Conferences
“50th Anniversary Symposium of the Military Coup in Brazil”
(Thursday, April 3-Friday, April 4, 2014)
On March 31st, 1964, the Armed Forces of Brazil commenced a series of events that would lead to the removal from power of then President João Goulart and the installation of a military-backed, authoritarian regime that would persist in power until 1985. 50 years later almost to the date, the Brazil Initiative at UW-Madison along with our co-sponsors have invited a group of Brazilianists from the United States and abroad for a day-long symposium that seeks to commemorate this departure from democracy and critically analyze its consequences in a larger context and from diverse perspectives.
Thursday, April 3-Friday, April 4, 2014, Pyle Center
“Brazil and Human Rights Reconsidered: Politics, Culture and Dictatorship, 50 Years after the 1964 Coup”
Keynote Address
“Memories of Resistance in Brazil: Reflections on Student Opposition, 50 Years after the Golpe de Estado”
Victoria Langland, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Friday, April 4, 8:30am-5:00pm, 335 Pyle Center
Featured Speakers:
Rebecca Atencio, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Tulane University
Christopher Dunn, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Tulane University, 2013-2014 Brazil Initiative Fellow
Luca Bacchini, Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, University of Bologna, Italy
Peter Beattie, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Jerry Dávila, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc Adam Hertzman, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive, George Washington University
Leila Lehnen, Professor of Portuguese & Spanish, University of New Mexico
Sponsored by the Brazil Initiative, the Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS) program, the Division of International Studies, the Goldberg Fund, the Human Rights Program, Global Legal Studies, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Symposium Program
Thursday, April 3
Kollege Klub
5:00pm Bate Papo with Live Music by the Samba Novistas
Pyle Center, Room 335
7:00pm Opening Session
Remarks by:
Professor Severino J. Albuquerque, Director, Brazil Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Francisco Scarano, Director, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconnin-Madison
Professor James Sweet, Chair, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference Keynote Address
“Memories of Resistance in Brazil: Reflections on Student Opposition, 50 Years after the Golpe de Estado”
Professor Victoria Langland, University of Michigan
Friday, April 4
Pyle Center, Room 335
8:30am Registration
9:00am-11:45am Second Session
Rethinking History: New Perspectives on Dictatorship and Human Rights in Brazil
Chair: Professor Alberto Vargas, Associate Director, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“State of Disorder: The Improvisation of Military Rule in Brazil”
Professor Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Inside Story: New Revelations on the United States, Brazil, and Dictatorship”
Dr. Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive, George Washington University
Comments: Adela Cedillo, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15am-10:30am Coffee Break
“What Changed?: State Surveillance and Resistance in a Single Life—Edison Carneiro and the Police (1930s-1970s)”
Professor Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Another ‘Abertura’: The Military Regime’s Reform of Conjugal Visits in Brazil’s Prisons and its Legacy, 1980-2013”
Professor Peter Beattie, Michigan State University
Comments: Jacob Blanc, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00pm Lunch in the AT&T Lounge
“From Madison to New York to Rio: a Dramatic Forgotten Chapter of the International Human Rights Story?”
