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 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 – CANCELLED
Solange P. Rocha, Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Race Relations, History, and Anti-Racist Struggles in Brazil
April 21st – CANCELLED
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
Spring 2019
Wednesday, January 9th
Mariza de Carvalho Soares
Building from Ashes: The African Collection of Museu Nacional as an Experience of Research, and Education
February 12th
Yu-Feng Forrest Lin, Hydrogeology and Geophysics , University of Illinois
Groundwater and Geothermal Resources: From the Temperature in the Guarani Aquifer to the Geothermal Energy in Urbana
April 2nd
Robert Wegner, Fiocruz
Use or Abuse of Genetics? Agriculture and Eugenics in the Work of Eugene Davenport
This talk will be given in Portuguese
April 16th
Stephen Bocskay, Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan
Samba and Black Surveillance: Narratives in Conflict during Brazilian Military Rule
April 23rd, 2:30 PM
Mike Silvers, Music, University of Illinois
Musical Instruments, Manual Labor, and Environmental Change in Cariri, Brazil
April 30th
Rafael do Nascimento Cesar, Social Anthropology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Cariocas de New Orleans: Brazilian Interpretations of North American Jazz
Fall 2018
Tuesday, September 11th
Marco Bonomo, Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor
The Brazilian Economy in 2018: Diagnosis of a Crisis
Tuesday, September 18th
Anne G. Hanley, History, Northern Illinois University
The Public Good and the Brazilian State
Tuesday, October 2nd
Marcus Tardelli
A 21st Century Voice for the Guitar
Tuesday, October 9th
Waltraud Kriven, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois
Geopolymers: Structural Inorganic Polymers and a Potential Partial Solution to Global Warming
Tuesday, October 23rd
Steven Clough, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois
US-Brazilian Collaborations to Address Soybean Disease and Pest Challenges
Tuesday, October 30th
Tianna Paschel, African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Roundtable: Rethinking Black Mobilization in Latin America
