Thomas E. Skidmore Student and Alumni Conference on Brazil (1964-2014)
9:00-9:15 Conference Opening
James N. Green, Director, Brazil Initiative, Brown University
Mateus Baptista, Organizer, Thomas E. Skidmore Student and Alumni Conference
9:00-10:20 Panel I: The 1964 Coup d’état and its Aftermath
Abigail Jones ’06, Managing Director, Climate Advisors, “Lincoln Gordon’s Evolving Discourse”
William Janover ’15, “From ‘Red is Red’ to ‘We Cannot Be Silent’: An Analysis of the Evolution of Latin America Calls!, 1963-1970
Cos Tollerson ’12, “In Search of Support from the Western Bloc: The Brazilian Military Regime’s Evolving Discourse on Western Exceptionalism”
Commentator: Bryan Pitts, Duke University
10:20-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:50 Panel II: Resistance, Repression, and Political Openings
Andre Pagliarini, Graduate Student in History, Brown University, “‘De onde? Para onde?’ New Social Movements and the Debate over Brazil’s ‘Civil’-Military Dictatorship”
Lanna Leite ’14, “Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos: A Portrait of a Brazilian Revolutionary”
Natan Zeichner ’07, Graduate Student in History, New York University, “Exploring Radical Brazilian Political Identities, 1976-1985”
Commentator: João Roberto Martins Filho, University Federal de São Carlos
12-1:00 Lunch, Watson Institute Library, 3rd floor
1:00-2:20 Panel III: Popular Movements, Exile, and Democratization
Emma Wohl ’14, “Victory, Compromise, or Measured Retreat: The Significance of the Amnesty Debate in the Streets and Congress”
Meg Weeks ’11, “‘Urbanization Yes! Removal Never!’: Favela Removal and Popular Resistance in Rio de Janeiro during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship”
Benjamin Legg, Graduate Student, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, “Henfil's American Illusion”
Commentator: Ann Schneider, Historian, Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center
2:30-3:50 Panel IV: Post-dictatorial Brazil
Michael Hoffmann ’15, “Democratization and the Politics of Equality: Herbert Daniel’s 1986 Campaign for Deputado Estadual”
Sam E. Novacich ’08, “Uncertain Futures: Strategic Prudence and Local Understandings of Public Security Policy in Mangueira”
Sílvia Cabral-Teresa, Graduate Student, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, “Newspapers as Political Agents: The Instability of Brazil's Post-dictatorship and Pre-constitution Period, 1985-88”
Commentator: Manuela Picq, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton
