May 3, 2018
Screening of Divinas Divas (Divine Divas)
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Brazil Initiative
Housed at the Watson Institute, the Brazil Initiative was established with two strategic goals: to make Brown the best university for the study of Brazil outside of Brazil, and to be a hub for research collaborations between Brown faculty members and Brazilian scholars and researchers.
May 2, 2018
The State of Democracy in Brazil
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Location Change: Joukowsky Forum
Apr 25, 2018
Allan da Rosa – Ancestrality, Imaginaries and Black Daily Life in São Paulo
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018
Daryle Williams – Redeeming Ham, Again: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Fine Arts in Brazil
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 11, 2018
Bruno Carvalho – Imaginable Futures: Clarice Lispector, Brasília, and the Anthropocene
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 5, 2018
Screening of Abrindo o Armário (Opening the Closet)
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 22, 2018
CANCELED: Zachary Morgan – Neither Slave nor Citizen: State Control of Brazilian Free Blacks in the 19th Century
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 19, 2018
Kleber Amancio – Conformities and Silences: The Representation of Blacks in the Brazilian Visual Arts (1637-1930)
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 15, 2018
Screening of São Paulo em Hi-Fi (São Paulo in Hi-Fi)
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 14, 2018
CANCELED - Stanley Gacek – Brazil's Labor Law Reform: What Does It Mean for Workers?
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018
Marcos Cueto – Lost in Translation: Brazil, AIDS, Antiretrovirals and Global Health
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Brazil Initiative
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Feb 22, 2018
Sonia Roncador – White Trash à brasileira: Immigration and the “Problem of Acclimatization” in Nineteenth-Century Rio
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 15, 2018
Feb 8, 2018
Screening of Elvis e Madona (Elvis and Madona)
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 7, 2018
Ana Lucia Araujo – Memory of Slavery and The Problem of Reparations in Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 7, 2017
Okezi Otovo – Black Maternity as Political Risk: Abolition, Reproduction, and Republicanism Compounded
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 15, 2017
Vera Paiva – Torture and Missing People: A Never-ending Story in Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Brazil Initiative
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Nov 9, 2017
George Avelino – Electoral Concentration in Brazil, 1994-2014
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 7, 2017
Resistance to Black Genocide in the Americas
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 6, 2017
Douglas Belchior – Uneafro-Brasil: Education and the Struggle for Equality and Social Justice
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 2, 2017
Falina Enriquez – The Mark of a Business: Musical Professionalization in Recife, Pernambuco
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 26, 2017
Miqueias Mugge – Militias and the Politics of War in 19th Century Brazil
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 12, 2017
Amilcar Pereira – "For an Authentic Racial Democracy!": The Brazilian Black Movement's Struggles in Schools and Curricula
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum