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Reighan Gillam – Animating Racism: Irony and Images of Dissent in Afro-Brazilian Media

Reighan Gillam is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research examines questions related to race, representation, and activism in Brazil. She earned her BA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University. She is currently completing her book Visualizing Black Lives: Afro-Brazilian Activist and Alternative Media, an ethnography of the ways in which Afro-Brazilians produce visual images and narratives that are more faithful to their everyday experiences and lives than those images found in mainstream Brazilian media. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals including Communication, Culture, and Critique, Feminist Media Studies, Black Camera, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

12p.m. – 2p.m.   Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.

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Celso Thomas Castilho - The Black Press and Trans-Atlantic Literary Genres: An Intellectual History of Recife's 'Galeria dos homens ilustres de cor,' ca. 1876

This paper analyzes a rather rare type of newspaper in imperial Brazil—a self-described “Black” periodical—through the lens of intellectual history.  I focus on the "Gallery" that appeared in O Homem, a newspaper in Recife, as a way to think about how such interventions that were about the politics of race and abolition also need to be considered as constitutive of a broader field of trans-Atlantic literary exchange; that the histories of Brazilian slavery and blackness indeed compel us to rethink the terms and forms through which the "illustrious men" genre evolved in the Atlantic world.

12p.m. – 1:30p.m.   Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.

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Hal Langfur - Pedagogies of Racial Violence in Colonial Brazil

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.   Location Change: McKinney Conference Room

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Zachary Morgan - Neither Slave nor Citizen: State Control of Brazilian Free Blacks in the 19th Century

The study of Brazilian race and slavery in the nineteenth century is too often framed by the structure of abolitionist legislation; first that applied to the cessation of the Atlantic slave trade leading up to 1850, and then to the abolition of slavery itself before the passage of the Golden Law in 1888. Traditional and contemporary scholarship points to a lack of segregationist law as central to understanding Brazil’s post abolition racial hierarchy.  Given the comparatively large size of Brazil’s free black population in the first decade of the nineteenth century (free Afro-Brazilians represented a plurality, a larger population than whites or enslaved Africans) my current research examines how state supported institutions such as orphanages, the police, and the military, alongside regional and national legislation, targeted and controlled the lives of free Afro-Brazilians before and after final abolition.

12p.m. – 1:30p.m.   Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.

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Fábio de Sá e Silva - A New Republic of Lawyers? Legal Careers, State Power, and Political Change in Contemporary Brazil

12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.   Joukowsky Forum 

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