Assembly: Engendering Democracy and Rethinking Feminist Movements to Shape Law and Society

March 19th 
12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Suzel Reily | Musical Artivism and Social Media in the Bolsonaro Era

April 02nd

12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall
Alan Knuth| Physical Activity as a social right in Brazil: challenges and opportunities

April 16th

12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

 Marc Doussard, Fábio Waltenberg and Jéssica Maldonado | 10 years of cash transfers paid in a local currency in Maricá, Brazil: origins, evolution, diffusion, and preliminary evidence

April 23rd

12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Joaquim Guilhoto | Linking environment and economy, contributions of input-output analysis

April 30th

12:00 – 1:00 pm
Virtual

Horrara Moreira | "Take My Face Out of Your Sight” - Strategies To Ban Facial Recognition in Brazil

May 7th

12:00 – 1:00 pm
306 Coble Hall

Victor Silva Souza | Evaluating Piglet Growth and Activity in Clean and Dirty Nursery Settings Using Computer Vision Technology