Brazil Histories and Legacies Conference

OPENING EVENT

Sunday, March 31

4:00-5:00 pm Chorinho Concert with Roee Ben Sira, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, William Riley Hall, Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Angell Street

5:00-6:00 pm Reception

Monday, April 1

9:00-9:30 Breakfast at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer

9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer

Conference Chairs: Marina Adams and André Pagliarini

Greetings

  • Leah Van Wey, Dean of the Faculty 
  • Ed Steinfeld, Director, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
  • Ethan Pollock, Chair, Dept. of History
  • Leila Lehnen, Chair Dept. of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • Joseph Meisel, Brown University Librarian
  • Neil Safier, Director, Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

10:00-12:00 200 Years of U.S.-Brazilian Relations: A Complicated Affair, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer

  • André Pagliarini, Hampton-Sidney College
  • Isadora Mota, Princeton University
  • Guilherme Casarões, Fundação Getúlio Vargas; CLACS Visiting Professor ’24
  • Barbara Weinstein, New York University; former president, American Historical Association

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Watson Library 3rd fl. and 2nd floor lounge

1:00-3:00 International Solidarity, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer

Chair, André Pagliarini, co-editor, WBO newsletter

  • Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, North Carolina Central University; former president, BRASA
  • Juliana de Moraes, Socioenvironmental Coordinator, Washington Brazil Office (WBO)
  • Iman Musa, Public Affairs Specialist, Washington Brazil Office (WBO)
  • Paulo Abrão, Executive Director, Washington Brazil Office (WBO); Brown Visiting Research Scholar

3:00-3:30 Coffee break


3:30-5:30 Sixty Years Later: Rethinking the History of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, Part I

Chair, Jennifer Lambe, Brown University

  • Marina Adams, Brown University
  • Luiz Paulo Ferraz, Brown University
  • Daniel McDonald, Oxford University
  • Thamyris Almeida, Swarthmore College

6:00-9:00 Dinner, Brown Faculty Club, 1 Bannister St.

Tuesday, April 2

8:00-9:00 Breakfast, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer

9:00-11:00 Rethinking the History of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, Part II, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer
Chair: Benito Schmidt, Federal University Rio Grande do Sul, former president, Brazilian Historical Association

  • Michael Rom, Ph.D., Yale University
  • Eyal Weinberg, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin; Florida Atlantic University
  • João Nascimento, Ph.D., University of Kansas
  • Meg Weeks, Ph.D., Harvard University; University of Florida, Gainesville 

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-1:15 New Frontiers in Brazilian Queer Studies

Chair: Jeremy Lehnen, Dept. of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

  • Augusta Oliveira, Brown University
  • Andrea Allen, University of Toronto
  • Renan Quinalha, Federal University of São Paulo
  • Watufani Poe, University of Pittsburgh

1:15-2:30 Lunch, Watson Library 3rd fl. and 2nd floor lounge

2:30-4:30 Brazilian Studies in Israel

Chair: Jeremy Mumford, Dept. of History, Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer 

  • Jonathan Grossman, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Michel Gherman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • Omri ElMaleh, Ph.D. Tel Aviv University; post-doctoral fellow, Harvard University ‘24
  • Roee Ben Sira, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Assistant Professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance

4:30-5:15 Opening the Archives

Chair: Marina Adams, Brown University

  • Adam Waters, Yale University
  • Deven Kamlani, Brown University
  • Julia Terra-Salomão, Brown University
  • Rene Cordero, Williams College

5:30-5:45 Film Short: Apesar de vocês (2024), Dir. Evanize Sydow 

5:45-6:00: Closing RemarksJames N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Modern Latin American History, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture, Brown University

Conference Co-Sponsors

  • Brazilian Studies Association
  • Brown University Libraries
  • Department of History
  • Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
  • The Brazil Initiative
  • The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
  • Washington Brazil Office