This three-day conference brings together guests and members of REBRAC (Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural / European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis). For more information about the work of REBRAC, please see their website.
Each day of the conference requires a separate registration, please see under the relevant day below for details on registration. Tickets to join the conference are free, and inssued on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note discussions may take place in English and Portugese.
WEDNESDAY, 17TH MARCH / QUARTA-FEIRA 17 DE MARÇO
12:00 noon – Welcome and Introductory Remarks
12:15 PM – 1. 20 PM Roundtable/Mesa Redonda “The Media, Democracy and the Future of Brazilian Journalism” with Roberto Senra (BBC) and Consuelo Dieguez (Piauí)
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Panel 1: Internet Identities – Chair: Claire Williams (Oxford)
Tori Holmes (Queen’s University, Belfast) 'Brazil, a Republic of Memes?’
Jane de Almeida (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) and Cícero da Silva (UNIFESP) ‘The Future of the Open Culture and Free Software Movements in Brazil’
Itana Nogueira Nunes (Universidade do Estado da Bahia) ‘Identidade Artificial: Identidades Culturais e Caminhos da Literatura no Brasil’
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Panel 2: Mapping Spaces – Chair: Sara Brandellero (Leiden)
Flávia Roberta Busarello (PUC/SP) and Bader Sawaia (PUC/SP) ‘O Clamor do Indígena Urbano por Cidadania: Potência e Resistência nas Cidades’
Georg Fischer (Aarhus University) ‘Modernizing savannas: agricultural colonization as a project of transformation, Bolivia and Brazil 1950-1985’
4:40 PM – 5:15 PM Film Screening/Exibição de filme: “Marte” dir. Jane Almeida, introduced by the director.
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Reunião da Rede REBRAC (members of REBRAC only)
TO REGISTER FOR DAY 1 OF THE CONFERENCE, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO EVENTBRITE
THURSDAY, 18TH MARCH
12:00 noon – 1. 30 PM Panel 3: Preserving the Past, Producing the Future – Chair: Andreza de Souza Santos (Oxford)
Ana Paula Silva Moreno (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) ‘Design e Técnicas Artesanais na Preservação de Patrimônio Imaterial Cultural’
Manoela Hoffman Oliveira (Independent Researcher) ‘O Significado Político da Prática Arquivística e do Arquivo Literário na Produção de Conhecimento: O Caso de Mário de Andrade’
Alexandre Sonego de Carvalho (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) ‘Rumos da Produção Cultural Brasileira: Passado Notável e Futuro Incerto’
1:40 PM – 2:40 PM Panel 4: People, Place and Language – Chair: Georgia Nasseh (Oxford)
Wagner Gonzaga Lemos (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco) ‘Da Literatura de Informação à Identidade Regional: Vozes do Agreste Meridional Pernambucano’
Margaret-Anne Clarke (Open University) ‘From Modern Utopia to Apocalyptic Zero-Point: Dystopian Visions in the Fiction of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Panel 5: Music – Chair: Tori Holmes (Queen’s, Belfast)
Mário Luis Grangeia (UFRJ) ‘The Restoration of Democracy in the Brazilian Rock of the 1980s’
Eduardo Prado Cardoso (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) ‘Das Notas de Cem, dos Vinte Centavos: O Futuro Achatado de MC Daleste’
Sheila Caetano (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) ‘The Representation of the Social Imagination of Black People in Brazil through the Music Video ‘Eminencia Parda’ by Emicida’
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Espaço Social (for speakers only)
TO REGISTER FOR DAY 2 OF THE CONFERENCE, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO EVENTBRITE
FRIDAY, 19TH MARCH
12:00 noon – 1. 30 PM Panel 6: Film – Chair: Stephanie Dennison (Leeds)
Miguel Conde (UFRJ) ‘Distopia e redenção em 'Bacurau' e 'Branco sai, preto fica'.
Guilherme Fumeo Almeida (UFRGS) ‘Presente, futuro, passado: diálogo entre Brasis através do resgate da pornochanchada em Histórias que o nosso cinema (não) contava
Angélica Amâncio (Université Lyon 3) ‘Rir ou chorar: Humor e distopia como elementos da crítica social’
1:40 PM – 3:10 PM Panel 7: Politics: Past, Present and Future – Chair: TBC
Andreza de Souza Santos (University of Oxford) ‘Between longing and nostalgia’
Diego Augusto Baptista (Freie Universität, Berlin) ‘Usos e Abusos de Praticas e Discursos Anticorrupção e a Representação Messianica do Futuro’
Jane-Marie Collins (University of Nottingham) ‘“A mutually advantageous relationship between the two countries”: Anglo-Brazilian relations in the anos de chumbo (1968-1974) and beyond’
3:30 PM – 6:30 PM Film Screening of Divino Amor (2019) + Q & A with director Gabriel Mascaro, chaired by Gui Perdigão
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