Tuesday 2:00 – 3:30 pm, 101 International Studies Building or as announced
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.
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 Ladina
