Professor Woodard will offer an overview of his work-in-progress, on the development of Brazilian consumerism between the 1920s and the 1970s and on the constitutive role of US-style consumer culture in the making of modern Brazil.
4p.m. – 5:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Joel Zito Araújo explores the glaring lack of black representation in that most hallowed of Brazilian cultural monuments, the telenovela.
7p.m. – 9p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
This presentation examines the interstices of mysticism, mothering/hospitality and community organizing in the lives of women of African descent in Brazil and the United States – a confluence about which there is little extant scholarship. Using an analytical framework that incorporates history of religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, ethnographic and historical studies of contemporary social justice movements, oral histories, and womanist ethics, my work explores the moral and mystic universe of contemporary Afro-Brazilian and African American women activists.
12p.m. – 1:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Horas tells the story of Marcos Arruda, a man who was arrested, tortured, and exiled in 1970 due to his involvement in an underground resistance organization during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The documentary explores the conditions that led to the military coup in 1964, the effects of state-sponsored torture on individuals and communities, the legacy of the repressive regime, and the enduring problem of police violence.
7p.m. – 9p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
São Paulo, long the most populous and economically dynamic state of Brazil, has many of the attributes of a highly industrialized nation, whereas the northeast of Brazil has struggled with elevated rates of poverty and economic stagnation. In her new book, The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil, Barbara Weinstein explores the “explanations” for these regional differences, and focuses particularly on the way in which the various narratives and discourses of regional difference draw on race as an explanatory factor.
12p.m. – 1:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
A look at the origins and the industry behind Brazilian funk music, focusing on the female stars of the time.
7:30p.m. – 9:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Curator Sergio Burgio will give a lecture to inaugurate Art at Watson's exhibit in collaboration with the Instituto Moreira Salles entitled "Rio: A Visual Dialogue Over Hundred and Fifty Years." Sergio Burgi graduated in Social Sciences (USP-1981), and with a Masters in Fine Arts in Photography and Photographic Associate in Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was the coordinator of the Center for Conservation and Preservation of FUNARTE’s Photographic archives between 1984 and 1991 and has been a Photographic Preservation Group member of the International Council Conservation Committee Museums (ICOM) since 1999. He currently coordinates the Photography area of the Instituto Moreira Salles, the main institution focused on the custody and preservation of photographic collections in Brazil.
6p.m. – 7p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Photographs of Rio de Janeiro by Marc Ferrez and Robert Polidori. Exhibition organized by Instituto Moreira Salles, based on the publication Rio, by Marc Ferrez and Robert Polidori, published in 2015 by Steidl/IMS. Curator: Sergio Burgi. The photographs of Ferrez and Polidori, when examined in relation to each other, thus bring to the forefront the present challenges faced by the city of Rio de Janeiro. Shaped and conditioned by the intense urban growth of the past 150 years, they reveal and expose the social and economic disparities that have become deeply ingrained in the city’s structure during this period of time.
Watson Institute, 2nd floor. Viewable on weekdays from 8:30am-5:00pm.
Since the massive 2013 protests “against everything,” Brazil has sunk into one of its most troubled periods in recent history. Economic recession, the humbling defeat in the World Cup, the Petrobras corruption scandal and the recent Zika virus epidemic have produced extreme political polarization and led to soul-searching questions about what went wrong. What is the role of the media in all of this? Are journalists doing a good job writing history’s first draft?
6:30p.m. – 8p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Cattle raising is the leading driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Most analyses focus on the economic and institutional structures contributing to the spread of cattle, but cultural beliefs, values, and practices also play a role in shaping Amazonian livelihoods and landscapes. Across the frontiers of the Amazon, the growth of the cattle industry has been accompanied by belt buckles, rodeos, country music, and deeply-held ideas of nature and development. Attention to this "cattle culture" provides a view of deforestation as part of broader cultural system structuring daily life, from the forest to the city.
12p.m. – 1:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
A "futurist docudrama" explores an explosion of violence at a dance party on the outskirts of Brasília. *The film is in Portuguese only and has no English-language subtitles.
7p.m. – 9p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Professor Paixão will analyze the status of the human race in the discourse of "racial democracy" and how this understanding is joined to the problem of social inequality and racial hierarchies in Brazil. The lecture will be based on the main ideas of the author’s book “A lenda da modernidade encantada: por uma crítica ao pensamento social brasileiro sobre relações raciais e projeto de Estado-Nação” (Ed. CRV, 2014).
12p.m. – 1:30p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
In Belém do Pará, a city of 1.5 million located in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, a vibrant electronic music scene consolidated itself around the city’s enormous sound system enterprises in the 2000s. At the national level, Brazilian media, policy-makers, and intellectuals enthusiastically hailed this largely informal economy as a model for both the future of the culture industry on the one hand and a more inclusive form of participatory cultural citizenship on the other.
12p.m. – 1:30p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
In 1969, French filmmaker Pierre Barouh captured the changing of the guard in Brazilian popular music, capturing the Old Guard represented by João da Baiana and Pixinguinha as well as the generation of artists that included Maria Bethânia, Paulinho da Viola, and Baden Powell. *This film is in Portuguese only and has no English-language subtitles.
7p.m. – 9p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.