Professor Steve J. Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:00pm-4:45pm Third Session
Rethinking Culture: New Perspectives on Protest and Disenchantment in Brazil
Chair: Professor Severino J. Albuquerque, Director, Brazil Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Projections of the Past: Making the Invisible Visible in Tata Amaral’s Hoje”
Professor Rebecca Atencio, Tulane University
“On (Brazilian) Counterculture”
Professor Chris Dunn, Tulane University
Comments: Marta-Laura Suska, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:15pm-3:30pm Coffee Break
“Transitional Spaces and Voids in Luis Fernando Veríssimo”
Professor Leila Lehnen, University of New Mexico
“Protestar é preciso, reprimir não é preciso. Música popular e resistência”
Professor Luca Bacchini, University of Bologna, Italy
Comments: Steven K. Smith, Associate Director, Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:45pm Closing Remarks
Professor Francisco Scarano, Director, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Celebrating Fifty Years of the Luso-Brazilian Review: A Symposium“
(April 20 and 21, 2012)
In 2014, the Luso-Brazilian Review will mark 50 years of continued publication as a biannual, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to stimulating and disseminating research on the Portuguese-speaking world. Founded in 1964 by Professor Alberto Machado da Rosa and published by the University of Wisconsin Press, the Luso-Brazilian Review has been edited or co-edited by professors from the University of Wisconsin Department of Spanish and Portuguese since its inception. Over the five decades of its publication, the LBR has benefited from the collaboration a wide range of well-known scholars from throughout the world. It currently enjoys a reputation as the foremost interdisciplinary publication in the field of Luso-Brazilian Studies in the U.S., and one of the journals with the longest uninterrupted publishing history.
As the current editors of the LBR have continued the practice of seeking to include a variety of topics and critical approaches, the journal has become a key venue for the publication of in-depth studies of the various national cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. It also has become an important resource for the continued reassessment of the role played by language, literature, geography and history in a world that is increasingly, yet unevenly, globalized and transnational. Portuguese is the official language of eight countries on four different continents and the LBR regularly includes articles authored by national and international scholars whose teaching and research center on the networks that link these countries. The editors are dedicated to maintaining open discussions regarding the models and methodologies will best lead to new modes of production of knowledge about the Lusophone world.
In an effort to maintain and further the Review’s eminence in the field of Luso-Brazilian Studies, the Co-Editors and members of the Review’s Editorial Board have organized a two-day conference entitled “Celebrating 50 Years of the Luso-Brazilian Review” to mark the journal’s 50th anniversary. This conference will bring together researchers and writers from the US and abroad who are specialists in literature, history, and the social sciences. Speakers will assess the current state of Luso-Brazilian Studies in the U.S. academy and abroad, and discuss the methodological trends that are shaping research conducted on and in the Portuguese-speaking world. This conference will take place on campus from April 20th-21st 2012 at the Pyle Center Room 235.
Nabuco II “Emerging Issues in US-Brazilian Relations
(September 2010)
Prominent scholars from Brazil and the United States will engage in discussions to evaluate Brazil’s role in world politics and the world economy and examine US-Brazil relations in such areas as energy policy, trade, global governance, and the fight against racial discrimination.
This conference is convened and organized by Emeritus Professor and Dean David Trubek, in collaboration with UW-Madison’s Brazil Initiative, directed by Professor Severino Albuquerque. The conference organizing committee also includes UW-Madison faculty Guido Podesta, Greg Nemet, Mara Loveman, Susanne Dove, Alberto Vargas and the LACIS Program. The Conference is co-sponsored by LACIS, the Division of International Studies, WAGE, CIBER and the UW-Madison Law School.
The Consul General of Brazil in Chicago, Ambassador João Almino, will offer closing remarks on Friday, September 24.
Conference participation is free of charge but advance registration is required to assure there is space in the conference hall. Participation in the conference cannot be guaranteed without registration by September 17.
The conference will be transmitted real-time via the Internet and will be videotaped for posting on the LACIS website. A URL will be provided through LACIS’ website to access the live webcast of the conference. You do not need to be registered for the conference in order to watch the webcast.
Brazilian Literary Networks
(November 2009)
A conference held on November 19-21, 2009 in 313 Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thursday, November 19 at 5PM
Conference Opening:
Severino Albuquerque (University of Wisconsin – Madison), João Almino (Writer, Consul General of Brazil – Chicago), Magdalena Hauner (Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Guido Podestá (Associate Dean, Division of International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ksenija Bilbija (Director, Latin American, Carribean, and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison), João Cezar de Castro Rocha (University of Manchester; Consultor, Itaú Cultural).
