Global Brazil Seminar (October 2014)
Introductions/Planning
Global Brazil Seminar (November 2014)
Brasilianism, Brasilianistas and Brazilian Studies: Some Conceptual Considerations, applied to the Study of Violence and Literature in Brazil
Guest speaker: Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho (King’s College London)
Debating Brazilian Development Seminar Series (November 2014)
From the Arab Spring to the Brazilian Protests: Towards a Theory of Organisation for Networked Movements
Rodrigo Nunes (Professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Debating Brazilian Development Seminar Series (November 2014)
Copyrights, Human rights, and Development: the challenges of Brazilian cultural policies
Allan Rocha (Professor at UFRJ and UFRRJ, Brazil)
Spatial Practices (January 2015)
An all day event
Programme
Welcome Session
Professor Richard Cooper (Chair of the Faculty of Modern Languages)
Professor Phillip Rothwell (Chair of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese)
PANEL 1
Chair: Claire Williams (St. Peter’s College, Oxford)
Escrevendo-se na cidade: Exu e o Guia afetivo da periferia, de Marcus Vinicius Faustini , Vinícius de Carvalho (King’s College London)
O espaço urbano e subjetivo em O beijo na parede, de Jeferson Tenorio, Fernanda Borges (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul)
PANEL 2
Chair: Phillip Rothwell (St. Peter’s College, Oxford)
A espacialidade do narrador na literatura brasileira contemporânea, José Leonardo Tonus (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Poéticas da desigualdade social no romance brasileiro contemporâneo, Gabriel Estides Delgado (Universidade de Brasília)
PANEL 3
Chair: Gui Perdigão (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford)
Cenas do retorno na narrativa brasileira contemporânea, Anderson Luís Nunes da Mata (Universidade de Brasília)
De confinamentos e deslocamentos: tensões espaciais em Dois rios, de Tatiana Salem Levy, Lúcia Osana Zolin (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
PANEL 4
Chair :Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Wadham College, Oxford)
Geografias afetivas, lugares identitários na literatura brasileira contemporânea, Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Ser feminista no campo literário brasileiro: de personagens, teorias e palavras no “armário”, Virgínia Maria Vasconcelos Leal (Universidade de Brasília)
Um sentido para o fim: memórias e espaços transitórios em Hanói, de Adriana Lisboa, Júlia Braga Neves (King's College London/Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin)
PANEL 5
Chair: Simão Valente (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford)
Fora de lugar, fora do tempo: encontros incômodos em Habitante irreal, de Paulo Scott, Claire Williams (St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford)
“Escritas de ouvido” contemporâneas: por uma poética espaço-sonora, Marília Librandi-Rocha (Stanford University) e Sérgio Bairon (USP/Instituto Diversitas)
PANEL 6
Chair: Raquel Ribeiro (University of Edinburgh)
O não-espaço em Wesley Peres: narrativas líricas em deslocamento, Rosane Carneiro Ramos (King's College London/Capes)
Steampunk brasileiro: o espaço de ficção científica em Lição de anatomia do temível Dr. Louison, de Enéias Tavares, Georg Wink (University of Copenhagen)
Brazil Week (19-23 January 2015)
A five-day event:
Monday
‘Spatial Practices’ 4th International Colloquium on Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Tuesday
Film: The Clown dir. Selton Mello (2011) Starring Selton Mello and Paulo José.
Wednesday
Capoeira Workshop with Paulina Barszcz and Gui Perdigão
Thursday
Film: Basic Sanitation, dir. Jorge Furtado (2007). Starring Fernanda Torres and Wagner Moura.
Friday
Talk: Cultural Mediation between Brazil and the UK – Misha Glenny and Silvia Salek
Interview: Lewis Robinson (Mais um Discos)
Gui Perdigão from the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese interviewed Lewis Robinson, Head of the alternative record label ‘Mais um Discos’.
