Tuesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm, 306 Coble Hall
Every year 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.
Fall 2024
Tuesday, September 3rd
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Leonardo Oliveira Silva da Costa (Federal University of Lavras - UFLA)
Title: Predicting novel environments for eucalyptus families using environmental covariates
Tuesday, September 10th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Waïl S. Hassan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism
Tuesday, September 17th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speakers: Celenia Graves and Mary Borgo Ton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: IA + Bibliotecas: AI in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Tuesday, October 1st
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Magna Inácio (Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG)
Title: Administrative Unilateralism and Presidential Decree-Making in Brazil
Tuesday, October 8th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Daniela Nunes (State University of Campinas - UNICAMP)
Title: Gender Differences in Living Arrangements and Mortality Among Brazilian Older Adults
Tuesday, October 15th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Neide Sosvianin (Hummingbird Institute – Instituto Beija Flor)
Title: From resilience to empowerment: A journey building a better future for women and children
Tuesday, October 22nd
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Rogério Sávio Link (Federal University of Rondonia - UNIR)
Title: The Apurinã and the Last Frontier: Historical, Mythical, and Anthropological Reality in the Amazon
Thursday, October 31st
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Fábio Feldmann (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: Brazil in the face of Climate Change: the challenge of COP 30 in the Amazon
Tuesday, November 12th
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306 (801 S. Wright St.)
Speaker: Sonia Guimarães (Institute of Aeronautical Technology - ITA)
Title: Unlocking Potential Through Diversity: A Call to Action
Spring 2024
January 23rd (Coble Hall 306)
Dana Johnson, University of Illinois
Graduate Student Workshop: Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals
January 30th (Coble Hall 306)
Gana Ndiyae, University of Illinois
How Can One Be an African Sufi Muslim?: Senegalese Migrants and Brazil’s New Racial Politics
February 8th (Lucy Ellis Lounge)
Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University
Fiction as Archive: Slavery in Literary and Legal Texts
February 13th (Coble Hall 306 and HYBRID)
Bianca Kremer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Facial Recognition Technologies in the Brazilian Public Sector: Between Regulation and Racial Discrimination
February 20th (Coble Hall 306)
Mateo Farina, University of Texas at Austin
Understanding How Early Life Conditions Impact Age-Related Health Among Older Brazilians
February 27th (Coble Hall 306)
Jennifer Eaglin, Ohio State University
Greening an Alternative Energy: The Rise of the Brazilian Ethanol Industry
March 05th (Coble Hall and Hybrid)
Thaís Duarte Zappelini, University of Illinois
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 (Coble Hall)
Suzel Reily, State University of Campinas
Musical Artivism and social media in the Bolsonaro Era
April 02nd (Coble Hall 306)
Alan Knuth, Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG, Brazil)
Physical Activity as a Social Right in Brazil: challenges and opportunities
April 16th (Coble Hall 306)
Marc Doussard, UIUC, Fábio Waltenberg and Jéssica Maldonado, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói, Brazil
10 years of cash transfers paid in a local currency in Maricá, Brazil: origins, evolution,diffusion, and preliminary evidence
April 23rd (Coble Hall)
Joaquim Guilhoto, Senior Economist at the IMF
Linking environment and economy, contributions of input-output analysis
April 30th (Virtual)
Horrara Moreira, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
"Take My Face Out of Your Sight” - Strategies To Ban Facial Recognition in Brazil
May 7th (Coble Hall)
Victor Silva Souza, University of Illinois
Evaluating Piglet Growth and Activity in Clean and Dirty Nursery Settings Using Computer Vision Technology
Fall 2023
September 19th - 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Comparative Approach to Understanding Gender Violence in the Workplace: Women Workers in Brazil and the US.
September 26th - 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
José Vicente Caixeta-Filho, University of São Paulo
Optimization models applied to Agri-Logistics in Brazil
October 3rd - 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Dr. Guilherme Lichand, Stanford University
An Education Inequity Index
October, 10th - 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Mary Arends-Kuenning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Women's empowerment: evidence from rural Western Paraná, Brazil
October 17th - 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Eric Morgan, Joana Colussi, Gary Schinitkey and Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Telling the Story of Agriculture in Brazil: Technology Adoption, Communication, and Economics.
October 24th, 12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Luciano Pereira Soares, Insper
Exploring the Innovative Engineering Programs at Insper College, São Paulo and the Evolution of Virtual Reality Technologies
October 31st, 12:00 – 1:00 pm -306 Coble Hall
Julia Fonseca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, and Inequality: Evidence From Brazil
November 14th,12:00 – 1:00 pm -306 Coble Hall
Edson Paulo Domingues, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Green Growth and Zero Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: scenarios and economic impacts
December 5th,12:00 – 1:00 pm - 306 Coble Hall
Eduardo Sanguinet, Austral University of Chile
Skill-based functional specialization in trade: an input–output analysis of multiscalar value chains in Brazil
Spring 2023
January 30 – ONLINE EVENT – 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Marcelo Medeiros, Gustavo Gonzaga, Juliano Junqueira Assunção, Francisco Cavalcanti; Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Data Zoom: Easy Access to Brazilian Data
February 14 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Jerry Dávila; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Negative Rights: Racial Segregation and the Law in Twentieth Century Brazil
February 21 – ONLINE EVENT – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Silvia Hunold Lara; State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Palmares: Sources, History and Politics
March 2 – 210 Levis Center – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Carlos Alberto Torres and Ana Elvira Torres (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA), Linda Herrera (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – UIUC)
Global Citizenship Education: Promoting Equity Throughout the Globe
March 28 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Paula Costa Nunes de Carvalho; University of São Paulo
Brazilian musicians in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s – trajectories and insertion in the American phonographic industry
April 3 – 306 Coble Hall – 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Ana Gouvea Abras; Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
Merges and Acquisitions and Gender Inequality in Banking Jobs: Did the Tide Lift all Boats?
April 11 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Mark Tonelli; Millikin University
An American in Brazil
April 18 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Jefferson Belarmino; State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Brazilians and Race in Chicago
April 25 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Vânia Castro; Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Designing a framework to facilitate the implementation of BNCC in Brazil
April 28 – 306 Coble Hall – 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Alice Abreu; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Bringing Intersectionality to Science: how equity diversity and inclusion impacts scientific policies and practices. A view from Brazil.
Fall 2022
September 13
Antonio Carlos Lessa, University of Brasilia
Failed Revolution and the Misery of Diplomacy: Brazilian Foreign Policy under Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022)
October 20, Thursday (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM)
Bruno Hayashi, University of Sao Paulo
Mark and Origin: Japanese immigration and the racial categorization in Brazil
October 25
Franck Delpomdor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tracing the Global Climate Change in the Late Proterozoic Bambuí Group, Minas Gerais, East-Central Brazil
November 1
Raphael Mendonça Guimarães, University of California San Diego
Deaths of despair in Brazil: how does contextual effect change conceptual framework
November 7, Monday
Angela Cassia Costaldello & Daniele Regina Pontes, Federal University of Parana
Constitutional Protections and Equal Access to Justice in Territorial Rights
Spring 2022
January 25
José Ricardo Vargas de Faria, Federal University of Paraná
Urban Policy and Social Movements in Brazil
February 8
Lizandra Vergara, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Universal Design and Healthy Aging: Brazilian Research in Ergonomics
March 22
José Luís Jobim, Universidade Federal Fluminense
The Language of Brazilian Modernism: A Comparative View
April 5
Guilherme Fonseca Travassos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Intrahousehold poverty and inequality in Brazil
April 22
Renata Siqueira, University of São Paulo
“Black Territories” and “Black Culture”: City and Race Relations in the Coleção Carnaval Paulistano of São Paulo’s Image and Sound Museum (1970s and 1980s)
Fall 2021
September 28
Rosana Pinheiro Machado, University of Bath
Brands, boots, and Bolsonaro: The political consequences of “inclusion through consumption” in Brazil (2009-2021)
October 19
Ana Ramos-Zayas, Yale University
Parenting Empires: A Moral Economy of Privilege, Whiteness, and Interiority Currency in Latin American Elite Neighborhoods
November 16, 4 p.m.
Pedro Hallal, Federal University of Pelotas
The challenge of conducting epidemiological research in times of pandemic and scientific denialism: lessons from Brazil
Spring 2021
All lectures will be through Zoom until further notice.
February 9
Mary Ellen Hicks, Amherst College
Black Cosmopolitans and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
February 16
Mila Burns, Lehman College, CUNY
Dictatorship, Resistance, and Feminisms in Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro
February 23
James Macinko, UCLA
The Challenges of Healthy Aging in Brazil
March 9
Thaís Rezende Da Silva De Sant’ana, University of Illinois
Urban Development and the Making of the City of the Forest in 19th Century Brazil
March 23
Cassio Turra, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da UFMG (CEDEPLAR)
Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality in Brazil: What Have we Learned so Far?
Thursday April 22, 6PM
Adriana Calcanhotto, Singer/Composer
Music as Poetry: A Conversation With One of the Most Internationally Renowned Brazilian Singers Today
Fall 2020
All lectures will be through Zoom until further notice.
September 15
Armando João Dalla Costa, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor
Bunge Brazil (1956 to 1994): Consolidation of an Economic Group
September 29
Bruno de Macedo Zorek, University of Illinois
The future of São Paulo in the 1950s
October 27
Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois
Revisiting Transnational Teaching for Social Justice: Virtual, Real and Hybrid Experiences
Spring 2020
January 28th
Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Universidade de São Paulo
Photography, Time and Memory: Some Reflections on the Various Uses of Images about Brazil
February 25th
Lorena Avellar de Muniagurria, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Cultural Activism and Public Policies: Notes on Carimbó, Brazil
March 10th
Raphael Guimarães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Economic Crisis, Fiscal Austerity and Deaths of Despair in Brazil
March 24th – CANCELED
Solange P. Rocha, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Race Relations, History, and Anti-Racist Struggles in Brazil
April 21st – CANCELED
Olga Maslova, University of Illinois
Teatro. Ópera. Pescadores. The Universal Language of Acting and Fishing
Fall 2019
September 10th
Luis Claudio Symanski, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor
Historical Archaeology and the Material Expressions of Religiosity in African Diaspora in Brazil in the 18th and 19th Centuries
September 24th
Alexandra Lima da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
African Diaspora and History of Education: Horizons of Research in Brazil
October 1st
Ana Fava, Universidade Federal do ABC
Transmission of Financial Literacy: Parental Figures versus Financial Education Courses
October 8th
Juan Suárez Ontaneda, University of Illinois
Thespian Activism: Abdias do Nascimento and the Political Aesthetics of his Performances
October 22nd
Thula de Oliveira Pires, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Some Limits of Democracy in Améfrica Ladin