Thursday, November 19 at 6PM
Reception
Friday, November 20 from 9AM to 11AM at 235 Pyle Center
Translation:
Elizabeth Lowe (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aileen El-Kadi (University of Texas at El Paso), Alison Entrekin (Literary Translator, Santos, Brazil)
Friday, November 20 from 11:45AM to 1PM at the Main Dining Room, Pyle Center
Lunch
Friday, November 20 from 1:15PM to 3:15PM at 235 Pyle Center
Producing Syntheses:
Chair: David Hildner (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Darlene J. Sadlier (Indiana University – Bloomington), Luís Madureira (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Earl Fitz (Vanderbilt University)
Friday, November 20 from 3:15PM to 3:30PM
Coffee Break
Friday, November 20 from 3:30PM to 5:30PM at 235 Pyle Center
Academic Journals & Conexões Itaú Cultural:
Ellen Sapega (University of Wisconsin-Madison – Luso-Brazilian Review), Severino Albuquerque (University of Wisconsin-Madison – Luso-Brazilian Review), Regina Zilberman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Brasil/Brazil), Felipe Lindoso (Itaú Cultural)
Saturday, November 21 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM at 235 Pyle Center
Autor-Leitor:
Chair: Mary Lou Daniel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Frank Sousa (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), José Luís Jobim (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Universidade Federal Fluminense), João Cezar de Castro Rocha (University of Manchester; Consultor, Itaú Cultural)
Saturday, November 21 from 11:00AM to 11:15AM
Coffee Break
Saturday, November 21 from 11:15AM to 12:30PM at 235 Pyle Center
Autor-Leitor:
Chair: Kathryn Sanchez (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sandra Vasconcelos (Universidade de São Paulo), Earl Fitz (Vanderbilt University)
Saturday, November 21 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM at the Main Dining Room, Pyle Center
Lunch
Saturday, November 21 from 1:30PM to 2:00PM at 235 Pyle Center
International Network Machado & Eça: Future Projects.:
Discussion led by João Cezar de Casto Rocha (University of Manchester)
Saturday, November 21 from 2:00PM to 2:15PM
Coffee Break
Saturday, November 21 from 2:15PM to 3:45PM
Publishers:
Chair: João Almino (Writer; Consul General of Brazil – Chicago), Sheila Leary (University of Wisconsin Press), John O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press)
Cartonera Publishers Conference: Recycling Latin American Bookscapes
(UW-Madison, October 2009)
According to Frederico Barbosa, Executive Director of POIESIS (a cultural organization which includes Museu da Língua Portuguesa, Casa das Rosas, and Casa Guilherme de Almeida), Dulcinéia Catadora, the Brazilian component of the Cartonera Publishers Conference is… “Uma iniciativa que integra o fenômeno editorial das cartoneras, o projeto , em pouco mais de dois anos de existência, já pode ser considerado uma das mais importantes iniciativas socioculturais deste país. Sob a generosa coordenação da artista plá’stica Lúcia Rosa, o projeto aproxima jovens carentes do universo das artes plásticas e da literatura, propiciando-lhes tanto oportunidades profissionais novas, quanto o acesso a um universo cultural muitas vezes distante de suas realidades. Notável também é o elenco de escritores que o projeto já publicou. Autores como Haroldo de Campos, Manoel de Barros, Alice Ruiz, Lau Siqueira, Glauco Mattoso e Wilson Bueno, entre tantos outros, certamente estão entre os mais significativos escritores do Brasil. Em outras palavras, aproxima o que há de melhor e de mais sofisticado sendo escrito no Brasil de uma parcela da juventude do país que normalmente estaria excluída deste repertório e do universo que o produz. É a arte e a literatura cumprindo como nunca seu papel de agente da inclusão social.”
To learn more about Dulcinéia Catadora:
http://meiotom.sites.uol.com.br/
http://noticiasdacatadora.blogspot.com/
www.dulcineiacatadora.blogspot.com
Nabuco and Madison (April 2009)
Performing Brazil (April 2007)