Tuesday 2:00 – 3:30 pm, 101 International Studies Building or as announced
The Lemann Center organizes together with CLACS a series of lectures about Brazil. 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 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
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
Spring 2018
Tuesday, January 23rd
João Felipe Sauerbronn, Marketing, Universidade do Grande Rio
Consumer Culture Studies – Caipirinha as Markeplace Icon
Tuesday, February 6th
Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Lemann Distinguished Visting Professor
Home and Market, Love and Work, Nature and Profession: Controversies Regarding Care Work and Lessons from the Brazilian Case
Tuesday, February 20th
Zeuler Lima, School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University
On Writing [about] Lina Bo Bardi
Tuesday, March 6th
Rosana Ribeiro Tarifa
Substance Use Among Brazilian Emerging Adults
Tuesday, March 27th
Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Sociology, Universidade de São Paulo
Defining Who is Black: Color and Race in Brazilian Public Policies
Tuesday, April 10th
Gilberto Hochman, History of Sciences and Health, Fiocruz
Locating the Cold War: The Rockefeller Foundation, Science and Medicine in Brazil (1945-1964)
Tuesday, April 17th
Damani Phillips, Jazz Studies and African-American Studies, University of Iowa
South American Soul: Melding African-American and Brazilian Influences on “Cannonball’s Bossa Nova”
Tuesday, May 1st
Dain Borges, History, University of Chicago
Psychical Science in Republican Brazil: Telepathy, Spiritism, and Candomblé
