Office of International Affairs and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies: “Brazilian Studies in the U.S.: The Road Ahead”

The Office of International Affairs and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies present a roundtable around Brazilian activities and perspectives on Brazil in the United States.

“Brazilian Studies in the U.S.: The Road Ahead.”

The Brazilian Ministry of Education and Yale University are co-hosting a roundtable around Brazilian activities and perspectives on Brazil in the United States. This discussion will be used to plan and organize for a larger Brazilianists conference to be held in November 2018.

9 a.m.  Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.  Introductory Remarks

• Pericles Lewis, Vice President for Global Strategy & Deputy Provost for International Affairs, Yale University
• Ambassador Fernando de Mello Barreto, Consul General of Brazil in Hartford
• Kenneth David Jackson, Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University
• Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University

9:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.  American Perspectives on Brazil

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  Session I: Social Sciences, Arts, and the Humanities

• Moderator: Erika Helgen, Assistant Professor of Latino/a Christianity, Yale University
• Marshall C. Eakin, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University:  “Region and Nation.”
• Marguerite Itamar Harrison, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Smith College:  “Brazil through Multiple Registers: The Agency and Urgency of Voices and Images.”
• James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Director of the Brazil Initiative, Brown University:  “Brazilian Studies in the United States during Times of Crisis in Brazil: the 1960s, ‘70s, and Today.”
• Alexander S. Dent, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University:  “Rurality, Piracy, and Punks: Brazilian Dialogics.”

10:45 a.m. – 11 a.m. Break

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.  Session II: Social Sciences, Arts, and the Humanities

• Moderator: Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University
• Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History, African and African American Studies, Harvard University:  “Teaching Brazilian History and Literature in Times of Dysfunction and Embarrassment.”
• Amy Chazkel, Associate Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York:  “On the Exception and the Rule: Rethinking Brazilian Urban History.”
• Luiz F. Valente, Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Comparative Literature, Director of Brown-in-Brazil Program, Brown University:  “Inter-American Literature and Dissidence.”
• Daniel Sharp, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of the Newcomb Department of Music, Tulane University:  “TBA.”
• Mary Ann Mahony, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University:  “History, Environment, and Society in Southern Bahia.”

12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch

1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. American Perspectives on Brazil: Session III: Public Health, Medicine, and the Environment

• Moderator: Albert Icksang Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health
• Albert Icksang Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health:  “Urbanization, Demographic Transition and Emerging Health Challenges for Brazil.”
• Florencia Montagnini, Senior Research Scientist, and Director, Program in Tropical Forestry, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies:  “Program in Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry: Restoration and Agroforestry Projects in Brazil 1990-today.”
• Amy Nunn, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brown University:  “Public Health in Brazil: Innovations and Challenges in HIV/AIDS.”
• Marcelo de Oliveira Dietrich, Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine:  “Initiatives to Foster Basic Biomedical Research in Brazil.”

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.  Current Issues in Brazilian Studies: Planning the November 2018 Conference

• Moderator: Kenneth David Jackson, Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University 
• Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  Closing Remarks

• Kenneth David Jackson, Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese, Yale University
• Felipe Sartori Sigollo, Deputy Executive Secretary, The Ministry of Education of Brazil
• Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Reception