Luso-Afro-Brazilian Events at BYU
Fall Semester 2016
Lectures
28 September 2016, Wednesday, 12:00 p.m., 238 HRCB
- Rex Nielson will give a lecture: “Re-Orienting National Identity in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Bernardo Carvalho’s O sol se põe em São Paulo”
- Sponsored by the Kennedy Center
6 October 2016, Thursday, 11:00 a.m., 238 HRCB
- Christen Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and Africana Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, will give a lecture: “Brazil’s Afro-Paradise: Performance, Race, Violence, and the Black Body in Times of Terror”
- Sponsored by Africana Studies and Spanish and Portuguese
17 October 2016, Monday, 3:00 p.m., TBA
- Marta de Senna, Researcher at the Fundaçã Casa de Rui Barbosa and well-known scholar of Machado de Assis, will give a lecture: “Balzac reader of Stendhal and Machado de Assis reader of Eça de Queirós”
- Sponsored by Spanish and Portuguese
17 November 2016, Thursday, 12:00 p.m. B092 JFSB
- Aarti Madan, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will give a lecture: “Panmela Castro’s #AfroGrafiteiras: Blackness and Women’s Graffiti in Brazil”
- Sponsored by Women’s Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Comparative Arts and Letters
International Cinema Films
4–8 October 2016: Housemaids (2012), Dir. Gabriel Mascaro
15–19 November 2016: Boy & The World (2013), (no dialogue) Dir. Alê Abreu
Other events