Check out these special events put on by the Brazilian Studies Association!
The Brazilian Studies Association is an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who support and promote Brazilian studies in all fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences. BRASA is dedicated to the promotion of Brazilian studies around the world, especially in the United States. The BRASA Secretariat is currently hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans.
Tulane Speakers Include:
019. Sound, Text, and Performance 2:00 to 3:30 pm BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 103
Session Organizer: Daniel Sharp, Tulane University Chair: Daniel Sharp, Tulane University Participants: Sounds Good: a Public History Experience from an Audiovisual Perspective
Mateus Santos, University of New Mexico What did Naná's berimbau mean to Glauber? Brazilian notions of "Third World" cinema and music in 1971
Daniel Sharp, Tulane University Nuno Ramos: literature and visual art between performance e sound art
Irma Caputo, Puc -Rio The Colonial Lacunae of Instants: On the Origins of Rhythmanalysis in 1930s Rio de Janeiro Leo Temple, University of Cambridge
For a full list of speakers, consult the BRASA Program here.
062. Ditadura, resistências e transição 2:00 to 3:30 pm BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 109
Session Organizer: Jamie Sauerbier, Tulane Chair, Colin Snider, University of Texas at Tyler
Participants: Brazilian Liberation Theology in a network Américo Freire, FGV Localizing Memory: Universities, Truth Commissions, and Narratives of Repression in Brazil
Colin Snider, University of Texas at Tyler Muitas ditaduras, muitas injustiças: as narrativas silenciadas sobre a ditadura militar
Lua Gill da Cruz, Universidad de Chile Sex and Violence: Censorship of Japanese-Brazilian Identity and Manga during Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Jamie Sauerbier, Tulane, The female body and the anti-regime discourse: artworks by Brazilian women artists associated with Nova Figuração in the 1960s Carolina Vieira Filippini Curi, University of Campinas (Unicamp)
063. Investigações sobre o bolsonarismo: desinformação, retórica e atitudes 3:45 to 5:15 pm BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 101
Session Organizer: Idelber Avelar, Tulane University Chair
Pablo Ortellado, Universidade de São Paulo
Participants: A retórica bolsonarista: linhas de continuidade na história brasileira
Idelber Avelar, Tulane University Identidades e atitudes de eleitores bolsonaristas em São Paulo
Pablo Ortellado, Universidade de São Paulo Campanhas de desinformação multiplataforma: extrema direita no Brasil e análise de redes complexas
João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos, Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology Liberdade e democracia na visão de apoia
064. Cinematic Inscriptions: Social Justice and the Screen 3:45 to 5:15 pm BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 102
Session Organizer: Samuel Johnson, University of Miami Chair: Samuel Johnson, University of Miami Moderator: Jeremy Lehnen, Brown University
Participants: Mapping the Cinemateca Brasileira’s Trajectory within Underdevelopment Maite Conde, University of Cambridge From Social Media to the Streets: Confronting Sexual Violence through Documentary Films in the Wake of Brazil’s Primavera Feminista
Rebecca Atencio, Tulane University Meu amigo Claudia: Between Queer icon and Trans Activism
Jeremy Lehnen, Brown University Border-Filmmaking and Re-existence in Ex-pajé (2018)
Samuel Johnson, University of Miami Arquivos fílmicos da violência racial e social: Branco sai, preto fica, de Adirley Queiróz.
Paulo Thomaz, Universidade de Brasília
076. Black women and political transformation 10:00 to 11:30 am BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 104
Session Organizer: Carolina Helena Timoteo de Oliveira, Tulane University Chair: Carolina Helena Timoteo de Oliveira, Tulane University
Participants: “Aquilombando o Rolê”: Voz, Autoria e Coletividade Feminina Afro-Mineira
Carolina Helena Timoteo de Oliveira, Tulane University Marcha Mundial das Mulheres e as estratégias de enfrentamento ao projeto autoritário no Brasil
OLIVIA PEREZ, Universidade Federal do Piauí Mulheres Negras e Luta Social na Amazônia Oriental Etiane
Patrícia Macêdo, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará
080. The Politics of Music and Dance 10:00 to 11:30 am BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 108
Session Organizer: Sheyla Castro Diniz, University of São Paulo Chair: Elisabeth Blin, University of Arizona Moderator: Geovane Paiva Santos, Tulane University
Participants: Ava Rocha: Musiking Beyond Gender elisabeth Blin, University of Arizona Bola Sete and the legacy of misrepresentation in Bossa Nova - A Story of Racism, Narrative Building and Cultural Cancelation
Geovane Paiva Santos, Tulane University Sobre Outros Tipos de Beleza: Uma Pedagogia Mais Inclusiva Através da Dança do Frevo Otavio Bastos, Mexe com Tudo;
Kathleen Spanos, University of Maryland, College Park Cena independente e "Nova MPB" num Brasil em crise: a canção do Metá Metá
Sheyla Castro Diniz, University of São Paulo “This history you need to hear!”: Memory and Black Perspectives of the musical history of Post-Abolition Rio de Janeiro (1887-1970) Lurian Reis da Silva Lima, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brasil)
100. Interrogating Whiteness: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil 3:45 to 5:15 pm BRASA 2022: Virtual Room 104
Session Organizer: Mauro Porto, Tulane University Chair: Mauro Porto, Tulane University
Participants: On the Mark: Middle Easterners and Whiteness in Oracy Nogueira’s Brazil
John Karam, University of Illinois Saudade for a Racial Democracy, Grammars of Brazilian Whiteness
John Mundell, University of California, Berkeley The Affective Life of Empires: A Moral Economy of Privilege, Whiteness, and Parenting in Latin American Elite Neighborhoods
Ana Ramos-Zayas, Yale Affirmative Action, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Backlash in the Magazine Veja Mauro Porto, Tulane University
The BRASA conference starts tomorrow! Join online here: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/brasa/brasa22/#selected_tag