Between 'Progress' and 'Grandeur': The Circulation of Brazilian Culture during the Early Decades of the Cold War (February 2015)
Guest speaker Professor Darién Davis
Folia Voices: A Tribute to Elizabeth Travassos (March 2015)
A talk was held by Professor Suzel Ana Reily
Brazilian Literature: Other Voices (March 2015)
Two seminars held in London with two writers: Daniel Munduruku and Conceição Evaristo
Seminar 1
Welcome by Rosane Carneiro Ramos
Daniel Munduruku and the indigenous voice
Member of the Munduruku indigenous people
Chair: Felipe Botelho (KCL)
Followed by a debate
Seminar 2
Conceição Evaristo and the racial and sexist question
Maria da Conceição Evaristo Brito publishes poetry and fiction. She deals mainly with genre and ethnic issues in her works.
Chair: Claire Williams (Oxford)
Followed by a debate and concluding remarks: Federico Bonaddio
Translating Brazil: Words and Music (June 2015)
A Symposium Sponsored by the TORCH Global Brazil Network.
Session 1 – Cultural Production from the Quintessential Periferia
Margaret Clarke (University of Portsmouth)
“Poetry, Silence, Applause: Saraus and the Creation of Cultural Circuits of Resistance in Brazil's Urban Peripheries”
Cláudia Canto (Novelist and Journalist)
“Transforming Communities, Emerging Subjects: Women as Cultural and Literary Agents in Urban Brazil”
Session 2 – Translating Bossa Nova
David Treece (King’s College, London)
“Song in Translation: Music, Text, Performance”
Frederick Moehn (King’s College, London)
“Bossa Nova Guitar: Reflections on Selected Moments from Its Origins and Its Development in the U.S. Context”
Followed by a screening of Claudia Canto Documentary Film
The Role of African Migrancy in Local Identities and Spatial Management in São Paulo, Brazil (October 2015)
A talk held as part of a larger research project that investigated the role of migration in the meaning and management of urban space given the recent wave of West African migration to the center neighborhoods in São Paulo, Brazil since 2010.
Brazil Week (1-5 March 2016)
Tuesday
Round Table Discussion on Raduan Nassar
Round Table Discussion on the Brazilian Author Raduan Nassar
With Stefan Tobler (translator of Nassar’s A Cup of Rage for Penguin Classics), Rosane Carneiro Ramos (KCL, specialist in the ‘lyrical’ novel in Brazil), chaired by Claire Williams (Oxford).
Film Screening of To The Left Hand of the Father
A screening of cult director Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s adaptation of Nassar’s Lavoura Arcaica (1984)
Film: To the Left Hand of the Father (2001)
Wednesday
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Seminar
Postgraduates from Oxford University presented their research projects.
Participants:
Hayley Jones (International Development): The role of the Bolsa Família programme and its impact on poverty
Daniel Mandur Thomaz (Modern Languages): Stepping onto an unknown island: Antônio Callado at the BBC
Rafael H.M. Pereira (Geography and the Environment): Mega-events, transport legacy and the redistribution of employment accessibility: Rio de Janeiro as a case study
Film screening of Durval Records
Film Screening: Durval Records, dir. Anna Muylaert (2002)
Starring: Ary França, Etty Fraser, Marisa Orth, Rita Lee
Introduced by Gui Perdigão
Thursday
The Dusk of Writing
The Taylor Lecture 2016 with speaker Professor Pedro Meira Monteiro (Princeton University) on The Dusk of Writing: Machado de Assis’s Last Pages and the Unfulfilled Promise of Brazil
Saturday
Concert with Lambrego
Lambrego is an ensemble which writes, arranges and performs songs inspired by the Brazilian songwriting tradition. Fernando Morais - guitar
Hannah Dunster – flute
Alba Cabral – percussion
Brazilian Samba and African Drumming (June 2017)
A Brazilian Samba workshop.
After Clarice: Lispector's Legacy (November 2017)
A conference held on "After Clarice: Lispector's Legacy" to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of cult Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s death and aimed to analyse her legacy and influence as it has developed in the decades since.